Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-08-19
DR.. TALNAGE'S SERMON.
ouRpossHssIoNs ARE TIE LORDS
Tho Sermon az Delivered by tho Brook,
ivn Divine.

lvn Divine.
TEXT. "Au are yoarsn-I Corinthiau.
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The impression is abroad that religion
puts man ON short allowance; that when
the ship sailing heavenwari 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 hav-
ersack; in a word, that only those people
have a good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to find out whether this Is
70. and 1 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 ara his
bonds and mortgages, ami shall find ous
before finish just how much he is worth,
and shall spread before you the balances
sheet in time to warn you all against the re-
ligion OF Jesus Christ il indeed 1t be fail
ure, and in time for you all to accept it if
indeed it be a success. i turn first to the
assets, and fluid there what seems to be q
roll of Government securities-the empire OF
heaven promising .nll things to the possessor.
The three small words of my text are a war;
rantee deed to the whole universe when it
says "All are yours"
In making an inventory OF the Christians
possessions remark i'll the first place that
he owns this world. Ny text implies It aud
the preceding verso asserts it-"whether
Paul or Apollos or Cephos or the world"
Now it would be an absurd thing to sup
pose that God would give to strangers
privileges and advantages which He would
deny His own children. II you have largo
park, n grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and staluary, to whom will
you give the first right to all these posses
siorsi To outsidersf No. to your own
children. You will say, ut will be very
well for outsiders to come in md 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
and who refuse His authority, the privilege
walking through the gardens the possession
of oil this grandeur of park and mansion is
in the right OF the Cbristian-the flowers,
the diamonds, tie 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,
be may never have paid ono dollar OF taxes,
but he can 30 up on n mountain and look Off
upon fifty miles of gram field md say, "All
this is NINE; my Father gave it to me-" "All
are yours"
A lawyer is sometimes required 10 search
titles, and the client who thinks he has, a
good right TO an estate puts the papers in his
hands, and the lawyer goes into the public
records and finds everything all right for
three or four or five years back; but after
awhile he comes to break in the title, to a
deficit, to a diversion of the property; so he
finds out that the man who. supposed he
while somebody else has the full right to
the entire estate. Now examine the title
TO all earthly possessions. 60 back a little
way, and find that men of the world-bad
men, selfish men, wicked men-think they
have right to ali these possessions; hut
20 further back. and trace the title from
year to year and from century to century,
until find the whole right vested in God
| Now TO whom did He give it2 70 His OWL
! Children "All are yours"
Tho simple fact is, thai III tho last days o.
! the world all the architecture, all the cities
NIL the mountains, all tho villages will he in
the possession OF the church of Christ. The
meek shall inherit the earth" Ships of
Tarshish shall bring presents. "The earth
is tho Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
nre you're" but" you say, "what salts
faction Is there in that wneu | haven't pos
session OF themr' These things will come
before the Supreme Judge of the universe
and He will regulate the title, and He will
| eject these squutters upon the property That
| does not belong to them, and II shall be
found TINT "All are yours"
So, again, the refinements OF life nre the
| Christians right. He has right to as good
apparel, To as beautiful adornments, TO as
commodious Il residence ms the worldling.
1 Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people of the world they have privii-
eges. they have gl,ttering spheres, they have
BETTING apparel that are denlel the Chris
tian. There is no one who has so muca
| right 10 laugh, none SO much right to
| everything that is beautiful and grand and
sublime in life the Christian. "All are
yours" Can il 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 denedi
! So l remark that all the sweet sounus OF
T, the world are in the Christians right. There
nre people who have an idea that instru-
ments OF music are inappropriate for the
Christians pnrlor. When did the house of
sin or tho bRcchanal get the right 10 music?
They have no right to it. God, in my text,
makes over TO Christian people all the pi.
cornets NIL the flutes, all the organs. Peo
pie of the world muy borrow them, hut they
only borrow them; they have no right or
title to them. God. gave them to Christian
people in my text, when He sail, IAN are
yours" .
David no more certainly owned the harp
with which he thrummed the praise of Col
than the church of Christ owns now all
chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboards, all
organ diapasons and God will gather IN
these sweet sounds after awhile, AMI He will
mingle them in one great harmony, aud tho
1uohuSiSSuOuS huu LHo bcSSHOVtUS Huu Cn9
Mozarts of earth will join their voices anil
their musical Instruments the soft south
wind and the loud-lunged euroclydon will
sweep the great organ p;pa1 and you shall
see Gods hand striking the keys and Gols
foot tramping the pedals in the great ora,
torio OF the nges
So nll artistic and literary advantages are
In the Christians right. l do not care on
whose wall the picture hangs, or on Whose
pedestal the sculpture stands, it belongs to
Christians. The Berstadts an the churches
are all working for US. ''All are yours"
The Lu1embourgs, the Louvre. all the gall
'leries of Naples and Rome aud Venico-they
are all to come into the possession OF the
church OF Jesus Christ. We may not now
have them on our walls, but this time will
come when the writ OF ejecsment will be
served and the church will possess every
thing. All parks, all fislponds. oil colors,
oil harvests-all, ''all are yours"
Secondly, 1 remark that the right to full
temporal support is in the Christians name
1t is great affair to feei tho world Just
think OF the fact that this morning sixtssn
hundred millions of our rae, breakfastei at
Gods tablet The conmissary department
OF hundred thousand men in any army