Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-22
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn DiVines Sun
day Sermon.
Subject: "Our Possessions"


nuts man on short allowance; that when
the shin sailing heavenwar comes TO the
shining wharf it will be found out that all
the messengers had the hardest kind of sea
fare: that tho soldiers in Christ's army
march most OF the time with an empty hav
ersacs. in word, that only those peop.e
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,
I am going to show what are the Christians
liabilities. and what is his income, and what
are his warrantee deeds, and what ara his
bonds and mortgages, and | shall find ou5
before finish just how much he is worth,
and shall spread be ore you the balances
sheet in time to warn you all against there
heion Of Jesus Christ il indeed it be fail.
ure ami in time for you all to accept 1t It
inceed it be a success. | turn first 10 tho
assets nu find there what seems TO be
roll Of Government secur. ties-ihe 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
says "All are yours.
In making an inventory OF the Christians
possessions remark in the first place that
he ow ms this world. My text implies 1t and
the preceding verse asserts t-"whether
Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world.
Now il would be an absurd thing to sup
pose that God would give to strangers
privileges and advantages which He would
denv His own children. II you have a large
marx a grand mansion, beautiful fountains,
stalking deer and statuary, to whom Will
Won Give the first right to all these posses
sicnss To outsiders; No, to your own
children. You will say, 1t will be very
well for outsiders 10 come in and walk these
paths aud enjoy this Landscape, but the hrSt
rioht TO nv house and the first right TO my
statusry. the first right TO my gardens shall
be in the possession Of my own caildren.
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 ali 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 NAV 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,
hut he can 20 up on a mountain ana look on
upon ffty mics of gram field and say, All
this is mine: my Father gave it to me" "Al
are yours"
A LAWYER is sometimes required to search
Titles and the lent wno thinks hs has
GOOD right to an estate puts the papers IN
his hands. ami the lawyer goes into the
tublic records and finds everything rlghA
for three or four OF five years bac'.; bu5
after awhile he comes TO a break in the
title to a defci', to a diversion OF the
proDerty: 50 he finds out that tn mln who
supposed he owned it owns not an acrs OF
the ground, while somebody else has the full
r1eht to the entire estate. Now l examine
the title to all earthly possessions. g
hack little way. and find that m IN of the
world-bad men. selfish men, wicke men
think they have a right TO all these
possessions; but | 60 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 "All are
YOURS"
The simple fact is, that in the last days o.
the world all the architecture, all the cities,
all the mountains, all the villages VIII he IN
the possesson of the churcl OF Carisi. "Ihe
meek shall inherit the earth Ships OF
Tarshish shall bring presents. Ina eartn
is the LorG's and the fullness thereof "Ah
are YOURS" But you say, what salts
faction Is there in that wnen | haven't pos
session of Them These things will come
before the Supreme Judge OF the universe
and He will regulate the title, AMI He will
eject these squatters upon the property that
does not belong to them. and It shall be
found that "Al are yours
So. again, the rehnenents Of life are tho
Christians right. He has right to as goo
npparel. to as beautiful adornments, TO as
commodious a residence as the wording
Show me any passage in the Bible that tells
the people OF the world they have prlvi-
eges. they have glittering spheres, they have
BETTING apparel that are denie 1 the Cnris-
tiap. There is no one who has 50 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 WAC IS
reckless and s;nfu. an has no treasures lllt
up in heaven is to be Above pleasures winch
the sons and dau .hsers Of God, the owners
of the whole universe. are den ed.
So remark that all the swee, sounds OF
the world are in the Christians right. There
are people who have an idea that instru-
ments of music are inappropriate Tor the
Christians parlor When did the house OF
sin or the bacchanal get the right to music;
They have no right to il. God, in my tex,
makes over to Christian people all the pi'
amos. all the harps all the drums all the
comets. all the flutes, all the organs. REQ
pie of the world may borrow them but they
OUlT OOTlOM AUtll, bltf Apf~ ~
title to them. God gave them to Christian
people in my text, when He sail, "All are
yours,
with which he thrummed the praise OF Col
than the church OF Christ owns now all
cnants. all anthems, all ivory keyboar1s, all
organ diapasonS, and God will gather mp
these sweet sounds after awhile, an He will
mingle them in one great harm ouy, aud the
Mendelsshons anu the Beethovens AMI tn
Mozlrts of earth will join their voices AMI
their musical instruments, the soft south
wind and the loud-iuuged eurocydoa VIII
sweep the great organ pipes, and you shall
see Gods hand striking the keys AMI Go Is
loot trampns the pedals in tn, great ora
torio OF the ages
so ali artistic and literary advantages are
in the Christians rignt. | do not cara on
whose wall the p.csurs hangs, or on whose
pedestal the cupture stands, it belongs to
Christians. The Bersta Its an the church s
are all working for US ''All are yours
The Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gall
leries of Naples and Rome and Venice they
are all to come into the possession oil the
church o: Jesus Christ We may not nov
have them on our walls, but the time will
come when the writ of ejectment will bo
served and the church will possess every
thing. All parks. all hslponds, all colOrs
all harvests-lll, 'all are yours"
Secon ily, l remark that the right to full
temporal support is in the Christians nane
1t is a great affair to feel the world. Just
think Of the fact that this morning sixtesl
hundred millions OF our race breaktastei a.
Gods tablet The commissary department
of a hundred thousand men in any army
will eDcage scores of people. but JUS THINK
OF the conmissary department o. a VOL II
Tank Of the gathering u from the r,c3
swamps, and the tea fields, an the orch lrIS
and the 6saeriesl No one but Col coul
tell how many bushels it would take TO feel
five continents.
Then, to clothe all these people, bow many
furs must be captured AMI how muca fax
broken and how much cotton picked. Just
think OF the infinite wardrobe whs-e sixteen
hundred millions Of people get their clothesl
God spreads the table first Of eli for His chit
dren. or course that would be very sell
fish man who would not allow other people
to come and sit at the table sometimes; but
first OF ali, the right is given to Christian
people, and therefore it is extrene folly for
them ever to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sportin. of Cape
Hatteras this morningl Out OF whose hand
did the cormorant pick its fooo? Whose
49,, ,,o.ya tha huttarhV's VIM? Who hears