Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-24

room and say to your partner. ~ YOU
think that man is good for this bill! Can
he give proper SECURITY, Wlll ne meee
this payment" Now, when you are Of
fered this world as possession l want
YOU to test the matter. ] do not want you
to 90 into this bargain blindly. / want
YOU to ask about the title, about the in
surance. about whether men have ever
had any trouble with it, about whether
YOU can keep it. about whether you can
oct all or the ten thousandth OF one hun
dred thousandth part or 1t.
There is the world now shall say no
more about it. Make up your mind for
yourself, as ! shall. before God, have to
make up my mind for myself. about the
value of this world. | cannot afford to
make a mistake for my soul, and you can
not afford to make mistake for your soul
Christ is glorious to our souls now, but
how much grander our appreciation after
awhile! A conoueror comes back after the
battle. He has been fighting for us. lie
comes upon the platform. He has one
arm in sling. and the other arm holds a
crutch. As he mounts the platform. oh,
the enthusiasm of the audience! They
say. "That man fought for us and I'M
periled his life for us" and how wild the
huzza that follows huzza.
When the Lord Jesus Christ shall at
last stand out before the multtudes OF
the redeemed of heaven and we meet Him
face to face and feel that He was wounded
in the head and wounded IN the hands
and wounded in the feet and wounded IN
the side for us, methinks we Will be over
whelmed. E,
We will sit some time gazing IN silence
until some leader amid the white robed
choir shall lift the baton of light aud give
the signal that it is time to wake the song
of Jubilee. and all heaven then will break
forth into "Hosanna! hosanna, Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain"
] calculate further the value OF the soul
by the price that has been paid Tor 1t:
In st. Petersburg there is diamond that
the Government paid 100000 for. wei;
you say. "it must have been very valuable
or the Government would not have paid
100000 for it,"
! want to see what the soul is worth
and what your soul is worth by. seeing
what has been paIu for it. For that I'M
mortal soul the richest blood that was ever
shed, the deepest groan that was ever ut,
tered. all the griefs of earth compressed
into one tear, ell the sufferings OF earth
gathered into one rapier of pain and stuck
through His holy heart. Does it not I'M
ply tremendous value!
| argue. also. the value of the soul from
the future. One would have thought that
a street of adamant would have done;
NO. it is a street of gold. One would
have thought that wall of granite would
have done. No, it is the flame OF sar-
donyx, mingling with the green OF emer-
aid.
One would have thought that an occa-
sonal doxology would have done. No, II
is a perpetual song. If the ages of heaven
marched in a straight line, some day the
last regiment might pass out OF sight
But no, the ages of heaven do not march
in a straight line, but in q circle around
about the throne of God, forever, forever
tramp. tramp A soul so. bought. so
equipped, so provided for must be a price
less soul, majestic soul, a tremendous
soul. oo
If a man sell bill Of goods worth $4,000,
and he is cheated out of it, he may get
5000 somewhere else, but a man who IN
vests his soul invests all. Saving that, he
saves all In the light OF my text, 1t
seems to me as if you were offering your
soul to the highest bidder, and hear you
say, What is bid for it, my deathless
spirit? What is bid for it!' Satan says,
Il will bid the world" You say, "Begone,
that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the
world? No! Begone!'
q
saw. Il will not sell my soul for the world.
! find the world is an unsatisfying por-
ton" What, then, will you do with your
soul? Some one whispers here, Il Will
give my soul to Christ" Will you? That
| IS the wisest resolution you ever made.
viii you give it to Christ! When: 10
morrow? No, now j congratulate you
if you have come to such decision.
Oh, if the eternal Spirit OF God would
now come down upon you and show you
| the vanity of this world and the immense
Importance Of Christ's religion and the IN
| finite value of your own immortal souls,
| what an hour this would be!
What a moment this would be! DO you
know that Christ has bought your soul?
| DO YOU know that He has paid an infinite
price for it? Do YOU know that He Is
worthy of it? viii you give 1t to HIM
now?
| was reading lately of a sailor who had
Just got ashore and was telling about his
last experience at sea- he SAID: Inc lasC
time | crossed the ocean we had terllhc
time. After we had been out three or four
days the machinery got disarranged, and
the steam began TO escape, and the cap
tain, gathering the people and the crew
on deck. said Unless some one will go
down and shut off that steam and arrange
that machinery at the peril of his life we
must all be destroyed He was not will
ing to 90 down himself No one seemed
wiling to go. The passengers gathered at
one end Of the steamer waiting for their
fate The captain said: Il give you a last
warning If there is no one here willing
to imperil his life and 60 down and fix
that machinery we must all be lost. a
plain sailor raid, I'll go, sir, and he
wrapped himself in coarse piece OF can
vas and went down and was gone but
few moments when the escaping steam
stopped. The captain cried out to the
passengers: All saved! Let us 60 down
below and see what has become of the
poor fellow They went down. There he
law dead" Vicarious suffering! Died for
all. Oh, do you suppose that those people
on the slip ever forget, ever can forget,
that poor fellow? mo" they say; 1T
was through his sacrifice, that l got
ashore" The time came when our whole
race must die unless some one should en-
dure torture and sorrow and shame Who
shall come to the rescue? Shall it be one
of the seraphm2 Not one. Shall it be
one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall it
be an inhabitant of some pure and unfall-
en- world? Not one. Then Christ said,
90. / come to do Thy will, o God" and
lie went down the dark stairs of our sin
and wretchedness and misery and woe,
and He stopped the peril. and lie died
that you and / might be free; Oh, the
love; oh, the endurance; oh, the horrors
of the sacrificed Shall not our souls go
out toward Him, saying: lord Jesus
Christ take my soul. Thou are worthy to
have it. Thou hast died to save It,"
God help you rightly to cipher out this
sum in gospel arithmetic: What shall it
profit a man il he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul!