The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-19

LONDON, July 17.-Dr. Talmages
preaching tour in England has been a
continued series of unprecedented sue
cesses. The English people have as
seInbled by thousands to hear the Amer
lean preacher wherever he has preached.
In Manchester the great Free Trade hall
was engaged for him. II holds seven
thousand persons, but it would not con-
tain a third Of the people who tried to
get IN. The streets leading to the hall
were iammed with dense, surging
mass of humanity. After the service
DR.. Talmage preached in the street to
the crowd, which mum ered fully fifteen
thousand. The sermon selected for this
week is entitled "Our Possessions" from
/ Corinthians iii, %, .Aii are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts q man on short allowance; that
when the ship sailing heavenward comes
to the shining wharf il will be found
out 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 u word,
that only those people have a good time
in this world who take upon themselves
no religious obligation.
want today to find out 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 warrantee
deeds, and what are his bonds and mort
cages, and shall find out before fin
ish 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
it be failure andin 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 a roll of government
securities-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 l remark in the first
place that he owns this world. NY text
implies 1t and the preceding verse asserts
it-"whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas
or the world" Now ii 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. If you have large park, grand
mansion. beautiful fountains, stalking
deer and statuary, TO whom will You
give the first righs 10 al these posses
sions? To outsiders? No. to your own
children. You will say, at 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
GODS 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 Christi In-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 nay never have
paid one dollar of taxes but he can 20
up on mountain and look of upon
fifty miles Of grain field and say, "Al
this is mine: my father gave 1t TO me-
''Au are yours.
A lawyer is sometimes required to
search tflas, and the client who thinks
he has a good right 10 an estate puts the
papers III his hands, and the lawyer goes
into the public records and finds every
thing right for three ~ four or five
years back; but after awhile he comes
to a break in the title. t. ii deicit, TO
diversion Of the property; 50 he finds
O8t that the man who supposed he owned
It owns not mn acre of the ground, while
somebody else has the full right to the
entire estate. Now I examine the title
TO all earthly possessions. I 90 back
little way, and find that men of the
wOrld-bad men, selfish men. wicked
men-thinS they have a right to all
these possessions; bat go further back.
and | trace the title from year to year
and from century to century, until l
find the whole right vested in God.
Now to whom did he give it? To his
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. The meek shall in
herit the earth" Ships of Tarshish
shall bring presents. The earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" "A1
are yours" But" You say, what sat
isfaction Is 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 IAN
are yours"
THE REFINEMENTS OF LIFE.
SO. again. the retinements of life are
the Christians right. He has right to
as good apparel, to as beautiful adorn-
ments, to as commodious residence as
the worldling. Show me any passage in
the Bible that tells the people of the
world they have privileges, they have