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The great commercial question of the day is, What is the profit? Have you seen the Balance-Sheet? When everything has been satisfactorily totaled up, what will this or that transaction yield? When a final settlement has been made, when prime costs and 'general expenses' have been accurately gauged, and when all these have been put over against my gross gains, what margin will then be left for my own benefit? By how much shall I actually have been the gainer? What profit?
Life's big transaction, with its various details, will have to be reckoned up some day for everyone. Actual gains will have to be accurately calculated, total losses computed, and the balance struck for final settlement. Then the all-engrossing question will once more be asked, 'What profit?'
What about your affairs, reader? Do you really apprehend how matters stand with you? Why not sit down quickly and audit your affairs. Make haste to take exact account of your actual possessions and liabilities, your sins, your responsibility to God, death, and judgment. Remember, before you make out the balance-sheet, that all-absorbing question: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36). You cannot prepare a satisfactory 'balance-sheet' if you leave that out. One word more, "That thou doest, do quickly" (John 14:27), or you may find your affairs 'in other hands.' "Behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2).