The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-08-24


pose % give ne for my SOUL II YOU sell a
bill Of goods YOU 80 into the counting
room and say 20 yoar PARTNER: DO YOU
think that man is good for this bill! Can
he give proper security VIII he meet
| this payment" Now, when YOU are Of
YOU 20 test the matter. l do not want YOU
TO 60 into this bargain bllndly. | want
YOU 10 ask about the title. about the in
surance. about whether men have ever
had any trouble with IL. about whether
you can keep II about whether you can
get all or the ten thousandth or one hun
dred thousandth part Of Il.
There is the world now. | shall saw no
more about u. Lake up your mind for
yourself as | shall. before God, have 20
make up my mind for myself. about the
value OF tins world. | cannot afford 20
make Z mistake for my soul, and YOU can
not afford 20 make a mistake for your soul.
Now. let us look az the other property
the soul. We cannot make bargain
without seeing the comparative value.
| The soul How shall estimate the value
OF it, Well. by its eNnu te organization.
| Ii i the most wonderful piece of mechan-
ism ever put together. Machinery j. of
value in proportion as IL rs mighty and
silent az the same time. You look at the
engine and the machinery IN the philadel-
! phia mint. and as you see II performing
it's wonderful work you VIII be surprised
| to find how silently IL gOcs. Machinery
that roars and tears soon destroys itself,
hut silent machinery Is often most etfec'
! tive. Now. SO II Is with the soul of man.
with all It's tremendous faculties; IL moves
in silence. Judgment. without any racket,
| lifting it's scales: memory, without any
noise. bringing down all It's treasures;
conscience, taking it's judgment. seat with
out any excitement: the understanding
and the will. all doing their work We
locity, majesty, might. but silence-si-
lence. You listen at the do.r ot your
heart. You can hear no sound. The soul
Is all Ouiet. IL is so delicate an instru-
ment that no human hand can touch II.
You break a bone. and with splnters and
bandages the surgeon sets IL: the eye be
comes inhamed, and the apothecary's wash
cools il. but a soul of the track. unbal-
| anced-no human power can readlust Il.
With one sweep of It's wing Il circles the
universe and overvaults the throne OF
God Why. in the hour of death the soul
| Is so mighty IL throws aside the body as
though IL were n toy. Ii drives back med
lcal skill as impotent. IL breaks through
the circle OF loved ones who stand around
the dying couch With one leap II springs
beyond star and moon and sun and
chasms Of lmmensitv. IL is superior To all
material things, No fire can consume Il
no floods can drown il; no rocks can crush
IL; no walls can impede n: no time can
exhaust it, II wants no bridge on which
10 cross a ChaSm: 70 wants no plummct
with which 10 sound depth a soul so
mighty, so swift, so silent, must be a
priceless soul.
Christ is glorious 10 our souls now. but
how much grander our appreciation after
awhilei \ conquerCr comes back after the
battle lie has been fighting for us. He
comes upon 'he platform. lie has one
arm in a sling, and the other arm holds
crutch As he mounts the platform. oh.
the enthusiasm of the audience! They
say. That man fought for Va and i'm.
perilcd his life for us" and how wild the
huzya that follows huzza.
When the Lord Jesus Christ shall az
last stand ont before the multltudes OF
the redeemed of heaven and we meet Him
face 10 face and feel tnat He was wounded
in the head and wounded IN the hands
and wounded in the feet aud wounded in
the side for us, methnks we will be over
whelmed
We will sit some time gazing in silence
until some leader amid the white robed
choir shall lift the baton of light and give
the signal that IL is time TO wake the song
of Jubilee, and all heaven then will break
forth into "lIosannal hosanna! Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain"
] calculate further the value OF the soul
10y tho price that has been paid for it,
In St. Petersburg there is n diamond that
the Government paid 5000 900 for. well"
YOU say. ''it must have been very valuable
or the Government would not have paid
5000, 900 for it,
! want TO sec what the soul is worth
and what your soul Is worth by seeing
what has been pall for it, For that i'm
mortal soul the richest blood that was ever
shed. the deepest groan that was ever at
tered. all the grief- OF earth comnressed
into one tear. all the suiicrings OF earth
gathered into one rapjer of pain and stuck
through His holy heart. Does IL not inn
plv tremendous value;
/ argue. also. the value Of the soul from
the home that has been fitted up for u ~
the future. One would have though, that
a street OF ndamant would have done.
No. IL il n street Of gold. One would
have thought that a wall OF granite would
have done. No. II is the flame OF sar-
donyx, minging with the green Of cmcr-
aid.
II a man sell bill Of goods worth 5000.
and he IL cheated out OF Il, he may get
5000 somewhere else. but a man who in
vests hs soul invcsts all. Saving that, he
saves all In the light of my text IL
seems to me az II YOU were offering your
soul 20 the HIGHEST bidder. and hear you
saw. "What is bid for It, nv deathloss
sprit? What is bid for tE Satan says,
Il will bid the world" You say, "Begone,
that IL no equivalent Sell my soul for the
world? No! Bcgone"
Well there arc a great many people who
say. II viii not sell my soul for the world.
| find the world ia an unsatisfying por-
ton" What, then, viii you do with your
soul? Son q one whispers here, Il viii
give my soul 90 Christ Will youg That
IL the wisest resolution you ever made.
viii you give IL 90 Christi When To-
morrow? No, now. ! congratulate you
Il YOU have come 90 such decision.
Oh, If the eternal Spirit of God would
now come down upon YOU and inow you
the vanity Of this world and the immense
importance Of Chrst's religion and the in
finite value OF your own immortal souls,
what a- hour this would be
What a moment this would be- Do You
know that Christ has bought your sonll
DO you know that He has paid an infinite
price for II? DO YOU know that He is
worthy Of IT. VIII you give II 90 Him
now
was reading lately Of a sailor who had
Just &c. ashore and was telling about his
last experience az sea he said The last
time | crossed the ocean we had a terrific
time. After we had been out three or four
days the machinery got disauanged, and
the steam began % escape, and the cap.
tain. gathering the people and the crew
on deck. said Unless some one Will 90
dOi . and shut Of that steam and arrange
that machinery az the peril OF his life we
must all be destroyed lie was not will
ing % 20 down himself No one seemed
wiiling TO 90. The passengers gathered at
one end Of the steamer waiting for their
fate. The captain said Il give you last
warning. II there = no one here willing