The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-26

the right to music? They have no right
TO It. God. I'm my text, makes over to
Christian people all the pianos, all the
harps, all the drums, all the comets,
all the flutes, all the organs. People of
the world may borrow them, but they
only borrow them. God gave them to
Christian people in my text, when he
said, "All are yours"
David no more certainly owned the
harp with which he thrummcd the
praises of God than the church of Christ
owns now all chants, all anthems, all
ivory kcy-boards, all organ diapasons,
and God will gather up these
sweet sounds after while, and lie will
mingle them in one great harmony, and
the Mendelsshons and Beethovens and
the Mozarts of the earth will join their
voices and their musical instruments,
and soft south wind and loud-tongued
euroclydon will sweep the great pipes,
and you shall see Gods hand striking
the keys, and Gods foot tramping the
pedals in the great oratorio of the ages!
So all the artistic ard literary advan-
tages are in the Christians's right.
do not care on whose wall the picture
hangs, or on whose pedestal the sculp-
ture stands, 1t belongs to Christians.
The Bierstadts and the churches are all
working for us "All are yours" The
Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the
galleries of Naples, and Rome,
and Nenice-they are all to come
into the possession of the Church OF
Jesus Christ We may not now have them
on our walls, but the time will come
when the writ of eicctmcnt will be
served. and the church will possess
everything. All parts, all fish ponds,
all colors, all harvcsts-all, "all are
yours"
Secondly, remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the Christian
name. 1t is a great affair to feed the
world. Just think of the fact, that. this
morning, sixteen hundred millions of
our race breakfasted at Gods table
The commisSary department of a
hundred Thousand men in an army will
engage scores of people, but just think
of u commissary department of world.
Think of the gathering up from the
rice swamps, and the tea fields, and the
orchards and the tisheries No one but
God TO tell how many bushels it would
take to feed five continents.
Then, to clothe all these people, how
many furs must be captured, and how
much flax broken and how much cotton
picked. just think of the infinite ward
robe where LOCO. 600, 900 of people get
their clothes. God spread the table
first of all for His children. OF course
that would be II very selfish man who
would not allow other people to come
and sit at his table sometimes; but,
first of all, the right is given to Chris
tan people, and therefore it is extreme
folly for them ever to fret about food
or raiment. Who fed the whales sport
ing off Cape Hattcras this morning?
Out of whose hand did the cormorant
pick up its food? Whose loom wovc the
buttertly's wing? Who hears the hawks
cry? If God takes care of n walrus,
and Siberian dog, and n wasp, will
He not take care of you? Will a father
have more regard for reptiles than
for his sons and daughters? II God
clothes the grizzly bear, and the pan
Their and the hyena, will He not clothe
His own children? Come, then, this
morning, and get the key of the infinite
storc-house. Come and get the key of
the infinite wardrobe. Here they are
all the KEYS. IAN are yours"
So all the vicissitudes 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 call
the Horseshoe, You would find n train
of cars almost doubling on itself, and
sitting in the back car you see IL loco
motive coming rs 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 Pittsburgh or
toward Philadelphia, but it is on the
track, and it will reach the depot for
which il started, and all the passengers
will be discharged at the right place.
Now, there are great many sharp
curves in life. Sometimes we seem to
be going this way, and sometimes we
seem To be going that way; but II we
are Christians we arc on the right track
and we are going to come out at the
right place. Do not get worried, then,
about the sharp curve. 4 sailing vessel
starts from New York for Glasgow.
Does it go in straight line? Oh, no.
IL changes its tack every little while.
Now, you say, This vessel, instead of
going To Glasgow, must be going to
lIavre, or it is going To Hamburg, or il
is going To Marseilles." No, no. Ii is
going to Glasgow. And in this voyage
of life we often have To change our