Buying and Selling

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 23, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 24.

Buying and Selling

Buying and Selling.— The great markets of the world are places where men buy at as advantageous figures as they can merely to sell again at such an advance as will give a good profit. But there is one thing that the wise man counsels us to buy and not sell again. “Buy the truth and sell it not.” To sell it is to lose it, and it is far too valuable to lose; it is worth all that life is worth, for it alone makes life of worth. But we can give the truth to any who will take it, and have even more than we had before. It takes effort to get truth; it takes self-sacrifice and denial, and this is the buying. But to sell it would mean to take something else than truth in exchange for truth, but this would be a poor exchange—something else than truth is error.