The Grenada sentinel., 1888-12-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Homely Subject with a Spiritual
g Application.
Aankhd Lifted From the Brick -Kilns Of
Wrong Doing to tie Glorious Pui-
ty of the Religion of Jesus
aad Better Lite. Il

hlas," predieating his distpurse on the
following text:
Though ye have lain amcig the pots, yet
shall ye be AS the wings of adoYe, covered with
silver, and her feathers Ti'h yellow gold
Psalms xviii, l3.
suppose you knoy what the Israelites
did down in Egyptisa slavery. They made
bricks. Amid the utensils of the brick
kiln there we're also other utensils of
cookery-the kettles, the pots, the pans,
with which thy prepared their daily food
and when tiese poor slaves, tired Of the
days worE 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 begrimmed with the utensils OF cook
cry. But after awhile the Lord broke up
that slavery land He took these poor slaves
into 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 in my text comes to describe the
transition of these poor Israelites from
their bondage amid the brick-kilns into
Ihe glorious emancipation for which God
mad prepared them, he says: ssThough
ye nave 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 a cele-
DRAFTED book, "Life in Egypt" said she
sometlmes saw people in the East cook
ing thelr food on the tops Of houses, and
that she had often seen, just before sun
down, pigeons, doves, which had, during
the heat Of the day. been hiding among
the Kettles and the pans with which the
iooa was prepared, picking up the crumbs
tlaV theF might find, just about the hour
Oh Sunsetspread their wings and fly heav-
onward, entirely unsoiled by the region in
winch they had moved, for the pigeon is a
very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons
new away the setting sun would throw sill
yer on their wings and gold on their
breasts. So you see it was not far
fetched smile, or an unnatural compare
son, when David in my text says to these
emancipated Isaolites, and says to all
those who are brought out of any kind of
rouble into any kind Of spiritual Joy:
tThoush ye have lain among the pots, yet
small ye 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 trudging,
trudging in a most degrading service; but
tfter awhile Christ comes, and He saws:
FLet my people 60" and we pass out from
bmong the briclz-kilns of sin into the glo-
fious liberty of the Gospel-we put on the
flean robes of Christian profession,
pnd when at last we soar away to the
warm nest which God has provided for us
pa Heaven, we shall go fairer than dove,
IT'S wings covered with silver and its
Feathers covered with yellow gold.
l am going to preach something which
fone Of you do not believe, and that is,
fhat the grandest possible adornment is
lhe religion Of Jesus Christ. There are q
freat many people who suppose that re-
tgion is very different thing from what
really is. The reason men condemn the
Fble is because they do not understand
fe Bible; they have not properly exam
fedlt DR.. johnson said that Hume told
iminister in the bishopric of Durham
pat he had never particularly examined
Ayet all his life warning against it. Hal
ny, the astronomer, announced his skep-
ttsm to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac
twton said: "Now, sir, have examined
IT, subject and you have not, and | am
afhamed that you, protesting to be
Philosopher, consent to condemn thing
W have never examined" And so men |
rfct the religion of Jesus Christ because |
thy really have never investigated il. |
Tfy think it something Objectionable, |
sfething that will not work, something |
Ptksniflian, something hypocritical,
stething repulsive, when it is SO bright |
aH so beautiful you might compare it to
hafiinch, you might compare it to a
robin red-breast, you might compare it
tot dove, its wings covered with silver,
an its feathers with yellow gold.
Et how is IL If young man becomes a
Clfstian: All through the club rooms
wlte he associates, all through the busi-
net circles where he is known, there is
cotniseration. They say: "What pity
thfa young man who had such bright
prtpects should SO have been despoiled
byfhose Christians, giving up all his
woldly prospects for something which is
of p particular present worth" Here is
aging woman who becomes a Christian,
he1voice, her face, her manners the
chan Of the drawng-room. Now, all
thrtgh the fashionable circles the whis-
perbes: "What pity that such bright
ligltshould have been extinguished, that
such graceful gait should be crippled,
thatuch worldly prospects should be OBJ
iteited" All, my friends, it can be
shoh that religions ways are ways Of
pleahntness, and that all her paths are
peat; that religion, instead of being
dar1 and doleful, and lachrymose, and !
episive, is bright and beautiful, fairer
thah dove, its wings covered with silver
andts feathers with yellow gold.
Sd in the first place, what religion will
do mans heart. / care not how
cheotul o man may naturally be before
eonyasion, conversion brings him up to '
ahi9er standard Of cheerfulness. do
not " that he will laugh any louder; I
do pt say bNt he may stand back from
soml forms of hNarity in which he once 9
indJged, but there oames into his soul an y
immense satisfaction. "A young man not t
a Christian depends on Worldly successes t
to ltep his spirits up. Now h> is prospered, d
nov he has large salary, now he has G
Abhutiful wardrobe, now he has pleasant a
frishds, now he has more money than he d
knows how to spend; every thing goes a
britht and well with him. But trouble q
cones--there are many young men in thel c
hoUke this morning who can testify out OF N
their own experience that some times to
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