Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-04-07
OUT OF BRTCKKILNS.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON THE
SUSTAINING POWER OF RELIGION.

The Usual Great Audience Enraptured Over
His Glowing Discourse-Trials and Temp
tations of the World-A Curious Text and
Unique Sermon.
BROOKLYN, April LIN the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. DR.. TAI
mage preached to crowded audience on
subject of unusual interest, as illustrat-
ing the sustaining power of religion to
those who are in daily contact with the
world, its trials and temptations. The
text chosen was Psalms xviii, Is,
Though We have lain among the pots,
yet shall We be as the wings of above
covered with silver and her feathers
with yellow gold"
suppose you know what the Israelites
did down in Egyptian slavery. They
made bricks. Amid the utensils of the
brickkiln 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 among 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 land where they had better
garb, bright and clean and beautiful ap-
parel. 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 brickkilns into
the glorious emancipation for which God
had prepared them, he says, "Thoughye
have lain among the pots, yet shall ye
be as the wings of Il dove covered with
silver and her feathers with yellow
gold"
A HARD TAsiiMAGrEI
Miss Whately, the anthCr Of cele-
brated book, Life II Egypt said she
sometimes saw peopie:r the east cooking
their food Oh the tops If houses, and that
she had often seen just before shutdown
pigeons and doves, which had during the
heat of the day been hiding among the
kettles and the pans with y. hich the food
was prepared, picking up the crumbs that
they might find. just about the hour of
sunset they would spread their wings
and fly heavenward, entirely unsoiled by
the region in which they had moved Or
the pigeon is very clearly bird.
And as the pigeons flew away the set
ting sun would throw silver on their
wings and gold on their breasts. So you
see it is not farfetched smile or an
unnatural comparison when David, in
my text, says to these emancipated Isra-
elites, and says to all those who are
brought out of any kind of trouble into
any kind of spiritual joy, 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. 2
Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps US drudg-
ing in a most degrading service, but
after awhile Christ comes, and he says,
"Let my people go" and we pass out
from among the brickkilns of sin into
the glorious liberty of the gospel. We
put on the clean robes of Christian
profession, and when at last 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 with yellow
gold,