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statement, for the apostle writes that We
have all gone away from God. When
there came time in our lives when II was
possible for Us 20 choose either the right
or the wrong we well remember that the
tendency all along has been 10 choose the
wrong, or az least 20 permit II, and when
we remember that IL is the wrong in His
judgment that we are responsible for the
message Is solemn one that we have 10 do
with who taught the commandments and
made the look Of lust idolatry, and the
feeling OF murder against brother mur'
der. There are two ways in which men
might set into heaven; one Is the way that
is marked with blood. And though your
sims be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow" and the other is the keeping of ,he
whole law. II we could do that God will
accept US, but we cannot. and we certainly
know we have not. He that offcnds in
one point is guilty Of all. not that he has
broken all, but in the single otiense he has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint Of the unregenerate man at
least this statement is true, and ! speak
now IN the language OF the unreeenerSe.
You are not lost because of Adams sin,
or an inherited tendency 20 evil. but
rather because YOU have rejected Christ
for yourself. Let US imagine a case You
have consumption. and Il has come 20 you
from a long line Of ancestry, and | went 20
and If YOU viii but take IL you may be
whole again, and i reclte 20 you the in
stances of hundreds of people who have
been sick and now are well, but YOU ne.
fuse the cure and die, not because you were
a consumptivc with an inherited tendency
10 this disease. hut because YOU have re-
lected the cure, and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ
Ill.
The finish. Hebrews Q: 81. And as il
is appointed unto men once TO die, but az.
ter this the Judgment
| never speak the word Judgment that I
am not startled, not for myself, and when
| say that i do not mean TO exhibit the
spirit that | am hoher than thou. but
startled because of the unsaved 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
personal matter. No one can appear in
judgment for us We must stand there for
ourselves, and the thought of the judg-
mont viii make Ms think when everything
else has been banished from our minds.
IL - place of meeting; man will meet
his conscience, and that will be all that is
necessary.
"All know of the future Judgment
Or whatsoever IL may be.
That 10 stand alone with my conscience,
VIII be judgment enough for me-"
And he will meet his record. II will not
be necessary that the book shall bc
opened The book of ones own record
VIII condemn, that sin of last night which
no one knows but you and God il against
you; that sin IN 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 us.
MT na a Al al do
that day, and we cannot make ready ex.
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him, we
have tramplcd His love under our feet,
we have rejected His Son, and in that day
we shall meet Him and who shall be able
20 standy
The weighing room. Daniel 3: q, 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 sovUreigns. You could hardly believe
lt. There ~ n whole case of sovereigns
there by the man, who, like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
and shovels up these sovereigns that men
have tumbled the cne over the other 10 get
hold OF, and he puts them in his machine.
lie feeds his mil the same way ~ the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine, and IL
takes hold OF the coins and tests them II
weighs and poises each, throwing the light
ones TO one side and allowing those that
are good and solid and up 10 the mark "
How INTO anoM1er receptacle. IL is a mar.
velouB bit OF human ingenuity, but it's
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar Of the judgment OF God nothing 10
the hnal assize, when the dead small and
great, shall stand before God You had
better put II right. The Spirit says you
are a happy man II you realize your short
comines IN time and get II covered.
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives. II IL not what we have done,
but the motive that prompted the doing,
and He shall test our acts IL is not the
good 20 Others which we have accom-.
plished that shall count for 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 n solemn
scene in the Book Of Daniel where Bel.
shazzer and his guests forgot the splendor
Of the room in which they ieasted the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women. the
sweet music and see only the fingers Of n
mans lands writing on the plaster OF the
wall, Weighed and found wanting" and
a more striking scene than that shall be
our experience il we neglect Christ
V
The settling day. Mark s: 30, For what
shall IL profit man II he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul" IL IN
possible thing for one 10 aim Jst win the
world. We can have its music and its art
and its honor and It's pleasure, and In n
sense its wealth. but what shall IL profit us
A great Illinois farmer who years ago
took Mr.. Moody over his farm said 20 him
with pride, "All this ~ mine, Mr.. Moody"
and then took him 20 the cupoa Of his
house aud showed him the extent Of his
possegsIons 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 IL
mine" and Mr. Moody said, 1T IL q great
farm, but how much have you up yon
der| pointing beavenward. Alas" said
the man, II have been 20 busy here that
have made no provision for the country
there"
In one Of Tolstoi's books there IL an illus.
tration oi that part Of Russia where II u
said in the story a Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
from sunrise 20 sunset, and 1olstoi tells
Of peasant who started in the morning
az the break of day AID ran with all speed
% mark ont his possessions. lie sees the
waving trees in the distance and deter.
mines they shall 90 has, and The lake be
yOnd him, and he gays that shall be mine,
and the splendid plain, and runs 90 take II
IN, and lifts hIs eyes 20 find that the sun
N beyond the meridian Then he bends
every energy 90 reach the starting point,
and JUt A. the fun gOcs down be reaches
u, falls upon his face from sheer weakness,
and the land 10 all bw, but TolstOi Gays