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SONDAV Jnffj^I StRMoN.lfejyjzM " Subject: "Profit and Loss." f f . Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "Profit and Loss," the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took \ V as his text Mark s:3t>. \ror wnai. )f doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life." He said: 1 Jesus . draws the picture with strength and in a startling manner, j What doth it profit a man if, in the end, he shall have gained control over the sum total of the material things in the universe and have for.. feited his soul life with God? "The question is between that life which consists mainly in having and that which consists in being." The question is whether or no our efforts shall tend to self-aggrandizement or to soul culture. Shall we devote our f larger and finer energies to the attainment of possessions which are of use this world alone or to the enlargement of our spiritual powers? The difference is between getting >"<1 nrirxr T>tfl mon TL-VlrtCO PCI. CWJLLU &l\jrv IU5. AUV *ajlaUH ff MVWV 1 . reer is given over to getting things is measured as a success according to the material wealth he has acquired. But the man who is a "growing man" is marked by his richness in grace, a goodness and godliness. \ There is in our time a most commendable spirit abroad in the hearts of our people leading them to seek the amelioration and upliftment of the conditions of life about us. There is an earnest desire among men of purpose everywhere to make the most out of life. We have small pa>tien$e with the shirk and are getting to, have less with the business slave. ' We read of the possibilities of cheap power in its relation to economic af' fairs and millions of money transform Niagara into electricity ahd rapid transit. Our hearts are appalled at the ignorance of thousands of men here in America and we build Vw. schools. We are told that in order to a successful social system the worker must have fair hours and a /"" good wage. The luxuries of yesterday axe the necessities, and inexpensive, too, of to-day. Our millionaires have gold galore for charities and clubs, and men in all grades of so? ciety put more money into amusements than ever before. All this is ? well in its way and place. Social 3 conditions should be bettered and the standard of life raised. No man should waste any of his talents, nor j should he give nndue attention to ;' , any one to the detriment of the rest. V , The latent wealth of the world should I be made productive. No man should *'. be'sent out into the battle of life mentally unprepared. Each member of this State deserves and should be enabled to acquire sufficient physical V endurance to fit him for the fight. The man who sells his labor must receive a fair wage and decent opportunity for enjoyment and for the culture of other than^his "'business nature." We cannot have too many charitable Institutions to meet real need, nor can we do other than rejoice over the wealth that lies at our - hands. , All of these things are good, -m all axe necessary, each /when used "projlprly willibe found, to be a means to the betterment of thisv world and life. ? But in our endeavor to utilize the possibilities of the present and mate * rial life there lies the danger to forget the immortal and spiritual exist. ence of the soul. Education at the State's expense Is a cure for many social ills and a salve for many an economic sore. Money may and does bring happiness to the hearts of all ' who, righteously, may possess it. No man can deny the value of physical culture in the cure of many bodily ailments and In strengthening the constitution. Fair pay for a fair day's work is only just. None of us begrudges the man of millions except we are aware he has robbed us. But brain muscle and morality are not necessarily synonymous. Some of the most dissolute men the world has ever harbored have been the mightiest in intellect. The antics and excesses of not a few college men but prove that book knowledge and purity oMife are not one. Money " - is not an unrighteous thing of itself. ^ -v- ?V.i. -v 11 1.^ DUX, on, wnai Slaves it uues iiiciH.tr ui men; how soon the greed for it will stifle all that is noble in its lovers. The size and* development of ypur upper right arm is in no way an indication of the strength of soul you possess nor is it a substitute for it. Bulk of purse, brawn of muscle, depth of learning and a fine mentality are both commendable and desirable if so be they are righteously acquired, but the acquisition of all these things is as nothing if so be a man. has forfeited his soul life for them. To-day we train our youth for business or profession?that is to say, for careers of economic usefulfk ness. Our main aim in education is to fit men to achieve material success. .We demand that our schools shall turn out men who are able to take care of themselves. We pay but scant attention to individuality and to the leanings and peculiarities of personality. Any one here can state, as well as I,-how much moral training the schools 'give our youth. In our fear that the Bible in the school may savor of denominationalism we leave, often, a free field for the devil. From earliest youth till the ?hild is a man dependent upon his awn resources the. continual cry is, . " lor him to achieve success. Fortunate, indeed, is the man who, by wise < direction and personal preference, is enabled to choose the way that leads to real and lasting success. But the pity is that too many of us spell suo cess in the terms of material achievement. Too few are they who know that success is a matter not so much of getting as of being; that it is mo~e a matter of soul culture than of material gain. Success is measured not by the amount you have, but by what you amount to. Far be it from me to belittle a x, ^ \. > * ' * * ? * 9 ) * ' tmmriM ? - - _ * ?.*-*> * T i it m BYTHE: REV-g? 4 RA W- HENDERSON,. rHE PAMOOS proper material success. The world owes a debt it never can repay to the men of money, the masterful mechanics, the learned lawyers, the erudite doctors, the brainy business men, the tireless teachers and toilers and leaders who have made possible and apparent the civilisation w*e now enjoy. I am the last man to deny the value and advantage, $ye, the necessity, of all manner of human development. But what shall it profit hs^ individually or socially, if, surpassing Greece for wisdom, the Romans for wealth, the arts of France, the metaphysical ? " - "? tj ^ ! acumen 01 Germany, me xauucij puaj sessions of Russia, the comftierci&l I power of our English cousins, we shall attain material success at the expense of our soul's- life? "For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole sum total of material things and have forfeited his soul life within God?" The highest measure of success is the permanency of achieved results. The test of service is in the worthiness of the labors to which our efforts have been applied. If sound money is more important than sound morals then the teacher of political economy is of more value to the world than the teacher of ethics, that is to say, of the science of right living. If fleets are of more