"What Shall It Profit a Man?"
C.T Studd, the “famous” British athlete and Believer, mentioned how he was sorely challenged by an article.
That article said, in part:
If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, then religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies , and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences would never stay my hand, or seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone, and on the immortal souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable.
I would go forth to the world and proclaim to it, in season and out of season, and my text would be:
“WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD—AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?”
12/20/2006
