BEV. DR. TALNAGE. day Sermon. Subject: “Our Possessions,” Le —————————— Text: “All are yours.”—I Corinthians iii, 2:. 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 hardest kind of sea fare; that the soldiers in Christ's army march most of the time with an empty hav ersack; ina word, that only those peop.e ‘have a good time in this worid who take upon themselves no religious obligation. I want to-day to find out wnether tais is go, and I am going to take account of stock; I am going to show what are the Christian's liabilities, and what is bis income and what are his warrantee deeds, and waat ara his bonds and mortgages, and I shall find ous before finish just how much he is wortn, and I shall spread beiore you the balances sheet in time to warn you all against the re- ligion of Jesus Christ if indeed it ba a fail- ure, and in time for you all to accept it if indeed it be un success, I turn first to the assets, and I find there what seems to be a roll of Government securities—the empire of heaven promising all things to the possessor, The three small words of my text are a war- rantee deed to the whole universe when it says “All are yours.” y making an inventory of the Christian's possessions | remark in the first place that e owns this world, My text implies it and the preceding verse msserts it-'‘whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world.” Now it would be an avsurd thing to sup pose that God would give to strangers privileges and advantages which He would deny His own children, If you bave a large park, a grand mansion, beautiful fountains, stalking dees and statuary, to whom will you give the first right to all these posses. sions?! To outsiders? No, to your own children. You will say, “It wili be very well for outsiders to come in and walk thess paths and enjoy this landscaps, 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 God's park, and while He allows those who are not His children, and who refuse His authority, the privilegs walking through the gardens, the possession ot 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 tbe evening shadow, The Christian may not have the title deed to ona acre of land as recorded in the clerk's office, be may never bave paid one dollar of taxes, but he can go up on a mountain and look off upon fifty miles of grain field and may, "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 a good right to au estate puts the papers in his hands, and the Inwyer goe: into the put lic records ar for three or four or after awhile be comes title, to a deficit, to a divers property; so he | nds out tha supposed he owned it ow(s not an acres o the ground, wh dy else has the full right to the entir ‘ | examine the title to all earthly possessions, in i finas ev fiva te rigat 5 SOS estate, back a little way, and 1 fi world-—Dbad meu, seifish think they have a possessions; but | trace the title frog century to 3 right vested in God, give it? io His JyOours, * The simple fact is, the worid all the ar all the mountains, the possession meek shall Tarshish sh bring preseats is the Lora's and the tuliness ti are yours" *'H faction is there session of the before the Supreme Ju and He will regu eject these squalls does not Les 4 £ i, an t Lalli D9 found that ** So, again, Christian's rigor, apparel, to as bes commodious a Tresigence Show me any passage in the the people of the workl they eges, they bave glittering sphores befitting apparei that are denied tian. There is noone who has right to laugh, much everything that is beautiful and sublime in life as the Christian All are youre.” Can it be possible that ons wno is reckless and sinful and has no treasures laid up in heaven is to be allowed pleasures which the sons and daughters of vod, the owners of the whole universe, are denied So I remark that all the sweet sounds of the worid are in the Christian's right. There are people who have an idea that instru. ments of music are inappropriate for the Christian's parior. When did the house of sin or the bacenanal get the right to music? They have no right to it, fod, in my text, makes over to Coristian people all the pi- ancs, all the harps all the drums, all the corpets, ail the flutes, all the organs, P ithatm men, Wickes l ms right cent He will the reQu none so grand and Peo ple of the world may borrow them, but they only borrow them; they have no right or title to them, God gave them to Christian people in my text, waen H» sail, “All ars yours,” David no more csrtainly ownad the harp with which he thrummed ths praises of God than the church of Christ owns now all chants, all anthems, all ivory keyboar Ix, ail organ diapasoas, and God will gather uo these sweet sounds after awhile, an | He will mingle them inouz great narciay, and tas Mendelsshons and the Bosthovens anil tas Mozarts of earth will join their voice: and their musical instruments, the soft soach wind and the loud uuged eurscly lor will sweep the great organ pipes and yo «all see God's hand striking the kevs ant tio Va foot tramping the pedals in th great ora toric of toe ages! so all artistic and literary advantages are in the Christian's rigat. 