Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-27
SUNDAYS SERMON.
~ OF REV. DIR TALMAGE'S
o STERLING DISCOURSES.
..,,ect. Lifted from the Brick
kilns."

pos, ,ritb siiusr, and her feathers totth
sv KIM aold Psalms. xviii, 10.
s,s,,oose Won know what tie Israelites did
lsup k.gyptian slavery. They made
down :" Amid the utensils of the brick-kiln
@n DYE ,rere also other utensils of cookery
l VI tsttles. the pots, the pans, with which
W. .'. nrenared their daily food-and when
wy poor slaves, tired of the days work, lay
IN I'm 10 rest, they lay down amid the I'M
peIen' ~ hard work. When they arose
nsnJb morning they found their
u w covered with the clay and
sair,ote and the dust, and besmirched and
ns 81 with the utensils Of cookery. But
~. while the Lord broke up that slavery,
AI' d took these poor slaves into a land
~ 81, tbev had better garb, bright and clean
WIZ WI Ss,ntifu apparel. No more bricks for
am aua IA make. Let Pharoah make his own
w. When David in my text comes to
sIs.cribe the transition OF these poor lsraeiltes
srom their bondage amid the brick-kilns into
lOD ,orous emancipation for which God
in7 ssansred them. he says: Though We
S Iar IAN among the pots yet shall ye be as
~ ms III dove covered with silver and
s,r feathers with yellow gold.
Y Ms Whately, the author of a cele-
,. % took. "Lfe in Egypt said
g is so,etjmes saw people in the East
ivy ohiDg their food on the tops of
s so.se, and that she had often seen, Just be-
IVA snndown. pigeons and doves which had,
srng the heat of the day, been hiding
S Smons the kettles and the pans with which
~ faod was prepared picking up the crumbs
tbat they might fnd-lust about the nour
n sunset would spread their wings and fly
S,svsnward. entirely unsoiled by the
ZION in which they had moved, for
NJ niqeop is very cleanly bird.
All as the pigeons few away the
.s.t,g sun would throw silver on their
s rjnrs and cold on their breast So YOU see
\ gss not O far fetched simile, or an un
natural comparison, when David in my text
s9ys 10 these emancipated lsraelltes, AMI
Az AL 10 Ali those who airs brought out of any
mi Of trouble into any kind OF spiritual
iey Though ye have lam among the
nIals VET shall ye be as the wings OF dove
covered with silver, and her feathers with
I'm 4 the hardest of all taskmasterS
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us trudging,
trdgiuc IN a most degrading service; but
After a while Christ comes, and He says: Let
NV neope 20 and we pass out from among
NJ brick-kllns Of sin into the glorious liberty
dihe GOSPEL we put on the clean robes of u
Christian profession, and when at last we
soar away TO the warm nest which God has
crowded for us in heaven, we shall go falrer
than dove its wings covered with liver,
and lis feathers covered with yellow gold.
lam going TO preach something which some
dym do not believe, and that is that the
srspdest possible adornment is the religion
Il Jesus Christ. = There are "A great many
people who suppose that religion is very
aaerent thing from what it really Is. The
rasu men condemn the Bible is because
tbq do no; understand the Bible they have
not properly examined it. DIR. johnson said
that Hume told minister in the bishoprIc
Of Durham that he had never par ticularly
examined the New Testament, yet all his life
warning against it. HALEY, the astronomer,
announced bis skepticism 10 Sir Isaac New
ton. and Sir Isaac Newton said snow, sir, l
have examined the subject and you
have not. and / am ashamed that you,
processing to be a philosopher, consent
to condemn a thing you never have ex-
aminei And so men reject the relig on
Of Jesus Christ because they really have
never investigated il. They think il some
thing Impractical, something that viii not
WORK, something Pecksniiflan, something
sypocrcal something repulsiye, when 10 Is
50 bright and so beautiful you might com
prsHio chafiinch, yon might compare it
toaroSn redbreast, you might compare 1t
hatove, It's wings covered with silver, and
itsiealhers with yellow gold
Bthow is it if a young man becomes n
Cbrstan' Although the club rooms where
heasOciates all through the business circles
where be is known, there is commiseration.
They say: What pity that young man
who bad such bright prospects should so
have been despoiled by those Christians. CIV
ngup al his worldly prospects for some
Ting which is Of no particular present
worth" Here is n young woman who be-
comes Christian, her voice, her face, her |
manners the charm of the drawing room.
Nov all through the fashionable circles the |
vasqergoes What pity that such bright |
light should have been extinguished, that
su'a graceful gait should he crippled, that |
slehworldly prospects should be obliteratediD |
IA, my friends, it can be shown that re-
Lgoas ways are ways OF pleasantness and |
ihai al her paths ate peace: that religion, |
indsat Of being dark, a..d doleful, and |
slrymoSe, and repulsive,i is bright and beau- |
ulll islrer than dove. its wings covered |
sil silver and its feathers with yellow |
gl
Sc in the first place. what religion will |
@iT mans heart. / care not how cheer |
himan may naturally be before CONVEX
20 conversion brings him up to a higher |
Aslard Of Cheerfulness. I do not say he |
~ augh any louder, | 90 not say but he !
ny stand back from some forms of hilarity |
nunch be once indulced; but there comes
u" MS soul an immense satisfaction. A /
!gl1g man, not Christian, depends upon |
$500 suorsSsrs 20 Keen his sn ITS m Now l
20 Prospered, now he has large salary, now /
mas beautiful wardrobe. now |
has pleasant friends, now he |
~ mere money than he knows how
~, Pnd; everything goes bright /
= ~ vel with hun. But trouble comes
- are many young men in the house this
,asnihg who can ties ify out OF their own ex-
aS9ee That sometimes to young men
sguNe does eome-his friends are gone, his
Sn-!s gone, his health is gone; he goes down,
- be becomes sour, cross, queer, mis-
~ pc, hlames the world. blames society,
80 The church. blames everything. |
s0Sns perhaps ~ the intoxicating cup to
E,.llls trouble out instead OF drowning
~ HVuoe browns his body and browns his
tut 1t here is Christian young man.
4 eoines to him. Does he give upl
So. ne throws himself back on the re-
ts,lsss q heaven He says: ''tiod is my
H.. Gut Of all these disasters | shall
-. advantage Tor my soul All the
e ,,'1.s are mine. Christ is mine, Christian
E5l,a a'ghslip Is mine, heaven is mine
or n lhough my apparel be worn
NJ, M. .IlS' gives me robe OF Righteousness.
~ ~ sa .l59agh my money be gomez have
l. ~, g The whole uni verse in the prom
an are yours What though my
a.! trends fan away Ministering
rTf,, are ny boiYguard " hat though
al - g = poor and my bread be scanti /
IN .le Aings banquetm
S7r., ma shallow stream is worldly en-