Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-07-27
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The sermon selected for this week
Is entitled. "Our Possessions" from
l. Corinthians. tit. -: "Ali Are Yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts n man on short allowances: that
when n ship sailing Hcavcnward comes
To the shining wharf IL will be found
out that all the passengers had the
hardest kind of sca-farc; that the SOL
dicrs In Christs army march most OF
the time with an empty havcrsacls; In
word. that only those people have
good timo in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obliga-
tons.
want to-day to find out whether this
Is SO, and I am going TO take account of
stock; l am going TO show what arc the
Christians liabilities, and what Is his
income, and what are his warranted
deeds, and what are his bonds and
mortgages, and l shall find out before |
finish just how much he is sorth, and
i shall spread before you the balance
sheet in time to warn you all against
the religion OF Jesus Christ, II indeed IL
be failure, and in time for you all To
accept IL, II indeed IL be a success.
turn first TO tho assets, and find there
what seems To be roll of government
securities, the empire of Heaven prom
ising all things To the posscssor. The
three small words OF my text arc n war
rantee deed To the whole universe when
II says: "All are yours"
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions remark, In the first
place, that he owns the world. My
text implies IL and the preceding verse
asserts II; whether Paul. or Apollos.
Or Ccphas, or the world" Now, IL
would bc an absurd thing 90 suppose
that God would give To strangers priv
ilcgcs and advantages which he would
deny his own children. II you have n
large park, n grand mansion, beautiful
fountains, stalking deer and statuary,
10 whom will you give the first right TO
all these possessionsP To outsidcrsY
No: to your own children. You will
tay: at will bc very well for outsid-
frs To come I'm 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-thc flowers, the
diamonds, the silver, the gold. the
morning brightness, and the evening
shadow. The Christian may not have
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corded In the clerks Office; he may never
have paid one dollar OF taxes, but he
can go up on n mountain and look off
upon fifty miles OF grain field and say;
"All this is mine; my Father gave IL 10
me" 'All are yours"
A lawyer Is sometimes required To
search titles. and the client who thinks
he has good right 10 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 n break I'm the title. 10 n deficit,
TO diversion OF the property; so he
tnds out that the man who supposed he
swncd IL owns not an acre OF the
ground, while somebody else has the
full right TO the entire estate. Now, /
examine the right TO all earthly posses
sionS ! go back n little way, and I
Gnd that men OF the world-bad men,
'selfish men. wicked men-think they
have n right 10 all these possessions;
but / go further back, and trace the
title from year TO year. and from CEN
tury 10 century, until i find the whole
right vested In God. Now. 10 whom did
He give IL? To His own childrenl "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 e. Christ ''The meek shall in
herit the earth" Ships OF Tarshish
Lords and the fulness thereof" Gan
are yours" But" you say, what
satisfaction Is there In this when I
haven't possession of them?" These
things will come before the Supreme
Judge Of the universe, and lie will
regulate the title, and lie will eject
these squatters upon the property that
does not belong 20 them, and 1t shall be
found that "all are yours"
SO, again, the refnements OF life arc
the Christians right lie has right %
as good apparel, 20 as beautiful adorn-
ments, go as commodious "A residence as
the wording. Show me any passage
in the Bible that tells the people OF the
world they have privileges. they have
glittering spheres. they have befttlng
apparel that are denied the Christian.
There is no one who has SO much n
right 20 laugh, none 50 much a right 10
everything that Is beautiful and grand
and sublime in life as the Christian.
"All are yours" Can il DC possible that
one who IS recb 'ess and sinful. and has
no treasures laid up in Heaven. Is 20 be
allowed pleasures which the sons and
daughters Of God, the owners 81 the
whole universe, are denied?
So remark that AL the sweet sounds
Of the world are ira the Christians right
There az people who have an idea that
instruments OF music arc inappropriate
for the Christians parlor When did
the house 81 sin or the bacchanal get
the right To- music7 They have no right
10 H. God, in my text. makes over %