Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-28
OUR POSSESSIONS.
DIR. TALMAeE PoRTRAYS THE Ao-
vANTAeES OF THE CHRISTIAN.

No Good Thing from Those Who Love
Him-The Infinite Father.
LONDON, July 17-Dr Talmage's preach
ing tour in England has been a continued
series of unprecedented successes The
English people have assembled by thou
sands to hear the American preacher
wherever he has preached. In Manchester
the great Free 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 DIR. Tai
mage preached in the street TO the crowd
which numbered fully 1900. The sermon
selected for this week is entitled sour
Possessions" from | Corinthians iii, %,
l"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 messengers had the hardest kind of sea
fare: that the soldiers in Chrisu's army
march most of the time with an empty
haversack In a word, that only those
people have a good time in this world who
take upon themselves no religious obliga-
tion.
want today to find out whether this Is
40. 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 ont before finish just how
much he is worth, and | shall spread be-
fore you the balance sheet in time TO warn
you all against the religion of Jesus Christ
il indeed it be failure, and in time for
you all TO accept it If indeed it be sue
cess. | turn first TO the assets, and find
there what seems to be roll of govern
ment securties-the empire Of heaven
promising 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 advantages
which he would deny his own children. Ii
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 possessions? To outsid-
ersf No, to your own children. You will
say 1T will be very well for outsiders to
come in and walk these paths and enjoy
this landscape, 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 posses
sion Of all this grandeur Of park and man
sion is in the right Of the Christian-the
flowers, the diamonds, the silver, the gold,
the morning 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 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"
GODS WORLD is FOR HIS CHILDREN.
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 lawyer goes into the
public records, and finds everything right
for three or four or five years back; but
after awhile he comes to a break in the
title, to d deficit, to diversion Of the prop
erty; 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, ex
anime the title to all earthly possessions
/ 20 back little way, and find that mer
of the world-had men, selfish men, wicked
men-think they have a right to all these
possessions; but | go farther back, and
trace the title from year TO year, and IRON
century to century until find the whole
right vested in God Now, TO whom did b
give itY To his own childrenl ''All arr
yours"
The simple fact is that in the last day
of the world all the architecture, all thu
cities. all the mountains, all the village
will be in the possession of the church o
Christ. 1.-The meek shall inherit th
earth" Ships of Tarshish shall bring
presents '"rhe earth is the Lords and tn
fullness thereof" "All are yours" But,
you say what satisfaction is there in tina
when haven't possession of them!" Tines
things will come before the Supreme udg
of the Universe, and be will regulate tn
title. aud he will eject these squatter
upon the property that does not belong Z
them, and it shall be found that 'All ar
yours"
SO again, the refinements of life are tn
Christians right. He has right to a
good apparel. to as beautiful adornments
to as commodious a residence as the world
ling Show me any passage in the Bib
that tells the people of the world the
have privileges, they have glitterin
spheres, they have befitting apparel tina
are denied the Christian. There is no on
who has so much right to laugh, none S
much right TO everything that IS beaut
full and grand and sublime in life as Ia
christian IAN are yours" Can 1t B
possible that one who is reckless and sinfu
and has no treasures laid up in heaven,
to be allowed pleasures which the sons an
daughters of God, the owners of the Who'll
universe, are deniedf
THE SWEETNESS OF SACRED MUSIC.
So | remark that all the sweet sounds {
the world are in the Christians nigh
There are people who have an idea that II
n f,,uSic are inanDrODrlate &c