The Globe-republican., 1892-07-25
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HE PORTRAYS THE ADVAN-
TAGES OF THE CHRISTIAN.
Religion Never Was Designed to Make
Our Pleasures Less-GOd viii Withhold
No Good Thing from Those Who Love
Him-The Infinite Father.
Our Possessions.


people have assembled by thousands to
hear the American preacher wherever
he has preached. In Manchester the
great Trade Hall was engaged for him.
1t holds 1000 persons, but it would not
contain third of the people who tried
to get in. The streets leading to the
hall were damned with dense surging
mass of humanity. After the service
DIR. Talmage preached in the street to
the crowd, which numbered fully $1,000.
The sermon selected for this week is en-
titled ''Our Possessions" from l Corin-
thians iii, %, 'All are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowance; that when
the ship sailing heavenward 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 ChriSt's
army march most of the time with an
empty haversack. In a word, that only
those people have good time in this
world who take upon themselves no re-
ligiOus obligation.
want to-day to find out whether this
is SO, and / am going to take account of
stock; i am going to show what are the
Christians liabilities, and what is his in
come, and what are his warrantee deeds,
and what are his bonds and mortgages,
and l shall find out before l finish just
how much ne is worth, and shall spread
before you the balance sheet in time to
warn you all against the religion of Jesus
Christ il indeed it be failure, and in
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 promising all things to the pos
SCISSOR, The three small words of my
text are warrantee coed 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. My text
Implies it, and the preceding verse as
serts it-''whether Paul or Apolos or
Cephas or the world" Now it would be
an absurd thing to suppose that
God would give to strangers privileges
and advantages which he would DENY his
own children. If you have large park,
a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer, and statuary. to whom will
you give the first right to all these pos
sessions? To outsiders? No. to your
own children. You will say, sit will be
very well for outsiders to come in and
walk on these paths and enjoy this land
Scape, but the first right to my house,
and the first right to my statuary. the
first right 70 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 gar
dens, the possession of all this grandeur
OF park and mansion is in the right of
the ChriStian-the flowers, the diamonds,
the silver, the gold, the morning bright
ness and the evening shadow. The
Christian may not have the title deed to
one acre OF land as recorded in the
CLERKS Office, he may never have paid
one dollar of taxes. but he can go up on.
a mountain and look off upon fifty miles
OF grain field and say. "All this is mine;
my Father gave it me-" "All are yours
A lawyer is sometimes required to
search titles, and the client who thinks
he has good right to an estate puts
the papers in his hands, and the lawyer
goes into the public records, and finds
everything right for three or four or five
years back: but after awhile he comes to
a break in the title. to a deficit. to di-
version of the property: so he finds out
that the man who supposed he owned it
owns not an acre of the ground. while
somebody else has the full right to the
entire estate. Now, | examine the title
to all earthly possessions. l go back
little way. and l find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men. wicked
men-think they have right to all
these possessions; but l go farther back,
and trace the title from year to year,
the whole right vested in God. Now, to
whom did he give it? To his own chill
dren! "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" 'All |
ire yours" But" YOU say. what salts |
action is there in that when l haven't |
of them?" These things will |
,ome before the Supreme Judge OF the |
Universe. and he will regulate the title. |
md he will eject these Squatters upon /
me property tnat does not DelO0g TO !
hem, and it shall be found that .All |
Ire yours"
So again, the retnementS of life are
he Christians right. He has right to
IS good apparel, TO as beautiful adorn-
nents. to as commodiouS residence as
he wording. Show me any passage
n the Bible that tells the people of the
world they have privileges, they have
spheres, they have benetitting
apparel that are denied the Christian.
There is no one who has SO much right
@ laugh, none SO much right TO every
hing that is beautiful and grand and
sublime in life as the Christian. "All
III yours" Can it be possible that one
Who is reckless and sinful, and has no
treasures laid up in Heaven. is to be al
owed pleasures which the sons and
daughters of God, the owners of the
whole universe, and denied?
So l remark that all the sweet sounds
II the world are in the Christians right.
There are people who have an idea that
of music are inappropri-
tie in the Christians parlor. When
lid the house of sin or the
,acchanal get the right TO music? They