The Penn's Grove record., 1900-08-24
half the other wav. That

half the other way. That E mans
property. Oh, no. ] forgot. Not 20 much
as that, for he does not own even the
place in which he lies in the cemetery.
The deed to that belongs to the executors
and heirs. Oh, what a property You pro-
pose to give NE for my soul! If you sell a
bill of goods you go into the counting
room and say to your. partner: do you
think that man is good for this bill? Can
this PAYMENT" Now, when you are of
ferei this world as a possession / want
you to test the matter. / do not want you
to go into this bargain blfndly. ] 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
get all or the ten thousandth or one hum
dred thousandth part of it.
There is the world now. I shall say no
more about it. llake up your mind for
yourself, as I 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 cam
not afford to make a mistake for your soul.
Now, let us look at the other property
the sou. We cannot make a bargain
without seeing the comparative value.
The soul How shall / estimate the value
of ite Well, by its exquisite org
1t is the most wonderful piece O
ism ever put together. Machinery is Of
value in tsoportion as it is mighty and
silent at the kame timer You lJ@k at the
engine and theSpechinery in the lPhiladel-
phia mint, and as you see it performing
it's wonderful work you will be *urprised
to find how silently it goes. Machinery
that roars and tears soon destroys itself,
but silent machinery is often uf{pst efec-
tive. Now, so it is with the SOL of man,
with all it's tremendous faculties it moves
in silence. Judgment, without racket,
lifting its scales; memory, wi out any
noise, bringing down all its ~easures;
conscience, taking its judgment at with
out any excitement: the undo standing
and the will, all doing their W TX, We
locity, majesty, might, but 8 ence-si-
lence. You listen at the doo1 of your
heart. You can hear no sound. The soul
is all quiet. 1t is SO delicate 4 instru-
ment that no human hand can touch it.
You break a bone, and with splA tiers and
bandages the surgeon sets it; thk eye be-
comes iniamed, and the apothecaEy's wash
cools it, but a soul off the track, unbal-
anced-no human power can readjust it.
With one sweep of its wing it circles the
universe and overvaults the throne OF
God. Why, in the hour of death the soul
is SO mighty it throws aside thu body as
though it were a toy. It drives Jack med
ical skill as impotent. It breaH through
the circle of loved ones who sta q Around
the dying couch. With one leap { springs
beyond star and moon and un and
chasms of immensely. It is supeI ior to al
material things! No fire can c4hsume it;
no floods can drown it; no rocks can crush
it; no walls can impede it; no, time can
exhaust it. It wants no bridgefon which
to cross a chasm; it wants nd plummet
with which to sound a depth. la soal 50
mighty, so swift, SO silent, 1hust be a
priceless soul.
Christ is glorious to our soul now, but
how much grander our appreciy tion after
awhile! A ~conqueror comes back after the
battle. He has been fighting fdr us. He
comes upon the platform. Hd has n
arm in a sling, and the other arm holds a
crutch. As he mounts the platform: oh,
the enthusiasm of the audience! They
say, ssThat man fought for us and inn
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 multitudes 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.
We will sit some time gazing in silence
until some leader Sebed1
choir shall lift the baton Of light give
the signal that it is time to wake the song
Of Jubilee, and all heaven then will break
forth into "Hosannai hosanna! Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain"
I calculate further the value of the soul
by the price that has been paid for it.
In st. Petersburg there is a diamond that
the Government paid $500, 900 for. "Well."
you say, "it must have been very valuable
or the Government would not have paid
5000, 900 for it"
I want to see what the soul is worth
and what your soul is worth by seeing
what has been paid 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, all the sufferings of earth
gathered into one rapier of pain and stuck
through His holy heart. Does it not inn
ply tremendous value?
I argue, also, the value of the soul from
the home that has been fitted up for it in
the future. One would have thought that
a street Of adamant would have done;
No, it is a street of gold. One would
nave thought that a wall of granite would
have done. No, it is the fame of sar-
donyx, mingling with the green of emer-
aid.
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 in
vests 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 I hear you
say, "What is bid for it, my deathless
spirit? What is bid for it" Satan says,
ScT XII LII AZ -xo,1lv Va, sow ffporo~o
that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the
world? No! Begone!"
Well, there are a great many people who
say, II 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, II will
give my soul to Christ" Will you? That
is the wisest resolution you ever made.
viii you give it to Christ? When? To-
morrow? No, now. I congratulate you
if you have come to such a decision.
Oh, if the eternal Spirit of God would
now come down upon you and % you
importance>of Christ's religion and the in
finite value of your w immortal souls,
what a. 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 o know that He is
worthy Of it? VIII you give it to Him
now?
I was reading lately of a sailor who had
just get ashore and was telling about his
last experience at sea. He said: "The last
time I crossed the ocean we had a terrific
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
doy | and shut off that steam and arrange
that machinery at the peril-pf his life we
must all be destroyed He was not will
ing to go down himself. Nd one seemed
wiling to go. The passengers gathered at
one end of the steamer waiking 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 aid, IN 60, sir, and he
wrapped himself in a coarse piece of can
vas and went down and was gone but a
few moments when the escaping steam
stopped. 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 suffering! Died for