The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-22
AFTERNOON SERVICE.

"Solemn Question For Those Wno are Rejecting Christ that They May Obtain The World. was the subject of Dr. Torrey's sermon, yesterday after noon. The text was, Mark, vifi.S6; What shall 1t profit a man. if he shall gain the whole world, and shall lose his own soul?
 Before beginning his sermon. Dr. Torrey explained that this is most Solemn question and that it should set thinking every man and woman, who bscause of love of the world. is re lfusing Jesus Christ Dr. Torrey said, In part
 "wYn you please notice in the first place that two things are contrasted fin the verse? The two things con- trasted are not the present and the future. The question is not what shall 1t profit man if he gain the present and lose the future. That would be an important question. If man were ito gain the fieeting present and there- Iby lose the eternal future. 1t would be a very foolish bargain; but that Is not the question of the text. The man fwho loses his soul, does not gain the present. It Is true he loses the eternal future, but he does not gain the pre- Sent. On the other hand. the man that saves his soul. does not lose the pre- bsent and he gains the eternal future; and gets more out of the present life. So, the two things that are put in contrast are these. the world and the soul, or life the world that Is, and all 1t contains, wealth, honor. power. pleasure, everything that appeals to the senses. the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye. and the vainglory of life. That Is the world. That which is put in contrast with 1t Is the soul or life. the real inner man.
 ITO gain the world Is to get all the wealth there Is, all the honor there is, all the social position there is and all the worldly pleasure there is ITO lose the soul Is to lose your real manhood, to fall short of that for which God created you, to miss the divine image, to have the divine image plotted out and the image of the de- vii stamped in its place. To lose the soul is to come short of the knowledge of God. to lose communion with God and likeness to God, to. fall short of tion is this What shall it profit you to gain all that this world has, all its wealth, all its honor, all its pleas ures, all it's power, and lose your true selves lose that for which God creat- ed you, lose communion with God and likeness to God. and the glory of God!
 "So, in the second place, for any man 10 gain the WnOl0 WOrlu at the cost of tforfiting his soul would be a bad bargain. If one could get the whole world by forfting his soul. 1t would be an idiotic exchange. Why?
 First of all, because the world does not satisfy. The world never satisfied a human soul. Take wealth Money never bought satisfaction and lasting joy to any man on earth. Did honor ever satisfy any man? I have known men and women in the highest positions of honor. in politics and so- cial life, in culture and in all spheres of life, but I never knew a man yet that was satisfied with honor" and pr. Torrey went on and enumerated the things that men think are the great things of life. showing in turn how neither one nor all have satis- fled any man. He concluded this point by asking:
 How mad then to forft your soul to gain money. honor, power, position, glory, pleasure or anything that this world contains, when we know that they never satisfied anybody?' The second point he made was:
 Tt Is a bad bargain to forfit your soul to gain the world. because the world does not last. As the Apostle John says in first John ii.17. '"The world passeth away" How well we