Infinite Possessions.
"All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life or death, or things present, or things to come: all are yours."How can the world belong to Christ's people? Many of them, like their beloved Master, cannot claim a place to lay their heads. In poverty they struggle, and sometimes it seems that the bare necessities of life are withheld from them. How can the world be theirs when they own not a foot of it? First, the world is preserved for their sake. Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed till Lot and his family had been ushered out from among the wicked inhabitants. The world would not stand to day were it not for the saints that dwell upon it. When they are all gathered in by the Spirit's saving power, then they will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and the elements of which the earth is composed will melt with fervent heat. Secondly, the blessings of this world are great even to the poorest of the flock. The air is theirs to breathe, the water is theirs to drink, the food they eat, by whatever hand it may be supplied, is theirs for sustenance, and all the common blessings of the world are theirs as furnished them from the providential store-house of their omnipotent Father. Even in his providence he never entirely leaves them, and when
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