The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-11-12
VOL. XXI
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
SERMON PREACHED BY THE REV.
T.DEN,!TT ThlMAGE.

"fho Isurdon OF T. .ypLr lIi3 z. Xt,
BK0OKLYN, Nov. 1.-The Tabernacle
was tlTonHcd rs usual this morning
The vast riti!iUo i!lCd TO It's utmost
capacity with eager iistcrcr5 shows how
the p Nrular preacher retains his power
over the people. Although he has been
preaching in Brooklyn for more than
TWEEN ty-iOrT years, bis audiences were
never so LARGE as now. and although the
largest PrOtcSI"nt church. in America
has been butt !or ttm, there never was
a time when SO many ptrsons were
turned away ter lack olronm. The sub
ject Of this mornings sermon Aas
"Brick, Without Straw" Il continuation
OF the series On the cor nation Of HOLY
Scripture which DR.. Image found in
his journey from the Pyramids TO the
AcrOpo!is, lis text as Isaiah xix, |.
''1hc burden al i-'lp.."
What is all lh, settlement about III
H." streets tu:r., i.@y(';. his Dccrm-
htr morlin- il: !H~,: .l.tuG hA,N. We
hear ioud Voices sod st" TIC rlrwd3 ur
pconlc &c: ,a;iu' 10 tic sides of thc
street. Tlc ,X'I'lm,Uyog u,lcrs be-
,'u.,S "'r VI ,NcIIrmcut. r0utmCn
come IL si>ft. ThCy have arot IN uu
h;.ud and ,">Scl' t.;n ou t.cu;I and their
,nlGs "l!d "rt Il, iarC. YLc;r arb is
hi"rk O" t." W%:.. CNcCNt |S threaded
VIA "uii. 81 a.. 'r>,t il wl.i,c. They
AZ" crur.l"; H., way lOr an official
HH!h" ~ IL clan t. CT carr Hyc. They
arl swift, i.nG SOm"limcs run thirty or
forty mics ~ q >.ct h IN front of an
,qu,p0"c. Iulc way! They arc the
ntttcst footed rtc:} ON cNi;N, but soon
dc, !'r Tie ,UmHl. .ran1u was not made
iCr suCi en-, urauur
; asked a., ;rCuv,i me who tic mau in
IhC carriage vas. h,il 90 Unu seemed to
Know. Nc! ds t.i back " .th the rest
to thr wall sad i'lS is lhC old GUS
tom lCuid all Il, I'D down the !,iElc,
ip"tn!rn ru'lmny nc!urc ihc rulers, de-
maEdin. 0h,j&&Tle as in Genesis before
loNcph,s c'aliot tf'c pcop,r were COM
mnnrCh. "How tTr Nurc;' and rs | see
the swift iv,t Ut G.e mcn followed by
thC swift icll o! t.,s horses, huN those
old "u>' s 4 .Ic!,,rllh RUS ru through
my m,id, III L.r'u I';,t run with the
iUoim,n ;ulc lh, have wCar!cd thee,
how carst th'urnrtrnd with horscs?"
HE SERVES As y FUOTMAN.
Now. n! !.lu. +. n his ,"ur>" OF SER
mons :m 'h!N sewing }Ou;tS iOOtman,
and clcarlr" tl'r way iur Your coming
into the Woud,ls G! ETyrlp!"yy. sub.
leCt lhat l. would ave YOU study Tar he
Nond anything tiri can ljn said III the
brcvitl OF pulpit ul;crHnc\. Two huu-
area and Cl9hll-r'nc times docs the
Bible refer to EGyN and the EYS ptans
No wonder, for Egypt was The mother
OF nations. Egypt. the mother OF
Greece; GrLCCe, the mother of Rome:
Rome, tic mother Of England; England,
the mother OF our own land. Accord
ing to that, Egypt Is our great .reat
grandmother.
On other Sabbalhs left you study
ny what they must have bs en- in their
glory: The llNpostylo hall Of Karnac.
the architectural miracles at Luxor. the
COlOuDadc OF lorcmhch. tic cemeteries
of Memphis, the value Of Il kingdom in
one monument. the Sphinx, which with
lips Of stone speaks loud enough TO be
heard across the centuries, HcliOpOlis
and Zoan, the conundrurl OF urckroo.
gists. But all that extravaganza Of
palace and temple and monument was
the cause OF an oppression high as hcav-
en- and deep as hell. The weight OF
those blocks OF stone, heavier than any
modem machinery could lit, come down
upon the Hebrew slaves, and their blood
mixed the mortar for the trOWcls.
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile a boss workman roughly smilc
subordinate who did not please him.
1t IS no rare UccurrG ace TO see long line
of men under heavy burdens passing by
taskmastcrs at short distances, lashihg