The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

A CHARGE FOR THOSE AMONG
THE KETTLES AND POTS OF SIN.

drawn-Sin the Hardest of Task
masters, but Forced to Quail Before
Christ's Command.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 16.-The Rev. 7. De-
Witt Talmages discourse to-day was en-
titled, Lifted from the Brick-kilns. His
text was: Though ye have lain among
the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings Of a
dove covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold. Psalms, xviii, IS. He
said:
suppose you know what the Israelites
did down in Egyptian slavery. They made
bricks. Amid the utensils 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
tho 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 uD that
slavery, and be 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 lsraelites from their bondage
amid the brick-kilns into the glorious
emancipation for which God had prepared
them, he says: Though We have lain among
the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a
dove covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, the author of cele-
brated book, Life in Egypt" said she
sometimes saw people in the east
cooking 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 the 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 was not far
fetched smile, OF an unnatural comparison
when David in my text says to these eman-
cipated lsraelites, and says to all those who
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 dove covered with silver and her
feathers with yellow gold"
Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps US trudging,
trudging in a most degrading service; but
after awhile Christ comes, and he says:
LET my people go" and we pass out from
among the brick-kilus of sin into the glori-
GUS liberty of the gospel we put on the
clean robes OF a christian profession, and
when at last we soar away to the warm
nest which God has provided for us in
heaven, we shall go fairer than dove, its
wings covered with silver, and its feathers
covered with yellow gold.
am going to preach something which
some of you do not believe, and that is that
the grandest possible adornment is the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ. There are a great
many people who suppose that religion is a
very different thing from what it
really is. The reason men condemn
the Bible is because they do not
understand the Bible; they have not
properly examined it. DR.. johnson said
that Hume told a minister in the bishopric of
Durham that he had never particularly ex-
amined the New Testament yet all his life
warning against 1t. Haley, the astrono-
mer, announced his skepticism to Sir Isaac
Newton, and Sir Isaac Newton said: "Now,
sir, | have examined the subject and you
have not, and lam ashamed that you, pro-
Tossing to be philosopher, consent to con-
denim thing you never have examined
And SO men reject the religion Of Jesus
Christ because they really have never in
vestigated it, They think it something
dubious, something that will not work,
something Pecksniffian, something hypo-
critical, something repulsive, when it is SO
bright and so beautiful you might compare
it to a chaffinch, you might compare it to a
robin redbreast, you might compare it 70 e
dove, its wings covered with silver and its
feathers with yellow gold.
But how is it If a young man becomes a
Christian9 All through the clubrooms
where he associates, all through the bust
ness circles where he is known, there is com
miseration. They say: "What a pity that
a young man who had such bright prospects
should SO have been despoiled by those
Christians, giving up all his worldly pros
poets for something which is of no particular
present worth" Here is a young woman
who becomes a Christian, her voice, her
face, her manners the charm Of the draw
ing-room. Now all through the fashionable
circles the whisper goes "Wbat pity that
such O bright light should have been extin-
guished. that such n graceful gait should be
crippled, that such worldly respects should
be obliteratedn All, my friends, it can be
shown that religions ways are ways Of
pleasantneSs and that all her paths are
peace: that religion, instead of being dark,
and doleful, and lachrymose and repulsive,
is bright and beautiful, fairer than dove,
its wings covered with silver and its
feathers with yellow gold.
See, in the first place, what religion will
do for a mans heart. | care not how cheer
full a man may naturally be before convers.
ion, conversion brings him up to a higher
standard of cheerfulness. | do not say he
will laugh any louder, | do not say but he
may stand back from some forms Of
hi arity in which he once INDUCED: but
there comes into his soul an immense salts
faction A young man, not n christian, de-
ponds upon worldly successes to keep his
spirits up. Now he is prospered, now he
has large salary, now he has a beautiful
wardrobe, now he has pleasant friends, now
he has more money than he knows how TO
spend; everything goes bright and well
with him. But trouble comes-there are
many young men in the house this morning
who can testify out of their own experience
that sometimes TO young men trouble does
come-hs friends are gone, his salary Is
gone, his health is gone; goes down, down.
He becomes sour, cross, queer, nissan
thropic, blames the world, blames society,
blames the church, blames everything,
rushes perhaps to the intoxicating cup to
drown his trouble, but instead Of drowning
his trouble browns his body and browns his
soul.
But here is Christian young man. Trou-
BILE comes to him. Does he give upg No.
He throws himself back on the resources OF
heaven. He says: "God is my father. Out
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