Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-25
SAM JONES,

CHICAGO, mArCn 1A.-NSf' Sauu "OHSS'
the celebrated reviyslist, said TO ight IN
his sermon:
Now let Us give curselves to good deal
of prayer tonight, sad We will consider q
very familiar old tex, one that We have
quoted and perhaps heard preached f;om
more than any other one in the Book
What will it profit man If he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul? Or
what will man give in exchange for bis
soulT'
1t is
PRE-EMISENTLY A PRACTICAL QUESTION
here in Chicago. II there ever was town
in the profit snd.loss business-loss par.
ticularly-it is Chicago understand
thsy lost to day. l understand wheat
Jumped down % cents, and many a little
fellow went home With his finger in his
mouth. Laughter I'm sorry to. him,
,hough-sorry for bis wife and children.
You will find sooner or later, my
friends, you lad better let that Produce
Exchange alone. Tee have got no
one for COW up there after she quilS CIV
inc milk. Laughter. Don't you forget
that now. [ never saw a man buck at
thing ike that bet vha! a. be went along
tor awhile and won good deal ! thought
of an old Georgia expression. "fstten'ng
hog don't know what he eating tor, IL
he did he would never eat another gram,
! Laughter. First, they commence tat
,sn;pC the nogs, then they drive them into
A pen, and the next thing bog hiss cham
! -roQpd his ieg, anj pevt butcher kO'te
- n, .Lrost, and ne[: ne GEoBs INTO not
water and nscst run through . |ashine
that takes of half tie hair, s9a nsA'
through another that takes it o.. gu saa d
lutte further down he ia cut into forty
pieces. That is about the way
THE DEVIL PASSES THEM DOWN
the line, He fatters them first That al
vsvs precedes the balance. wonder II
the Devil is catering any OF your | Laugh
ter We are q nation OF traders. We
grow up under trading regime, and every
fsllov ia running on profit aud loss. How
much will ! make BY this, and no" mucn
will I lose By that; and, really brethren
wa have reached the point in America to-
cav where this is the pivotal question.
The tariff is the big question to-day ID
Congress. When q msn daughter Is go
ING to marry we have quit measuring toe
character Of the young man; We rs'
measure his pocketbook, measure his CO
pacity for making money. And we nave
cot down now to where if We want q hrst'
Class collection at church Ve have to pitca
in and prove beyond all csyil that God wall
Dive YOU two for every one you giye HIM
And how they will I'LL the basket up
Laughter. Here we 60 through the
country day after day, aiding up the
debit and credit columns, cpd runnlng al
most exclusively on
PROFIT AND LOSS.
This question comes very conveniently
home to every conscience IN the mouse
What will it profit q man; you, ar, anC
rou, and you, and you, it you gain Inc
whole world and lose your soulf -" oere
is the pro6t2 This is grand wost?
There NAV be larger worlds. like tai!
world, The best proof i have that Goc
has built a Grand old heaven for me to hv'
in ia that God would build such a Crane
world "a this for as to live IN only lev
DAYS. There is not q physical want tns
his WORLD does not stand ready with out
strs,ched hands to supply. There Is ~
sxcuse for poverty in this country Got
has mt enough gold and land and wealth
in America for every man In 1t TO De
MILLIONAIRE;
and If a man is poor he is either very un
Go,tnnate or eonstirutionslly no account.
don't mean that every man Is no account
bs ia not rich. | an not q ricn man, AM
~, NOT voing to put myself under tina
Ers vou know. Laughter l was oori
noor and raised poor, and have held m.
p~n nm TO this time. and have got used !,
:, arS Il doesn't hurt NE, thsnE zoo
Tianobter The richest man m Uni
L 49, a the man who has everything D.
~ants The very fact Of plenty scst'e1e =
! "sound is proet that God wants US al !! =
H. = home, plenty &c est and plenty .
n nss and VIVA. more do We want Ioi
n;I;nS rp of a big fortune "a no sssars eao
sIaInst want. Willard was worth slo'Vs0
600 few years ago .
HOW MUCH Is HE WORTH NOW
The very title to the home ne hSd "a II
Question, i understand from the papers So
T"Es A. T. Stewart, with his s6O,O00
ono How mush is be Eor'hP A man Walk
; TvT that room and pulls out . tspe-hn
and measures Eve feet ten inches in's va
snS S sixteen that way, and carries it ont
The cemetery and marks . spot Of srounS
nossssSions, and to day no human os I'm
shss We know Of knows where ms BODY ne.
19N how poor. Ifyou can that riches, lister
T'ss combined millionaire: OF America,
,S ~ neglect and despiss the great ii .sU
~ g-scs 10 Christ Jesus and die on tne
a;ii;oOs, in ifry years from to-day the AZ
hnndred millionsires OF America, snu. :
n Ssll, can not raise enough money sm S
, - 10 bur one drop Of water to 400. ine !.
narchsd lips. And Jon call tnat -. fIea: -
q Let me die Ike LaSsrus 81 ice ~
80 gsta fed with the crumbs nom .
=. 4 8u . Il lie rgah man u