“O man!” the stranger replied, “no one is here that hath not sold himself into bondage; and lo! the money which he hath received in exchange for his soul is now the chain with which he is bound. Fools, fools! hath not Christ said: _What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?_” (Mark viii. 36.)