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No. 87. 
 
 THE DAY OF TRIAL. 
 
 It is said of an illustrious queen of England, that, 
 when dying, her agonizing language was, Millions of 
 worlds — millions of worlds for another day of probation ! 
 She felt that she could not " stand in the judgment." 
 And can any impenitent sinner stand in that day of 
 trial? 
 
 All the testimony will be against him. His com- 
 panions hi sin will testify against him. Sinners, in this 
 world, encourage one another in transgression; and if one 
 is arrested, his associates may swear falsely to save him. 
 But at the tribunal of God, every mouth that would jus- 
 tify sin will be stopped. The false swearer, the liar, will 
 feel it utterly impossible to evade Omniscience. Thus, 
 every sinner will be constrained to bear witness to the 
 truth, even though it expose his nearest companions to 
 " shame and everlasting contempt." 
 
 The examples of the righteous will also testify against 
 him. He will not be able to plead that lie could not 
 help continuing in sin; that he was urged on by a fatal 
 necessity; for he will see that others who were once of 
 like dispositions have repented, and have broken off 
 their iniquities by turning to the Lord. 
 
 His own awakened conscience and memory will testify 
 against him. Conscience may now slumber. The sin- 
 ner may impiously say, " Where is the promise of his 
 coming? What profit shall we have if we pray unto 
 him ?" But very different will be his reflections on 
 another day. When the slumbers of death are broken, 
 
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 and the terrors of judgment burst upon the view, then, 
 too, will the slumbers of conscience be broken, and 
 heart-rending convictions fill the mind. Conscience 
 will then testify how you here stifled conviction, re- 
 sisted the truth, grieved the Holy Spirit. Memory, too, 
 will on that day "be amazingly quickened. All the 
 privileges you have abused, and all the millions of your 
 now forgotten sins, of thought, word, and deed, will 
 come up in terrible array before you. O, what an im- 
 mense dark, thick cloud, to break at once in thunder on 
 the conscience! And will not conscience thus be roused 
 to fury, and declare you verily guilty ? But more — 
 
 The sufferings of Christ will testify against the sinner 
 at the judgment. That same Jesus who hung on the 
 cro>s, will then fill the throne. But O, how changed ! 
 His countenance, once marred, now glorious as ten thou- 
 sand suns shining in their strength. His very appear- 
 ance will say with emphasis, These arms were once 
 extended for your salvation ; for sinners like you, this 
 head was crowned with thorns — this body and soul bore 
 the tremendous weight of a world's redemption. And 
 this exhibition wi'l furnish overwhelming proof of the 
 ingratitude and guilt of him whom such love could not 
 melt. 
 
 All the instructions of Christ will also testify against 
 him. " He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my 
 words, hath one that judgeth him ; the word that I have 
 spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.' 1 Yes, 
 these glorious truths of the Saviour will be as noonday 
 splendors, to render his ingratitude the more manifest, 
 his perseverance in sin perfectly inexcusable, and his 
 damnation just. 
 
 But cannot the law be set aside, and the sinner thus 
 escape ? "God is the Judge," and he cannot set aside 
 His own law. And when lie shall exhibit its infinite 
 
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 purity in contrast with the sinner's vileness, then the 
 poor wretch, if he have no Saviour to plead for him, 
 must feel that he is indeed undone for ever. But — 
 
 He will have no Advocate. At a human tribunal, 
 when the culprit is arraigned, though all the witnesses 
 be against him, and the judge inflexibly just, still he 
 cherishes hope from the ingenuity and eloquence of his 
 advocate. But for the sinner at Jehovah's bar, no advo- 
 cate will be found. Not one of his boldest companions 
 will venture a syllable in his defence ; not one of those 
 foul spirits of darkness who beguiled him with lies, will 
 now care for his safety; not one of the bright and gen- 
 erous millions of angels will attempt to palliate his 
 guilt; and having rejected the Saviour, he can have no 
 part in his mercy. Thus, he must bear his own burden. 
 He must meet the condemning witnesses, the violated 
 law, and the eternal Judge, without any advocate. 
 And— 
 
 All the jurors will be perfectly holy. "Know ye 
 not that the saints shall judge the world V* Yes, these 
 happy spirits, themselves "washed and made white in 
 the blood of the Lamb," will then look bn the wicked 
 who have despised his mercy, just as they appear " in 
 the light of God's countenance," amid the splendors of 
 the " great white throne;" and in such circumstances 
 they cannot but acquiesce in the sanctions of the holy 
 law. Their part will then be, with Christ, to judge 
 and condemn ; and not, as now, to entreat .and suffer 
 wrong. Men of piety and moral worth are sometimes 
 most cruelly treated in this world. Wealth and intrigue 
 may here succeed in a bad cause — "but 't is not so 
 above." 
 
 O, sinner, when every witness shall be against you, 
 and your Judge inflexibly just ; when no kind advocate 
 shall appear for you, and all the jurors shall be perfectly 
 
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 boly — can thy heart endure or thy hands be strong? 
 Ah, no. Every angel would say, No; this controversy 
 is with Omnipotence, and no sinner "shall be able to 
 stand," when " the great day of his wrath is come." 
 
 "Agree, then, with thine adversary quickly, while 
 thou art in the way with him." Fly to the Saviour. 
 Accept his offered mediation. It is inexpressible mad- 
 ness as well as guilt, to remain unreconciled to God, 
 and approach the judgment without an advocate, with- 
 out one favoring witness, with no friend on the throne, 
 nor one pitying saint or angel among all the assembled 
 millions. * 
 
 "The ungodly shall not stand. " And recollect, from 
 that fall there is no recovery. It settles your character 
 and destiny for ever. And O, eternity, eternity, eternity ! 
 Who that has now the offer of peace, would have the 
 Holy One his eternal enemy? Think, O, my soul, what 
 it is to be condemned by the infinite Redeemer and 
 Judge, and lie for ever under the " power of his anger !" 
 Think of the amount of misery to be endured by a soul 
 increasing forever in guilt and remorse ! Think of the 
 extent of eternity ! Send an angel forward on the 
 awful deep, with lightning's speed, for millions of cen- 
 turies, and the dread waves of perdition are still rolling 
 eternally beyond ! 
 
 Dying man, what are your prospects? "Judge your- 
 self now, that you may not be condemned with the 
 world." "The prudent man foreseeth the evil, and 
 hideth himself." " If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise 
 for thyself; but if thou scornest, thou alone must bear 
 it." 
 
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