Records of Life

“The story of our. lives is all engraven tipon the hearty and when God awakeneth the conscience, it tells of past sin. God will open the sinneis eyes in the 7iext world, 7iot by a holy illuviination, but by a forced convictio7i: We are told in Rev. xx. 12 — ‘The books were and one of these books is co7iscience, a7id though it be in the keepi7ig, a7id therefore 77iay beco77ie bhaied a7id defaced, yet our story will be legible e7iough and forgotte7i si7is will stare us in the face: ‘Be sitre your si7i will find you out (Num. xxxii. 23.) We forget it 710W, a7id think we shall never hear of it 77iore; but God ca7i 77iake all occur to 77ie77i07y as fresh as if 7tewly co77wiitted, and 17i a7t 17ista7it represe7it the story of a7i ill-spe7it life, a7td show tis all the thoughts, words, and actio7ts that ever we have bee7i guilty of The paper goeth white 17ito the pri7iting-house; but witlmi 07ie 17ista7it it is 77iarked withi7i a7id without, a7id C077ieth forth sta77iped with words, a7id li7ies, a7id se7ite7ices, which were 17i 710 way legible there before, eve7i so will it be with the soul when co7iscie7ice is aroused at the last J’ Our lives to-day are like the picture upon the photographer’s plate before he develops it; God hath but to put the soul into a bath prepared according to his divine art, and all the sins of his whole existence will stand out clear before the sinner’s astonished gaze. Nothing can be forgotten: all the past must live again. Let the unconverted tremble as they think of this, and let the saved ones bless the Lord Jesus who has so blotted out their sins that no power or process can ever bring them again to remembrance.