Connecticut western news., 1900-08-23
SPIRITUAL VALUES.
DR TAlMAGE URGES HIGHER APPRE-
 CLAYTON CT RELIGION.

lm.ting - Compares the Priceless
 Soul With the vslueless Body.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 1o.-From Berlin, where he preached in the American church to a congregation comprising many of his countrymen who are travelling through Europe, Dr. Talmage sends this discourse, in which, by original methods, he calculates spiritu- al values and urges higher apprecia- ton of things religious. The text is Mark viii, 36, What shall it profit a man If he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soulf"
 Men of all occupations are to be found in the assemblies of the house of God, but in these days of extensive business operations a large proportion are engaged from Monday morning to Saturday night in bargain making. In many of the families across the break. inst table and the tea table are dis cussed questions of loss and gain. You are every day asking yourself: What Is the value of this7 What Is the value of that" You would not think of giv- Ing something of greater value for that which Is of lesser value. You would not think of selling that which cost you $1O for @. If you had a property that was worth $15,OOO, you would not sell 1t for $4,OOO. You are intelligent in all matters of bargain making. Are you ns wise In the things that pertain to the matters of the soul? Christ adapt. ed his instructions to the circumstances hn talked to fishermen, he spoke of the gospel net When he talked to the farmers, he said, "A sower went forth to sow" When he talked to the shep- herds, he told the parable of the lost sheep. And am not right, when speaking to an audience made up of bargain makers, that I address them in the words of my text, asking, What shall it profit a man If he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
 I propose, as far as possible, to esti- mate and compare the value of tho two properties.
 A Grand Property.
 First, have to say that the world is very grand property. Its flowers are Gods thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are Gods thoughts in stone. It's dew drops are Gods thoughts in pearl. This world is Gods child-a wayward child, indeed; 1t has wandered of through the heavens. But about 1900 years ago, one Christmas night. God sent out . sister world to call that wan6crer back, and 1t hung over Beth lehem only long enough to get the promise of the wanderers return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of light, comes treading back through the heavens. The hills. how beautiful they pillow up, the edge of the wave white with the foam of crocuses! How beautiful the rainbow, the arched bridge on which heaven and earth come and talk to each other in tears after the storm is overt How nimble the feet of the lamplighters that in a few minutes set all the dome of the night ablaxe with brackets of fire! How bright the oar of the saffron cloud that rows across the deep sea of heavenl How beautiful the spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair! I wonder who it Is that beats time on June morning for the bird orchestra. How gently the harebeh tolls It's fra granee on the air! There may be grand CT worlds, swarthier worlds, larger worlds than this, but think that this Is a most exquisite world mignon- ette on the bosom of immensityi l 'Oh," you say, take my soul; give me that world! am willing to take it In exchange. am ready now for the bargain. It is % beautiful a world, SO sweet a world, 20 grand a worldr
 But let us look more minutely into the value of this world. You will not buy property unless you can get good title to 1t. After you have looked at the property and found out that it suits you you send an attorney te the public office, and he examines the book of deeds and the book of mortgages and the book of Judgments and the book of liens, and he decides whether the title is good before you will have anything to do with 1t There might be . splen- did property and In every way exactly suited to your want, but if you cannot get a good title you will not take It. Now. am here to gay that 1t is impos- stble to get . good title to this world. If settle down upon ft, in the very year I SO settle down upon 1t as . per manent possession, may be driven away from 1t. Aye, in i've minutes aft CT I give up my soul for the world may have to part with the world, and what kind of . title do you call that There Is only one way in which can hold an earthly possession, and that is through the senses. All beautiful sights through the eye. but the eye may be plotted out; aA captivating sounds through the ear, but my ear may be deafened; all lusciousness of fruits and viands through my taste, but my taSte may be destroyed; all ap- preciation of culture and of art through my mind. but I may lose my mind. What a fraii hold. then, have upon any earthly possessionl
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 Tn courts of law. If you want to get q man oR . property you must servs upon him a writ Of e3ectment, giving him . certain time to vacate the prem ises, but when death comes to us and serves . writ of e5ectment he does not give us one second of forewarninx (. He says: ''On of this placel You have no right any longer te the possession p We might cry out. T gave yoa e1O0. .0O0 for that property" the plea would b} of no avail. We might say. We have a warrantee deed for that property;'' ;'' the plea would be of no avail We might say, We have a lien on that storehouse:" that would do us no good Death Is blind, and he cannot see a seal and cannot read an indenture. So that, first and last, I 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 titae of a prop erty, your next question Is about insur- ance. You would not be silly enough