The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-22
REV. DR.. lALNAGgS SERMON,
Tho Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "Our Possessions" Preached
In London.

Sermon
Subject: "Our Possesslons.o Preached
In London.
TEXT. sAu ara yoxrap-I Corinthians
iii, 81
The impression Is abroad that religion
puts q man or short allowance; that when
sbfping wharf it will be found out hat all
the passengers had the hardest kind OF ssa
fare: that the soldiers In Christs army
march most OF the time with an empty hav-
ersack. In q word, that only those people
have good time in this world who take
upon themselves 10 religious obligation.
i want to-day to find out whether this ! .
20. and / am going to take account OF stock;
l am going 10 show what are the Christians
liabilities, and what IL his income, and what
are his warrnntee deeds. and what are his
bopds and mortgages and I shall find out
before finish Just how much be 10 worth,
and l shall spread before you the balance
sheet in time to warn you all against there
liQion Of Jesus Christ II indeed It be . fail.
ure. and In time for you all to accept It IL
indeed it be q successL I turn first to the
assets, and / find there what seems to be .
roll OF Government securities-the empire of
heaven promising all things to the poseeesor.
The three small words OF my text are . war
rantee deed to the whole universe when IL
says "All are yours"
In making an inventory Of the Christians
possessions / remark in the first place that
he owns this world. Ny text implies It and
the preceding verse ssserts it-"whether
Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world"
Now it would b an absurd thing to sup
pose that God would give to strangery
privileges and advantages which He would
deny His own children. II you have . large
park, q grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
YOU give the first right 10 all these posses
sionsf To outsidersf Nc. to your owu
children. You will say. ut win 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.
He allows those who are not His children,
and who refuse His authority. the privilege
walking through the gardens, the possession
of all this grandeur OF park and mannion IL
In the right Of the C~hristian-the flower1
the diamonds, the silver, the gold, the morn
ing brightness and the evening shadow. The
Christian may not have the title deed to
he may never nave paid one dollar Of taxes
but he can go up on a mountain and look Of
upon ffty miles Of gram field and SAY, IAN
this is mine; my Father gave 1t to me-" A
are yours"
titles. and the client who thinks he has .
good right to an estate puts the papers in
bis hands, and the lawyer goes into tho
public records aud finds everything right
Tor three or four or five years back; bat
after awhile he comes to q break In the
title. to q deficit to Q diversion Of the
property: % b finds out that the man who
supposed ha owned it owns not an acre Of
the ground, while somebody else has the full
right to the entire estate. Now l examine
the title to all earthly possessions 1 go
back a little way. and | find that men Of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wicked men
think they have q right to all these
possessions; but l go further back, and
trace the title from year to year and from
century to century, until l ind the whole
right vested in God. Now to whom did He
give itf To His " childreni IAN are
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 "fhe
meek shall inherit the earth" Ships OF
Tarshish shall bring presents. THE earth
Is the Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
are yours;s .but" Q ssyi wnas nu
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session OF themr' These things will come
before the Supreme Judge Of the universe
and He will regulate the title, and He viii
eject these squatters upon the property that
does not belong to them, and it shall b
found that ''All are yours"
So, again, the relnements OF life are the
Christians right. He has a right to Is good
apparel, to as beautiful ~adornments to a.
commodious q residence as the wofldiing.
Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people OF the world they have privil-
eyes they nave glittering spheres, they have
BETTING apparel that are denie the Chris
tian. There is no one who has 50 much .
right to laugh, none so much . right 70
everything that il beautiful and grand and
sublime In life as the Christian. IAN are
yours" Can IL be possible that a who is
reckless and sinful and has no treasures laid
up In heaven is to be allowed pleasures which
the sons and daughters of God, the owners
OF the whole universe, are den .edy
So l remark that all the sweet sounds OF
the world ara In the Christians right. There
are people who nave an idea that instru.
ments OF music are inappropriate for the
Christians parior. When did the house OF
Sin or the bacchanai get the right to musicf
They AVE no right to it. God, In my text
makes over to Christian people all the pi.
amos, all the narps. all the drums, all the
comets, ali the flutes, all the organs. PEG
pie of the world may borrow them, but they
only borrow them; they have no right or
title to them. God gave them TO Christian
people in my text when He sail, "Au are
yours
David no more certainly owned the harp
with which he thrummed the praise OF God
the church of Christ owns now all
chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboariS all
organ diapssonA and God will gather up
these sweet sounds after awhile, ami He will
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Mendelsshons and the Beethovsns and the
Mozarts of earth will join their voices and
their musical instruments the soft south
wind n the loud-luuged eurociyion will
sweep b great organ Pipes and you shall
see Gods hand striking the keys n Go rs
foot trs mping the pedals in the great ora
torio OF the agesf
SO all artistic and literary advantages are
in the Christians right. l do not care or
whose wall the picture hangs, or on whose
pedestal the sculpture stands, 1t belongs to
Christians. The B~ierstadts ami the churches
are all working for US. Fan are yours"
The Luxembourgs the Louvre. all the gall
leries Of Naples and Romea and Venice-they
are all to come into the possession OF the
church of Jesus Christ. We may not now
them on our walls. but the time will
come when the writ OF ejectment will be
served and the church will possess every
thing. All parks. all fshponds all colors
all harvests-sll, ..all are yours"
Secondly, I remark nat the right to full
temporal support is in the Christians name.
1t is a great affair to feed the world. Just
think OF the fact that this morning sixteen
hundred millions Of our race breakfasted st
Gods tablet The commissary department
of a hundred thousand men in any army
will engage scores of people. but just think
OF the commissary department OF q woriii
Think Of the gathering uo from the rice
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