Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-07-19


tendency all along has been 10 choose the
wrong. or at least to permit it. and when
we remember that 1t Is the wrong in His
Judgment that we are responsible tor 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 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 vii.
accept Us, but we cannot. anT we certainly
know we have not He that offends in
one point is guilty of all, MOI that he has
broken all. but in the sing e oifense he has
broken away from God. Bat from the
standpoint of the unrecencratc man ut
least this statement is true. and speak
now in the language OF the upregenerate.
You are not lost because OF Adams sin.
or an inherited tendency 10 evil. hut
rather because YOU have rejected Christ
for yourself. Let Us imagine 4 case. You
have consumption. and it has come to you
from long line or ancestry. and | went to
YOU and know a cure for consumption.
and ii YOU will but take it YOU may be
whole again. and | rectc To YOU the in
stances OF hundreds Of people who have
been sick and now are well but YOU re-
a consumptive with an inherited tendency
to this disease. but because you have re.
lected the cure. and men are lost because
they have rejected Christ.
III.
The finish. Hebrews Q: -. And as il
Is appointed unto men once to die. but Al
ter this the Judgment
| never speak the word judgment that
am not startled, not Tor myself. and when
i say that ! do not mean % exhibit the
spirit that | am holier tls,n thou, bat
startled because OF the un>;sei mar who
is in danger OF the judgment, FOR God has
distinctly said concerning the saved,
There is therefore now no judgment &c
them that are in Christ Jesus" This is n
personal matter. No one can appear in
judgment for us. We must stand there for
ourselves; and the thought OF the jmdg-
ment Will make us think when every. hing
else has been banished from our minds
'All know of the future judgment
Or whatsoever il may be.
I That to stand alone with my conscience.
Will be judgment enough for me-"
And he will meet his record. Il will not
be necessary that the book shall be
opened. The book OF ones own record
will condemn; that sin o: last night which
no one knows but you and God IS against
you; that sin in London which no one
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 canao. make ready ex-
cept by iaith in Christ and we can mce.
God. We have snned against Him. we
have trampled His love under our feet
We have rejected His Son. and in that day
we shall meet Him and who shall DC able
to stand:
The weighing room. Dsniel s. %. 'Thor
art weighed in the balances. and art found
wanting"
There is 2 machine in the BanI; OF Eng
land that in a very wonderful way Sits
the sovereigns. You could hardly believe
i. There IS whole case OF sovercigns
there by the man. who. like an ordinary
miller at an ordinary mill takes MS SCOOP
and ShovelS IN taCse sovereigns that men
have tumbled the one over the other TO get
hold OF. and ne puts them in his machine
he feeds his mill the same way as The Old
farmer feeds his threshing machine. AID it
taxes hold OF the CONS and tests them Il
weighs and poises each. throwing the light
ones TO one side, and allowing those that
are good and solid and up to the mark Il,
flow into another receptacle 1t is a mar
Vicious bit OF human ingenuity. but its
testing qualities are nothing beside the
bar or the judgment of God: nothing to
great, shall stand before God. You had
better put it right. The Spirit says you
are happy man ii YOU realize Your short.
comlngs In time an| 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 shall count for Us. but that
which has been for His glory: and lie
shall seek out our thoughts. and woe or
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 splendor
OF the room in which they feasted. the
brilliant lights, the beautiful women. the
sweet music and see only ahe fingers OF
mans hands writing on the pla ster of the
wall. Weighed and found wanting" and
a more striking scene than that shall be
our experience II we neglect Christ
V.
The settling day. Mari, s: So. For what
shall It profit a man il he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul" Ii is
a possible thing tor one to almost win the
world. We can have its music and it, art
and its honor and its pleasure. and in a
sense its wealth, but what shall it profit Us,
A great Illinois farmer who years ago
TOOK MT Moody over his farm said to him
with pride, All this is mine. Mr. Moody
and then took him to the cupola OF his
house and showed him the extent OF his
possessions. He 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. 1T is a great
farm. but how much have you up Won.
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 Tolstoi's books there is an illus
tratiOn of that part OF Russia where it is
said in the story a Russian peasant can
have all the territory he can measure out
from sunrise to sunset, and Tolstoi tells
OF peasant who started in the morning
at 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 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 point,
and just as the sun goes down he reaches
IT. falls upon his face from sheer weakness,
and the land Is all his. bu1 Tolstoi says
they stopped down to pick rim up and he
Is dead. He has gained it all and lost his
soul. This Is 4 picture OF many a man
striving foc honor and for pleasure and for
power. What shall it all profit in that