The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-12
"a POOR INvEsTMENT.'
The Subject Of Sermon by Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage.
The Man who Sells Himself 10 tho World
Sure to be Cheated-rT World Does
Not Keep Its Promises-The Soul
Too Valuable to be Disposed
OF for Few More Trinkets.

Kan, choosing for his subject: "a Poor
Investment" and the text Isaiah Iii, 81:
"Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and We shall be redeemed without
money" Mr.. Talmage spoke as fol-
lows:
The Lords people had gone headlong
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 dol
lar of compensation he let them go
home. So that, literally, my text was
fulfilled: eye have sold yourselves for
nought, and ye shall be redeemed with
out money"
There is enough gospel In this text
for fifty sermons. There are persons
here who have, like the people of the
text, sold cut. You do not seem to be-
long either to yourselves or to God.
The title-deeds have been passed over
TO ''the world, the flesh, and the devil, !"
but the purchaser never paid up "Ye
have sold yourselves for nought"
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 he wants two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. That
will be horses and houses, and sum-
mer resort, and jolly companionship-
To get 1t he parts with his physical
health by overwork. He parts with his
conscience. He parts with much domes-
tic enjoyment He parts with opportu-
mites for literary culture. He parts
with his soul. And SO he makes over
his entire nature to the world. He does
II 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
have gone by he pays down the fourth
installment, and lol his entire nature is
gone. They he comes mp to the world
ana ,avs. IGood uorninol Il have de.
,;vered 20 Won tbe Goods 7 have nassed
over to you my body, my mind and my
soul, and have come now to collect the
two hundre dand fifty thousand dollars" T"
,urwo hundred and f,ftv thousand dol.
,arson save tha world "Wbat do Won
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coI,act tba money you owe me and I az.
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