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OUR POSSESSIONS.
DR.. TALMAGE PoRTRAYS THE AD-
VANTAGES OF THE CHRISTIAN.

VANTAGEs OF THE CHRISTIAN.
| Religion Never Was Designed to Make
Our Pleasures Less-God VIII Withhold
NO Good Thing from Those Who Love
Iim-Thc Infinite Father.
LONDON. July 17--Dr Talmage's preach.
inc tour in England has been q continued
series of unprecedented successes The
English people have assembled by thou
sands to hear the American preacher
wherever be has preached. In Manchester
1.-THE great Free Trade hall was engaged for
him. 1t holds 1000 persons, but it would
not contain third Of the people who tried
10 get In. The streets leading TO the hall
were jammed with dense surging mass
of humanity After the service DR., Tai
mage preached in the street to the crowd.
which numbered fully $1,000. The sermon
selected for this week is entitled Our
Possessions from / Corinthians iii, o.,
"All are yours"
The impression is abroad that religion
puts 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 hardest kind of sea
fare; that the soldiers in Christ's army
march most of the time with an empty
hnversack. In a word, that only those
people have a good time in this world who
take upon themselves no religious obliga-
ton.
want today 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 in
come 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 be-
fore you the balance sheet in time to warn
you all against the religion of Jesus Christ
II indeed 1t be IA failure, and in time for
you all to accept it If indeed 1t be sue
cess. turn first TO the assets, and find
there what seems to be n roll of govern
ment securities-the empire of heaven
promising all things to the possessor. The
three small words of my text are n war
rautee 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 alb
surd 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 fountapls, stalking deer and
statuary, to whom will you give the first
light to ali these possessionsf TO Outsid-
ers? No, to your own children. You will
say, 1T will be very well 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 statuary,
the first right to my gardens shall be in
the possession of my own children"
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 posses
sion Of all this grandeur of park and man
sion is in the right of the ChTistian-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 rs recorded in
the clerks office, he may never have paid
one dollar of taxes, but he can go up on "a
mountain and look Oft upon fifty miles Of
grain field and say, "All this is mine; my
father gave it me" "All are yours"
GODS WORLD is FOR HIS CHILDREN.
\ lawyer is sometimes required TO search
titles, and the client who thinks he has a
good right to an estate puts the papers il
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 n break in the
title, to a deficit, to a diversion OF the prop
erty; so he finds out that the man who
supposed he owned it owns not an acre OF
the ground, while somebody else has the
full right To the entire estate. Now, ex-
anime the title to all earthly possessions
20 back little way, and | find that men
OF the word-bad men, selfish men, wicked
lnen-think they have right to all these
possessions; but | 20 farther back, and
trace the title from year to year. and from
century to century, until find tie whole
right vested in God Now, to whom did ht
give i'll 70 his own children, "All are
yours"
The simple fact is that in the last day.
of the world all the architecture, all the
cities, all the mountains, all the village
will be in the possession of the church 0
Christ The meek shall inherit tn,
earth" Ships Of VarsLish shall bring
presents. The earth is the Lords and tAt
fullness thereof. " "All are yours" But,
you say. what satisfaction is there ia tina
when haven't possession Of thems" Thes
things will come before the Supreme Judg
OF the Universe, and he will regulate til
tItle, aud he will eject these squatter
upon the property that does not belong t
them, ana 1T shall be found that All ar
yours"
So again, the refinements of life are tn
Christians right. He has a right 10 a
good apparel 10 beautiful adjournment:
70 rs COmmOGlOus a rcSid, nee ~, The Wor!L
ling. SHOW me any passage IN the Bib
that tells the people Of the world the
have privileges, they have gliuterin