Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-23
REV. DR.. 7ALMAGH.
The Eminent Brooklyn Diyine's Sun
day Sermon.


Inc iINDiEtelON % AufOl4 tuAt Ec&A&ttN
puts man ON short allowance, that when
the ship sailing heavenwari comes 70 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-
ersacs; in a word, that only those Peep 9
have good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to find OUT wnether this j s
fc. and 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 and shall find OUT
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-
Iigion of Jesus Christ IL indeed it BE- fall
IRE and in time for you all TO accept it il
indeed it be success. / turn first to the
assets ami find there what seems to be a
roll Of Government securities-the empire of
heaven promising all things to the possessor.
The three small words OF my text are war;
iantee deed to the whole universe when it
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 asserts it-"whether
Paul or Apollos or Cephas 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 a large
park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary, to whom will
you give the first right to all these posses
s.onss To outsiders2 No. to your own
children. You will say. 1T viii be very
well for outsiders to come in and walk these
raths and enjoy this landscape, but the first
right to my house and the first right to my
statuary. the first right 10 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
walking through the gardens, 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 morn
ing brightness and the evening shadow. The
Christian may not have the title deed to ons
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 of
upon fifty miles of gram field and say, "All
this is NINE; my Father gave it to me-" ''Ali
are yours"
A LAWYER is sometimes required to 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
tublic records and finds everything right
for three or four or five years back; but
after awhile he comes to a break i'll the
little, TO a deficit, to a diversion of the
property: so he finds out that the m an who
supposed he owned it owns not an acr. of
the ground. while somebody else has the full
right to tine entire estate. Now l examine
the title TO all earthly possessions. / 60
back little way. and find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wickel men
think they have 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 find the whole
right vested in God. Now to whom did lie
give it? TO His own children! San are
yours"
The simple fact is, that in the last days OF
tbe world all the architecture, all the cities,
all the mountains all the villages will be in
the possession of the churcl OF Christ. "The
meek shall inherit the earth" Ships of
yarshish shall bring presents. 'The earth
is the Loro's and the fulness thereof" "All
are yours" But" you say, what salts
faction is there i'll that when l haven't pos
session of 1hemg' These things will come
before the Supreme Judge Of tbs universe
and He will regulate tie title, and He will
eject these squatters upon the property that
does not belong to them, and it shall be
found that "All are yours"
So, again, the refinements of life are the
-
apparel, to as beautiful adornments to as
commodious residence as the wording.
Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people OF the world they have privi-
eges, they have glittering spheres, they have
BETTING apparel that are denied the Chris
tian. There is no one who has SO mucl a
right TO laugh, none so much a right to
everythin. that is beautiful and grand and
sublime i'll life as the Christian. ssAll are
yours" Can it be passible that one who is
reckless and sinful an l has no treasures laid
up in heaven is to be above pleasures which
the sons and dau ghters of God, the owners
of the whole univ erse, are den ed?
So remark that al the sweet sounds OF
the world are in the Christians right. There
are people who have an idea that instru-
ments OF music are inappropriate for the
Christians parlor. When did the house Of
sin or the bacchanal get the right to music?
They have no right to it. God, in my text,
makes over to Christian people all the pi-
ancs all the harps. all the drums, all the
comets, all the flutes, all the organs Peo-
pie of the world may borrow them, but they
only borrow them; taey have no right Or
title to them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, when He sail, "All ara
yours"
David no more certainly owned the harp
with which he thru nmed the praiss of Col
chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboar Is, all
organ diapasons, and God will gather up
these sweet sounds after awhile, an He will
mingle them in one great harmony, aud the
Mendelsshons ana the Beethovens and ths
Mozirts of earth will join thsir voices AMI
their musical instru nents the soft south
wind and the loud-lunged euroclyiol will
sweep the great organ pipes and you SHALL
see Gods hand striking the keys and Go is
foot tramping the pedals in thu great ora
torio OF the agesl
SO all artistic and literary advantages are
in the Christians right | do not care on
whose wall the picture hangs or on whose
pedestal the sculpture stands, it belongs to
Christians. The Berstadts an l the churches
are all working for u.s. ''All are yours"
The Luxembourgs, the Louvre all the gall
leries of Naples and Rome and Venice-they
are all to come into the possession of the
church o. Jesus Christ We may not now
have them on our walls, but the time will
come when the writ of ejectment will bs
served and the church will possess every :
thing. All parks, all fislponds. all colors
all harvests--all, 'tall are yours
Secondly, remark that the right to full
temporal support is in the Christians name
1t Is great affair to feed the world. just
think of the fact that this morning sixteen
hundred millions of our race breakfaste1 at
Gods table! The commissary department
of a hundred THOUSAND men in any army
will engage scores OF people, but just think
2f the commissary department of world
inink OF the gathering up from tbs rice
swamps, and the tea fields, ami the orchards.
and the tisheriesi No one but God could
tell how many bushels it would take to feed
five continents.
Then. to clothe all these people. how MANY
iurs must be captured and how much fax
I broken and how much cotton picked. Just
think OF the infinite wardrobe where sixteen
hundred millions of people get their clothes
God spreads the table first of all for His chi,-
dren. Of course that would be very sell
nsn man who would not allow other people
70 come and sit at the table sometimes; but
INST OF all. the right is given to Christian
people, and therefore it is extreme folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment.
VINO led tas whales sporting off Cane
Hatteras this mornings Out of whose hani
did the cormorant pics its food? Whose
loom wove the butteray's wins2 Who hears
the hawks cry. IT God takes care of a wal
rus, and Siberian dog and wasp, will Hs
not take care of you? Will father have
more regard for rept les than for his sons
and daughters If Col clothes the grizzly
bear, and the panther, and the hyena. will
He not clothe His own children2. Come. then.
this morning, and get the key OF the infinite
storehouse. Come and get the key o. thu in
finite wardrobe. Here they are-all the
keys. IAN are yours"
SO all the vicissitu les of this &c, Sd TAR as
they have any relis .ous prof., ara in the
right of the Christian. Il yoi shout stan
among the Ale gha1y Mountains especially
near what is called the "dorssshoe,n you
would find a train of cars almost doubling
on itself, and sitting IN tis back car yoa Sea
locomotive co ming as you look out OF ths
window, and you think it is another train