Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-07-17

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wrong, or at least to permit it, and when
we remember that it is the wrong in His
Judgment that we are responsible for the
message is solemn one that we have to do
with who taught the commandments and
made the look of lust idolatry, and the
feeling of murder against brother MUIR
der. There are two ways in which men
might get into heaven; one Is the way that
is marked with blood, And though your
sins be, as scarlet they shall be as white a az
snow" and the other is the keeping of the
whole law If we could do nat God will
accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly
know we have not Gle that olfends in
one point is guilty of all" not that he has
broken all, but in the single offensc he has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint of the unrCgenerate man at
least this statement is true, and | speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
You arc not lost because of Adams sin,
or an inherited tendency to evil. but
rather because you have rejected Christ
for yourself. Let us imagine Il case. You
have consumption, and it has come to you
from Il long line OF ancestry, and | went to
YOU and know n cure for consumption,
and if you will but take it you may he
whole again, and | recitc to you the in
stances of hundreds of people who have
been sick and now are well, but you re-
fuse the cure and die, not because you were
a consumptvc with an inherited tendency
to this disease, but because you have re.
jected the cure, and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
The finish Hebrews o. 81, "And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but af-
ter this the judgment"
never speak the word Judgment that |
nt .f,,i1,l Co. ,,,,-,,1I aud v-h m
| say that | do not mean to exhibit the
spirit that ] am holicr than thou, but
startled because of the unsavcl man who
is in danger of the judgment, for God has
distinctly said concerning the saved,
There is therefore now no Judgment to
them that are in Christ jesus This is a
personal matter. No one can appear in
judgment for us. We must stand there for
ourselves. and the thought of the judg-
ment will make us think when everything
else has been banished from our minds.
"All know of the future judgment
Or whatsoever it may be,
That to stand alone with my conscience,
VIII be Judgment enough for me-
And he will meet his record 1t will not
be necessary that the book shall be
will condemn; that sin of last night which
no one knows but you and God is against
you; that sin III London which no one
dreams of but yourself and your Maker
has made its record, and the things that
we have forgotten are standing against MS.
God pity us if we do not make ready for
that day, and we cannot make ready cX-
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him. we
have trampcd His love under our feet,
we have rejected His Son, and in that day
hall la, al
to stand?
The weighing room. Daniel 5: 81, "Thou
art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting"
There is a machine in the Bank OF Eng
land that in a very wonderful way Sits
! the sovercigus. You could hardly believe
1t. There Is a whole case OF SovcreignS
there by the man, who like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
and shovcls up these sovereigns that men
have tumb!cd the one over the other to get
hold of. and he puts them lii his machine.
lie feeds his mill the same way as the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine, and it
takes hold OF the COINS and tests them. 1t
weighs and poiscs each, throwing the light
ones to one side. and allowing those that
are good and solid and up to the mark L.
How INTO another receptacle. 1t Is mar
Vicious bit OF human ingenuity, but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar OF the judgment of God; nothing to
the final assl2e, when the dead, small and
great, shall stand before God. You had
better put it right The Spirit says you
are happy man if you realize your short.
comlngs in time and get it covered
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives. 1t Is not what VIC have done,
but the motive that prompted the doing,
and lie shal! test our acts. 1t is not the
good to others which we have accom-
plShcd that shall count Tor us, but that
which has been for His glory; and He
shall seek out our thoughts. and woe be
unto that man whose motives and acts
and thoughts are against Him. weighed
! and found wanting" That was a solemn
scene in the Book of Daniel where Bel
Shazzcr and his guests forgot the spcndor
Of the room in which they ieasted, the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women, the
sweet music and see only the fingers of Il
man hands writing on the plaster of the
wall, weighed and found wanting" and
more striking scene than that shall be
our experience ii we neglect Christ
"
The settling day. Mari; s: So, For what
shall 1t profit man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul" 1t is
possible thing for one TO almost win the
world. We can have It's music and its art
and its honor and its pleasure, and in a
sense its wealth, but what shall ii profit lis.
y great Illinois farmer who years ago
took Mr., Moody over his farm laid to him
with pride, "All this is mine. Mr.. Moody. >"
and then took HIM to the cupoa OF his
house and showed him The extent OF his
possessions. lie pointed out the land
fence IN the distance, and the lake in an
other direction, and the grove in still an
other direction, and said, "All this is
mine" and Mr. Moody said, at is great
farm, but how much have you up yon-
der?' pointing heavenward "Alas,' said
the man, Il have been SO busy here that |
have made no provision for the country
there"
In one OF Tolstois books there is an illus
tration OF that part of Russia where il is
said in the story a Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
IRON sunrise to sunset. and 1ostoi tells
of II peasant who started III the morning
at the break Of day and ran with all speed
to mark out his possessions lie sees the
waving trees in the distance and deter
mines they shall be his, and the lake be.
yond him, and he says that shall be mine,
and the splendid plain, and runs to take it
in, and lifts his eyes to find that the sun
Is beyond the meridian. Then he bends
every energy to reach the starting poiut.
and Just as the sun goes down he reaches
it, falls upon his face from sheer weakness,
aud the land is all his, but Tolstoi says
they stopped down 20 pick him up and lie
is dead. He has gained it all and lost his
soul. This Is picture OF many man
striving for honor and for pleasure and for
power. What shall it all profit in that
great day?