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


the great Free Trade hall, holding 1000
people, was engaged for him, and it
would not contain third of the people
who tried to getin. After the services
DR.. Talmage preached in the street TO
crowd numbering 900 persons. The
sermon for this week is entitled "0ur
Possessions, and the text, l. Corinthians
iii, SO: "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 hardest kind of sea-fare: that the
soldiers in Christs army march most of
the time with an empty haversack; in
word, that only those people have
good time in this world who take upon
themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to find out whether
this is so, and | am going to take ac-
count 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 mortgages, and ! shall find
. out before finish just how much he is
worth, and shall spread before you
the balance-shcet in time TO warn you
all against the religion OF Jcsus Christ,
if indeed. it be failure, and in time
for you all accept it, if, indeed, it be n
success turn first to the assets and
find there what seems to be a roll Of
government securities-the empire of
Heaven promising all things to the pos
SCISSOR. The three small words of my
text are warantee 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,i 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 a large
park, grand mansion, beautiful foun-
tains, 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,
1T will be very well for outsiders to
come in and walk these paths and en-
joy this landscape; but the first right
to my house, 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 possessions 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 clreli's 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 deficit,
TO a diversion of the property; 10 he
finds out that the man who supposed
he owned II owns not un acre of the
ground, while somebody else has the
full right 10 the entire estate Now, |
examine the title 10 all earthly possess
sions. ! go back little way, and find
that men Of the world-bad men. selfish
men, wicked mcn-think they have
right 10 all these possessions; but go
further back, and trace the title from
year 10 year, and from century to CEN
tury, until find the whole right vested
In God Now, 20 whom did He give it?"
Tolls 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 "Thc meek shall
inherit the earth" Ships OF Tarshish
shall bring presents. "The earth Is tho
Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
are yours" But" you say, what
satisfaction is there in that when
haven't possession of them?" These
things will come before the Supreme
Judge of the universe, and lie will regu-
late the title, and He will eject these
squatters upon the property that does
not belong 10 them, and IL 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
adornments, TO as commodious resi-
dence as the worldling. Show me any
passage in the Bible that tells the peo-
pie Of the world they have privileges,
they have glittering spheres, they have
betting apparel that are denied the
Christian. There is no one who has so
much a right 10 laugh, none so much
. right to everything that is beautiful
And grand and sublime In life as the
Christian. "All are yours" Can II be
possible that one who is reckless and
sinful and has no treasures laid up iu
heaven is TO be allowed pleasures which
The sons and daughters Of God, the own
ers of the whole universe, are denied7
So remark that the sweet sounds Of
the world are In the Christians right
Thcre are people who have an idea that
instruments Of music are Inappropriate
Tor the Christians parlor. When did