Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-07-21
TALMAGE ABROAD
A THRILLING SERMON FROM
"ALL ARE YOURS"
The yicissitudes OF Life, So Far as They
Have Religious Profit Arc In the
Right of the Christian Greeted By
Thousands.


IMAGES preaching tour in England has been .
continued series OF unprecedented successes.
The sermon selected for this week Is entitled
"Our Possessions" from l. Corinthians 3:22
"All are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowances; that
when the ship sailing heayenward
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
word, that only those people have n
good time in this world who take upon
themselves no religious obligation.
j 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 Christians liabilities, and what is
his income, and what are his warran-
tee deeds, and what are his bonds and
mortgages, and shall find out before
/ finish just how much he is
worth, and / shall spread be-
fore you the balauce-sheet in
time to warn you all against the reli-
gion of Jesus Christ, if, indeed, it be
failure, and in time for you all to ac-
cept it, if indeed it be success.
turn first to the assets, and find there
what seems to be roll of government
securities-the Empire of Heaven
promising all things to the possessor.
The three small words of my text are
warrantee deed to the whole universe
when it says, ''All are yours.
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions, remark, in the first
place, that he owns this world. My
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 suppose
that God would give to strangers privi-
leges and advantages which he would
deny his own children. If you have a
large park, a grand mansion, beau
tiful fountains, stalking deer, and
statuary, to whom will you
give the first right to all these possess
ions? To outsiders? No, to your own
children. You will say, st will be
very well for outsiders to come in and
walk these paths and enjoy this land
scape; but the first right to my house,
first right to 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 of 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 morning bright
ress, 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
on mountain and look off upon fifty
miles of grain field and say, "All this is
mine: my father gave it to me-" IAN
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 law
yer goes into the public records, and
finds everything right for three
or four or five years back;
but after while he comes to a
break in the title to a deficit, to di-
version of the property; so he finds out
that the man who supposed he owned
it owns not an acre of the ground,
while somebody else has the full right
to the entire estate. Now, | ex-
anime the title to all earthly pos
sessions. / go back little
way, and l find that men of the
world-bad men, selfish men, wicked
men-thinll they have Il right to all
these possessions; but go further back,
and trace the title from year to year,
and from century TO century, until
find the whole right vested in God.
Now, to whom did he give it? To his
own children! Gail are yours?"
The simple fact is, that in the last
days of the world all the architecture
all the 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 Tarshisf
shall bring presents. THE earth
is the Lords and the fullnes:
thereof" ''All are yours.
But" you say, what satisfaction il
/ there in that when Haven possession
/ of them?" These things will come
before the Supreme Judge of the Uni
verse, and he will regulate the title
and he will eject these squatters upor
the property that does not belong t.
them, and it shall be found that "Al
are yours"
So again, the refinements of life are
the Christians right. He has a righ
to as good apparel, to as beautiful
adornments, to as commodious a resi-
dence as the worldling. Show me any
passage in the Bible that tells the peo
pie of the world they hav,
privileges, they have glitterinl
spheres, they have BETTING appare
that are denied the Christian. There
is no one who has so much right t,
laugh, none so much right to every
thing that is beautiful and grand ant
sublime in life as the Christian. "All ar
yours" Can it be possible that one VIII,
is reckless and sinful, and has no treas
ures laid mp in heaven, is to be allowed
pleasures which the sons and daughte r
of God, the owners of the whole uni
verse, are denied?
So | remark that all the sweet sound
of the world are in the Christian
right There are people who have a
idea that instruments of music ar
inappropriate for the Christians par
lor When did the house of sin o
the bacchanal get the right to music
They have no right to it. God
in my text, makes over to christia
people all the pianos, all the harps, al
the drums, all the comets, all the flutes
all .he organs. People of the world ma
borrow them, but they only borro,
them; they have no right or title I
them. God gave them to christian pee
pie in my text, when he said, ''All ar
yours"
David no more certainly owned tn
harp with which he thrummcd tn