The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-18
t He Gain the whole World and
Loseth His Own Sour
REV. BREEDfN AGAIN FILLS CHURCH
EAGER WoRsHIPPERs HEAR THE
LEARNED DIVINE AGAIN At
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Worshipers eager to hear Hr. H. o.
Breeder made professions nearly a
block long On PalOuse street last
night while they were waiting for the
doors to open. When they were ad-
mitted nearly every seat in the big
Central Christian church was taken
at once by the hundreds who had been
patiently waiting in the cool evening
air, while those who could not even
gain admission filled the COngrega-
tional church to its capacity to hear
Rev. w. E. Thompson address the
overflow meeting.
Fewer responded to the invitation
to come up frofe and acknowledge
their enrolment in the service of the
Savior than had done so a week pre-
vious but the services We're entered in
to heartily and the great crowd list
ened intently to the message which
burned on the lips of the eloquent d-
vine
THE value - SOUL was the top
| ic of the sermon, the familiar one,
What shall it profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his soul"
| Cold logic as we'll as impassiOned
emotion was drawn upon to lend inn
| pressveness to that word picture
which DR.. Breeder painted of the
| ephemerial nature of material things.
He said in part: who would
give his sight for all the gold of, the
Klondike, or all the diamonds that
ever sparkled in the vaults of Tiffany's
or We're forced from the earth at Kim
berley, or were brought to light amidst
the Ural mountains? Would any ma
terial gain compensate you for the loss
| of hearing to be ever deaf to the con-
! cord Of sweet sound? Is it worth
while to get money at the expense of
no capacity for enjoyment? But that's
| only a fraction of the worth Of the real
man; they are only avenues leading to
! the eternal, mysterious ego; where will
| and love are, or should be, supreme.
What is the gain to the man who
neglects his eternal interests; is it the
gain of gold? You may like to be able
to count money by the hundreds Of
| thousands, but put that by the side OF
| immortal soul and see how pltlful 1t
looks. Do you live for pleasure? What
is that compared to the value of your
immortal soul? l asked young lady
to give her heart to the Creator the
other day, but she told me that she
lived for pleasure, for the paltry pleas
ures of the world and if she could not
indulge in those pleasures she would
find her life unbearable. Oh how
empty. vapid, evanescent and ephe-
neral are the pleasures of the world!
Like snow flakes on the river A mo-
ment white. then gone forever
NO matter how ecstatic, how tu-
multuous. or how powerfully it may
appeal to your aesthetic sense the
pleasure you seek apart from the ele-
| waiting joy of communion with God'
will. in time. pail upon you ana VIII
| like the dead sea fruit of the world
turn to ashes in your mouth.
But some of you might think that
bv neglecting your higher interests you
will gain fame. In the midst OF the
ocean washed by the waves that seem
| to sing a song of eternal despair, there
| EXISTS the Island of ST. Helena, ana
| it seems to tell us that there is some
! thing mournful in store for the man
| who is governed by worldly ambition.
| The sea in plaintiVe voice is tellilS Oh
the great Napoleon: the man VINO hao
tasted of every worldly joy; whose
head had been bedecked with an I'M
perial crown: who caused Europe TO
tremble and probably charged by MS
great genius the destinies of the entlre
world: and is telling us that MS HE
has not been worth while: the loss
has been tremendous. irreparaple' IN
calculable: but the gain-death IN eN-
lie. away from home. Fame Is worth
nothing unless attained IN the PAIN
of duty and love.
"Alexander the Great, a man OF I'M
mense and towering genius, crossed
the Hellespont into Persia; lnNaoeu
and CONQUERED India; became master OF
tho world and bemoaned the fact that
there were no more world 10 SUI
due. Going to Babylon amldst the
gaiety and iniquity of that mlshty c''s'
he contracted disease anu a.
the age of 33, this prodlsv
died with nothing gained for NM
self but fame, empty and ephenierai'
for Marcus Aurelius says that 'ie
longest posthumus fame is but OF SHUT
| duration. The soul of the smailest
child: the soul of the most depraNeu
| drunkard: the soul of the most aoah-
doned woman is of more value than al
the riches that were ever accumulated
by all the millionaires that ever iNeu.
But for the man who gives nifiiseii
to God there is gain both in TINS "o'iu
and the next. Gladstone demonstrates
it: Garfield demonstrated IT. Lincoln
demonstrated it. The life OF Jesus III
the soul means that the man Is eie-