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cannot resist the power Of the second
statement, for the apostle writes that we
have all gone away from God. When
there came a time in our lives when 1t WA
possible for Us to choose either the rlgnt
or the wrong we well remember that the
tendency all along has been to choose the
wroag. or at leas: to permit it. and when
we remember that it is the wrong IN Hn
judgment that We are responsible for the
message is a 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 ia the way that
is marked with blood, And though your
sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow," and the other is the keeping OF the
whole law II VIC could do that God will
accept us. but we cannot. aud we certainly
know We have not. He that offends IN
one point is guilty OF ALL" not that he has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint Of the unregencrate man at
least this statement is true, and l speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
You are not lost because of Adams sin,
or an inherited tendency TO evil. but
rather because you have rejected Christ
for yourself Let Us imagine case. You
have consumption. and it has come to you
from long line of ancestry. and went to
you and know cure for consumption.
and if you will but take it you may be
whole again. and I recite to you the in
stances Of hundreds Of people who have
been sick and now are well, but you re-
fuse the cure ard die, not because you were
a consumptiye with an inherited tendency
to this disease, but because you have re-
jected the cure, and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
ILL.,
The finish Hebrews 8: q, "And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but at.
ter this the judgment"
I never speak the word judgment that
am not startled, not for myself, and when
I say that / do not mean to exhibit the
spirit that / am holer 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.
ment will make US think when everything
else has been banished from our minds.
It is a place OF meeting; man will meet
his conscience and that will be all that Is
necessary.
"AlI know OF the future judgment
Or whatsoever it may be,
That to stand alone with my conscience,
Will be judgment enough for me"
And he will meet his record. It will not
be necessary that the book shall be
opened. The book OF ones own record
will condemn; that sin OF last night which
no one knows but you and God is 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.
God pity US if we do not make ready for
that day, and we cannot make ready ex.
cept by faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him, we
we have rejected His Son, and in that day
we shall meet Him and who shall be able
to stand?
The weighing room. Daniel 5: q, Thou
art weighed in the balances. and art found
wanting"
There is a machine in the Bank OF Eng.
land tina. in very wonderful way Sits
the sovereigns. You could hardly believe
it. There Is whole case OF sovereiSns
there by the man, who. like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
and shovels up these sovereiSns that men
have tumbled the one over the other to get
hold Of and he puts them in his machine.
He feeds his mill the same way as the old
farmer feeds his threshing machine. and it
takes hold of the coins and tests them. It
weighs and poises each, throwing the light
ones to one side, and allowing those that
are good and solid and up to the mark to
d.. :.s-
velous bit Of human ingenuity. but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar OF the judgment OF God; nothing to
the final asslze, when the dead, snail and
great, shall stand before God You had
better put it right. The Spirit says you
are a happy man If you realize your short
cominss in time and get it covered.
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives. 1t is not what We have done,
but the motive that prompted the doing.
and He shall test our acts. 1t is not the
good to others which we have accom-.
plished that snail count for Us, but that
which has been for, His glory; and He
shall seek out our thoughts, and woe be
and thoughts arc against Him. Weighed
and found wanting" That was a solemn
scene in the Book OF Daniel where Bel.
shazzer and his guests forgot the splendor
of the room in which they feasted. the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women, the
sweet music and see only the fingers OF a
mans hands writing on the plaster OF the
wall. Weighed and found wanting" and
n more striking scene than that shall be
our experience il We neglect Christ.
V.
The settling day. Mark s: sc. For what
shall it profit man ii he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul" 1t is
a possible thing for one to almost win the
world. We can have its music and its art
and its honor and its pleasure, and in q
sense its wealth, but what shall it profit us.
4 great Illinois farmer who years ago
with pride, 'All this is mite, MIR. Moody"
and then took him TO the cupo.a of his
house and showed him the extent OF his
possessions. He pointe1 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, 1T is a great
farm. but how much have You up yon.
der" pointing hcavenward. Alas" said
the man, Il have been so busy here that |
have made no provision foE the country
there
In one OF To!stoi's books there is on illus.
tratien OF that part OF Russia where it is
said in the story Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
from sunrise 20 sunset, and Tolstoi tells
OF a peasant who started in the morning
ct the break OF day and ran with all speed
to mark out his possessions. He 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 pain, 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 poirt