Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-29
Three Napoleon,
Voltaire and Paul the
Apostle.
Adoniram Judson's Skepticism and
Singular Conversational View
Of Heaven.
LIFTED FROM THE BRICK KILNs.

LIFTED FROM THE BRICK KILNS.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 1G.-The Rev, T..
Dewitt Talmagc's discourse today was
entitled, Lifted from the Brick niins. "
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 .n-Psslms q ;l3.
He said.
l suppose you know what the Israel
ties did down in Egyptian slavery. They
made bricks, Amid the utensils Of the
brick kiln there were also other utensils
Of c~o0Sery-thc kettles. the pots, the
pans with which they prepared their
daily feod-and when these poor slaves,
sired 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 Gust. and
besmcarcd and begrimed with the uten-
@ils of cookery But after IA while the
Lord broke up that slavery, and lie took
these poor Slaves into a land where they
had better gar5, bright and clean ana
beautiful appGeel. No more bricks for
them 10 make Let Pharaoh make his
Dwn bricks. When David in nay text
comes to describe the transition Of these
poor Israclitce 'rOm their bondage amid
the brick kilns into the glorious enamel
patton for which God had prepared them,
ne SAYS. Though yc have lain among
the pots, Yet shall We be as the wings
of a dove covered with silver and he
feathers with yellow gold" Miss
Whatciy. the author of o celebrated
book, Life in Egypt said she some
times saw PEOPLE in the east cooking
their fcod 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 and the pans
with which the food was prepared pick.
ing up the crumbs that they Nigh. find
lust about The hour Of sunset would
spread their wings and fly h~eaVenward,
.ntirely unsoiled by the region in which
they Lad moved, for the pigeon is a very
Cleanly bird. And as the pigeon flew
away the setting sun would throw silver
on their wings and gold on their breast.
SO you SEE ii was not a ia fetched
similc or an unnatural comparison. when
David in my text says to these enamel
pated lsraelites. and says to all those who
are brought out of any kind Of trouble
into ary kind of spiritual joy; Though
ye have lain among the pets yet shall yo
be as the wings of a dove covered with
..l.,. nNI lnr Enntl,n-d rtTf4l lnllnu
gold"
SIN A CRUEL TASK NAsTB2.
Sims the hardest OF all task masters
Worse than Pharoah, ii keeps us %trudging
trudgiEg in a most degrading service
but after q while Christ comes and he
says: LET my people go" and we pass
out from among the brick kilns of sir
into the glorious liberty OF the gospel; We
put on the clean robes of q Christian pro
fession, and VIXEN at last we soa- away tC
the wagrl nest which God has provided
for US in heaven, we shall 70 fairer thar
q dove, its wings covered with silver, anC
its feathers covered with yellow gold.
I'M going to preach something which
some of you do rot believe, and that il
that the. grandest possible adornment il
the religion Of Jesus Christ. There are
great many people who suppose tina
religion il a very different thing from
what it really is. The reason men con
denim the Bible is because they 90 no
understand the Bible; they have not prop
erly examined l.. DR.. johnson sale
chat Hume told a ninisterin the bishoDri(
of Durham that he had never particularly
examined the New Testament. vet all his
life warning against il. Haley, the as
ronomer, announced his skepticism tC
Sir Isaac Newton, ~ Sir Isaac Newtcr
said: "No~, sir, | have examined tn,
subject and you have not, AID ] an
ashamed that you, protesting TO be s
philosopher, consent to condemn q thing
you never have examined" And Sc
men reject the religion of Jesus Chris
because they really have never investi
gated it. They think it something re
%pugnant, something that will not work
something PecL s~niffian, something hypo
critical, something repUlsive. when it il
so bright and so beautiful you Nigh
compare il to a cfafinch, you might com
pare il to a robin redbrcast, you NIGH
compare it TO a doge, its wings covered
with silver, and its feathers with yellow
gold.
WAYS OF rLEASANTEEsS.
But how is il if a young nan becomes
@ Christian? All through the club roomi
where he associates, al through the bust
ness circles where he ia known, there il
commisseration. They say: What {
pity hat a young max who lad sucl
bright prospects should have been de
spoiled by those Christians, giving up al
his worldly prospects for something
which ia of no particular present worth
Here is a young woman who becomes 1
Christian, her voice, her face, her man.
ners the charm of the drawing room
Now all through the fashionable circles
the whisper goes; what o pity tha'
such a bright light should have been ex.
tInguished, that such a graceful gal
should be crippled, that such worldly
prospects should be obliterated!' All,
my friends, il can be shown that relig
ions ways are ways of p~leasantness ant