The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-20
SIN AS A TASKMASTER.
now THE WORLDS TROUBLES
ARE BORNE BY MEN.

ARE BORNE 5Y MEN.
GIFTED from the Brick Kilnss--The Death
bed Of tho Infdel-Men Who Are Inf
dsls Are Men Without Hope-what Re-
Azion Does for Man on Earth.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 16.-The Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmage's discourse today
was entitled, Lifted from the Brick
kilns.' His text was: Though yc
have lain among the pots, yet shall yc
be as the wings of dove covered with
silver, and her feathers with yellow
gold" Psalms xviii, 13. He said:
suppose you know what the Israel
xes did down III Egyptian slavery
They MAJ u bricks. Amid the uten-
kils OF the Brick kiln there were also
ether utensils of coollery-the kettles,
-thc pots, the pans. with which thew
prepared their daily food-and when
these poor slaves, tired of the days
work, lay down to rest, they lay down
amid the implements of cookery
and the implements of hard work.
When they arose in the morning they
found their garments covered with
the clay and the smoke and the dust,
and besmirched and begrimed with the
utensils of cookery. But after while
the Lord broke up that slavery, and he
taok those poor slaves into q land
where they had better garb, bright
and clean and beautiful apparel. No
mare bricks for them to make Let
Pharaoh make his own bricks. When
David in my text comes to describe
tho transition of these poor Isiaelites
from their bondage among the brick
kilns into the glorious emancipation
Tor which God had prepared them he
says: Though ye have lain among the
pots, get shall yc be as the wings of
dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, the author of q cele-
grated book, Life in Egypt, said she
Iometimcs saw people in the cast cook
Tug theig food on the tops of houses,
and that she had often seen, just be
fore sundown, pigeons, doves, which
bad, during the heat of the day, been
hiding among the kettles and pans
with which the food was prepared
picking up the crumbsthat they riiGl.t
bnd-just about the hour of sunset
you'd spread their wings and fly
Acavenward, entirely unsoilc:i by the
Ecgol in which they had Eiovcd, for
the pigeon is very cleanly bird And
Gs the pigeons flew away the setting
Ein would throw silver Oh their wings
and gold On their breast. SO you see
it was not a far fetched sirlilc, or au
unnatural comparison, when David in
ny text says to these cmancipatea
10 oil
gre brought out OF any kind Of trouble
into any kind Of spiritual joy:
Though ye have lain among the pots,
yet ehall yo be cs the wings Of dove
covered with silver. and her feathers
with yellow gold"
EoW CEJ WEIGHS UPON MATS SOUL.
Sin iS tho hardest of all tasl,mastcrs.
Worse than Pharaoh. it keeps us
tludging, trudging i'll most dcgrad
ing scrvice; bur after while Christ
eoues, nnd he says: let my people
go" and we pass out from among the
biic,; kilns OF sin into tho glorious
liberty Of tho Gospel; wo put on the
CLEAN robes of Q Christian profession,
and when at last we soar away 10 the
warm nest which God has providotl for
us in hcayon, we shall go fairer tllan 4
dove, its wines covered with silvef,
and its feathers covered with yellow
gold.
ara going to preach something
which some Of you do not believe and
In, is that the grandcst possible adorn-
is 1he ~eligion of Jesus Christ. There
ave = r, AT many people who suppose
that rel;gio.., Us very different thing
A., - :. really is. The reason
men condemn the Bible i9 be
sanse thcv do no. understand the
Bible; they have no.S properly ex,
anined it. Dr.. Jo' 'uiSoi, s'ld
that Hume told minister ~ inc DISH
opric of Durham that he hGH never
particularly examined the New -eesla.
nent, yet all his life warning agaps55
f. HALEY. the astronomer. nnnouncesi
his skopticism to Sir Isaac Nol'top'
and Sir Isaac Newton said; Now, ssr,
4have examined the subject and you
bnve not, and am ashamed that you,
protesting to he philosopher, consent
TO condemn thing you never have
examined Ard SO men reject the
reigfop Of Jesus Christ because they
pealIy have never investigated it.
They think it something Impractical,
something that will not work. some
thing Pecksniffian, something hypo-
critical, something rapulsive. WHOM il
b 10 bright and so beautiful you
gnigbt compare il to chetfincl, you
sigbt compave it TO q robin redbreast,
vou xnight compare it to dove, ITS
E;nrs covered with silver, and its
feathers xith yellow gold.
R,,t ht,w is it ii n young man be
>ornes a Chr Iiana All through tho
clnh rooms whVe he associates, I'll
through tho busint<s circles wherc. he
k known, there is fommiseratlon
/. They say: What pitt that a young
man who bad such bright prospects
should so have been despoilcG by those
Christians, giving up all his WaGIaly
prospects for something which IS 2.
10 particular present WORTH Here !:
Q young woman who becomes CHRIS
tan, her voice, her face, her manners
fhe charm OF the drawing. room, Now
oil through the fashionable circles tho
whisper goes: What pity that suct
o bright light should have been extin
guished, that such q graceful gai
should be crippled, that such worldly
prospects should be obliterated" |" All
nv friends, it can be shown that re
&gion's ways arc ways Of pleasantnes
Snd that all her paths are peace; tha
Ue1igion, instead of being dark. AM
aoleful, and lachryrnose, and repul
x1vc, Is bright and beautiful, faire
than dove, its wings covered will
silver and its feathers with yellow gold
Ses, In the first place, what religion
will do for mans heart. l care no
bow cheerful q man may naturally b
before conversion, conversion bring
him UP to a higher standard of cheer
fulncss lido not say he will laugl
any louder, do not say but he ma.
stand back from some forms of hilarit,
tn which hc once indulged; but ther