Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-17
RELIGIONS JEWELS,
THE GRANDBsT ORNAMENTS OF THE
HUMAN SOUL.
DR.. TalmageS Eloquent Tabein'cls Sermon
The influence of Christianity on a Mans
Chsrac.sr-A Relief 10 Live
in and Die in.
speetdl Tsleoraw 10 De ReoiS-.

OC"ltG Aainae0o NIoSSuttS 0OASJ "eS
entitled, "Gifted from the Briekkilns. "
His text was: Though ye have lain
among the pots, yet shsl ye be as the
wings of dove covered with silver, and
her feathers with yellow gold. "-Psalms
6S:13. He said
I suppose you know what the lraelites
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-snd 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 ia the morning they
found their garments covered with the
clay and the smoke and the dust, and be-
smirched and begrimed with the utensils
of cookery. But after while the Lord
broke up that slavery, and He took these
pcor slaveJ into a land WHARF they had
better garb, bright and clean and beauti-
full apparel. No more bricks for them to
make. Let Pharaoh make his own bricks.
When David in ny next text comes to de-
scribe the transition of these poor Ierselites
from their bondage amidst the brick-bilus
into the glorious emancipation for which
God had prepared them he says: Though
ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye
be as the wings Of dove covered with
silver and her fathers with yellow gold. !"
RELIGION THE GRANDEsT ORNAMENTS.
lam going to preach something which
some of you do not believe, and that is
that the grsndest possible sdornment is
the religion Of Jesus Christ. There are q
great many people who suppose that relig-
ion is a very different thing from what il
really is. The reason men condemn the
the Bible is because they do not under.
stand the Bible; they have not properly
examined. DR.. johnson said that Hume
told minister in the bishoprlC Of Darhsm
that he had never particularly examined
the New Testament, yet all his life war
ring against it. 4TSSssll-y, this astronomer,
nouuced bis skeptieism 10 Sir Isaac
Newton, and Sir Isaac Newton slid:
Now, sir, | have examined tie subject
aud you have not, and l am ashamed Of
YOU, protesting 10 be a philosopher, con-
sent TO condemn thing you never have
examined And so men reject the relig-
io1 OF Jesus Christ, because they never
have really investigated it. They think
it something Ambiguous, something that
will po5 work, something Pecksn!ffian,
something hypoctiticSl, something repul,
sive, when it Is so bright aud sr beautiful
you might complre it to chaffiucb, you
nigh: compare 1t to q robin redbresst, you
might compare it TO a dove, its wings
covered with silver, and its feathers with
yellow gold.
IT ADURNs MANS HEART.
Sse, in the first place, what religion
will do for mans heart. care not how
cbesrfal man may naturally = be before
conversion, conversion brings him up to a
higher standard of Cheertuluess. do not
say he will laugh any louder, do not saV
bat he may stand hack from come forms
Of h'lariiy in which he Oace INDUCED; but
there comes into his soul an immense sat.
isfactiop. A young man, not Christian,
depends upon worldly successes to keep
his spirits up. Now he is prospere1, now
be hiss large salary, now ne has beautiful
wardrobe, low he has pleasant friends
now he has more money than he knows
how to spend; everything goes bright and
we'll with him. But trouble comes
there are many yOuug men in the house
this morning who can testify cut of theil
own experience that sometimes to young
men trouble does not come-his ftiendt
are gone, his Falary is gone, bis health il
gone goes dowp, down. He becomes
sour, cross, q1esr, misanthropic, blame.
the world, blames society, blsmes the
church, blamss everything, rushes perhap
to the intoxicating cup to drown hi'
trouble, bat instead CT drowning hi,
trouble drowrs bis body aud browns his
soul,
Oh, what poor, shallow stream i
worldly enjoyment compared with The
deep, broSd, oveItiowiDg river of Cod
peace, rolling midway in the Christian
heart Sometimes you have gone out OF
the iron bound beach Of the sea wher
there has been a storm On the ocean, arc
you have seen the waves dash into whit,
foam at yo1r feet. They did not do any
harm While there, you thought of tn
chapter written by ths PsllmiSt, aud per
hans you IeIited it to youIsalf while tn
storm wss making commentary upon th
passage God is oar refuge and strength
very pleasant help in the time o
trouble. Therefore will / not fear thougl
the earth be removed, and though tn
moun:a ns be carried iuto the midst o
the see; though the waters thereof Ioa
and bs troubled, though the mountain
shake with the swelling thereof. Selah!'
ITMAKES MAN INDEPENDENT.
Or, how independent the religion of Chris
makes msn Of worldly succ IS aud world
ly circumstance! Nelsoo, tie night b;
fore his last battle, said Tomorrow
shnll wio either 3 Fc3rGgs or grave j
Westminster Abbey" And il does nc
make much difference to the ChIistia
whether he rises or falls in WORLDLY mst
ters; ho has eveIl isting reuown any way
o her plumage may he torn in the blas
bat that souI adorned with Christisn gvac,
"a fsirer than the dove is wings covere
with silver, and its Fathers with yello
gold.
Again remark, religion is an adorr
ment in the style of usefulness into wtiC
it inducts nsn. Here are two youn
men. The one has FIRE culture, exquisit
wardrobe, plenty of friends, grsa. world
success, but he lives for hrmssit. Ri
chisf care is for his own comfort. He live
usele,sly. He died ungret.ed. Here
another young mar. His apparel may nc
be so good, his education may not be S
thorough. He lives for others. His hsI
piness is to make others happy. He is g
self.denyipg ss that dying soldier, fslliu
in the ranks, when he said: ''Colone
there is TO need Of those boys tiripg then
selves by carrying me TO the hospita
let ME die Just where l am" So tn
young man Of whom ] speak loves GcC
wants sll the world to love Him, is Nc
ashamed to carry q bundle of clothes u
that dark alley to the poor. Which (
tho q young men do you admire the better
The one a sham, the other a primes in
perisl.
SHOW YOU THREE SPBCTACLES.
Spectacle the first: Napoleon passes b
with the host that we1t down with hiI