consequence than spiritually minded and Christ-moved | men, then Morgan with his merl chant marine is mightier than Moody with his Bible. If cash counterbalj ances character then let us relegfte the Christ life to its proper, that is to say, th? second, place in our scheme of living. If policy is better than principle and gain at any cost superior to righteousness, then let ! us hoist the Jolly Roger to the forepeak of the ship of State and declare ourselves the moral pirates that we are. But I am persuaded that we do not value the material more than manhood. I am sure that fundamental we do believe that princin,i TMir-itir ?i?rt crr?rtlinpss are more of pUiiVJ UUV4 ^ account than all else in life. We are all conscious of the beauty, the nobility, the transcendent importance of the culture of the soul. There is not a man, or but few, men anywhere but' who will admit at once and without discussion that to trade the soul's life for material success is to strike a poor bargain. I have yet to meet the thinking man, whose opinions are worth a snap of my finger, who sustains any other proposition save that a godly life is the only sure-foundation of society and the only guarantee of the permanency and efficiency of success. Believing these latter truths to be divine why, then, do we hesitate to connote logic with action? Why do we refrain to parallel our academic conclusions with definite effort. Why do we refuse consistency a .hearing j and continue to serve the god of material success? My friends, the whole question of service and success is a matter of getting or being, of self-aggrandizement or of self-realization and soul culture. Getting is as natural as breathing. But we breathe not for the sake of breathing, but in order to live. Getting, the acquirement of temporal wealth, may be a means to the culture of. our souls. ' When so used riches are a blessing. That man is wisest who makes all things in this life tend toward his soul's development. Let us teach our youth that cmwth in arodliness is the prime function, the principal task of - human endeavor. Let us tell our young men and our maidens that it is best to serve God and to grow constantly into the graces and beauties of Christlikeness. Let us send home to the young and impressionable hearts of our boys and our girls the changeless and eternal truth that it can never profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life within j God. Then shall we have inculcated j the true philosophy of life and hast- j ened the coming of the kingdom of j the God of Christ our Lord. . Worry and Fear Removed. It is not religion, but the lack 01 it that makes people unhappy. Yet how strangely and how widely the opposite view prevails. ' There are many who think of religion not only as a galling drudgery, but as the surest source of moroseness, melancholy and unhappiness of life. Their idea is that religion is a system of suffering to which many people are willing to submit here in order that they may not suffer hereafter?that religion's only happiness is in the future, its rewards after death. Instead, the real fact is thp.t religion is a thing of present joy and^ever continuing blessedness. It is'the gladdest, happiest thing in q.11 this world. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness I and all her paths are peace." It is religion that gives us the bright things in life and sin the dark things, and not vice versa. Religion goes down to the deepest springs''o:' our mental and spiritual well-being. It brings untQld measures of peace and joy. It takes the sting out of the past and it takes the worry out of the present. It takes the fear out of the future.?The Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D. How to Learn Love. It is true that love cannot be .forced, that it cannot be made to or- 1 deirthat we cannot love because we j ought or even because we want. But < we can bring ourselves into the pres- { ence of the lovable. We can enter into friendship through the door of discipleship. We can learn love through service.?Hugh Black. What Could Hinder? If man's device can produce pure white paper from filthy rags, what should hinder God to raise from the dead this vile body and fashion it like the glorious body of Christ?? Gotthold. A man's knowledge of doctrine counts for nothing if he neglects duty. f . 4 ! To Eve ias with'joyous hearts and smiling faces how'conducive to health the games ir enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they sh diet of which they should partake. Hov not by constant medication, but by carefi ous or objectionable nature, and if at an nature, only those of known excellence and wholesome and truly beneficial in | Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the Cal II come into general favor in many million of its quality and excellence is based up Syrup of Figs has also met with the they know it is wholesome, simple and \ ble physicians as to the medicinal pri original method, from certain plants kn i presented in an agreeable syrup in whic used to promote the pleasant taste; the ! we are free to refer to all well inform* ? . medicines and never favor indiscriminal 0 Please to remember and teach your e always has the full name of the Com printed on the front of every package ar only. If any dealer offers any other t 1 printed thereon the name of any other c I the genuine you will not get its benefice III a bottle on hand, as it is equally ber (l\ whenever a laxative remedy* is required. m *> m '111 1 " | n p| | IS OFFERED TO Ji ET I . 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I w IheyB?ing| ry Home ! they romp and play?when in health?and i which they indulge, the.outdoor life they iCcild be taught to form and the wholesome J i tenderly their health should be preserved, I al avoidance of every medicine of an injuri- I y time a remedial agent is required, to assist I s. should be used: remedies which are Dure I effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, II ifornia Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has I s of well informed families, whose estimate R on personal knowledge and use. I approval of physicians generally, because I gentle in its action. We inform all reputa- I nciples of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an B own to them to act most beneficially and j :h the wholesome Californian blue figs are refore it is not a secret remedy and hence id physicians, who do not approve of patent I :e self-medication. e children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs ? ;pany?California Fig Syrup Co.? plainly id that it is for sale in bottles of one size I han the regular Fifty cent size, or having | ompany, do not accept it. If you fail to get III il effects. Every family should always have III leficial for the parents and. the children, ?I T * *"'' . . : v* * ;,.. OUR DEALER FOR THE CELEBRATED tt Stoves and Ranges MD TAKE NO "JUST AS GOOD." Only Stoves and Ranges on Earth, in Which tho Heat Passes Entirely Around the Oven. CTURED UNDER GO VERNMENT PATENTS BY THE A. STOVE WORKS, Atlanta, Ga.' ier ofder you one, or write factory for descriptive circular. 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