Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-08-20

NOW, you nave seen the two prop
erties-the world, the soul. One per-
ishable, the other immortal. One I'M
satisfying, the other capable of ever
increasing felicity. Will you trade?
VIII you trade even? Remember, it is
the only investment you can make.
If a man sell a bill of goods worth
$4,000, and he is cheated out of it, he
may get $4,000 somewhere else; but a
man who invests his soul invests all.
Saving that, he saves all. In the light
of my text it seems to me as if you
were offering your soul to the highest
bidder, and l hear you say, ''What is
bid for it, my deathless spirit? What
is bid for it?" Satan says, 81 will bid
the world" You say, 'Begone, that is
no equivalent! Sell my soul for the
world? No! Begonew But there is
some one else in the audience not so
wise as that. He says, "What is bid
for my immortal soul?' Satan says,
81 will bid the world ''The world?
Going at that, going at that, going!
Gonew Gone forever!
What is the thing of greatest price
The whole creation round?
That which lost in paradise,
That which in Christ is found
Then let us gather round the cross
That knowledge to obtain,
Not by the SOULS eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.
Well, there are a great many people
who say, 81 will not sell my soul for
the world. I find the world is an I'M
satisfying portion" What, then, will
you do with your soul? Some one
whispers here, 81 will give my soul to
Christ" VIII you? That is the wisest
resolution you ever made. Will you
give it to Christ? When? Tomorrow?
No, now. l congratulate you if you
have come to such a decision. Oh, if
the eternal Spirit Of God would now
come down upon you and show you
the vanity of this world and the i'm
mense importance of Christ's religion
and the infinite value of your own i'm
mortal souls, what an hour this would
be! What q 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? Will
you give it to him now?
Christ to the Rescue.
I was reading lately of a sailor who
had just got ashore and was telling
about his last experience at sea. He
said: "The last time crossed the ocean
we had q terrific time. After we had
been out three or four days the ma
chinery got disarranged, and the steam
began to escape and the captain, gath
ering the people and the crew on deck,
and shut off that steam and arrange
that machinery at the peril of his life
we must all be destroyed He was
not willing to go down himself No
one seemed willing to go. The passen-
gers gathered at one end of the steam
er waiting for their fate. The captain
said: L give you q last warning. If
there is no one here willing to imperiI
his life and go down and fix that ma
chinery, we must all be lost 4 plain
sailor said, 'I1l go, sir and he wrap
ped himself in 4 coarse piece Of canvas
and went down and was gone but
few moments when the escaping steam
stopped, and the machinery was adj
juSted. The captain cried out to the
passengers: All saved! Let us go
down below and see what has become
of the poor fellow They went down.
There he lay dead" Vicarious suffer
ing! Died for ALL oh, do you suppose
that those people on the ship ever for
got, ever can forget, that poor fellow?
"Nor' they say. cit was through his
sacrifice that I got ashore" The time
came when our whole race must die
unless some one should endure torture
and sorrow and shame. Who shall
come to the rescue? Shall it be one of
the seraphim? Not one. Shall it be
one Of the cherubim? Not one. Shall
it be an inhabitant of some pure and
unfallen world? Not one. Then Christ
said, "Lo, 1 come to do thy will, o
Godv' and he went down the dark
stairs of our sin and Indebtedness and
misery and woe, and he stopped the
peril, and he died that you and | might
be free. Oh, the love; oh, the endur-
ance; oh, the horrors of the sacrifice!
Shall not our souls go out toward him,
saying: "Lord Jesus Christ, take my
soul. Thou art 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 man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?"
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
The South American Way.