Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-23
CHRISTIAN POSSESSIONS.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Dis
courses In London.
The Promises OF God 90 tks Faithful-The
Earth 10 tho L0rd's-The Reward
offered to Those Who
Serve Him.

cation out of the many delivered in
London by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was
entitled, 'Our Possessions, " from ! Cor
inthians iii, aa: IAN are yours" DR..
Talmage said:
The impression is abroad that re-
1igion puts man on short allowance;
that when the ship sailing heavenwar6
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 haversack; in
a word, that only those people have q
good time In this world who take upon
themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to findo 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 warranty
deeds and what are his bonds and mort
cages, and shall find out before finish
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, 1t be a fail
ure, and in time for you all to accept it,
if, indeed, it be a success. turn first
to the assets, and find there what
seems to be roll of government securi-
ties-the empire of Heaven promising
all things to the possessor. The three
small words of my text are warranty
deed to the whole universe when 1t
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 absurd thing to suppose that God
would give to strangers privileges and
advantages which he would deny his
own children. If you have large park,
a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary, to whom
will you give the first right to all these
possessions? To outsiders? No, to
your own children. You will say: at
will be very we'll 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 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 brightness and the evening
shadow. The Christian may not have
the title deed to one acre of land as re-
corded 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 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 a while he
comes to a break in the title, to de-
ficit, to 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 posses
sions. / go back little way, and l
find that men of the world-bad men,
selfish men, wicked men-think they
have right to all these possessions;
but go further back, and l trace the
title from year to year, and from GEN.
tury to century, until find the whole
right vested in God. Now, to whom
did He give it? To His own children!
'.Are all 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 parents 1.-THE earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
are yours.n But" you say, 'what
satisfaction 10 there in that when
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 are yours"
So again, the refnements Of life are
the Christians right He has right to
As good apparel, to as beautiful adorn-
ments. to as commodious q residence as
the worldling. Show me any passage
in the BibleIthat tells the people of the
world theyihavs privileges, they have
Rlittering spheres. they have BETTING
apparel that arr denied the Christian.
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