The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09

 money and without price Types of that salvation which Is eternally free. There is a spirit of Goddess greed now In the world that absorbs and monoplizes and consumes everything with the grasp of it's octopus arms. It would absolutely tank up the atmosphere, every square inch of it. and hold 1t on tap so much breath-money down or giltedge collateral or do without breathing. just which you might prefer. It would scoop the sun light, every blessed ray of 1t, and make the invalid pay it's own price for every particle of sunlight that went into his blood.
 It fixes the price of your corn and cot ton before you make it. It gets the price of every beefsteak that come to your table and sets it at a price that forbids it's coming to the table of thousands. And if 1t were possible it would corner the atonement and put a price on salvation that the poor soul would have to pay or be damned.
 But the atonement is like the air, there is too much of it to be cornered. What ever greed can grasp 1t Is forever gone.
 But the atonement Is infinite. It is be- yond it's grasp. His mercy is from ever lasting to everlansting. Salvation ls free and 1t shall be free when the demon of greed shall have choked out all hope from humanity and enslaved it forever
 Material maladies paralize nations with fear. How grave the apprehenslve at the coming of cholera or buebonc plague. And yet there is a malady far worse than these combined, a malady that destroys every thing noble, everything that Is worthy. and becomes desease that Is worse than the forms of death. That malady Is self ishness It is subtle and deadly. It turns the thought and the whole life upon ones self. The man lives from without in- ward. The sould is like Pharoah's lean kline, It's cry Is give give! But Gods life is on the reverse principle. He lives from within outward. His nature is an eter- nal overflow He never lives to pour Him self out in besefcence upon his creatures. He has had us forever In His loving thought and is living for us today and "even llveth to make intercesslon for us."
 No Success Without Effort. 
 More luck or fortuity would have never brought this than the possession of this treasure. It required labor and 1t was by His labor and toll He discovered and came into possession of the treasure The wealth in the world of God Is reached in the same way. There is a sea beneath the sea, a meaning beneath the surface mean ing, and it takes toll 10 reach the treas ure. You cannot read the Bible as you would a novel, get all in it at one read ing: and sometimes very little at that. But it takes preparation to read and reach the things that are deep and rich. The man that reads with heart as well with eye and brain. The rich gold of the divine world lies folded up and un- found in many a home because of the un- willingness to seek the true sense.
 Saved By Effort.
 While the atonement awakes salvation, possible to all, every man makes his own salvation actual and real and every man is guided by his own effort. Men say, q will be moral and honest and honorable | in my own way and all will be right with me If I see a wrong l will take issue with 1t and nothing more Is necessary" This man might have said ''I will take care of this field. 1 will not suffer 1t to be over run and abused, and If I discover an i'll weed will pluck it up. But will not dig and toll to cultivate the field" Had he done this he would have walked with l in few inches of the treasure, just under the surface, and had lived and died in poverty. It was in the digging, in the effort and toll that he found the treas | ure There are honest and honorable men who live absolutely within few inches of salvation; men who almire the right and repudiate the wrong; and yet l go down to destruction simply because they refuse to make effort to be saved | refuse to repent before nlghtfall, but they | refuse to seek and labor to be saved. Sold Before They Bought. Both of the men sdd out completely, no sham sale. This Is getting ready for service There is too much sham sale in many cases Too much selling off mfr nuh Too much reserve in selling out for