The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-25

possession." We might cry out: 4
gave YOU a hundred thousand dollars
for that property" the plea would
he of no avail. We might say: w
have a war deed for that prop
erty:" the plea would be OF no avail.
We might say: eve have a lien on
that storenouse;" that would do us
no rood. Death is blind, and he can
not see a seal and cannot read an in
d~enture. So that, first and last l want
to tell you that when you propose
that / give up my soul for the world
YOU cannot give me the first item OF
title.
Having examined the title of
property, your next question is about
insurance. You would not be silly
enough to buy a large warehouse that
could not possibly be Insured. You
would not have anything to do with
such a property. Now, l ask you
what assurance can you give me that
this world is not going to be burned
up? Absolutely none. Biologists tell
us that it is already on fire; that
the heart of the world is one great
living coal; that it is just like a ship
or fire at sea, the flames not bursting
out because the matches are kept
down. And yet you propose to palm
off on me, in return for my soul, a
world for which, in the first place,
YOU give no title. in the second place,
for which you can give no insurance.
"Oh," you say, "the water OF the
oceans will wash over all the land and
put out the fire." Oh, no. There are
infammable elements in the water,
hydrogen and oxygen. Call of the
hydrogen, and then the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans would blaze like heaps
of shavings. You want me to take
this world, for which you can give
no possible insurance.
Here is a man who has had . large
estate for 40 or so years. He lies
down to die. You say: THAT man is
worth millions and millions of dol
lars" Is he? You call up a survey
or, with his compass and chains, and
you say: "There is a property extend
ing three miles in one direction and
three miles in another direction" Is
that the way to measure that mans
property? No! You do not want any
surveyor, with compass and chains.
That is not the way to measure that
mans property now. 1t is an under
taker you need, who will come and
put his finger in his vest pocket and
take out a tapeline, and he will meas
ure five feet nine inches n way and
2H, feet the other way. That is the
mans property. Oh, no; l forgot;
not so much as that, for he does not
own even the place in which he lies
in the cemetery. The deed to tina
belongs to the executors and heirs
Oh, what a property you propose t.
give me for my soul! If you sell
bill of goods you go into the counting
room and say to your partner: Cd
| you think that man is good for thi
I bill? Can he give proper security
t Will he meet this pa~yment?' Now
when you are offered this world as
| possession / want you to test the mat
r ter. l do not want you to go into thi
bargain blindly. l want you to as
about the title, about the insurance
t about whether men nave ever had an,
k trouble with it, about whether yo
" can get all or the ten-thousandth par
Z or one hundred-thousandth part of Il
There is the world now. / shall sa
no more about it. Make up your min
n for yourself, as I shall before Go
r have to make up my mind for myseI
" about the value of this world. / car
not afford to make a mistake for m
le soul, and you cannot afford to mai
# a mistake for your soul
T. Now let us look at the other proper
the soul. We cannot make a barga
10 without seeing the comparative valu
II The soul! How shall 1 estimate Il
is value of it? Well, by its exquisite c
d ganization. 1t is the most wonde
IL full piece of mechanism ever put t
re gether. Machinery is of value in pr
er portion as it is mighty and silent
I the same time. You look at the engi
tie and the machinery in the Philadelph
Of mint, and as you see it performil
~ its wonderful work you will be 81
IL prised to find how silently it goes. N
m chinery that roars and tears soon {
so stroys itself; but silent machinery
ID. often most effective. Now, so it is wi
the soul of man, with all its tremendo
to faculties; IL moves in silence. JUG
lot ment, without any racket, lifting
a scales; memory, without any moi
i've bringing down all it's treasures; &C
tut science taking its judgment seat wi
icy out any excitement; the understai
les ing and the will all doing their worl
Of velocity, majesty, might, but silen
ats silence. You listen at the door of yc
les heart. You can hear M sound. I
-ou soul is quiet. 1t is so delicate an
ere strument that no human hand {
in touch it. You break a bone, and W
mt, splinters and bandages the surge
tile sets it.; the eye becomes infiamed,
ere apothecary's wash cools it; but a s
get off the track, unbalanced, no hun
,et- power can readjust it. With one sw'
r I of it's wing it encircles the universe {
ma overvaults the throne of God. w
way in the hour Of death the soul is
IT I mighty it throws aside the body