Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-23

deis Are Men Without Hope-what Re-
ligion Does for Man on Earth.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 16.-The Rev. I.
De Witt Talmage's discourse today
was entitled, Lifted from the Brick
kilns." His text was; Though We
have lain among the pots, yet shall We
be as the wings Of dove covered with
silver, and her feathers with yellow
gold. Psalms xviii, l3. He said:
lsuppose you know what the Israel
ties did down in Egyptian slavery.
They made bricks. Amid the uten-
sils Of the brick kiln there were also
other utensils of cookery-the kettles,
the pots, the pans, with which they
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 a while
the Lord broke up that slavery, and he
took these poor slaves into a land
where they had better garb, bright
and clean and beautiful apparel. No
more bricks for them TO make. Let
Pharaoh make his own bricks. When
David in my text comes to describe
the transition Of these poor Israelites
from their bondage among the brick
kilns into the glorious emancipation
for which God had prepared them he
says: Though ye have lain among the
pots, yet shall ye be as the wings Of q
dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, the author OF a cele-
brated book, Life in Egypt" T" said she
sometimes saw people in the east cook
ing their food on the tops OF houses,
and that she had often seen, Just be-
fore sundown, pigeons, doves, which
had, during the heat of the day, been
hiding among the kettles and pans
with which the food was prepared
picking up the crumbs that they might
find-just about the hour Of sunset
would spread their wings and fly
heavenward, entirely unsoiled by the
region in which they had moved, fol
the pigeon is a very cleanly bird. And
as the pigeons few away the setting
sun would throw silver on their wing
and gold on their breast So you SCI
it was not a far fetched simile, or ar
unnatural comparison, when David il
my text says to these emancipatet
Israelites, and says 10 all those whC
are brought out of any kind of trouble
into any kind of spiritual Joy
Though We have lain among the pots
yet shall We be as the wings Of dov,
covered with silver, and her feather'
with yellow gold"
HOW SIN WEIGHS UPON MANS SOUL
Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters
Worse than Pharaoh, il keeps u,
trudging, trudging in a most degrad
ing service; but after q while Christ
comes, and he says; LET my people
go. and we pass out from among the
brick Eilns of sin into the glorious
liberty of the Gospel; we put on the
clean robes of a Christian profession,
and when at last we soar away 10 the
warm nest which God has provided fol-
us in heaven, we shall go fairer than O
dove, its wings covered with silver,
and its feathers covered with yellow
gold.
| am going 10 preach something
which some of YOU do not believe, anC
that is that the grandest possible adorn
is the religion Of Jesus Christ. Thert
are a great many people who suppost
that religion is very different thing
from what it really is. The reason
men condemn the Bible is be
cause they do not understand tn,
Bible; they have not properly ex
amined It. DIR. johnson sale
that Hume told minister in the bish
opric of Durham that he had neve
particularly examined the New Testa
ment, yet all his life warning agains
il. HALEY, the astronomer, announces
his skepticism TO Sir Isaac Newton
and Sir Isaac Newton said: Now, sill
j have examined the subject and yo
have not, and / am ashamed that you
protesting TO be a philosopher, consen
TO condemn a thing you never hay
examined" And SO men reject th
religion of Jesus Christ because the
really have never investigated i
They think il something impractical
something that will not work, som,
thing Pecksniflian, something hypC
critical, something repulsive, when
is SO bright and SO beautiful 20
might compare il 10 a chaflinch, yo
might compare il 10 a robin redbreast
you might compare IL 20 dove, il
wings covered with silver, aud il
feathers with yellow gold.
But how is il IL a young man b.
comes Christianl All through th
club rooms where he associates, al
throuGl the business circles where b
is known, there is COMMUNICATION
They say: what pity that n younl
man who had such bright prospects
should SO have been despoiled by thos
Chri ms, giving up all his worldly
prospet for something which Is 2
no particular present WORTH Here
young woman who becomes Chris
tan, her voice, her face, her manner
the charm Of the slrawing room, NOV
all through tho fashionable circles th'
whisper Focs, "What n pity that sucl
n bright light should have been extini
guishcd, that such graceful gai
should be crippled, that such world,
nrosnccts sbould beobliteratedp All