Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-18
CHRISTIANS OWN ALL.
The Title of the Unregenerate to This
Worlds Estate is Void.
ALL REFINEMENTs THEIRS, TOO.
More Than All the Celestial City is Their
Good Inheritance.
TALNAGE's LATEST PRINTED SERMON

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17.-Dr. Tai
mage's sermon selected for publication this
week is entitled, ''Our Possession" from ]
Corinthians 8 %: Gall are yours
The impression is abroad that religion
puts a man on short allowance: that when
the shin 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 q word, that only those people
have good time in this world who take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day TO find out whether this is
so, and am going to take account of stock;
am going to show what are the Christian S
liabilities, and what is his income, and what
are his warrantee deeds, and what are his
bonds ana mortgages, and / shall find out
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, If, indeed, It be q fail
ure, and in time for you all to accept it, II,
indeed, 1t be success. i turn first to the
assets, and find there what seems to be a
roll Of Governpent securities-the Empire
of Heaven promising all things to the pos
SCISSOR. The three small words of my text
are warrantee deed to the whole universe
when it says: "An are yours"
Tho First of Christians Assets.
In making an inventory of the Christians
possessions 1 remark. in the first place.
that he owns this 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 possessions? To outsiders?
No, TO your 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 gardens. the posses
sion of all this grandeur of park and man.
sion is in the right OF the Christian-the
flowers, the diamonds, the silver, the gold,
the morning brightness 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 20 up on q
mountain and look of upon so miles of grain
field and say, "Al this is mine; my iather
gave IL TO me-"
A lawyer is sometimes required to search
titles and the client who thinks he has a
Eood& & right to- to an m, estate puts the papers into
lie records, ana finds everything right for
three or four or nve years back, but after q
while he comes TO break in the title, to
deflCtt, to diversion of the property: so he
finds out that the man who supposed he
owned il owns not an acre of the ground
while somebody else has the full right to the
entire estate.
A Flaw in the Title Of the Wicked.
Now, 1 examine the title to all earthly
possessions, 1 70 back a little way and /
find thai - 1wcrld-bad men, selfish
men they have right
To but I go further
from year to year,
ltury, until find
God. Now to
own children.
she last days OF
all the cities,
ages will be in
Christ. "The
,tion is there
n OF them2"
lie Supreme
II regulate
sQuatters
belong to
n, %-ru --aII De Iound -hat "All are
So again, the refnements of life are the
Christians right. He has a right to as good
apparel, to as beautiful adornments, to as
commodious n residence as the worldling.
Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people of the world they have privileges
they have glittering spheres. they have be-
fitting apparel tnat are denied the Christian.
There is no one who has SO much a right to
laugh, none so much a right to everything
life as the Christian. "All are yours" Can
it 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 denied?
Music Is the Inhsritancs OF the Cody.
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 or music are Inappropriate for the |
Christians parlor. When did the house OF !
sin or the baechanal get the right to music? |
MI
makes over to Christian people all the |
pianos, all the harps all the drums, all the |
cornets, all the flutes all the organs. Peo- |
pie of the world may borrow them. but they |
title to them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, when he said: "Al are |
yours
SO all artistic and literary advantages are |
in the Christians right. / do not care on /
whose wall the picture hangs, or o. whose |
pedestal the sculpture stands, 1t belongs to
colors' ali harvestsNaii, "all are yours"
Secondly. / remark that the right to full |
temporal support is in the Christians name. |
1t is a great affair to feed the world. just 4
think of the fact that, this morning, I600,- |
100000 OF our race breakfasted at Gods |
tablet
furs must be captured, and how much fax |
broken, and how much cotton picked. just |
think of the infinite wardrobe where l,600,- |
10000 people get their clothes! God spreads \
he table first of ali for his children. OF |
course, that would be very selfish man |
Who would not allow other people to come /
nd sit at his table sometimes; but, first of 1
II, the right is given to Christian people, |
nd therefore it is extreme folly for them |
yer to fret about food or raiment.
The vIcIssitudcs of Lifs are Ours.
So all the vicissitu1es of this life, SO far as |
they have any religious profit are in the |
right of the Christian. If you should stand /
among the Allegheny mountains, especially |
near what is called the Horseshoe" you |
would find a train of cars almost doubling
ON ltself and sitting in the back car you see /
n locomotive coming as you look out of the |
window, and you think it is another train
when it is only the front OF the train in
which you are riding: and sometimes YOU
can hardly tell whether the train is going
toward Pittsburg toward Philadelphia, |
but IL is on the track and it will reach the
depot for which it started, and all the pas
sengers will be discharged at the right place.