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Show HEN FIGURE ON k BARGAIN Careful to Estimate Profits and Loss, What Compensates for Loss of a Soul, Asks Rev. Young. This Life Determines Our Relation .o That Which Is Beyond. Be-yond. hat shall it profit a man If he i?;iin the whole, warld and lose his soul" was the subject of a powerful sermon that Rev Benjumln Young sent homo to the heart of the large conicreirution that attended the services at the Fir.t Methodist Meth-odist church last evening Splendid sliiK-Ing sliiK-Ing was also a feature of the sendee. "Life is dual," said the speaker In be-ginnfng be-ginnfng ' Fl W men are materialists, and there .ire nol m:in atheists. The dOC- trines matcrlallsni are too cold and lepulslve to men Mm spiritual. Christ came Into the world to tell men great truths He taught thai life was a probation. proba-tion. Ih.it death did not end all. and that there was a Judgment. And he also taught thai this life bears an important relation tO that beyond. In view of the teachings of Jesus Christ this Interrogse Hon nt" ths text i" ot tremendous import, ii cerns every man li was designed to awaken men from lethargy. 'Vvhat shall it profit there Is appeal to reason h re Figure on the Problem. "M n like to figure on a bargain. They a'n verj careful to estimate profits and calculate losses. Some of you so lnler-i lnler-i sted may figure this problem of profit and loss. Will It nay for .n man t.i be wrapped up wholly In material things and forget the spiritual? Let every one answer an-swer for himself that question. A man tni y get the material even the world, hul the historj of man proves that the mere setting of ihiiiRs does not satisfy his life, what compensates for loss of soul? a man forgets his real life Is submerged in b.islin ss or the activities of life, but is there compensation here for loss of the finer things, even the spiritualities' Does mere business compensate for loss of snid'' Does pleasure' The histories of men prove that they do not. The loss of soul is Irreparable. This life determines OUI relation to that which is beyond It Is said that Carlvle sent his manuscript of the I'n uch rt volution to the Philosopher Philoso-pher Mill, and that the servant srlrl Bet -j (na the pile of paper on the table, thrust it Into the fire With herculean srrlt Car-lyle Car-lyle reproduced that dramati. tor of the French Revolution. Cannot Call Back Life 'You may be able to reproduce or re-.ie re-.ie ne after business losses, but if law Operates yonder as hen., you can never ! tall hack the life which has been spent. Th. se words of Jesus Christ have a na-thetlc na-thetlc appeal to men if they remember this truth concerning the loss of iifr A woman 'harmed a nurse when sin- hit home to carefully care for la-r babe. In irhom her life was wrapped When she returned re-turned home the nurse said. Here are the baby's clothes, but the baby is drowned.' Some of us are about as "wise ss that nurse. Wc ate lost in the material, sub-in. sub-in. rged in the mere things of life and wo have ptcd the philosophy Of Sartor Resartus an 1 think that clothes Is ever -thing. We havo forgotten the spirit and the soul. What Profit ItP When death reaches us with lev prlp upon the heartstrings, then, if not until then, will come to us the great meaning of thi ftfash r s words what prurit t man lo be lnt m thing" material and lnv that which Is of Infinitely greater value the soul-life." |