The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-08-18
A POOR INVESTMENT.
YOU HAVE eARGAlNED YOUR SOUL
AWAY FOR NouGHT.

AWAY FOR NOUGHT.
DIR. ToImaGe shows How the Foolish Sale
Ia Made and How 1t MAY Bo Rem. died.
Cbris,'s Blood VIII BUY Yor Back.
TopEKA. KAN, August ,. DIR. Tai
mage reached lliis city yestcrda, in The
course of his Western trip. lie was
warmly welcomed by the citizens who
came In large numbers to hear tho ia
nous itrooklyn divine. Tho subject of
the sermon for this week IL: "A poor
inyestment," and The text Isaiah Iii: g.:
"Ye have sold yourselves for nouebt;
and ye shall tie redeemed without
money"
The Lords people had gone head
long into sin, aud as a punishment they
had been carried captive to Babylon
They found that iniquity did not pay.
Cyrus seized Baby lon, aud felt SO sorry
for these poor caplivcs that, without Il
dollar of compensation, he let them 90
home. So that, literally, my text was
fulfilled: "Ye lave sold yourselves for
nousht; and ye shall be redeemed with.
out money"
There is enough Gospel in this II City
sermons. There ale persons here who
have, like the people of the text, sold
out. You do not seem to belong either
toy ourselves orto God. The ti,le,leeds
lave been passed over to "thc world,
the flesh, and The DEVIL" but the pr
chaser never paid up. "Yc have sold
yourselves Tor nought"
When man passes himself over 10
the world he expects to get some adc-
qnatc compensation. He has heard the
great things that the world does for
man. and lie believes it. He wants two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That
will he horses and houses, and a summer
resort, andjol compauionship. To get
IT he lar,s with his physical health
by over work. He parts with his con-
scitnve. lie parts with much domestic
enjoyment. He parts with opportuni-
ties iur literary culture. lie parts with
his soul. And so he makes oyer his
enth nature TO the world. He does 1t in
tour insta lmcnts. lie pays down the
first ins;allmcnt, :nd one fourth of his
nature is gone. He pay down the sec.
Ond iuslallment. and one-half of his
nature is gone. lIc pay down the third
installmcnt. and three quarters of his
nature arc gone; and after many years
have souc hy lie pays down the fourth
installmrnt, and 10 his entire nature
IS goae. When he comes up to the
world and says. "Good morning. have
delivered 10 you the goods. have pas.
ed over to you my body, my mind, and
my soul and have come down to collect
the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars" ''Two hundred and fifty thous.
and dolars?" says the world. "What
do you mcan?" "Wcll" you say, II
Come to collect the money you owe me,
and L expect YOU TO fulfill your part OF
the contract" but" says the world,
81 have failed. / am bank rupt. l can.
not possibly pay that debt. l have not
Tor long While expected to pay it,"
Well," yea then say, "give me back
the goods" 'Oh, no." says the world,
they are all gone. 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
ior uOughL."
l tell you the world is a liar; it docs
not keep its promises. 1t Is cheat,
and it fleeccs every thing it can put its
hands on. 1t is a bogus world. 1t is a
siX-thonsand-year-old swindlcr. Even if
it pays the two houndrcd and City thous.
and dollars for which you contracted, it
pays them in bonds that will not be
worth anything in little while. Just as
man may pay down ten thousand
dollars In hard cash and get for it worth.
less scrip--so the world passes over to
you the TWO hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in that shape which will not be
worth q larthng toy YOU a thousandth part
"l second after YOU are dead. on"
you say, III will help to bury me any.
how." Oh, my brother! YOU need not
worry about lliat. The world will bury
}on soon enough for sanitary considera.
tlons.
PostmOrlem emOluments are Ufno use
to you. The trt asures of this world will
not pass CurI ent IN the iuture world; and
II all tie wealth OF the Bank Of Eng.
land were put in the pocket of Your
shroud, and you in the midst oi the
Jordan OF dealh were aske to pay three
cents ior your ieTriase, you could not do
1T. There comes moment in your eX.
istence beyond which all earthly values
lail; and many q man has wakcued up
in such time 10 find that lie has sold
out Tor eternity, AMI has nothing To show
for IL. L should as soon think of going
TO Chatham street 10 buy silk pocket.
handkerchieis with no cotton in them,
as to go to this world expecting TO find
any permanent happiness. IL has tie
ceivc.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 graft
fieI at one and The same time, and hc
expended thousands Of dollars on each
sense. He entered room, aud the, e
were the first musicians of the land pleas.
ing his ear. ard there were fine pictures
fascinating his eye, and there were costly
aromatics rcgahng his nosiril, and there
were the richest meats and wines and
fruits. and con!ections, pleasing the ap.
petite, and there was soft couch of sin.
tul indulgence on which he reclined;
and the man declared afterward that he
would give len times what he had given
ifhe could have one week of such enjoy
ment. even though he lost his soul by nj!
All! that was The rub! He did lose his
soul byil! Cyrus The Conqueror thought
ior little while that he was making u
fine thing out of this world, and yet be-
fore he came to his grave he wrote out
this pitilul clitaph for his monument,
II am Cyrus. l occupied the Persian
empire, was king over Asia. Bcgrydge