Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19

and | hear you say What is bid for it,
my dcathless spirit? What is bid for it?''
Satan SAYS: IN bla the world" You
say: "Begone' that is no equivalent.
Sell my soul for the world! No! Be
gone But there is some one else in the
audience not so wise as that. He says.
What is bid for my immortal soul?'
Satan says: IN bid the world The
world Going at that, going at that, go
ing! Cone Gone forever!
"What is the thing Of greatest price,
The whole creation round
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 II will not sellmy soul
for the world. | find the world is an un-
satisfying portion" What, then. will
you do with your soul! some one wills
pcrs here: II will give my soult 10 Christ. -
VIII you? That i. the wisest resolution
you ever made. VIII you give il 10
Christ When? Tomorrow? No; now.
| congratulate you If YOU have come to
such IA decision. Oh, if this morning the
eternal spirit Of God would come down
upon this audience. and show YOU the
vanity of this world and the immense
importance Of Christ's religion, ana the
infinite value Of your w immortal
souls. what n 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 know that He is worthy OF it?
viii you give it 10 Him now
/ was reading of n sailor who had just
got ashore, and was telling about his last
experience at sea. He said: The last
time | crossed the ocean We had IA terrific
time. After we had been cut three or
four days, the machinery got dlsarranged
and the steam began TO escape, and the
captain, gathering the people and the
crew on deck, said: "lnlcss sOnc opc
shall 70 down and shut of that steam,
and arrange that machinery AT the peril
of his life. we must all hc destroyed
He was not willing to 20 down hfmsclf. No
II seemed willing to 80. The passen-
gers gathered At one end of the steamer
waiting for their fate. The captain said:
II give YOU q last warning. If there is
no one here willingto cmpcril his life and
go down and fix that machinery, we must
all be lost" A plain sailor said: I'm
90, sir and he wrapped himself in "A
coarse piece Of canya and went down,
and was gone but a few minutes, when
the escaping steam stopped, and the
machinery was corrected. The captain
cried out to the passengers;
IAN saved Let us go down below and
see what has become of the poor fcl-
low" They went down. There he lay
dead. Nicarious suffering, Died for
all, Oh. do you suppose that those
people on the ship ever forgot. ever can
forget that poor fellow? No they
say; at was through his sacrifice that /
got ashore" The time came when our
whole race
unless some one should endure torture
and sorrow and shame. Who shall come
to the rescue? Shall il be one Of the
seraphim? Not one. Shall it be one of
the cherub.my Not one. Shall 1t be an
inhabitant n some pure and unfallcn
world! Not one. Then Christ said:
10, | come to do thy will,
O God and he went down
through the dark stairs Of our stu, and
wrctchedness and misery and woe, and he
stopped the peril and he died that you
and ] might be free. Oh the love, oh
the endurance. Oh. the horrors Ofthe sac
riticc, Shall not our souls this morning
90 out toward Him saying: Lord Jesus
Christ. take my soul. Thou art worthy to
have II Thou hast died tn save it,
God help You this morning rightly to
cipher out this sum in Gospel arithmetic:
''Wha shall it profit a man if he shall
gain the whole world and lose his own
SOUL