The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-17
Dr.. Talmage's Sermon Yesterday.
Though Ye Have Lain Among tho
Pots, Yet Shall Ye Be
"As tho Wings of u Dove Gov
cred With Silver and
Her Feathers With Yellow Gold,"
Was the Text Selected.
by tho Aid OF Christ We Pass Out
From the Brick Kilns Of Sin Into
the Glorious Liberties
of the Gospel
Special pIsratch to The Arpcnl.

Special Dispatch to The Appeal.
BROOKLYN, n. ", Dec. l6.-The Rev T.
Dewitt, ralmagc's discourse today was en-
titled, Lifted from the Brick-kilns." His
text was: Though ye have lain among
the pots, yet shall yc be us the wings Of a
dove covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold. Psalms xviii, 10. lie
said:
l suppose you know what the Israelit s
did down in Egyptian slavery. They
made bricks. Amid the utensils of the
brick-kin there were also other utensils Of
cookery-the kettles, the pos, 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 aud the
smoke and dust, aud besmirched and be-
grimed with the utensils Of cookery. But
after awhile the Lord broke up that
slavery. and He took these poor slaves
into land where they had bcttcr garb,
bright aud clean and beautiful apparel.
No moro bricks for them to make. Let
Pharaoh make his own bricks. When
David in my text comes 10 describe the
transition Of these poor Israclitcs from
their bondage amid the brick-kins into
the glorious emancipation for which God
had prepared them, he says Though yo
have lain among the pots, yet shall We he
as the wings Of dove covered with silver,
and her feathers with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, tho anlhor Of ccle.
bratcd 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 before sundown,
pigeons. doves, which had during the
heat OF the day been hiding among the
kettles aud the pans with which the food
was prepared, picking mp the crumbs that
they might iind-just about the hour Of
hcavcnward, entirely unsoilcd by the
region in which they hal moved, for the
pigeon IL n very clcanly bird. And as tho
llktOllH AhfN AWAY AlN - a1A rWN MNAit
throw silver ON Their Wings aud gold on
their breast. So you sec it was not far
fetched simlc, or au unnatural compari-
son, when David in my text SAYS 30 these
cmancipatcd lsracliics, aud says 10 all
ihosc who arc brought out oi any kind OF
trouble into any kind of spiritual 10Y:
Though yc have lain among the pots,
vet shall We ho rs the wings Oi dove GOV.
s.tfl .lals.sW anil Nn.Nlsa.as
yellow gold"
Worse than Phoraoh, Il keeps us trudg.
ing, trudging in q n0st degrading service;
but after while Christ comes, and lac
says "Let my people 50, " aud W. pass
out from among the brick kiins Of sin into
the glorious liberty OF the Gospel; We put
on the clean robes Of Christian pro.
fcssion, and when nj lat we soar away to
thc warm nest which God has provided
for us in heaven, We shall 20 iairer than a
dove, iis wings covon,d with silver aud its
feathers covered with yellow gold.
am going To preach something which
some Of you do not believe, aud that is
that the gmndest possible adOrnmcnt Is
the religion uf Jesus Christ There arc q
great many people who suppose that 10.
ligion Is n very different thing from what
Il really is. The reason men condemn the
Bible Is because they do not understand
the Bible. They have not properly cxam-
incd H. DR.. johnson said thai Hume told
minister la the Bishopic OF Durham
that he had never particularly examined
the New Testament, yet all his lie warning
against II. Haley tho astronomer, an.
nounccd his skcpilcifm ~ Sir Isaac New.
ton. aud Sir Isaac Newton sail. "Now,
sir, ] have examined the subject. and you
have not, aud ! am ashamed that you,
protesting 10 be philosopher, consent 10
condemn q thing YOU never have exam.
incd." And ~ men reject the religion of
Jesus Christ because thev really have
never investigated H. They think Il some.
thing contradictory, something that will
not work, something ~, ksniililn, some.
thing hyp0critical, something rcpulsiyc,
when Il Is 20 bright aud ~ beautiful you
might compare II 10 chailnch, you
might compare II 10 robin rcdbrcast, you
might compare II 10 n dove. its wings GOV.
erod with silver and H. feathers with ycl.
low gold.
But how Ia II II a young nan becomes
Chrisiian2 All through the clubsooms
Ni'N' iA' W+INNihAfHf NA ANNNNNN lll' WNHla
ness circles where he y known, there u
COMMUNICATION. They saw "What pity
that young man who had such bright
prospects should sO have been dcsp0ilod
10y those Christiaul, giving up nll his
worldly prospects Tor something which In
Of no particular present w0fthl' Here iB
a young woman who becomes a Christian,
her voice, her face, her manners the
charm 0i thc drawing room. Now all
through the iarhionablc ciiclo the whisper
goes what pity that such bright
light should have been eEtingnishcd that
such graceful gait should be- crippled,
that such worldly prospects should he OBJ
literatcdl" Ah, my friends, II can be
shown that rclision's ways ar ways Of
plcaslnlnc@ aud that all her paths are
peace; that religion, intiead Of being dark,
and doiclul, and lachymosc. aud rcpul-
siye, Is bright aud beautiful, iaircr than q
dove, ~ wings covered with silver aud its
feathers with yellow gold.
See, In the ilrHl place, what religion will
do for u mans heart care not how
cheerful a mau may naturally DO before
conversion, conversion brings him up 10 q
higher standard Of cherflulness ] do not
say he will laugh any louder do not
say but lac may stand back froin some
forms of hilar.y Ia which ho once In
dulged, but there comes into his soul an
immense satisfaction. young man, not
u Christian, depends upon worldly sue.
ccascasto kecp hia sDifits up. Now ho Ia