The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-05-17

he ii cheated eut of It. he may get q, U0l
somewhere s!fe: hut . man who invests hil
soul Invests all Losing that, he loses all.
Saving shat, he saves all. In the light Of my
Ing one ing your soul to the highest bidder,
and I hear YOU say: 'What is bid for it, my
deathless spirit? What is bid for it?" Satsr
says: ''l'll bid tue world" You say: "Be.
gone! that Is NJ equivalent. Sell my soul
10: the world9 No! Begonew But there
as thAt. He says: What is bid for my i'm.
moral soul?" Satan says: 'I:ll bid the
world" ''rhe world? Going at that, going
at that, going at that. going! GoneW Gone
forever!
What is the thing Of greatest price.
The whole creation rounds?
That which was lost in Paradise, ,
That which in Christ Is found.
Then let us gather round the cross
That knowledge to obtain;
Not by the souls eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.
Well, there are a great many people in the
house who say: 81 will not SELF my soul fol-
ing portion" What, then, will you 10 with
give my soul to Christ" will you? That e
Che wisest resolution you ever made. Will
you give it to Christ? When? Tomorrow?
No; now. | congratulate you if you have come
w SoSA - SAo OhS - VlAo 1LlVl u liz
eternal spirit of God would come down u. OF
this audience, and show you the vanity OF
this world, and the immense importance of
Christ's religion. and the infinite value of
your immortal souls, what a house this
would be what an hour this would be? what
a moment this would be! Do you know that
Christ has bought your soul? Do you know
that He has paid:an infinite price for it? Do
you KIN wv that He is worthy of it? Will you
give it to Him now?
l was reading Of a sailor who had just got
ashore and was telling about his last expert
ed the OCEAN we had o terrific time. After
we had been out three or four days the ma
chinery got disarranged and the steam be-
gan to escape, and the captain, gathering the
people and the crew on deck, said: "Unless
someone shall go down and shut off that
peril Of his life we must all be destroyed"
He was not willing to go down himself. No
one seemed willing to 60. The PASSENGERS
gathered at one end Of the steamer waiting
for their fate. The captain said: 81 give
you q last warning. If there is no one here
fix that machinery we must all Be lost" A
plain sailor said "PIl 60, SIR" and he wrap
ped himself in a coarse piece of canva and
went down, and was gone but \ few mo-
ments when the escaping steam stopped and
the machinery was corrected. The captain
SaAoA ~ u tAe PusecuktTS. AL baVeu ]
Let us go down below and see what has be-
come Of the poor fellow" They went down.
There he lay dead. Vicarious suffering!
Died for all! oh, do you suppose that those
people on the ship ever forgot, ever can Tor.
get that poor fellow? "Now they say: lit
was through his sacrifice that l got ashore"
The time came when our whole race must
die unless some one should endure torture
and sorrow and shame. Who shall come to
the rescue? Shall it be one of the seraphim9
Not one. Shall it be one of the cherubim?
Not one. Shall it be an inhabitant Of some
pure and unfal!en world? Not one. Then
Christ said: $40! I come to do Thy will,
Q God; )" and He went down through the
dark stairs Of our sin, and wretchedness, and
misery, and woe. and He stopped the peril,
and He died that you and I might be free.
oh. the lovel Oh, the endurance! Oh, the
horrors Of the sacrifice! Shall not our souls
this morning 60 out toward Him, saying:
'Lord Jesus Christ, take my soul. Thou
art worthy to have it. Thou hast died to
save It,"
God help you this morning rightly to cipher
out this sum in gospel: arithmetic: ''What
shall it profit a man If he shall ga in the
whole world and lose his own soul9'