The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15
The Beautiful stony OF Joseph
Revue wed.
.prom Dungeon 10 Palacs"-"see,
Have Set Thee Over All the
Land OF Egypt"
YOU Canr Keep n Good NAN Down-so said
DR. Taimsge In Hts brooklyn
Discourse.

xii. Al: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph
See, 1 have set the over all the land oil
Egypt" You can not keep good man
down. said DIR. Tslmsee God has decreed
for him q certain point of elevation. He will
bring him to that though 1t cost him thou
saud worlds You sometimes find men fear
full they will not be properly appreciated.
Every mau comes 20 be valued at Just what
he In worth. You Can not write him up and
You can not write him down. These facts
are powerfully illustrated in my subject. 1t
would be an insult to suppose that you were
not all familiar with the life OF Joseph. How
his Jealous brothers threw him into pit, but
seeing a caravan of Arabian merchants
trudging along on their camels. with spices
and gums that loaded the air with aroma,
cold their brother 10 these merchants, who
carried him down into Egypt; Joseph there
cold 10 Potiphar, man OF influence and Of
nce. How by Joseph's integrity he raised
himself to high position in the realm, until
under the false charge OF a vile wretch he
was hurled into the penitentiary. How in
prison he commanded respect and conf
depcs. How by the Interpretation OF Phsr.
soh's dream he was freed and became the
chief man In the realm, the Bismarck OF his
country. How In time Of famine Joseph
had the control of magnificent storehouse
which he had filed during the seven years
of plenty. How when his brothers, who had
thrown him into the pit and sold him into
captivity applied for corn he sent them
home with the beasts of burden borne down
under the heft OF the corn sacks. How the
sin against their brother which had so long
been hidden came out at last and was re.
.turned by that brothers forgiveness and
kindness
THE oSLY REVENGE HE TOOK.
You see in the first place, that the world
IA compelled to honor Christian character.
Potiphar was only a man of the world, yet
Joseph rose In his estimation until all the af
fsirs of that great house were committed 70
his charge. From his servant no honor OF
confidence IVES withheld. When Joseph Wal
An prison he soon won the heart of the keeper
and though placed there for being q scoun.
drel, be soon convinced the jailer that he was
IN innocent and trustworthy man. and re-
leased from close confinement, he became
general superintendent of prison affairs.
Wherever Joseph was placed, whether q ser
want In the house of Potiphar, or o prisoner
In the penitentiary, he became the first man
everywhere and il an illustration OF the
truth lay down, that the word Is com
pelled to honor Christian character. There
are thOse who affect to despise religious
life They speak OF 1t as . 81 stem OF pile
botomy by which the man is Dled of ali his
courage and nobility. They say he has be
mesned himself They pretend to have nc
Daore confindnce Ia him since his conversion
than before his conversion. Bat all this IL
hypocrisy. There is q great deal OF hypoc
risy in the church and there Is great des'
- - raid IN ho IN I'm.
poss BILE for any man not to admire and
copfide in o man VINO shows that he hal
really become o child OF God. and Is what b,
professes to be. You can not despise sor
Of the Lord God Almighty. OF course ",
have no admiration for the sham of religion
Ne have abhorrence.
REDwALD. THE KING,
altar his baptism, had an altar of CHRISTIAN
sacrifice and an altar for sacrifice to devils
and there are many men bow attempting
the same thing-taIf heart for God auC
half q heart for the woodland IL Is O desC
failure aud it 10 caricature CT religion. snC
the only successful assaults ever made or
Christianity is the Inconsistency of its pro
fessors. You may have Q contempt foe pre-
tension to religion, but when you behold TIT
axcelleucy of Jesus Christ come out In tn,
life of one of His disciples, all that there i
good and noble in your soul rises up int
admiration, and you can not help IT, Tnougl
that man be ss far beneath you in estate a
the Egy ptiau slave of whom We are discours
ing was beneath his rulers, by an irrevocsbl
law OF your nature. Pstipnar and Pharaol
win always esteem Joseph. When EudoIis
the Empress threatened Chrysostom Will
death. ne made the reply Tell the Empires
fear nothing but SIM" Such scene q
that compsls the admiration OF the world
There vas something In Agrippa and Fell
which demanded their respect for Paul. tn
rebel against government. doubt not wh,
they would willingly have yielded their OF
dee and dignity for Q thousandth part o
that true heroism which besmed in the ey
and beat In the heart of that unconQuerabl,
apostle. Paul did not cover before Felix
Felix covered before Paul The in fdeI an.
wording are compelled to homer in thei
hearts. although they may not eulogizs wit
their lips Chris ian hrm in persecution
cheerful in poverty, rustful in losses.
TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH
find Christian men In all professions an,
occupations, aud ind them respected an
honored and successful. John Frederic
Ohsrlin allev atipg ignorance and distress
Howard. passing from dungeon TO lazar-tt
With healing for the body and the soul; Eli
abeth FRY going to the prOtisacy of New
gaze orison TO snake toe oodurscy, as ID
angel came to the prison al Phillippi. drivin
open the doors ane swapping ioose the cnsir
~ we'll as the lives Of thousands OF follower
OF Jeans Who have devoted themselves to u
temporal and spiritual welfare OF the rae
are mon uments cf the Christian religion tia
shall not crumble while the world lasts.
man said TO me IN the cars: what is n
figionf Judging from the character OF man
professors of rsIIgion do not admire reiii
ion." i said: Nov, suppose We went to
artist In the citv Of Rome, and while In b
gallery asked him, What . the art OF pain
mgr w,u'd ne take rs out in q low alle
and show us a mere daub Of . pretenier |
paintingf or would he take rs down into N
corridors and show us the Rubens, and tr
Raphsels, and the Michael Ange o.? Whe
We asked him. what II the art of painting
be would point to the works OF these ers,
masters and say, that 10 painting Nov
you propose to md the mere csricature t,
e raliGion 70 eook after that which II q