Don't tell me that you are better than that king. I believe that he
will rise in judgment and condemn many of us.

All this happened long centuries ago. Let us get down to this century,
to this year, to ourselves. We will come to the present time. Let us
imagine that now, while I am preaching, down come some balances from
the throne of God. They are fastened to the very throne itself. It is
a throne of equity, of justice. You and I must be weighed. I venture
to say this would be a very solemn audience. There would be no
trifling. There would be no indifference. No one would be thoughtless.

Some people have their own balances. A great many are making balances
to be weighed in. But after all we must be weighed in God's balances,
the balances of the sanctuary. It is a favorite thing with infidels to
set their own standard, to measure themselves by other people. But
that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as
a balance weight. When men find fault with the lives of professing
Christians, it is a tribute to the law of God.

"Tekel." It is a very short text. It is so short I am sure you will
remember it: and that is my object, just to get people to remember
God's own Word.

GOD'S HANDWRITING.

Let me call your attention to the fact that God wrote on the tables of
stone at Sinai as well as on the wall of Belshazzar's palace.

These are the only messages to men that God has written with His own
hand. He wrote the commandments out twice, and spoke them aloud in the
hearing of Israel.

If it were known that God Himself was going to speak once again to
man, what eagerness and excitement there would be. For nearly nineteen
hundred years He has been silent. No inspired message has been added
to the Bible for nearly nineteen hundred years. How eagerly all men
would listen if God should speak once more. Yet men forget that the
Bible is God's own Word, and that it is as truly His message to-day as
when it was delivered of old. The law that was given at Sinai has lost
none of its solemnity. Time cannot wear out its authority or the fact
of its authorship.

I can imagine some one saying--"I won't be weighed by that law. I
don't believe in it."

Now men may cavil as much as they like about other parts of the Bible,
but I have never met an honest man that found fault with the Ten
Commandments. Infidels may mock the Lawgiver and reject Him who has
delivered us from the curse of the law, but they can't h