Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-29
NO. 80

ton" 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 undertaken
YOU need. who will come and put his
finger in his vest pocket and take out a
tape line, and he will measure five feet
nine inches one way and two feet and a
property. Oh. no. / forgot. Not so 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 me for my soul! If you sell
bill of goods you go into the counting
room and saw to your partner: DO you
think that man is good for this bill? Can
he give proper security Will he mees
this PAYMENT" Now, when you are Oh
fered this world a possession l want
YOU to test the matter / do not want you
to go into this bargain blindly. / 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 1t about whether you can
get all the ten thousandth or one hun
dred thonsandth part of it.
There is the world now. l shall say no
more about it. .iake up your mind for
yourself, as / shall, before God. have to
make up nv mind for myself, about the
value of this word. / cannot afford to
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not afford to make mistake for your soul.
Christ is glorious to our souls now, but
how much grander orr appreciation after
awhile! A cOnquercr comes back after the
battle. He has been fighting for us. he
comes upon the platform. He has one
arm in sling. and the other arm holds a
crutch. As he mounts the platform. oh,
the enthusiasm of the audience, They
say, "That man fought for and i'm
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
I'm the head and wounded in the hands
and wounded in the feet and wounded IN
the side for u.s. 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 it is time to wake the song
of Jubilee and all heaven then will break
! forth into "Hosanna! hosanna! Worthy
| is the Lamb that was slain.
calculate further the value of the soul
by the price that has been paid for it.
| In st. Petersburg there is diamond that
| the Government paid S200.O00 for. We'll.
you say. at must have been very valuable
| or the Government would not have paid
| 800 900 for it,
| want to see what the soul is worth
| and what your soul is worth by seeing
| what has been paIu for it. For that inn
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 i'm
| ply tremendous value?
Is [ 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 street of gold. One would
have thought that wall of granite would
have done. No, it is the fame CT sar-
lonyx, mingling with the green of emer-
aid.
| One would have thought that an occa-
sional doxoloey would have done. No, it
lie = perpetual SONG II the ases of heaven
\ Indsrched in q straigdt line, SOME day che
But no, the ages Of heaven do not march
in straight line, but in a circle around
| about the throne of God, forever, forever,
tramp, tramp! soul SO bought, SO
equipped, so provided for must be price
less soul, majestic soul, tremendous
soul.
If man sell a bill of goods worth $4,000,
and he is cheated out of it, he may get
$1,000 somewhere else, but man who in
vests his soul invests all. Saving that, he
saves all. In the light of my text, it
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soul to the highest bidder, and | hear you
say, What is bid for it, my deathless
spirit? What is bid for ?" Satan says,
II will bid the world" You say, "Begone,
that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the
world? No! Begone!'
| Well, there are great many people who
say, Il will not sell my soul for the world.
l find the world is an unsahsfyng por-
ton" What, then, will You do with your
sohl? Some one whispers here, Il will
give my soul to Christ" VIII you? That
is the wisest resolution you ever made.
Will you give it to Christ? When? To-
morrow? No, now. | congratulate you
| if you have come to such decision.
Oh, if the eternal Spirit of God would
now come down upon you and show you
the vanity of this world and the immense
! Importance of Christ's religion and the in
finite value of your own immortal souls,
what an 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 You know that He Is
worthy of it? viii you give it to Him
now?
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 L crossed the ocean we had 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 60
down and shut off that steam and arrange
that machinery at the peril of his life we
must all be destroyed He was not will
ing to go down himself. No one seemed
willing to go. The passengers gathered at
one end of the steamer waiting for their
fate. The captain said: Il give you last
| warning. If there :s no one here willing
to imperil his life and go down and fix
that machinery we must all be lost A
plain sailor said. III go, sir and he
wrapped himself in coarse piece of can
vas and went down and was gone but
| 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
all! oh, do you suppose that those people
on the 81 p ever forgot, ever can forget,
that poor fellow? No" they say. '1t
was through his sacrifice that | got
ashore" The time came when our whole
race must die unless some one should en-
dure torture and sorrow and shame. Who
! shall come to the rescue! Shall it be one
! of the seraphm? Not one. Shall it he
one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall it
| be an inhabtant of some pure and unfall-
In world? Not one. Then Christ said,
| No, come TO do Thy will, o Godi' and
| he went down the dark stairs of our sin
and wretchedness and misery and woe.
and He stopped the peril, and He died
that you and ! might be free. Oh, the
love; oh, the endurance; oh, the horrors
of the sacriicei Shall not our soul, 90
out toward Him, saving: Lord Jesus
| Christ take INV SO Thou worthy TO
have it. Thou ha 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 soulg'
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