Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-18
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HIS PREACHING TOUR A SERIES OF
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESSES.

on Short AIIowance-The Christians
Magnificent Inheritance.
LONDON. July 17.-Dr. Talmage's
preaching tour in England has been a
continued series of unprecedented sue
cesses. The English people have as
Bembled by thousands to hear the Amer
lean preacher wherever he has preached.
In Manchester the great Free Trade hall
was engaged for him. 1t holds seven
thousand persons, but it would not con-
tain a third of the people who tried to
get in. The streets leading to the hall
were damned with Il dense, surging
mass of humanity. After the service
Dr. Talmage preached in the street to
the crowd, which numbered fully fifteen
thousand The sermon selected for this
week is entitled ''Our Possessions from
l Corinthians iii, %, e'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 hard
est kind of sea fare; that the soldiers in
=
with an empty haversack; in u word,
that only those people have good time
in this world who take upon themselves
no religious obligation.
want today to find out whether this
is so, and l am going to take account of
stock; am going to show what are the
Christians liabilities, and what is his
income, and what are his warrantee
deeds, and what are his bonds and mort
cages, and | shall find out before [ fin
ish 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 a failure, and in time for you all to
accept it if indeed it be q success. /
turn first to the assets, and find there
what seems to be d roll of government
securities-the empire of heaven prom
ising all things to the pOssessor. The
three small words of my text are war
rantee deed to the whole universe when
it says All are yours"
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions / 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 alb
surd thing to suppose that God would
give to strangers privileges and advan-
tages which he would deny his own chill
dren- 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 posses
sions? To outsiders? No, to your own
children. You will say, sit 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
GODS PARK.
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 morn
ing brightness 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 Il mountain and look of 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 good right to an estate puts the
papers in his hands, and the lawyer goes
into the public records and finds every
thing right for three or four or five
years back; but after awhile he comes
to break in the title. to a deficit, to q
diversion 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 | examine the title
to all earthly possessions. [ go back a
little way, ard [ find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wicked
men-think they have a right to all
these possessions; but [ go further back,
and trace the title from year to year
and from century 10 century, until l
find the whole right vested in God.
Now to whom did he give it? To his
e. 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 in
herit the earth" Ships of Tarshish
shall bring presents. 1.-The earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" f'All
are yours But you say, ''what sat
isfaction is there in that when I haven t
possession of them?' 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