The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-26
OUR POSSESSIONS.
Tho Campaign Continuation Of
Victories.
Death Only n Messenger who Urges Us On
To the Grand Triumph-sermon
by Rev. r. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID. ID.


Is entitled, ."Our Possessions" from
l. Corinthians, iii, 30: Gan Are Yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts a man on short allowance; that
when n ship sailing Heavenward comes
TO the shining wharf IL will be found
out that all the passengers had the
hardest kind of sca-fare; that the sol
diers 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 obliga-
tons
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 warrantee
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 n failure, and in time for you all to
accept il, If indeed il be success. l
lNrn first TO the assets, and find there
what seems to be "a roll of government
securities, the empire of Heaven prom
Using all things to the posscssor. The
three small words of my text are n war
rantec 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 Ccphas, or the world" Now, it
would be an absurd thing TO suppose
that God would give TO strangers priv
ileges and advantages which he would
deny his own children. If you have a
large park, grand mansion, beautiful
fountains, stalking deer and statuary,
To whom will you give the first right 70
all these possessions? To outsiders?
No: TO your own children. You will
say 1T will be very well for outsid-
ers to come in and walk these paths
and enjoy this landscape, 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"
Now, this world is Gods park, and
while lie 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 Christan-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 one dollar Of taxes, but he
can go up on mountain and look Off
upon fifty miles OF grain field and say:
GAN 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 n 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 a break in the title, to n deficit,
TO diversion of the property; SO he
finds ont that the man who supposed he
owned il owns not an acre of the
| ground, while somebody else has the
! full right 70 the entire estate. Now, |
| examine the right To all earthly posses
sionS | go back u little way, and |
find that men of the world-bad men,
selfish men. wicked mcr--think they
have right TO all these possessions;
| but / go further back. and trace the
title from year To year and from CEN
tury 20 century. until find the whole
right vested in God. Now, 10 whom did
! He give il? TO His own children! AN
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 i'm
shall bring presents. "rhe earth is the
Lords and the fulnes> thereof "All
are yours" But" you say, what
satisfaction is there in this when
haven't possession of them?" These
things will come before the Supreme
Judge Of the universe, and He will
regulate the title, and lie will eject
these squatters upon the property that
does not belong to them, and it shall be
found that all are yours"
So, again, the retinements Of life are
the Christians right. lie has right 10
as good apparel, to as beautiful adorn-
ments, 10 rs commodious residence as
the worldling. Show me any passage
in the Bible that tells the people of the
world they have privileges, they have
glittering spheres, they have befitting
apparel that are denied the Christian.