Let us recognize the fact, however, that while there is a lawful and profitable use of it, money cannot satisfy a man's soul. It cannot pay our fare across the Jordan of death. It cannot unlock the gate of heaven. Salvation by Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in heaven are the only incorruptible treasures. However fine your apparel, the winds of death will flutter it like rages. A homespun and threadbare coat has sometimes been the shadow of coming robes made white by the blood of the Lamb. Oh, my dear hearers, what-ever you lose, though your house go, though all your earthly possessions go--may God Almighty, through the blood of the ever-lasting covenant, save all your souls! "What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Talmage.
