The Archive · 1926

Every Day a Judge

The next question is as to when it is going to happen, My answer at first may rather surprise you. Tt begins to-day. Thera is no judge so ruthless as the dawn of day. Jeomes in and reveals things and no-tone can question what happened the night before. It may not be very terrible. Every day. which Jeomes in is judged by the light and the judgment is absolutely inevitable, there is no getting round it, Thers was a very telling story which we! read a great deal in England years! ago, of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Dr.' Jekyll was a benevole physician whom everyone admired and he had the respect of the whole: community, Mr. Hyde was an ugly Hittle dwarf who did ugly things at night; and the whole point was that} Dr. Jekyll turned out to be Mr. Hyde. He was Dr. Jekyll by day and Mr, Hyde by night. Tt may seem rather a foolish story, but it is a story that goes home. Are we content to be looked upon as Dr. 'Jekyll, a person keeping up appear [ances' by day, when all the time there is at night a person living out all the Inst of the flesh or mere money-making? The dawn of day will show the world which is the real person, Tu a way, therefore, I say juds-Iment begins to-day, but it also! begins with death and we ought not to be afraid of death. I have come across many cases of sudden death land I think we ought to remember} {the beautiful words, "The Master is come and calleth for thee." One of predecessors, Archbishop Laud, said the day before he was beheaded, "Lord, I am coming as fast as [can So we should not be afraid. TBut st the same time death is judgment. The same sentence may Hell to one and Heaven to another. It would not do to take a man out of a perfectly bad life Jand send him to Heaven, because Heaven would scorch him. We all]

Jare going to the place we have prepared for ourselves.

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