The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28
TALMAGE's SERMON.
A Homely Subject with a Spiritual
Application.
Mankind Lifted From the Brick-Kilns of
Wrong-Doing to the Glorious Pu1t-
ty of the Religion of Jesus
and a Better Lite.

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subject of a recent sermon in the Brook
Ivn Tabernacle E'Lifted From the Brick
kilns," predicating his discourse on the
following text:
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 golo.-
Psalms xviii, l3.
7 TsuDpose 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 besm1rched
and begrimmed with the utensils OF COOK
ery. 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 in my text comes to describe the
transition of these poor Israeites from
their bondage amid the brick-kiIns into
the glorious emancipation for which God
had prepared them, he says: ''Fhough
We have lain among the pots, yet snail ye
| he as the wings of a dove, covered with
| silver. and her feathers with yellow gold"
Miss Whately, the author of cele"
| brated book Life in Egypt" said she
| sometimes saw people in the East COOK
| ing their 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
| n inC nm
that they might find, just about the hour
of sunset spread their wings and fly heav-
onward. entirely unsoiled by the region In
which they had moved, for the pigeon is a
very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons
few away the setting sun would throw Sill
yer on their wings and gold on thelr
breasts So you see it was not Iar
fetched smile, or an unnatural compar1-
son. when David in my text says to these
emancipated Isaelites, and says to all
those who are brought out of any kind OF
trouble into any kind of spiritual JOY:
s1Though We have lain among the pots, yet
shall We be as the wings of dove covered
with silver, and her feathers with yelIo"
gold"
Worse than Pharaoh it keeps us trudglng
+r.udging in most degrading service; but
after awhile Christ comes, and He says
tsI, ,et nv people CO., and we pass out from
among the brick-kilns of sin into the glo
rious liberty of the Gospel-we put on th'
clean robes of a Christian profession
and when at last we soar away 70 Tn
warm nest which God has proYlueo TOT u
3 in Heaven. we shall go fairer than dove
| ! its wings covered with silver and 1t
) feathers covered with yellow gold.
an e-aing to preach something Whlc
| sonoe of YOU do not De1tcve, ard that Is
= that the grandest possible adornment l
/ the religion of Jesus Christ. There are
/ great many people who suppose thaV re
igion is a very different thing from VIVA
II really is The reason men condemn tn
BibIe is because they do not understan
1 the Bible: they have not properly exam
= ined il. DIR. johnson said that Hume toI
< a minister in the bishopric Of DurhaT
= that he had never particularly examine
l it. vet all his life warning against it. Ha
+. lev. the astronomer, announced ms sKeI
t ticism to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaa
o Newton said: CHOW, sir, have examine
5 the subject and you have not, and 81
s ashamed that you, processing to be
q uhilosepher, consent to condemn thin
|. Won have never examined" And so me
d reject the religion of Jesus Christ becaui
z they really have never investigated
Z. They think it something obJect1onabl
1t something that will not work, somethiI
vt Pecksnifian, something hypocr1tlca
d and so beautiful you might compare 1t
a cbaf1nch, you might compare 1t to
robbin d-breast, you might compare
h to a dove, its wings covered with s1lVe
= and its feathers with yellow gold.
! But how is it if a young man becomes
~ Cbristian? All through the club rooI
% | where he associates, all through the bus
= ness circles where he is known, there
- | comniseration They say: "What pi
/ vrhn DT1Q
ts prospects should so have been despo1l
10 by those Christians, giving up all I
i worldly prospects for something which
n of no particular present worthW here
- n Young woman who becomes Chr1sua
her voice, her face, her manners I
g charm of the drawing now
or through the fashionable circles the Wn
~ per goes: "What pity that such Drle
- light should have been extingu1shed, u
in such a graceful gait should be crippi'
m that such worldly prospects should be G
10 literated!" All, my friends II can
he shown that religions ways are ways
- nIeasantness, and that all her paths {
&c peace;' that religion, instead OF bel
r. dark, and doIeful, and lachrymose, a
ne repulsive, is bright and Deautltul, AaH
af than dove, its wings covered Wlth slL
in and its feathers with yellow gold
nd See, in the first place, what religion
~ do for a mans heart. I care not p
fuI cheerful a man may naturally be Der
Ter conversion, conversion brings him up
- a higher standard Of cheerfulness- l
of not say that he will laugh any louder
the do not say but he may stand back II
e. some forms of hilarity in which he o.
,-aT indulged, but there comes into his soul
,,,. Immense satisfaction. A young man
= !, q Christian depends on worldly success
A. to keen his spirits up. Now he Is prosper
Fr- now he has a large salary, now ne
- a beautiful wardrobe, now he has pleas
friends. now he has more money thal
knows how to spend; every thlng g
bright and well with him. But tot
rt- comes-there are many young men In
zen house this morning who can testlty ou
md their own experience that some time
eat xounp men trouble does come-h1s rrle
ur- are gone, his salary is gone, his healu
Lior gone: goes down, down. He becol
gin sour. cross, queer, misanthropic, Dla
the the world, blames society, blames
fed church, blames every thing, rusnes'
AMI haps to the intoxicating cup 10 drown
aid trouble, but instead OF drowning
g. trouble browns his body and browns
i,00O soul.
for Bpt here is a Christian young I
TronbIe comes to him. Does no give
No. He throws himself back on the
sources Of Heaven. He says: God Il
lsls Father. Out of all these disasters
= % pluck advantage for my soul. All
-ele- promises are mine, Christ is mine, q
az tian companionship is mine, Heaye
.ates mine. What though my apparel be
TIER, outy Christ gives me robe OF Tightt
ne ness. What though my money be
nag / have a title deed to the whole uni,
the ~ lnS .,,.r1,7I,, frfenjs fan a
aced .n1ust.-9l-y,, .n,usH a1a,eie ore nv bodyg
sign, What though my fare be poor an
{s bread.be scants sit at the Kings