1 do not cars on woose wall ths picurs hangs, or oa Whose pedestal ths sculpture stands, it belongs to Christiane, The Hiorstadts an | the caurchis are all working for ue. °‘‘All are yours" The Luxembourgs, the Louvre, all the gals leries of Naples aad Home and Venice -~they are ail to come into the possession of the church of Jesus Corist, We may not now have them on our walls, but the time will come when the writ of ejectmont will be served and the caurch will possess every = thing. All parks, all fisaponds, all colors, all barvests—all, ‘all ars yours.” Secondly, | remark that the right to full temporal support is in the Christian's pam», It is a great affair to feel the world, Just think of the fact that this morning sixteen hundred millions of our racs breakinstel at God's table! The commissary departuent of a hundre! thousani men in say army will enzaze scores of paople, but just thing of the commissary department of a worl {! Tonk of the gathering us from ths ries swamps, and tae tea flaldaan | the orchards, and the fisheries! No ome but God ecouid tell how many bushels it would take to feel five continents, Then, to clothe all these le, how many furs must be captured and how much flax broken and how mush cotton picked, Jase think of the infinite wardrobe whers sixteen hundred millions of people get their clothes! God spreads the table first of ali for His chil dren. Of course that would be a very sels to come and git at the table sometimes: bus first of all, the right is given to Christian people, and therefora it is extreme folly for them ever to fret about food or ralment, Who fed the wholes sporting off Cape Hatteras this morning? Out of whose hand id the cormorant pick its food? Whose oom wove the butterfly’s wing? Who hears the hawk's ery? If God takes care of a wal. not take care of you? Will a father have more regard for reptles than for his sons and daughters? if God clothes the grizzly Lear, and the panther, and the hyena, will He not clothe fis own children? Come, then, his morning, and get the key of the infinite Jrretiouse, Come and get the key of the in. inite wardrobe, Here they are—all the “All are yours.” No all the vicissitudes of this fe] «5 Tar as they have any religious profit, are in the right of the Coristian, 1! yoa shoul stand among the Allezha wy Mountaing especially near what is oalied the “dorseshoe” you would find a train of cars almost doubling on itself, and sitting In ti bae’s car vou see a locomotive co ning as you look out of tha window, and you think it is another train whon it 13 only the front of the train in which you are riding: and sometimes you toward Pittsburg or toward Poiladelphia, but it is on tha track, anl it will raaca the depot for which it starts |, and all the pas. sengers will be discharged at the right place, Now thers are a groat many share curves in life, Bometimes we seem to be going this way an { sometimes we seem to be going that way, but if wo are Christians we are on the right trac and we are going to come out at the right place, Do not get worried, then, about the sharp curva, A sailing vessel starts from New York for Glasgow. Does it go in a straight line? Oh, no. It changes its track every little while, Now vou say, ‘his v pL instead of going to Glasgow, must bs going to Havre, or it is going ro Hamburg, or it is go. ing to Marseilles.” No no. It Is going to Glasgow, And inthis voyage of life we often have to change our tack. One storm blows us this way, and another stor. blows us that way: but He who holds the winds in His fist will bring us into a haven of ever- lasting rest just at the right time. Do not worry, then, if you have to change tack. One of the best things that ever happenad to Paul was being thrown off his horse. One of the best things that ever happened z to Joseph was being thrown into the pit, The josing of his pays'cal eyesight hsipel Joha Milton to see the battle of the angels, One of the best things taal ever hapoene i to Iznatius was being thrown t y the wild beasts in the Coliseum, and while eighty thousand people were jeering al his religion he wathed up to the Here wt of all the lions and leaked him in the much as to say, “Hore 1 am, ready be devourel for Christ's sake.” All t If you and the sea w £ si eve, as for vour gool. s manna will fall I part tha feverish tore! skness is kindled A your vou can read the waves of trouble girdle . i - ’ gs work toget ik the desart, ti 0 pillow, y its light Promises, If the dash abovs and exaspra- re bound to work and vour eter I pond, the hammers, i hewn aad cut rial weil balane. of this ile, and the your present They are tae saws, ws by Ww are to be and smoothed for vour ete Hers is a vessel that the NT essa] seems conjefly paint on his ship from from Dein Ti. hat » port, nobody | 8 « ith interest, Dut hers Across tho sea With 3 in with vast ime masts soli 21. pu v water: roes along captain the coast; f that the the vessel any went nugs me to keen marred or Snails comes i« we hroazs { ning < SSng. . #“ srhor rough the port ™~ » Laers are some