Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-15
.TGLNAGE'S SERMON.
; Sold for .Nought and Re-
deemed Without Money.
The Rewards" Earth are Poor and On
satisfact0ry-The Cleansing Basod oil
Christ the Only Currency OF the
Soul

DR.. Talmase preached a sermon at
. Topeka, Kansas, last Sunday, on the
subject Of "A Poor Investment" He
took for his text, Isaiah Iii, 3: aye have
sold yourselves for nonght: and We shall
be redeemed without money"
The Lords people had gone headlong
into sin, and as q punishment they had
been carried captive TO Babylon. Then
found that iniquity did not pay. Cyrus
seized BABYLON. and felt sorry for these
poor captives that, without dollar OF
compensation. he let them 60 home.
So that literally, my text was fulfilled:
"Ye have sold yourselves Tor nonght;
and we shall be redeemed without
money"
There is enough gospel in the 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 to either to yourselves or to God.
The title deeds have passed over TO
0the world, the flesh and the devil.
hut the purchaser never paid up. re
have sold yourselves for nought."
When man passes himself over to
the world he expects to get some ade-
uuate compensation. He has heard the
great things that the world does for q
man. and be believes it. He wants
R250,OO0. That will be horses ana
houses, and a summer resort and jolly
.companionship. To get 1t he parts
with his physical health by overwork.
He parts with his conscience. be parts
with much domestic enjoyment. He
parts with opportunities for literary
culture. He parts with his soul.
And so he makes over his entire ma
,ture to the world. He does 1t in four
iustallments. He paws down the first
.installment, and one-fourth OF his ma
ture is gone. He pays down the second
installment and one-half OF his nature
is gone. He pays down the third IN
.stallment, and three-quarters OF his na-
ture are gone: and after many years
have gone by he pays down the fourth
installment, and 10. his entire nature Is
gone. Then he comes up to the world
and says: Good morning, ! have de-
livered to you the goods. have pass,
ed over to you my body, my mind and
nv soul and have come now to collect
the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars" 1.-Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars?" says the world.
what do you mean?" "Well," you
say, II come to collect the money you
owe me and l expect you to fulfill your
mart of the contract" But" says the
world. II have failed. ] am bankrupt.
/ can not possibly pay that debt.
have not for a long while expected to
nav it." WELL" you then say, give
me back the goods" "Oh. no." says
the world. ''they are all gone. l 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 nougbt."
tell YOU the world is liar: 1t does
not keep its promises. 1t lisa cheat and
it fleeces everything it can put its hand:
on. II is a bogus world. 1t is 5000
year old swindle. Even If it pays the
$3.50, 200 for which you contracted II
pavs them in bonds that will not be
worth ANYTHING in little while. Jus'
as a man paws down $4,000 in hard cash
and gets for it worthless scrip, so the
world passes over TO you the sou, OO0 II
that shape which will not be worth
farthing 20 you thousandth part OF
second after you are dead. Co., YOU
saw, st will help to bury me, anyhow.
o, nv brother, you need not worry
about that. The world will bury you
soon enough from sanitary considera
tions.
History tells us OF one who resolved
that he would have all his senses graft
fed at one and the same time, and ne
expended thousands OF dollars on each
sense. He entered room, and there
were the first musicians OF the land
pleasing his ear, and there were hne
pictures for discriminating his eye, and
there were costly aromatics regallng
his nostril, and there were the r.cnes'
meats and wines and fruits. and contec
tions, pleasing the appetite, and there
was a soft couch OF sinful indulgence or
which he reclined: and the man de-
clared afterward that he would give ter
times what he had given II he could
have one week OF such enjoyment, ever
though he lost his soul by it. All! thai
was the rub! He did lose his soul by
III CYRUS, the conqueror, thought ior
little while that he was making tine
thing out Of this world, and yet before
he come to his grave he wrote out this
pitiful epitaph for his monument: u
am Cyrus. l occupied the Persian en-
pire. was king over Asia. Begrudge
me not this monument" Butthe world
in after years plowed up his sepulchre,
The world clapped its hands and
stamped its feet in honor Of Charles
Lamb: but what does he say? II walk
up and down. thinking lam happy,
but feeling l am not" Call the roll and
be Quick about it. Samuel johnson, the
learnedl Happy mo. l am afraid
shall some day get crazy" William
Hazlitt the great essayist! Happy:
lslIn I have been for two hours and 8