To be near unto God - pagina 287

evil, are recorded side by side. the teaching of Scripture. For we must all appear, "says the apostle," before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10). And every accountant knows what accounting here means, and what it implies, that in the judment, God shall give us his bill in toto, accompanied with explanations, so that we shall be convinced in the conscience that the account shall have the total reis correct and just. sult, the entire resumption of our life, from childhood on, shown unto us with such certainty, as to exclude every suggestion of doubt.

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In our automatic counting-machines, the cipher is put in, appears at once in sight. The addition takes place of itself. This is the image of our life. And he who throughout all of life has refused to notice the cipher, that showed itself each day, will in the judgment day suddenly see the total amount, in which nothing has been forgotten, and against which nothing can be said. There will be an opportunity to verify it, but this will do no good. A mistake in this account is unthinkable. And with the of whatever

sudden clearing of the light of the conscience, which will illumine all of life, there will nothing rest, save the acknowledgement that God is just. This is nothing to him, who believed and fell asleep in Jesus. The end will reveal to him also a terror-striking shortage, but on the opposite side of the page will appear the atonement by Christ, which covers everything. His judge is his 279

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