The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-08-04
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subiect-"The Great Question"
Preached in England.

fare: that the solliers in Christ's army
march most OF the time with an empty hay-
ersack. in a word, that only those peop'e
have good time in this world VINO take
upon themselves no religious obligation.
| want to-day to find out whether tins IS
so. and am going to take account OF stock
/ am going to show what are the CHRISTIAN ;
liabilities. and what is his income and what
are his warrantee deeds, and what ara Ms
bonds and mortgages, and shall ma ou5
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-
Iigion of Jesus Christ if :ndeet 1t BE- fall-
ure, and in time for you eli to accept IL Ii
indeed it be a success. l turn first to the
assets. and | find there what seems to be a
roll of Government seclrities-the empire OF
heaven promising all things to the possessor
The three small words of my text are war
rantee deed to the whole universe when 1t
saws "Al are yours.
In making an inventory of the CHRISTIAN s
possessions | remark in the first place that
he owns this world. Ny text implies it and
the preceding verse asserts Wh l. JIe !,
Paul or Apolos or Cephas or the world. ~
Now it would be an absurd thing to sup
nose that God would give to strangers
PRIVILEGES and advantages which he would
DENY His own children, If you have a large
mark. a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary. to whom Will
YOU give the first right to all these posses
sions? To outsiders? No, TO your own
children. You will say, at will be very
we'll for outsiders to come in and walk these
maths and enjoy this landscape, but the first
right to nv house and the first right to my
statuary, the first right to my gardens snail
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 one
acre of land as recorded in the clerks office,
he may never have paid one dollar OF taxes,
but he can 90 up on mountain ana Iook on
upon fifty miles of grain field and say, AN
this is mine; my Father gave 1t to me- "Au
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 baci; but
after awhile he comes to break III the
title. to deficit, to q diversion OF the
property: so he finds out that the man who
supposed he owned it owns not an acr= OF
the ground, while somebody else has the full
right to the entire estate. NOW examine
the title to all earthly possessions. / g
back little way, and find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wicket men
think they have a right to all these
possessions; but | go further back, aud
trace the title from year to year and from
century to century, until lind the whole
right vested in God. Now to whom did He
give it? TO His own children! 'All are
yours"
The simple fact is, that in the last days cf
the world all the architecture, all tue cities
all the mountains all the villages will be in
the possession OF the church of Christ. 1.-The
meek shall inherit the earth" Ships OF
Tarshsh shall bring presents. "Tne earth
is the Lords and the tulness thereof" All
are yours" But" you say, what salts
faction is there in that when l haven't pos
session of them? These things will come
before the Supreme Judge of the universe
and He will regulate the title, and He will
eject these squatters upon the property that
ooes not belong to them, and it shall be
found that "All are yours"
So again, the retiuements of life are the
Christians right. He has a right to as COOL
apparel, to as beautiful adornmentS, to as
commodious residence as the wording.
Show me any passage i'll the Bible that tells
LIe people Vi bue WOTll Iuey nave pIlNl'-
eges, they have glittering spheres, they have
befitting apparel that are denie1 the Carls-
tian. There is no one who has so mucl
right to laugh, none so much a right to
everything that is beautiful and 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 laii
up in heaven is to be allowed pleasures which
the sons and daughters of God, the owners
of the whole universe, are denie1?
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 test,
makes over to Christian people all the pi-
amos, 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; they have no right or
title TO them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, when H sal !, "All arr
yours"
David no more certainly owned the hara
with which he thrummed the praise OF Go
than the church of Christ owns now all
GIANTS, all anthems, all ivory keyooar Is, all
organ dlapasons, and God will gather uc
these sweet sounds after awhile, ami He will
Iningle them none great harmony aad the
Mendelsshons ana the Beethovens and tas
MSarts of earth will join their voices aul
their musical instruments the soft south
wind and the loud-lunged euroclydou will
sweep the great organ pipas, and you shall
see Gods hand striking the KEYS ami Go rs
foot tramping the pedals in the great ora.
torio oitne ages
So all artistic and literary advantages are
IN the Christians rigdt. | do not care on
whose wall the picture hangs, or on whose
pedestal the sculpture stands, it belongs to
Christians. The Bierstadts an the church IS
are all working for US IAN are yours "
Inc Luxembourgs, the Louvre, ali the oal-
leries OF Naples and Rome and Venica-they
are all to come into the possession of the
church OF Jesus Christ. We NAV not now
have them ON our walls, but the time Will
come when the writ OF ejecCment will be
served and the church will possess every-
thing. All parks, all fsaponds, all colors
all harvests-all, 'all are yours
secondly, remark that the right to full
temporal support is in thu Christians name
IL Is great affair to feed the world. just
think OF the fact that this mornng sixtaan
hundred millions of our racs breakfastel at
uois table! Inc commissary department
or hundred thousand men in any army
VIII engage scores of people, but just thin
OF the commissary department of worI1i
TANK OF the gathering ~ from thu RIGA
swamps, and the tea fields, and the or lizards
and the fisheries! No one but God eoulj
tell how many bushels it would take to feed
five continents
Then, TO clothe all these people, how many