Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-12-22
SIN AS A TASKMASTHlil
HOW THE WORLDS TRouE
ARE BORNE BY MEN.

gifted from tho ErIcIs KIlns''-11o Dcetk
bed of tho Infldel-aIen Who Arc f1 ll
dcls Arc Men without Hope-whatsIss
ngion Does for n1nn on Earth. sssS
BrooELYN, Dec. 1G.-Tho Rev. q
De Witt Talmago's discourse today
was entitled, Lifted from the Brick
l1ilns." Ills text was: "ThouglIgl
have lain among the pots; yet shulls.ysl
be as tho wingsof q dove covered witt
silver, and her feathers with yello%
gold" Psalms xviii, 49, Ho said:
/ suppose you know what the lsrnal:
ties did down in Egyptian slavery:
They made bricks. Amid the uten:
sils of the brick kiln there sweiesa lsE
other utensils of cool1ery-tlo kettles;
the pots, tic pans, with which they
prepared their daily food-and when
these poor slaves, tired Of tho Days
work, lay down to rest, they lay down
aDiid the implements Of cookery
and the implements of hard work,
When they arose in the morning they
found their garments covered with
the clay end tho smoke and tho dust,
and beslnirchcd and bcgrimed with tile
utensils OF cookery. But after a while
the Lord broke up that slavery, and she
took these poor slaves into 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 tho bricg
kilns into tho glorious emancipation
for which God had prepared them be
says: Though ehave lain among the
pots, yet shall We be as the wings of q
dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold" q
Miss Whately, the author of acele-
brated book, Life in Egypt" 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 shutdown, 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, for
the pigeon is very clearly bird. And
as the pigeons flew away the setting
sun would throw silver on their wings
and gold on their breast. So you see
it WIS not far fetched smile, orsan
unnatural comparison, when Davidin.
my text says to these emancipated
Israelites, and says to all those who
arc brought out Of any kind of trouble
into any kind of spiritual joys.
Though We have lain among the pots,
yet shall yc be as the wings of dove
covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold.
HOW SIN WEIGHS UPON MANS SOUL.
Sin is the hardest of nll taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us
trudging, trhdging in most degrad-
ing service !. but after q while Christ
comes. and he says: Let my people
brick lsiInS OF SIN into the glorious
liberty of the Gospel; we put on the
clean robes of Christian profession,
and when at last we soar away to the
warm nest which God has provided for
us in heaven, VIC shall go fairer than o
dove, its wings covered with silver,
and it's feathers covered with yellow
gold.
which some of you do not believe, and
that is that the grandcst possible adorn-
is the religion of Jesus Christ. There
arc a great many people who suppose
that religion is very different thing
from what it really is. Tie reason
men condemn tho Bible is be-
cause they do not understand the
Bible; they have not properly OK,
amincd it. DR.. johnson said
that Hume told minister in the Dish
opric of Durham chat he had never
particularly examined the New Tesla
ment, yet all lis life warning against
it. HALEY, the astronomer, announced
his sllcpticism 10 Sir Isaac Newton,
and Sir Isaac Newton said: Nov, sir,
/ have examined tho subject and you
have not, and am ashamed that you,
protesting to be philosopher, consent
to condemn a thing you never have =,
examined And SO men reject the
religion of Jesus Christ because they
really have mover Investigated it.
They think it something Impractical,
something that will not work, some
thing Pecksnifllnn, something hypo-
critical, something repulsive, when it
is so bright and SO beautiful you
might compare 1t to chatlinch, you
might compare Ito q robin redbreast,
YOU might compare it to dove, its
Y wings covered with silver, and its
feathers with yellow gold.
But how is it. if o young man be
comes Christian2 AL through the
club rooms where he associates, all
through The business circles where he
is known. there is conmiseration.
They say: "What pity that young
man who had such bright prospects,
should SO have been despoilcl by those
Christians, giving up all his worldly,
prospects for something which is OF
no particular present worth !" Eere Is
young woman who becomes o Chris
tian, her voice, her face, her manners
tho charm. OF the drawing room. Vow
all through the fashionable circles the
whisper goes: What pity that such
bright light should have been extln,
guishcd, that such o graceful gait
Should be crippled, that such worldly
prospects should be obliterated !" All,
my friends, it can DO shown that fe-
ligions ways are ways OF pieasantness
and that oil her paths are peacoi that
religion, instead of being dark, and
doleful, and lachrymose, and repul-
sivc, is bright and beautiful, fairer
than dove, its wing, covered with
silver and its feathers with yellow gold,
Co ;,,-tbo f,rst ,1oca what rnliriOu