Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-03
BY DIVINE COMMAND
All Must Seek the Truth, But
Stern Prohibition Is
"SelI 1t Not!"

ODtalneu, nOWeNef huCh VIC diS SahSu
upon to pay for 1t. and never bartered
away at any price that may be Of
fered.
1t is a significant fact that the
truth cannot be bought from those
who have it for sale. The mercenary
preacher, teacher or public speaker
who suppresses the truth by uttering
smooth things to please men, are
selling the truth for the supposed
gain of popularity, but we do not OBJ
tain the truth from them.
There is a mart of truth. God is
truths and from him alone in the rev.
Citations he has made is this greatest |
of all commodities to be secured. In
very important sense, we have to buy |
the truth.
There is no such thing as getting |
something for nothing. II we do not |
pay for the thing ourselves, others
have paid for us. We may inherit
that for which VIC did not labor, but
others have labored for 1t. Every
thing of great value Is bought at
great price, and there is nothing OF
greater value than truth.
No Price Too High to Pay.
We must buy it; that Is, we must
be willing to give up anything or
everything else for it. 1t is cheap at
any price Whatever It costs there is
never occasion to repent or be sorry
| of the bargain. No specific price is
fixed for tit can never be too dear.
Money alone will not buy it, but
money expended for education and
the gaining of knowledge is a means
by which truth is bought. All the
pains and labors endured in searching
after truth; all losses suffered in tenn
poral interests by refusal to deny or
neglect the truth, are payments In
purchase of the truth. 1t is a pearl of
such great price that every one should
be willing to sell all that he has in
order to buy it. And having obtained
it, he must not sell 1t.
The divine prohibition is, Sell It
not"
The human prohibitory laws are di-
rected against the sale of things that
are injurious and harmful. And all
such things should neither be sold nor
bought, In the divine law sale is for
hidden of the commodity that is the
most beneficial and helpful.
All should buy and none should
sell. 1t is a possession of such tran
scendent value that the owner should
never part with it. 1t may be i'm
parted and yet still retained 1t is
kept if it is given away. To teach
knowledge to others does not lessen
J. but increases our own knowledge.
: To sell the truth is to part with it
entirely without getting value re-
ceived.
There are many who sell the truth
]. for the honors, riches and pleasures
+ of the world. They make a bad bar
e gain. The wealth Of honor fades, the
/. riches take wings and fly away and
l. the pleasures lose their exhilaration
h and charm.
o Truth is eternal, and it has no
|. equivalent or substitute for which it
q can be battered Everything is value
d less when contrasted with truth. Life
itself is not an equivalent for it. A
seeming paradox is that truth may
be bought. and yet there is no equiva
Y lent for which 1t may be sold
Buy the truth and sell 1t not"
r Truth is bought with the currency
of heaven, and 1t has no sale in that
realm. If sold at all 1t must be pait
for in the currency of earth. The
~ combined wealth of the world is mo-
y equal in value to truth, therefore sci
: it not"
10 Prohibition Ever in Force.
a. The prohibition against its sale hal
At been in force from the beginning.
n Our first parents sold the truth To-
v a taste of forbidden fruit. and thei
y. sad bargain entailed upon themselves
ar and their posterity the appalling los
n of Eden and all the peace, comfor
and hope that possession meant t,
them and to the human race.
The prohibition against the sale o
truth has ever remained in force
1t is an unrepealable statute of tn
I divine law.
Cain sold the truth for the fruit
Of revenge. For his parting with tn
great truth of brotherhood he receive
In exchange the curse of the fugltiv
| and the vagabond and henceforth Dor
| upon his brow an ineifacable mark {
| infamy.
4 Judas sold the truth for thirty piece
| of silver; Ananias and Sapphire sol
| it for part of their possessions, an
| their names have ever been b,
| word and reproach among men. Th
| most awful and appalling cons
| quences have ever attended the sal
of the truth. Therefore sell it not
1t can never be disposed of or par
ed with for any price or any purpos
| without entailing disaster and los
| There is nothing Of permanent vail
| to receive in exchange for it. at
| more precious than silver or gold, ar
H all the things thou canst desire 81
I'll not to be compared unto It,"
iii Let not any consideration, any POI
I'll err, any influence, stand in the way
II your gaining the truth. and then Sc