The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-29
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Heritage of the Sons and
Daughters of the Most High.
It L. Princesy One, But There are In
cumbrance on It that Must bs Met
Fully and Promptly to Sc
cure Final Possession.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage selected the
following from among the sermons de-
livered by him in England for publica-
ton 1t is based on the text:
All are yours.-L Corinthians, fiji. %.
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 pa ssengers had the
hardest kind of sea fare; that the sol
diers in Chr1st'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; / 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 I 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 a success. /
turn first to the assets, and I find there
what seems to be roll of government
securities-the empire of Heaven prom
Using all things to the possessor. The
three small words of my text are a
warranty deed to the whole universe
when it says: IAN are yours"
In making an inventory of the Chris
tian's possessions, remark, in the first
place that he owos 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, a grand mansion,
beautiful fountains, stalking deer, and
statuary, to whom will you give the
first right to all these possessions? ITO
outsiders? No, to your own children.
You will say: 'It will be very WEI 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
"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
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 a 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 a break in the title, to
deficit, to a 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 little way,
and find that men of the world-bad
men, selfish men, wicked men-thinx
they have right to all these posses
sions; but l go further back, and l
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,
villages viii be in 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. ''An
are yours." But" you say, what sat
iSfaction is there in that when l 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 "Au
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 worldling. Show me any
passage in the Bible that tells the peo-
pie of the world they have privileges,
they have glittering spheres, they have
befitting apparel that are denied the
Christian. There is no one who has so
much a right to laugh, none so much
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 up in
Heaven, is to be allowed pleasures
which the sons and daughters of God,
the owners of the whole universe, are
denied?
So 1 remark that all the sweet sounds
of the world are in the Christians right.
There are people who have an idea that
instruments of music are ppropriate
for the Christians parlor. When did
the house of sin or the bacchanal get
the right to music? They have no right
to it. God, in 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 barrow them, but
they only borrow them; they have no
right or title to them. God gave them
to Christian people in my text when He
said: 'Al are yours"
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