A Sunday school teacher once had occasion to say to his scholars that he who buys the truth makes a good bargain.
He then asked if any scholar could remember an instance in Scripture when a bad bargain had been made.
“I do,” replied a boy; “Esau made a bad bargain when he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.”
“Judas made a bad bargain when he sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver,” another said.
“Jesus tells us he makes a bad bargain who loses his own soul in order to gain the world,” a third boy said.
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36.
ML 12/01/1946