The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-20

Sdlu, AL are yours.
David no more certainly owned the
harp with which he thrummed the
praises of God than the Church of Christ
owns now all chants, all anthems, all
ivory keyboards, all organ diapasons,
and God will gather up these sweet
sounds after a while, and He will
mingle them in one great harmony
and the Mendelsshons and the
Beethovens and the Mozarts OF
the earth will join their voices
and their musical instruments, and soft
south wind and loud-lunged euroclydon
will sweep the great organ pipes, and
you shall see Gods hand striking the
keys, and Gods foot tramping the
pedals in the great oratorio Of the ages!
so all artistic and literary advantages
are in the Christians right Idonot care
on whose wall the picture hangs, or on
whose pedestal the sculpture stands, it
belongs to Christians. The Bierstadts
and the churches are all working for
us. "All are yours" The Luxembergs,
the Louvre, all the galleries of Naples,
and Rome, and Venice-they are all to
come into the possession 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 fish ponds,
all eolors, all harvests-all, all are
yours"
Secondly, remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the CHS
tian's name. 1t is great affair to feed
the world. just think of the fact that
this morning six hundred millions OF
our race breakfasted at Gods table.
The commissary department of hun
dred thousand men in an army will en-
gage scores of people; but just think of
a commissary department of a world!
Think of the gathering up from the rice
swamps, and the ten fields, and the
orchards and the fisheries! No one but
God could tell many bus S It would
take TO feed five continc
Tlh,an, t.C ciothe all these people--how
llldll LUIS uluaI bG NhDNhANAi hiN AA'"
much flax broken, and how much cot
ton picked Just think of the infinite
wardrobe where sixteen hundred mil
lion OF people get their clothes. God
spreads the table first of all for His
children. OF course, that would be
very selfish man who would not allow
other people to come and sit at his table
sometimes; but, first of all, the right is
given 30 Christian people, and therefore
it is extreme folly for them ever TO
fret about food or raiment. Who fed
the whales sporting off Cape Hatteras
this morning? 0dt of whose hand did
the cormorant pick It's food? Whose
loom wove tho butterfly's wing? Who
hears the hawks cry7 II God takes
care of walrus, and a Siberian dog,
and wasp, will He not take care Of
you? VIII father have more regard
for reptiles than for his sons and
daughters? II God clothes the grizzly
bear, and the panther, and the hyena,
will He not clothe His own children
Come, then, this morning, and get the
key of the infinite storehouse. Come
and get the key Of the infinite ward
robe Here they are-all the keys
"All are yours"
So all the vicissitudes Of this life, so
far as they have any religious profit
are in the right Of the Christian. II
you should stand among the Allegheny
mountains, especially near what is
called the Horseshoe you would find
train of cars almost doubling on IT.
self. and sitting in the back car you see
locomotive coming as you look out OF
the window, and you think it is another
train when 1t is only the front Of the
train in which you are riding; and
sometimes you can hardly tell whether
tho train is going toward Pittsburgh or
toward Philadelphia, but it is on tho
track, and il will reach the depot for
which it started, and all the passengers
will be discharged at the right place.
Now, there are n great many
sharp curves in life. Sometimes we
seem 10 be going this way and some
times we seem to he 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 worried,
then, about the sharp curve. A sailing
vessel starts from New York for Glas-
gov. Does II go in Il straight line? o,
no. 1t changes It's tack every little
while. Now, you say, This vessel, in
stead Of going TO Glasgow, must be
going TO Havre, or it is going to Ham
burg, or IL is going TO Marseiles." No,
no. II is going TO Glasgow And in
this voyage Of life we often have 10
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 haven Of
everlasting rest just at the right time
Do not worry, then, II you have to
change tack.
One Of the best things that ever hap
pened TO Paul wcs being thrown of his
horse. One Of the best things that ever
happened TO Joseph was being thrown
into the pit, The losing OF his physical
eyesight helped John Milton TO see the
battle OF the angels. One Of the best
things that ever happened to Ignatius
was being thrown 70 the wild beasts In
the Coliseum, and while eighty thousand
people were jeering at his religion he
walked up TO the fiercest of all tho
lions and looked him in the eye, as
much as TO say, Here | am, ready TO be
devoured for Christ's sake" All things
work together for your good II you
walk the desert the mama will fall
and the sea will part. II the feverish
torch Of sickness is lsindled over your
pillow, by its light you can read the
promises II the waves OF trouble dash