The Bossier banner., 1892-09-22
ALI ARE YOURS.
Row. r. Dewitt Talmage Tells OF
Mankind's Princeiy Heritage.
1t Includes All of this World and the
World to Come, and May be Secured
II the Liabilities are
Promptly Met.

The following discourse is one among
the many delivered by Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage in England. 1t is entitled:
''Our Possessions" and is based on the
text:
All are yours.-L Corinthians, lii, g.
The impression is abroad that religion
puts man on short allowance; that
when the ship sailing heavenward comes
to the shining wharf, it will be found
out that all the pa ssengers had the
hardest kind of sea fare; that the SOL
diers in Chrlst's army march most of
the time with an empty haversack; in a
word, that only those people have a
good time in this world who take upon
themselves no religious obligation.
want to-day to find out whether this
is SO, and am goine to take account of
stock; l am going to show what are the
Christians liabilities, and what is his
income, and what are his warranty
deeds, and what are his bonds and
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 religion of Jesus Christ, if, indeed,
it be failure, and in time for you all
to accept it, if indeed it be success. 1
turn first to the assets, and | find there
what seems to be roll of government
securities-the empire of Heaven prom
ising all things to the possessor. The
three small words of my text are a
warranty 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 the 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
privileges and advantages which He
would deny His own children. If you
have large park, 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.
You will say: "It will be very well for
outsiders to come in and walk these
paths and enjoy this landscape; but the
first right to my house, and the 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
tbs privilege of walking through the
gardens, the possession of all this
granduer of park and mansion 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 re-
corded in the clerks office; he may
never have paid 81 of taxes; but he can
go up on mountain and look off upon
fifty miles of grain field and say: All
this is mine; my Father gave it to me-
All 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 back; but after awhile he
comes to break in the title. to A.
deficit, to diversion of the property:
SO he finds out that the man who sup-
posed he owned it owns not an acre of
the grounds, while somebody else has
the full right to the entire estate.
Now, | examine the title to all earthly
possessions. / go back a little wav.
and | find that men of the world-bad
men, selfish men, wicked men-think
they have right to all these possess
sions;. but l go further back, and I
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! "All 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 possession of the
Church of Christ. ''The meek shall in
herit the earth.'' Ships of Tarshish
shall bring presents. 1.-THE earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof" "All
are yours" But" you say, what sat
lsfaction is there in that when haven't
possession 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 does not belong to
them, and it shall be found that ssAll
are yours"
So, again, the refinements of life are
the Christians right He has a right
to as good apparel, to as beautiful
adornments, to as commodious resi-
dence as the wording. Show me any
passage in the Bible that tells the peo-
pie of the world they have privileges.
they have glittering spheres, they have
betting apparel that are denied the
Christian. There is no one who has so
much 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 laid ND in
Heaven, is to be allowed pleasures
which the sons and daughters of God.
the owners of the whole universe, are
denied?
So remark that all the sweet sounds
OF the world are in the Christians right.