Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-07-29
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: "0UR POSSESSIONS
PREACHED IN LONDON.

IDe knlp kdlllnk 0bdNtDWAIl comes 10 tnA
shining wharf it will be found out that all
the passengers had the hardest kind OF SEA
fare; that the soldiers in Chrlst's army
march most OF the time Tith an empty hav-
ersack in a word, that only thos, peope
have a good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to find OUT whether this
so, and am going TO take account OF stocsi,
am going to show what are the Christians
liabilities, and what is his income, aud what
are his warrantee deeds AMI what ara his
bonds aud mortgages, AMI | shall find ouG
before finish Just how much he is worth,
and shall spread before you the balance
sheet in time to warn You all against the re-
ligion Of Jesus Christ IL indeed ii bs "A fall.
ure, and in time for you al TO accept 1t II
indeed II be n success. | turn first TO tA3
assets, AMI find there what seems to he II
roll Of Government securitieS-the empire Of
heaven promising all things TO the pOsSesso
The three small words OF my tex, are war
rantee deed to the whole universe when il
saws "All are yours.
In making au inventory OF the Christians
possessions remark IN tde first place that
be owns this world. Ny text implies it and
the preceding verse asserts lt-"whe ther
Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world"
Now it would be an absurd thing to sup
pose that God would give 10 strangers
privileges and advantages which he would
deny His own children. l. you have n arso
park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary. to whom wilt
you give the itrSt right to all these posses
sionsY To outsiders! No, 10 your oAn
children. You will say, 1T will be very
we'll Tor outsiders 10 come IN ami walk In so
paths and on Joy this Ian iscape, but the first
right to NY house. and tie first right 10 my
statuary. the first right TO my gar lens shall
be in tho posse, sion OF my own children.
Now this world is Gods park. and while
He allows those who are not HIS coil ireu,
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 shallow. The
Christian may not have the tide decd u ons
acre OF land as recorded in the c,orks Office,
be may never have paid one dollar Of taxes,
but he can go up on a mCuntain and look Oft
upon fifty mics Of gram field and say, "All
this is mine; my Father gave 1t to me. 'Au
are yours"
A lawyer is sometimes required 70 search
titles, and the Client VINO thinks ho has
good right to All estate puts the papers IN
his hands, and the lawyer goes into tho
public records and finds everything right
for three or four or five years back; but
after awhile he comes to n break in ths
title. to a deficit, to diversion OF the
propcrty: so he finds out that tn, man who
supposed he owned it owns not an acre OF
the ground, while somebody else has the full
right to the entire estate. Nov examine
the title TO all earthly possessions. / 60
back little way, and find that men Of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wlcke men
think they have a right to all these
possessions; but l 60 further back, aud
trace the title from year to year and from
century to century, until | ind the whole
right vested in God Now to whom did Ee
give it9 10 His own chlldrenl "All are
yours"
The simple fact s, that in the last days OF
the world all the architecture, all tue cities,
all the mountains, all the villages Will be III
the possession OF the churca OF Christ. "Ihe
meek shall Inherit the earth" Ships OF
Tarshish shall bring presents. "The earth
is the Lords and the fullness thereof "All
are YOURS But" you say, what satls,
faction Is there in that when | haven't pos.
session OF themP These things will como
before the Supreme Judge Of the universe
and He will regulate the title, and He Will
eject these squatters upon the property that
does not belong to them, and 1t shall be
found that "All are yours
So, again, the retinements OF life are the
Christians right. He has a right TO rs goo
apparel, to as beautiful adornmentS, to as
commodious residence as the wording
Sboy me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people OF the world they have privii-
eges, they have glittering spheres. they have
beftting apparel that are denie the Cnrls-
tian. There is no one who has so muca a
right to laugh, mono so much right to
everything that is beautiful aud 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
ND in heaven is to be allowed pleasures which
the sons and daughters of God, Tho owners
af the whole universe, arc dentedp
So remark that all 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'
amos. all the harps all the drums, all the
cornets, all the flutes, all the organs. feo'
pls Of the world may borrow them, but they
only borrow them; they have no right or
title to them. God gave them to Christian
pcor.e in my text whsn He said, "All are
yours"
David no more certainly owned the harE
with which he thrummed tho praise OF Goi
than the church of Christ owns now all
cnantS Ill dnUUtUls INOi hoJ pSh' H'f h''
organ diapasons, and God will gather uo
these sweet sounds after awhile, AMI He will
mingle them in one great harmony, and the
Mendelsshons and the Beethovens aud tho
Mozarts of earth will join their voices an
their musical Instruments the soft south
wind and the loud-lunged euroclyion viii
sweep the great organ Pipes and you shall
see Gods hand striking the keys and GoPs
foot tramping the pedals in th5 great ora
torio OF the ages
so all artistic and literary advantages are
In the Christians right. | do not care on
whose wall ths p.cturo hangs or on whose
pedestal the scul pture stands, 1t belongs 10
Christians. The Blerstadts au the church >
are all working for us. ''All are yours.
The Luxembourgs, the Louvre. all the gall
eries OF Naples and Rome and Venice-they
are all to come into the possession OF tue
church OF Jesus Christ. We may not now
have them on our walls but the time wili
come when the writ OF ejectmeut will be
served aud the church will possess every
thing. All parks, all fishponds all colors,
all haryests--all, "all are yours"
Secondly Il remark that the right TO full
temporal support is in this Christians name.
1t is a great affair TO feed the world. just
think of the fact that this morning sixteen
hundred miiIons of our race breakfastei Ut
Gods tablet The commissary department
of a hundred THOUSAND men in any army
will engage scores of poope, but just think
OF the commissary department o. u worlt
Think OF the gathering u1 from tho rict
swamps and the tea fields, AMI the orchards,
and the fsheriesl No one but God could
tell how many bushels it would take to feed
| FIVE continents.
Then, to clothe all these people, how many
furs must be captured and how much max
broken and how much cotton picked. Just
think o; the infinite wardrobe where slxtee
hundred millions OF people get their clothes
God spreads the table first Of ell for HIS chil'
dren. or course that would be very sell
fsh man who would not allow other people
To come and sit at the table sometimes; but
first of all, the right Is given to Christian
people, and therefore it is extreme folly for
them ever TO fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting of Caps