Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-22

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in my text, makes over to christian
people all the pianos, all the harps, all
the drums, all the comets, all the flutes,
all Vhe organs People of the world may
borrow them, but they only borrow
them; they have no right or title to
them. God gave them to christian peo-
pie 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 an
thems, all ivory lSey-boards, all organ
diapasons. and God will gather up
these sweet sounds after u while, and
he will mingle them in one
great harmony, 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 eurocly-
don 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 advant-
ages are in the Christians right / do
not care on whose wall the picture
hangs, or on whose pedestal the sculp-
ture stands it belongs to Christia MS
The Bierstadts and the churches
are all working for us. "All
are yours" The Luxembourgs, the
Louvre, all the galleries of Naples, and
Rome, and Venrce-they are all to come
into the possession of the church of
Jesus Christ We may not now have
them on our walls, but the time will
come when the writ of ejectment will
be served and the church will possess
everything. All parks, all flsh-ponds,
all colors, all harvests-all, ''all are
yours.
Secon lily, 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 million of our race
breallfasted at Gods table! The COM
missary department of hun
dred thousand men in an army will
engage scores of people; but just think
of Il commissary department of Il
world! Think of the gathering up
from the rice swamps, and the tea
zelda and the orchards and the fish
cries! No one but God could tell how
many bushels it would take to feed
five continents
Then, 10 clothe all these people
how many &irs must be captured and
how much fax broken. and how much
cotton picked. Just think Of the in-
finite wardrobe where sixteen hundred
million of people gel their clothes!
God spreads the table first of all for
his children. OF course, that would
be very selfish man who
would not allow other people to
come and sit at his 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 off Cape Hatteras this
morning? Out of whose hand did the
cormorant pick its food? Whose loom
wove the butterfy's wing? Who
hearA the hawks cry? If God
takes care of walrus, and a
Siberian dog, and wasp, will he
not take care of you? VIII a father
have more regard for reptiles than for
his sons and daughters? If God clothes
the grizzly bear, and the panther, and
the hyena, will he not clothe his own
children? Come, then, this morning,
and get the key of the infinite store
house. Come and get the key of the
infinite wardrobe. Here they are-all
the keys. "All are here"