Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-08-10
CHEATED BY THE WORLD
DR.. TALMAGE breaches A POWER
Full SERMON AT TOPEKA.


Eye Have Sold Yourselves for Naught;
and Ye Shall BE Redeemed Without
Money! Bad Bargain Which Christ's
Blood Alone viii Right.
TOPEKA, Kan, Aug 9.-Dr. Tai
mage reached this city yesterday In the
course of his western trip. He was
warmly welcomed by the citizens, who
came in large numbers to hear the IA
NOUS Brooklyn divine The subject
of the sermon for this week is, "A Poor
Investment, F." and the text, Isaiah lii, 3,
Eye have sold yourselves for naught;
and We shall be redeemed without
money"
The Lords people had gone head
long into sin, and as punishment they
had been carried captive to Babylon.
They found that iniquity did not pay,
Cyrus seized Babylon, and felt SO sorry
for these poor captives that, without a
dollar of compensation, he let them
go home So that, literally, my text
was fulfilled Eye have sold yourselves
for naught; and ye shall be redeemed
without money"
There is enough Gospel in this text
for fifty sermons. There are persons
here who have, like the people of the
text, sold out. You do not seem to be-
long either to yourselves or to God.
The title deeds have been passed over
to 1.-The world, the flesh, and the devil, >
but the purchaser never paid up. '1e
have sold yourselves for naught.
THE WORLD NEVER PAYS ITS DEBTS.
When a man passes himself over to
the world he expects to get some ade-
quate compensation. He has heard the
great things that the world does for a
man, and he believes it. He wants two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
That will be horses and houses, and
summer resort, and jolly companion
ship. To get it he parts with his phys
ical health by overwork. He parts
with his conscience. He parts with
much domestic enjoyment. He parts
with opportunities for literary culture
He parts with his soul. And so he
makes over his entire nature to the
world
He does it in four installments. He
pays down the first installment, and
one-fourth of his nature is gone. He
pays down the second installment and
one-half of his nature is gone. He pays
down the third installment, and three
quarters of his nature are gone; and
after many years havetgone by he pays
down the fourth insaallment, and 10!
his entire nature is gone. Then he
comes up to the world and says
Good morning. have delivered to
you the goods. 1 have passed over to
you my body, my mind and my soul,
and l have come now to collect the
two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars" 1.-Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars" says the world.
''What do you mean?" ''Wel1," you
say, 81 come to collect the money you
owe me, and expect you to fulfill your
part of the contract" But" says the
world, II have failed. [ am bankrupt
cannot possibly pay that debt.
have not for long while expected to
pay it." WELL" you then say, give
me back the goods" ooh, no." says
the world, ''they are all gone. I can
not give them back to you" And there
you stand on the confines of eternity,
your spiritual character gone, stagger-
ing under the consideration that you
have sold yourself for naught. "
tell you the world is liar; it does
not keep its promises. 1t is a cheat,
and it ieeces everything it can put its
hands on. 1t is a bogus world: 1t is a
Acknowledgment swindle Even if
it pays the two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars for which you contracted,
It pays them in bonds that will not be
worth anything in a little while Just
IS a man may pay down ten thousand
dollars in hard cash and get for it worth
you the two hundred and fifty thou
;and dollars in that shape which will
not be worth a farthing to you thou
;andth part of a second after you are
lead 'Oh," you say, lit will help to
bury me anyhow" Oh, my brother
you need not worry about that The
world will bury you soon enough from
sanitary considerations.
WEALTH WILL NOT PASS THE GRAVE.
Post mortem emoluments are of no
use to you. The treasures Of this world
will not pass current in the future
world; and if all the wealth of the
Bank of England were put in the pocket
Of your shroud, and you in the midst
of the Jordan of death were asked to
pay three cents for your ferriage, you
could not do it. There comes a moment
in your existence beyond which all
earthly values fail; and many a man
has Weakened up in such a time to find
that he has sold out for eternity and
has nothing to show for it. l should
as soon think of going to Chatham
street to buy silk pocket handkerchiefs
with no cotton in them as to go to this
world expecting to find any permanent
happiness. 1t has deceived and delud-
ed every man who has ever put his
trust in it.
History tells us of one who resolved
that he would have all his senses graft
fed at one and the same time, and he
thousands of dollars on each
sense. He entered a room, and there
we're the first musicians of the land
pleasing his ear, and there were fine
pictures fascinating his eye, and there
we're costly aromatics RECALLING his nos
5rils, and there were the richest meats
and wines and fruits and CONNECTIONS
pleasing the appetite, and there was a
soft couch of sinful indulgence on
which he reclined, and the man de-
elared afterward that he would give
ten times what he had given if he could
have one week of such enjoyment, even
though he lost his soul by It'll All!
that was the rub! He did lose his soul
by it, Cyrus the Conqueror thought
Tor little while that he was making a
ine thing out of this world, and yet be-
lore he came to his grave he wrote out
his pitiful epitaph for his monument:
Il am Cyrus. I occupied the Persian
empire. 1 was king over Asia. Be
yrudge me not this monument" But
-he world in after years plowed up his
sepulcher
HAPPY2 mol
The world clapped it's hands and
its feet in honor of Charles