Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-18
FALMAGE IN EUROPE.
I]l9 PREACHING TOUR A SERIES OF
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESSES.

. 4114 &Ffmou IN sfonuo" "" V"f ~7S0'-
tIens''--Iseifricn Does Not Put Man
!. ~ short Allowance Christians
1ensnincsnt Inheritance.
LoxDoN, July 17.--Dr. Talmage's
&reaching tour in England has been a
continued series Of unprecedented sue
ceeses The English people have as
oemblcd by thousands to hear the Amer
|can preacher wherever he has preached.
II Manchester the great Free Trade hall
WAS engaged for him. It holds seven
thouaand persons, but it would not con-
tain third of the people who tried to
get In. To streets leading to the hall
were jammed with 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
Corinthians iii, %, "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
ont that all the passengers had the hard
est kind Of sea fare; that the soldiers in
Christ's army march most of the time
with an empty haversack in word.
that only those people havo good time
Ia this world who take upon themselves
no religious obligation.
want today TO find out whether this
Is so, and 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
fsh Just how much he is worth, aud /
shall spread before you the balance
sheet in time to warn you all against
the religion of Jesus Christ If indeed
It be failure, and in time for you all to
accept 1t If indeed it be success. |
turn first to the assets, and find there
what seems to be roll Of government
eecurities--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. II you have q large park, a grand
mansion, beautiful fountains, stalking
deer and statuary, to whom will you
give the first right to all these posses
sions9 TO outsidersf No, to your own
children. You will say, ut 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"
GoD's 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 q mountain and look Off upon
fifty miles of grain field and say, "All
this is mine; my father gave 1t to me-"
"All are yours"
q A lawyer Is sometimes required to
search titles, and tho 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 every
thing right for three or four or five
years back; but after awhile he comes
to . break In the title, to deficit, to a
diversion of the property; so he finds
ont that the man who supposed he owned
~ 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 q
world bad men, selfish men, wicked
men-think they have right to all
thsse possessions; but go further back,
and trace the title from year to year
and from century to century, until
ind the whole right vested In God.
Now TO whom did he give itp To his
own childreni "All are yours"
\ The simple fact Is, that In the last
days of the world all the architecture,
all tho cities, all the mountains, all the
villages will be In the possession Of the
church of Christ. "The meek shall In
herit the EARTH" Ships of Tarshish
shall bring presents. "The earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
rcyours." "But," you say, "what sat
isfacpion is there in that when l haven't
possession of themT These things will
come before the Supreme Judge of the
universe and he will regulate the title,
and he will eject these squstters upon
TIE property that does not belong ts
thnm, and II shall be found that "All
IRE yours"
THE REFINEMENTs OF LIFE.
/, 30, again, the reiinements OF life are
The Christians right He has right 10
~ good apparel, to as beautiful adorn-
ments, TO as commodious a residence as
<he worldling. Show me any passage in
1he Bible that tells the people Of the
World they have privileges. they have
Glittering spheres, they have befitting
apparel that are denied the Christian.
Xhere 10 no one who has so much right
- laugh, none SO much right 10 every
thing that Is beautiful and grand and