Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-05-16

how much grander our appreciation after /:
whilel A conqueror comes back after tht
battle. He has been fighting for us. HI
comes upon the platform. He has one aru
in sling, and the other arm holds g
crutch. As he mounts the platform, oh
the enthusiasm of the audience! They say
THAT man fought for US, and imperilleG
his life for us"; and how wild the huzza
that follows huzza! When the Lord Jesus
Christ shall at last stand out before the
multitudes of the redeemed of heaven, and
we meet him face to face, and feel that be
was wounded in the head, and wounded in
the hands, and wounded in the feet, and
wounded in the side for us, methinks we
will be overwhelmed. We will sit some
time gazing in silence. until some leader
amidst the white robed choir shall lift the
baton of light, and give the signal that it is
time to wake the song of jubilee: and all
heaven will then b reak forth into "Ho-
sanna! hosanna! hosannai Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain"
1 calculate further the value of the soul
by the price that has been paid for it. In
St. Petersburg there is q diamond that the
Government paid two hundred thousand
dollars for. "Well," you say, cit must
have been very valuable, or the Government
would not have paid two hundred thousand
dollars for it." want to see what my
soul is worth, and what your soul ID worth
by seeing what has been paid for it. For
that immortal soul, the richest blood that
was ever shed, the deepest groan that was
ever uttered, all the griefs of earth com
pressed into one tear, all the sufferings of
earth gathered into one rapier of pain and
struck through His holy heart. Does it
not imply tremendous value?
| argue, also, the value of the soul from
TIE home that has been fitted up for it in
the future. One would have thought a
street of adamant would have done. No;
it is street of gold. One would have
thought that wall of granite would have
done. No; it is the flame of sardonyx min
Cling with the green of emerald. One
would have thought that an occasional dox-
ology would have done. No; it is a per-
petual song. If the ages of heaven march
ed in a straight line, some day the last reg
iment, perhaps, might pass out of sight;
but no, the ages of heaven do not march in
in straight line, but in a circle around
about the throne of God forever, forever,
tramp, tramp! A soul so bought, so equip
ped, so provided for, must be a priceless
soul, a majestic soul, tremendous soul.
Now, you have seen the two properties
the world, the soul. One perishablc, the
other immortal. One unsatisfying, the
other capable Of everincreasing felicity.
Will you trade? Will you trade even? Re-
member, it is the only investment you can
make. If man sell bill of goods worth
five thousand dollars, and he is cheated out
of it, he may get five thousand dollars some
where else; but a man who invests his soul,
invests all. Losing that, he loses all. Saw
ing that, he saves all, In the light of my
text, it seems SO me as if you were this
morning offering your soul to the highest
bidder; and hear you say: "What is bid
for it. my deathless spirit? What is bid for
it?" Satan says: cpl bid the world"
You say: "Begone! that is no equivalent.
Sail my soul for the world? No! Begonel"
But there is some once else in the audience
not so wise as that. He says: "Whas is
bid for my immortal soul?' Satan says:
s.I'll bld the world.' "The world? Co.
ing at that, going at that, going! GoneP'
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 knOwledse e to obtain;
Not by the SOULS eternal loss,
But everlasting gaiu.'
Well, there are great many people in
the house who say: II will not sell my
soul for the world. find the world is an
unsatisfytng portion" What, then, will
you do with your soul? Some one whis-
pers here: 81 will give my soul to Christ"
Will you? That is the wisest resolution
you ever made. Will you give it to Christ?
When? Tomorrow? No; now. 1 con-
gratulate you if you have come to such a
decision. Oh, if this morning the eternal
Spirit of God would come down npon this
audience, and show you the vanity of this
world, and the immense importance of
Christ's religion, and the infinite value of
your own immortal souls, what house this
would be! what an hour this would be-.
what moment this would be? Do you
know that Christ has bought your soul2
Do you know that He has paid an infinite
price for it? Do you know that He is
worthy of it? Will you give it to Him
nov?
was reading of sailor who had Just
got ashore and was telling about his last
experience at sea. He said: The last time
l crossed the ocean we had a terrific time
After we had been out three or four days
the machinery get disarranged, and the
steam began to escape, and the captain,
gathering the people and the crew on deck,
said, "Unless some one shall go down and
shut off that steam and arrange that ma
chinery, at the peril of his life, we must all
be destroyed" He was not willing to go
down himself. No one seemed willing to
go. The passengers gathered at one end of
the steamer waiting for their fate. The
captain said, 81 give you a last warming
If there is no one hero willing to imperil
his life and go down aud fix that machinery,
we must all be lost" A plain sailor said,
''I'll go, SIR" and he wrapped himself in a
coarse piece of canvas and went down, and
was gone but a few moments, when the
escaping steam stopped, and the machinery
was corrected. The captain cried out to
the passengers:
'.All saved Let US go down below and
see what has become 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 forget, that poor fell
low2 "No!' they say; SIT was through
his sacrifice that 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 seraphim? Not one.
Shall it be one of the cherubim? Not one.
Shall it be an inhabitant of some pure and
unfalien world? Not one. Then Christ
said: $50! come to do thy will, o 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 love! oh, the endurance! oh, the horrors
of the sacrificed Shall not our souls this
morning go out toward Him, saying, s'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 cut this sum in Gospel arithmetic
"What shall it profit man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul?'
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