The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-18
DR.TALMAGEIN ENGLAND
@OUR POSSESSIONS THE SUBJECT
OF ONE OF Hrs SERMONS.

Christian - Not Only This But the
Next World Owned by the Christian
LONDON, ENGLAND, July II. - DR.
Talmage's preaching tour in England ha
been continued series of unprecedenteC
successes. The English people have as
sembled by thousands to hear the American
preacher wherever he has preached. In
Manchester the great Free Trade hall wal
engaged for him. 1t holds seven thousand
persons, but it would not contain third OF
the people who tried to get in. The streets
leading TO the hall were jsmmed with q
Dense surging mass of humanity. After
the service DR.. Talmsge preached in the
street to the crowd, which numbered fully
fifteen thousand. The sermon selected for
this week is entitled ,"Our Possessions, y
from l. Corinthians lii, %: IAN are
yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowance; that when
ehe ship sailing heaveuward comes to the
shining wharf, 1t will be found out that all
che passengers had the hardest kind of sea-
fare; that the soldiers in Christ's army
march most Of the time with an empty
haversack; in a word, that only those peo-
pie have good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
50, and am going TO take account of stock; ;
i am going to show what are the Christians
liabilities and what Is his income. and what
are his warraptee deeds, and what are his
tbonds and mortgages, and shall find out
before finish Just how much he Is worth,
and l shall spread before you the balances
sheet in time to warn you all against the
religion of Jesus Christ, IT, indeed, it be
failure, and in time for you all 20 accept 1t,
IL, indeed, it be a success. l turn first TO
the assets, and find there what seems to
be roll Of government securitles-the en-
pire Of heaven promising all things to the
possessor. The three small words of my
text are a warrantee deed to the whole
universe when it says: "Au 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 that and the preceding verse asserts
it-t'whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas,
or the world" Now, it would be al alb
surd thing TO suppose that God would give
70 strangers privileges and advantages which
he would deny his own children. If you
have large park, grand mansion, beau
tiful fountains, stalking deer. and statuary,
to whom will you give the first right to all
these possessionsl To outsidersi No, to
your own children You will say, ut will
be very we'll for outsiders 60 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"
Now, this world is Gods park. and while
he allows those who are not his childrea 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 she ChristiAn--the flowers,
the diamonds, the silver, the gold the morn
ing brightness and the evening shadow. The
Nhriu MT 49, kha4 Ia AaaA
acre OF land as recorded 10 the clerks office,
he may never have paid one dollar of taxes
but he can go up on mountain and look off
upon fifty miles of green field aud say, IAN
this is mine; my father gave 10 to me-" IAN
are yours"
A lawyer In 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 pub
lie records, and finds everything right for
three or four or five years back; but after
while he comes to break In the title, to
deficit, to diversion of the property; so he
nnds out that the man who supposed he
owned 1t owns not an acre of the ground,
while somebody else has the full right
TO the entire estate Now, examine the title
TO ali earthly possessions l go back little
way, and find that men Of the world-bad
men, selfish men, wicked men-think they
have right to all these possessions; but
go further back, and trace the title from
year to year, and from century to century,
until find the whole right vested ia God
Now, TO whom did he give it, 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, al the villages will he In
she possession of the church of Christ. THE
meek shall inherit the earth.n Ships of
Tarshsh shall bring presents. THE earth
is the Lords, and the fullness thereof
An 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 he will regulate the title, aud he will
eject these sQuatteFs upon the property that
does not belong to them, and it shall be
found that "All are yours"
So again, the rednements of life are the
Christians right. He has right to as good
apparel, to as beautiful adornments, to 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 glttering spheres. they have be-
fitting apparel that are denied the Christian.
There is no one who has so much a right to
laugh, none 80 much right to everything
that is beautiful and grand and sublime in
life as the Christian. "All are yours"
Can it be possible that one 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 deniedf
So remark that ali the sweet sounds of
the world are in the Christians right.
There are people who have an idea that In
struments Of music are inappropriate for
the Christians parlor. When did the house
of sin or the baochanal get the right TO
musicl They have no right TO it God, In
my text, makes over to Christian people all
the pianos. all the harps, all the drums, all
the oornets, all the flutes, all the organs.
People of the world may borrow them they
have no right or title to them. God gave
them to Christian people In my text, when
he said: "All are yours"
David no more certainly owned the harp
with which he thrummed the praises OF
God than the church of Christ owns now all
chants, all anthems, all ivory key boards, all
organ diapasons, and God will gather up
these sweet sounds after a while and he will
mingle them in one great hsr mony, and the
Memberships and the Beethovens and the
Mozarts of the earth will join their voices
and their musical instruments, and soft
south wind, and loud lunged euroclvdon
will sweep the great organ pipes, and you
shall see Gods hand striking the keys and
Gods foot tramping the pedals in the great
oratorio Of the ages!
So all artistic and literary advantages are
IN the Christians right | do not ~ara on