The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-07-17

Us, of great sins, hut the existence OF little
SINS will prove the existence OF a sinful
nature.
The race. Romans 8: 10, "They are al
gone ou, OF the way, they are together be-
come Improbable; there Is none that doeth
GOOD, no. not one Ii we object to the
first statement, which, nevertheless, eX-
pericnce proves to be true, we certainly;
cannot resist tic power OF the second
statement. for the apostle writes thai we
have ell gone away from God. W hen
thc~c came a time in our lives wncn 1t was
possible for It's % choose either the right
or the wrong we we'll remember that the
tendency all along has been TO cho3Se the
TroY.. or at least to permit It. and wien
we remember that it is the wrong III LIS
Judgment that we are responsible Tor the
message is a solemn one that we nave 10 90
with who taught the commandments and
made the look OF lust ido!atry. and the
feeling OF murder against 4 brother mur-
der. There are two ways III when men
might get into heaven; one is the way that
is marked with blood. And though Your
sins be rs scarlet they shall be as white as
snow" and the other is the keeping OF the
whole law. Ii we could do that God Will
accent us. but We cannot. and we certainly
know we have not. "Ile that offends III
one point is guilty of al" not that he has
broken all. but in the single oifense he has
broken away from God. But from the
standpoint of the unreSenerate man at
least this statement is true, and l speak
now in the language of the unregenerate.
Iou are not lost because OF Adams sin,
or an inherited tendency to evil, but
rather because yoa 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 l recite to you the In
stances of hundreds OF people who have
been sick and row are well, but YOU re-
fuse the cure and die, not because you were
a consumptive with an inherited tendency
TO this disease, but because You have re-
iected the cure. and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
III.
The finish. Hebrews Q: %. "And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but at
ter this the Judgment
never speak the word judgment that l
am net startled. not for myself, ard when
| sav that ! DO not mean to exhibit the
spirit that / am ho,ier than thou. hut
startled because OF the unsared man who
is in danger o: the Judgment, for God has
distinctly said concerning the saved.
There is therefore now no judgment to
them tina: are in Christ Jesus" This is a
personal matter. No one can appear III
iudcmeat Tor us. We must stand there for
ourselves. ard the thought of the judg-
nlcnt will make Us think when everything
csc has been hanishcd from our minds.
I: is a place OF meeting: man will meet
I 10. ,,.,n lo on hot y
necessary.
Gan 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. 1t will not
be necessary that the hook 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 CT but yourself and your Maker
mas 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 en-
cept BIZ faith in Christ and we can meet
God. We have sinned against Him. we
have tramp.ed His love under our feet,
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: 81, "Thou
art weighed in the balances, and art found
| wanting"
There is a machine in the Bank of Eng
land that in very wonderful way sits
| the sovereigns. You could hardly believe
it. There is a whole case of sovereignS
there by the man, who, Ike an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop
| and shovels w these sovereicns 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 thresh;ng machine, and it
! takes hold OF the CONS and tests them. 1t
| weighs and poiSeS each, throwing the light
| ones to one side. and allowing those that
are good and solid and IN 10 the mark TO
Row into another receptacle. 1t is a mar
velous bit OF human ingenuity, but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar OF the judgment OF God; nothing to
tie final assize, when the dead, small and
great. shall stand before God You had
better pu: it right. The Spirit says you
are happy man If you realize Your short
comings in time and get it covered.
When that day comes He shall weigh
our motives IL Is mol Nnat we nave gone,
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 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 a solemn
scene in the Book of Daniel where Bel
shazzer and his guests forgot the sp;endor
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