Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-18

daughters Of God. the owners of the

instruments Of music are inappropriate
for the Christians p;sTlor. When did
the house of sin or t2c ls~cchana1 get
the right to music? They have no right
to it, God, in my text makes over to
Christian people all the pianos, all the
harps. all the drums, all the comets, all
the flutes, all the organs. People Of the
world may borrow them, but they only
borrow them; they have no right or title
to them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, when he said, Cali
are yours.
David 10 more certainly owned the
harp with which he thrummed the
praises of God than the church Of Christ
owns now al chants, all anthems, all
ivory keyboards, all organ diapasons,
and God will gather up these sweet
sounds after awhile, and he VIII mingle
them in one great harmony, and the
Memberships, and the Beethovens. and
the Mozarts of earth will join their
voices and their musical instruments,
and soft south wind and loud lun9ed
euroclydon will sweep the great organ
pipes, and you shall see Gods hand
striking the keys and Gods foot tramp
ing the pedals in the great oratorio of
the ages!
So all artistic and literary advantages
are in the Christians right. do not
care on whose wall the picture hangs,
or OH whose pedestal the sculpture
stands, it belongs to Christians The
Bierstadts and the churches are all
working for us. ''All are yours" The
Lu1embourgs, the Louvre, all the gal
leries of Naples and Rome and Venice
they are all to come into the posses
sion of the church of Jesus Christ. We
may not now have them on our walls,
but the time will come when the writ Of
ejectment will be served and the church
will possess everything. All parks, all
fshponds, all colors, all harvests-all,
''al1 are yours
FOOD AND CLOTHING.
Secondly, remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the Chris
tian;s name. 1t is a great affair to feed
the world. Just think Of the fact that
this morning sixteen hundred millions
of our race breakfasted at Gods table!
The commissary department of hun
dred thousand men in any army will en-
gage scores Of people, but just think of
a cOmmissary department of world!
Think of the gathering up from the rice
swa1nps, and the tea fields, and the or
chards, and the fisheries! No one but
God could tell how many bushels it
would take to feed five continents.
Then, to clothe all these people, how
many furs must be captured and how
much fax broken and how much cotton
picked. Just think of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions of
people get their clothes! God spreads
the table first Of all for his children. Of
course that would be a very selfish man
who would not allow other people to
come and sit at the table sometimes;
but first of all, the right is given to
Christian people, and therefore lt IS eX-
/ treme folly for them ever to fret about
food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
/ Hatteras this morning? Out of whose
/ hand did the cormorant pick its food?
/ Whose loom wove the butterfy's wing:
Who hears the hawks cry? If God takes
care of walrus, and a Siberian dog,
and q wasp, will he not take care of you?
Will q father have more regard for rep
tiles than for his sons and daughters?
If God clothes the grizzly bear. and the
!
clothe his own children? Come, then,
this morning, and get the key OF the in
finite storehouse. Come and get the
key of the infinite wardrobe. Here they
are-all the keys. ''All arc yours"
So all the vicissitudes of this life, so
far as they have any religious profit, are
in the right of the Christian. If you
should stand among the Allegheny
mountains, especially near what is called
the Horseshoe, you would find q train
OF cars almost doubling on ITSELF and
sitting in the back car you see a locomo-
tive coming as you look out of the win
dow, and you think it is another train
when it is only the front Of the train III
which you are riding, and sometimes
you can hardly tell whether the train is
going toward Pittsburg or toward Phil
adelphia, but it is OH the track, and it
will reach the depot for which it started,
and all the passengers will be discharged
at the right place. Now there are a
great many sharp curves in life Some
times we seem to be going this way and
sometimes we seem to be going that
way, but if we are Christians we are on
the right track and we are going to come
out at the right place. Do not get wor-
ried, them about the sharp curve.
A sailing vessel starts from New York
for Glasgow. Does it go in straight
line? Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every
little while. Now you say, This YES
sci, instead Of going to Glasgow, must
be going to Havre, or it is going to Ham
burg, or it is going to Marseilles. No,
no. It is going to Glasgow. And in
this voyage of life we often have to
change our tack. One storm blows Us
this way, and another storm blows us
that way; but he who holds the winds
in his fist will bring us into a haven of
everlasting rest just at the right time.