Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-21
Our Possessions.

4 land has been q continued series of I'M
precedented successes. The English
people hayc assembled by thousands to
hear the American preacher wherever
he has preached. In Manchester the
great Trade Hall was engaged for him.
1t holds 1000 persons, but it would not
contain third of the people who tried
to get in. The streets leading to the
hall were damned with a dense surging
mass of humanity. After the service
Or. TaImage preached in the street to
the crowd, which numbered fully Is, 900.
The sermon selected for this week is en-
titled ''Our Possessions" from l Corin-
thians ill., %, "All are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowance; that when
the ship sailing heavenward comes to the
shining wharfit will be found out that all
the passengers had the hardest kind OF
sea fare; that the soldiers in Christ'S
army march most of the time with an
empty haverSack. In word, that only
those people have a good time in this
world who take upon themselves no re-
lgious obligation.
| want to-day to find out whether this
is so, and | am going to take account of
stock; | am going to show what are the
Christians liabilities, and what is his in
come, and what are his warrantee deeds,
and what are his bonds and mortgages,
and | shall find out before l finish just
how much he is worth and shall spread
before you the balance sheet in time to
warn you all against the religion of Jesus
Christ if indeed it be failure, and in
time for You all to accept it if indeed it
be a success. turn first to the assets,
and find there what seems to be roll
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heaven promising all things to the pos
SCISSOR, The three small words Of my
text are a WARRANTED Gced to the whole
universe when it says, 'All are yours"
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions I remark in the first
place. that he owns this world. My text
implies it, and the preceding verse as
scrts it-"whether Paul or Apollos or
Cephas or the world" Now it would be
an absurd thing to suppose that
God would give to strangers privileges
and advantages which he would deny his
own children. If you have a large park
a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer, and statuary. to whom will
you give the first right to all these pos
sessions? To outsiders? No, to your
own children. You will say, cit will be
very we'll for outsiders to come in and
walk on these paths and enjoy this land
Scape, but the first right to my house,
and the first right to my statuary. the
first right to my gardens shall be in the
possession of my own children"
Now, this world is Gods park. and
while he allows those who are not his
children and who refuse his authority the
privilege of walking through the gar
dens, the possession of all this grandeur
of park and mansion is in the right Of
the Christian-thc flowers, the diamonds,
the silver, the gold, the morning bright
ness and the evening shadow. The
Christian may not have the title deed to
one acre of land as recorded in the
CLERKS Office, he may never have paid
one dollar of taxes, but he can go up on
a mountain and look off upon fifty miles
of grain field and say. "All this is mine;
my Father gave it me-" "All are yours
A lawyer is sometimes required to
search titles, and the client who thinks
hc has a good right to an estate puts
the papers in his hands, and the lawyer
goes into the public records, and finds
everything right for three or four or five
years back; but after awhile he comes to
q break in the title, to a deficit, to a di-
version of the property; so he finds out
that the man who supposed be owned it
owns not an acre Of the ground, while
somebody else has the full right to the
entire estate. Now, | examine the title
to all earthly possessions. l go back a
little way, and find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wicked
men-think they have right to all
these possessions; but go farther back,
and | trace the tiule from year to year,
and from century to century, until find
the whole right vested in God. Now, to
whom did he give it? To his own chill
dren! "All are yours"
The simple fact is that in the last
days of the world all the architecture,
all the cities, all tho mountains, all the
villages will be in the possession of the
church of Christ. The meek shall in
herit the earth" Ships of Tarshish
shall bring presents. 1.-The earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" ''All
are yours" But" you say, what salts
faction is there in that when I haven't
possession of thcm?' These things will
come before the Supreme Judge Of the
Universe, and he will regulate the title,
and he will eject these squatters upon
the property that does not belong to
them, and it shall be found that "All
are yours"
So again. the retinements of life are
the Christians right He has right to
as good apparel, to as beautiful adorn-
ments, to as commodiouS residence as
the worldling. Show me any passage
in the Bible that tells the people of the
world they have privileges, they have
glittering Spheres they have benetitting
apparel that are denied the CHRISTIAN.
There is no one who has so much right
to laugh, none so much right to every
thing that is beautiful and grand and
sublime in life as the Christian. "All
all yours" Can it be possible that one
who is reckless and sinful, and has no
treasures laid up in Heaven. is to be al
lowed pleasures which the sons and
daughters of God, the owners OF the
whole universe. and denied?
So I remark that all the sweet sounds
of the world are in the Christians right
There are people who have an idea that
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