The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-28
SLAVERY OF SIN.
Dr.. Talmage Diecourses on the
Adornmepts Of Christian Faith.
Gin the Hardest of All Taskmasters-No
Happiness In Evil wsys-Living
Useful Lives-The Better
World Above.

In a recent sermon at Brooklyn DR.. Tai
IMAGES subject was: Lifted From the
Brick Kilns," and his text Though ye
have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be
as the wings Of dove covered with silver
and her feathers with yellow gold."-
Psalms xviii. 10. 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 the 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 awhile the Lord broke up that
slavery and He took these poor slaves into
a 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 i'm my
text comes to describe the transition of
these poor Israelites from their bondage
amid the brick krlns into the glorious
emancipation for which God had prepared
them, he says: Though We have lain
among the pots, yet shall We be as the
wings of a dove covered with silver and
her feathers with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, the author of celebrated
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 shutdown, pigeons
(doves) which had, during the heat of the
day, been hiding among the kettles and
the pans with which the food was pre-
pared, picking up the crumbs that they
might find-just about the hour of sunset
would spread their wings and fly heaven
ward, entirely unsoiled by the region in
which they had moved, for the pigeon is a
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 a far
fetched smile, or an unnatural COMPARE
son, when David in my text says to these
mancipated Israelites 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 trud eing,
trudging in a most degrading service, but
after awhile Christ comes and he saws:
-'Let my people go" and we pass out from
among the brick of sin into the glori-
Gus liberty of the gospel; we put on the
clean robes of the Christian profession and
when we soar away to the warm nest
which God has provided for us in Heaven,
we shall go fairer than a dove, its wings
covered with silver and its feathers COW
cred with yellow gold.
l 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. DIR.
johnson said that Hume told minister in
the bishopric of Durham that he never
examined the New Tesla.
ment yet all his life warning against
it. HALEY, the astronomer, announced
H..
and Sir Isaac Newton said: Now, sir.
have examined the subject and you have
not and l am ashamed that you, profess
ing to be a 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 un.
tangible, something that will not work
Pecksniffian, something hypo-
something repulsive. when it is so
bright and so beautiful you might compare
1T to a robin redbreast, you might compare
it to dove, its wings covered with silver.
and its feathers with yellow gold. But
how is it If young man becomes a Chris
tian? All through the club room where he
associates, all through the business circles
where he is known, there is commisera.
ton. They say: "What a pity that
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 par
ticular present worth"
Here is young woman who becomes a
Christian-her voice, her face, her man.
ners the charm of the 6-sssingroom. Now
all through tho fashionable circles the
whisper goes: What pity that such a
bright liys. should be extinguished, that
suct z graceful gait should be crippled, |
sEat s1ch worldly prospects should be |
All, my friends, it can be |
shown that religions ways are WAYS of |
and that all her paths are |
peace; that religion, instead of being dark,
and doleful, and lachrymose, and re- |
pulsive, 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 mans heart. I care not how
cheerful man may be before conversion,
brings him up to a higher
standard of cheerfulness. I do not say he
will laugh any louder. L do not saw but
be may stand back from some forms
Of hilarity in which he oncs in
dulged; but there comes into his soul
an immense satisfaction. A young
man, not Christian, depends upon
worldly successes TO keep his spirits up.
Now he is prospered, now he has large
salary, now he has beautiful wardrobe,
now he has pleasant friends, now he has
more money than he knows how to spend:
'very thing goes bright and well with
him. But trouble comes-there are many
young men in the house this morning who
AN testify out of their own experience
hat sometimes to young men trouble
ioes come-his friends are gone, his salary
s gone, his health is gone; goes down,
Town. He becomes sour, cross, queer,
blames the world, biames
'ociety, blames the church, blames every
hing, rushes perhaps to the intoxicating
up to drown his trouble. but instead of
browning his trouble browns his body and
lrowns his soul
But here is Christian young man.
Trouble comes to him. Does he give up:
No. He throws himself back on the re- ,
ources OF Heaven. He says: 'fGod is INV