The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

your wives tears. Their hearts arc
breaking. Do you suppose God is
going to let you off when you are
doing that?
| don't wonder at the man in Vir.
g1nla the other ~day, who had been
drinking and drinking, and his faith
er went up to his room and said,
Get up and dress yourself, and take
this gun. He said, What is that
for? The father said, | want you
to go down stairs and kill your
mother. Aim we'll, aim we'll! He
said Father, what are you talking
about? The father said, You are
killing her, day by day, hour by hour.
can't stand it any longer Go and
Kill her and let me bury her out
OF your sight. He said, Father i
never saw it that way before. His
father said, Go and kill her, or stop
drinking. l am not going to stand
II that way my longer.
| Fourth count:
He said You are worshipping gods
OF stone. | suppose if it had been
IN this day, it would have been oil
ana gas aud iron and steel, and fine
residences and fine buildings, and
the many other things we Worship.
| We have been led away from our
mothers prayers, but God is going to
answer those mothers prayers amt
GOD Is not going to let you forget
MIN, if he has to break your neck.
Fifth count:
God, in whose hand thy breath is,
thou hast not glorified.
What is it to glorify God? Jesus
CHRIST said to believe in him and
bring forth works worthy Of a life,
Every man who believes on God has
Saviour, and is trying to serve him
every man who believes on the
Lord Jesus Christ, that man in his
life is clarifying God, and any other
life is dishonoring God The God
in whose hands thy breath is, and
whose all thou hast is, thou hast not
glorified'
| Now, he said, 'Belshazzer, 7 have
told you why it is and I will read
it to you.
! BelshaZzar, you have been weighe l
IN GODS balance and found wanting.
You will not do. God has held YOU
~ the hands Of justice, and you will
Aot DO. In this world men often
Get b" Justice. 1t is not so above:
tore is 10 shuffling, and the indict
lle!' Stan"i. Justice is before us
and We are compelled to give in evil
dence. BelshA2Zar. you have been
weighed an won't do.
Belshazzar, your time Is up. The
clock has struck. You die tonight,
Belshdzzar. The long waiting and
patience of God waits no more. The
tlme IS up tonight, earth is ended.
There is something sad about
that thought, that there comes q
time to you and to me, the last
day, the last hour The time is
coming when l will walk off the
platform for the last time,~deliyer
my message for the last time. The
day will come when you will leave
your shop, when you will leave your
ONCE Tor the last time. The time
Will come when by brethren hero
VIII deliver their message for the
| last time. We will pass through
our door the last time.
Bclshazzar, the time is I'D, YOU
Will die tonight. God has divided
your kingdom. Six months ago the
Syrians began to build a canal above
here and today they have turned
the Euphrates into that channel.
lhey are coming in through the
ped OF the Euphrates river, and lust
then they could hear the soldiers
coming, and amid that drunken
throng the Syrian soldiers rushed
IN and buried their darts in the
hearts of Belshazzar and the thous-
and lords. The time was up,-
weighed in the balances and found
wanting, and he had to go.
My friend, this is where Jesus
Christ comes on the scene This
is where the savior Of men stems
10 front. He says, Believe in me
ana when you are weighed | will be
| weighed for you. Accept me as
Your savior and no charge shall be
| against you, | have atoned for your
every sin. And that is just like him
| 70 do that.
An old colored woman in my coun
| Try was saved. Then came home
rejoicing that night. One of the
| darkics said to ncr, Aunt Salfc,
don't YOU thiEk it is good in the
! LORD to forgive your sins? She
SAID, no, it is Just like him.
Christ says believe on me, ac-
cept me rs your savior, and there
Hhall be no sin charged against you.
| | will be weighed in your place.
YOU pass from under the Jaw. Jesus
Christ passed under the law Tor YOU
and Tor me, and we pass under
Christ because Of him That is Cos
pei and that is salvation, the
glorious doctrine Of a Substitute.
CDR. Wharton here told the story