Connecticut western news., 1892-07-21
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HIS PREACHING TOUR A SERIES OF UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESSES.


 His Sermon In London on "Our Posses sion1'-Religion Does Not Put a Man on short Allowance-The Christians MagnificenA Inheritance.
 LONDON, July 17.-Dr. Talmage's preaching tour in England has been continued series of unprecedented suc- cesses. The English people have as sembled by thousands to hear the Amer ican preacher wherever he has preached. In Manchester the great Free Trade hall was engaged for him. It holds seven thousand persons, but it would not con- tain third of the people who tried to get in. The streets leading to the hall were jammed with dense, surging mass of humanity. After the service Dr. Talmage preached in the street to the crowd, which numbered fully fifteen thousand. The sermon selected for this week Is entitled "Our Possessions, from Corinthians iii, g, ''All are yours"
 The impression is abroad that religion puts a man on short allowance; that when the ship sailing heavenward comes to the shining wharf it will be found out that all the passengers had the hard est 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 good time In this world who take upon themselves no religious obligation.
 want today to find out whether this is so, and 1 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 are his bonds and mort gages, and shall find out before fin ish just how much he is worth, and l shall spread before you the balance sheet in time to warn you all against the religion of Jesus Christ if indeed 1t be failure, and in time for you all to accept it if indeed it be success. i turn first to the assets, and I find there what seems to be a roll of government securities-the empire of heaven prom isng all things to the possessor. The three small words of my text are war rantee deed to the whole universe when it says "All are yours"
 In making an inventory of the Chris tian's possessions l 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 ab- surd thing to suppose that God would give to strangers privileges and advan- tages which he would deny his own chil- dren. If you have large park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains, stalking deer and statuary, to whom will you give the first right to all these posses sionsi To outsiders? No, to your own children. You will say, "It will be very we'll for outsiders to come in and walk these paths and enjoy this land scape, but the first right to my house, and the first right to my statuary, the first right to my gardens shall be in the possession of my own children"
 GODS PARK.
 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 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 go up on a mountain and look off upon of o1l this is mine; my father gave it to me-" "An 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 every thing right for three or four or five years back; but after awhile he comes to break in the title, to deficit, to diversion of the property; so he finds out that the man who supposed he owned 1t owns not an acre of the ground, while somebody else has the full right to the entire estate. Now I examine the title to all earthly possessions. I go back a little way, and l find that men of the world-bad men, selfish men, wicked men-think they have 8 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! "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 the possession of the church of Christ. ''The meek shall in herit the earth" Ships of Tarshish shall bring presents. 'The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof" "All are yours." ''But," you say, 'swhat sat isfaction is there in that when I haven't possession of themG" 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"
 THE REFINEMENTS OF LIFE.
 So, again, the refnements of life are the Christians right. He has a right to as good apparel, to as beautiful adorn- ments, to as commodious residence as the worldling. Show me any passage in the Bible that tells the people of the world they have privileges, they have ghttering spheres, they have beftting apparel that are denied the Christian. There is no one who has so much right to laugh, none so much right to every thing 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 nc treasures laid up in heaven is to be al lowed pleasures which the sons and daughters of God, the owners of the