ing an easy tims salting hen that the wit he be i tell us ut of t i¥ av it is Vimeo this ht The Christian owns all heaven, “All are yours.” Its puiacas of beauty, its towers « £ strenzth, its castles o Has will not walk in the eternal c.ty as a foreigner ina strange c.ty, but as a farmer walks over his own premises, “All are yours” All the manswons yours, Angas yoar compan oR), Trees of life your shade, Hilisof glory your lookout, thrones of heaven the piace were you will shout the triumoh., Jesus is yours, your« You look up into the faces of God and “My Father " Jook up into the tace of Jesus and say, brother Walk out upon the battiements of heaven and look off upon tae city of the sun. No tears. No sorrow, No deatn, No smoke of toils ing warehouse curing on the air. No voice of biasphen.y thrilling through that hright, clear Sabbath morning. No din of strife jar- ring the air, Then take out your deed and remember that from throne to throne, and from wall to wall, and from hor.2n 0 bori- son “All are yours.” Then get up into the templs of the sun, worshipers in white, each wit: a palm branch, and from higu gallery of that tem~ ple look down tha thousan ja of thousands, and the ten thousand times ten thousand, and the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and the great “multituie that no man can number,” aod lou fer than the rush of the wheels, lori ler than the tramp of the redeemed, hear a voice saying, “All are yours" See the great procession marching around the throne of God, Martyrs who went up on wings of flame, Invalids who went up from couches of distress, Tollers who went up trom the workhouse, and the factory, and the mine. All the suffsring and the bruised chil fren of G1, Sas ths caariots of salvation: in them those who wars mora than conquerors, See them marching around about the throne of God forever and for- ever, and know that ‘‘all are yours!” 0 ye who have pains of body that exhaust your strength and wear out your patience, 1 hold before you this morning ths laod of eternal health and of imperishable baauty, and “all is yours™ O ye who have hard work to get your daily bread, hard work to shelter your children from the storm, I lilt before you the vision of that lan1 where they never hunger, ani they never thirst, and God fesds them, and robes cover them, and ties warmth of eternal love fills them, aniall thet is yours! Uh, if there be any present wio Are yet enemies of the Cross of Christ, [ beseech them at once to be reconciled to God! Ree member if you are not found among that white ed army who follow the Saviour in His victorious march, your part must be with those concerning whom it is said, "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the ence of the Lord and from the glory of His wer when He shall come to be glorified in is saints, and to be admired jn all thea that believe,” dod is ¥ iY, I —— THE suicides and defaleations | ® or ® n Berlin ought to warn Kaiser Wilhelm that Germany is overstrained, But will he be wise in time? FOR THE CHILOREN, —— A BTRANGE TRIO. “Better leave that monkey alone if you don’t want the dog to bite you; he I'he speaker was twelve-year old Charley durretl, and his remarks were addressed to uerowd of men and boys that crowded round him and his two pets, The pets in question were a fine-looking silky Most ¥h such dogs a rider, but Rex not only seemed to en joy the fun, but also took it upon him tex is Charley's inseparable compan fon. and when the lad's father made his Hs some would, but at once adopted the eight months ago, thrived } wnge foster parent That was Tey 1 nna | i una ¢ orphan has wonder er the care of Juck., for that i ¢ pute of the mon Kev, and stows 1a} SIIRKY 1 arm even his voung master can intrude on i ended and it ris One plate pet until 1ts nap 18 ord 118 OW aed orks were need at faod so the fingers alike wert ana n of Jamu ol ueed or » CUHIIOUS DHoOK nthe vear 1611. counters t do | thin tendome The Italian 3 that are « nation in but onl ommoran do alwaies at their meal they cut their meats i their knife, which they hold in one they cut the meate out of the dish, which they hold other hand, upon the same dish, “This forme of feeding is generally in use in all Italy, their forkes being fe r the most part made of yron, or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only . fasten their forke, by gentlemen.” He goes on to speak enthusiastic ally of this new “forme of feeding’ and to rece ommend it for its cleanliness and as giv- ing ‘no occasion of offence unto the company.” He seems to have eartied his ardor so far as to bring a “‘“forke” home with him and attempt to introduce the “custome” into England, But it was generally laughed at as a mere “effeminate piece of finery,” and it was long before the little instruments found their way into common use, Before the revolution in France it was customary, when a gentleman had been invited out to dinner, to send his servant in advance with his knife, fork and spoon, If he had no servant he carried them with him in his pocket. 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