The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-08-20

IL Mnue and How 1t May 30 ltemPdI ed
Chr,sts Blood VIII Buy You Back.
1'nPENA. KAN. August 9.-Dr. Tai
mag reached lhs city YESTERDAY in The
course OF his Western trip. lie was
warmly welcomed by the citizens who
came in large Numbers to hear the ia
nous Rrooklyn divine. The subject of
the SCI lmon for this week is: "A poor
investments" and the text Isaiah Iii: g.:
"He have sold yourselves for noueht
and ye shall be redeemed without
money"
The Lords people had gone head
long into sin, aud as Il punishment they
had been carried captive To- Babylon
They found t,lut niquily did not pay
Cyrus seized Babylon. and felt so sorry
Tor these poor captives that, without a
dollar of compensation, he let them 90
home. SO that, literally, my text was
fulfilled: "Ye have sold Yourselves for
nouyht; and yc shall be redeemed with
out money"
There is enough Gospel in this + fifty
sermons. There are persons here who
have, like the people oflhe text, sold
out. You DO moi seem TO belong either
toy ourselves or to God. The titleJlccds
u,
the flesh, and The devil" but the pr
chaser never paid up. "Ye have sold
yourselves for nOu9ht."
When man passes himself over to
l'~> world he expects to get some adc-
quate compensation. He has heard the
great things that the world does for Al
man. and he believes it. lie wants two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That
will be horses and houses, and Il summer
resort, ndiolly companionship. To get
1t lc parts with his physical health
by over work. He parts with his con-
scitncc. He parts with much domestic
enjoyment. lie parts with opportuni-
ties tor literary culture. He parts with
his soul. And so he makes oyer his
entile nature to the world. He does 1T in
iour lnsta lments. lie pays down the
first lns;allment, und one fourth Of his
nature is gone. He pay down the see
ond mstallment. and One-half OF his
nature is gone. Ie pay down the third
nstallmenu. and three quarters of his
nature are gone; and alter many wears
have gone by nc pays down the fourth
mstallment, and 10 his entire nature
IS 9oae. When he comes up to the
world and says. Good morning. have
delivered TO you the gosds. l have las-
ed over to you my body, my mind, and
my soul and | have come down to collect
the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars" 1.-Two hundred and fifty thous.
and dollars?" says the world. What
do you mean:" "Wcll' you say, IL
one to collect the money you owe mc,
and expect you to fulfill your part OF
the contract" "But," says the world,
II have failed. l am bank rupt can
not possibly pay that debt. | have not
Tor a long while expected to pay it,"
Well," you then say, give me back
the goods" "Oh, no." says the world,
''they are all gone. L cannot give them
back to YOU" And there you stand on
the confines OF eternity, your spiritual
character gone staggering under the con-
sideration that "you have sold yourself
Tor uought."
tell YOU the world is a liar; 1t does
not keep its promises. 1t Is a cheat,
and it teeces everything it can put its
hands on. IL is Il bogus world. 1t is a
siX-thousand-ycar-old swindlcr. Even if
1t pays the two houndrcd and fifty thous-
and dollars for which you contracted. it
pays them in bonds that will not be
worth anything in a little while. Just as
man may pay down ten thousand
dollals III hard cash and get Tor it worth
less scrp-sO the world passes over to
YOU the TWO hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in that shape which will not be
worth a larthing to YOu thOusandth part
ol second after YOU are dead. "Oh,"
13u say, 1T will help to bury me any.
how" On, my brother! YOU need not
worry about that. The world will bury
You soon enough for sanitary cOnsidera.
tlons.
Postmortem cmOllmcnts are oino use
to you. The treasures of this worlu will
not pass current III the future world; and
if all the wealth OF the Bank OF EN-.
land were put in the pocket OF Nuul
shroud, and you in the midst OF the
Jordan OF death were asked To pay three
cents ior your icTriagc, you could not do
1t. There comes il moment in Your eN-
istence beyond which all earthly values
lall; and many man has waEenod uu
in such a time to find that he has sold
out Tor eternity. and has nothing to show
tor IL. | should as soon think OF Toinv
to Chatham street TO buy silk pocket
handkCrcMcls with no cotton in thrnI.
as to go to This world expecting 10 find
any permanent happiness. It has de
celve,l and dcluded every man who HAS
every put his trust in it,
History tells us OF one who resolved
that he would have all his senses gra,i
fieI at enc and The same time, and he
cNrendcC thousands Of dollars Oh cacl
sense. llo entered a room. and there
were the hrst musicians OF the LAND pleas
ing his car. and there were fine picture!
fascinating his eye, and there were cost,
aromatics regahng his nostril, and ,her,
were the richest meats and wines ant
fruits, and CONNECTIONS, pleasing The ap
petite, and there was a soft couch of sin
tul indulgence on which he rcclincd
and the man declared afterward that h,
would give ten times what he had gvc1
ifhe could have one week oi such cnioy
ment, even though he lost his soul by It
All! that was the rub! He did lose hi
soul byit! Cyrus the Conqueror tn ,uyh
for little while that he was making ,
fine thing out of this world, and yet bc
tore he came TO his grave lie wrote ou