Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-22
TALMAGE ABROAD
A THRILLING SERMON FROM
ALL ARE YOURS"
The vicissitudes of Life, So Far as They
Have Religious Profit. Are In the
Right of the Christian Greeted by
Thousands.

LONDON, England, July II, IsOe-Dr. Tai
IMAGES preaching tour in England has been a
continued series OF unprecedented successes
The sermon selected for this week is entitled
! "Our Pos sessions" from l. Corinthians 1922:
"All are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowance; that
when the ship sailing heavenward
comes to the shining wharf, it 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 haversacl1; in a
word, that only those people have a
good time in this world who take upon
themselves no religious 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 liza abilities, and what is
his income, and what are his warran-
lee deeds, and what are his bonds and
mortgages, and shall find out before
l finish just how much lie is
worth, and sEall spread be-
fore you the balance-sheet in
time TO warn you all against the reli-
gion of Jesus Christ, if, indeed, it be
failure, and in time for you all to ac-
eept it, if indeed it be a success.
turn first to the assets, and find there
what seems to be a roll of government
Securities-the Empire of Heaven
promising all things to the possessor
The three small words of my text are
warrantee deed to the whole universe
when it says. -'All are yours"
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions, l remark, in the first
place, that he owns this world. My
text implies it, and the preceding verse
asserts 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 priv
leges and advantages which lie would
deny his own children. If you have q
large park, grand mansion, beau
tiful fountains, stalking deer, and
statuary, 20 whom will YOU
give the first right to all these possess
ions? To outsiders? No, to your own
children. You will say, at will be
very well for outsiders to come in and
walk 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
gardens, the possession of all this
grandeur of park and mansion is in
the right of the Christian-the
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 mountain and look off upon fifty
miles of grain field and say. "All this is
mine; my father gave it to me-" "All
are yours.
A lawyer is sometimes required to
search titles, and the client who thinks
he has a good right to an estate puts
the papers in his hands, and the law
yer goes into the public records, and
finds everything right for three
or four or five years back;
but after a while he comes to
break in the title, to deficit, to n di-
version of the property; so he finds out
that the man who supposed he owned
it owns not an acre of the ground,
while somebody else has the full right
to the entire estate Now, l ex-
anime the title to all earthly pos
sessions. l go back a little
way, and I find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish meu, wicked
men-thinlo they have a right to all
these possessions;bu but go further back,
and trace the title 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 children "All are yours?"
The simple fact is, that in the last
days of the world all the architecture,
all the cities, all the mountains, all the
villages will be in the possession of the
Church of Christ. 1.-The meek shall
inherit 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 satisfaction is
there in that when Haven possession
of them?" These things will come
before the Supreme Judge of the Uni
verse, 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 refinements of life are
the Christians right lie has a right
to as good apparel, to as beautiful
adornments, TO as commodious a resi-
dence as the wording. Show me any
passage in the Bible that tells the peo-
pie of the world they have
privileges, they have glittering
spheres, they have BETTING apparel
that are denied the Christian. There
Is no one who has so much a right to
laugh, none so much right to every
thing that is beautiful ana grand and
sublime in life as the Christian. GAIL are