Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-05
TRUTH WILL RETURN
AND THE RELIGION OF CHRIST
WILL LEAD THE PEOPLE.
Dr. Talmage breaches Sermon of
special Interest just Now-Poverty
ZONES In at the window When Re
ligion Goes Out at the Door

nGion Goes Out at the Door.
BRookLYN, April lin the Brooklyn
tabernacle this forenoon, Rev. Dr.
Ialmage preached to a crowded aud
fence, on subject of unusual interest
as Illustrating the sustaining power o
religion to those who are in daily con
tact with the world, it's trials ant
temptations. The text chosen wa
Psalms GS : xiii
Though, yc have lain among. tn,
pots, yet shall We be as the wings of {
dove covered with silver and her feat tn
ers with yellow gold"
suppose you know what the Israel
ties did down in Egyptian slavery
They made bricks Amid the utensil.
OF the brick kiln there were also Other
utensils of cookery the kettles, the
pots, the pans, with which they pre-
pared 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 i'm
| PIGMENTS of hard work. When they
arose in the morning they found their
! garments covered with the clay and
| the smoke and the dust, and be-
/ >mrchcd and begrimed with the uten-
/ Sis 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 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 the glorious emancipation
! for which God had prepared them, he
says; "Though ye have lain among
the pots, yet shall We be as the wings
of d 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, lust be.
| fore shutdown, pigeons and doves which
, had. during the heat of the day, beer
| hiding among the kettles and the pans
with which the food was prepared
/ picking up the crumbs that they NIGH
find; just about the hour of sunset
! they would spread their wings and fly
| heavenward, entirely uusoiled by the
region in which they had moved, for
! the pigeon is very clearly bird AnC
as the pigeons flew away the setting
sun would throw silver on their wing:
and gold on their breasts, SO you sec
it Is not Il far fetched smile, or an un
natural comparison, when David in my
! text says to these emancipated Israel
ties, 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 dov,
t covered with silver, and her feather,
with yellow gold"
! Sin is the hardest of all taslimastcrs
! Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us
drudging in a most degrading service
but after a while Christ comes and h,
says: Let my people go" and w,
I pass out from among the brick-kilns o
sin into the glorious liberty of th'
! gospel; we put on the clean robes of /;
! Christian profession, and when at las
God has provided for us in heaven, W,
shall go fairer than dove, its wing
! covered with silver, and its feather,
with yellow gold.
am going to preach something
which some of you do not believe, anC
that is that the grandest possibl,
adornment is the religion of Jesu,
Christ. There are great many PEG
! Pile 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 under
stand the Bible; they have no
properly examined it. Doctor
johnson said that Hume told II minis
! ter in the bshopric of Durham, tina
he had never particularly examined
the New Testament, yet all his lif,
warning against it. HALEY the as
| tron omer announced his skepticism t
! Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac New
ton said: Now, sir, l have examined
| the subject and you have not; and
! am ashamed that you, protesting to b,
| a philosopher, consent to condemn
thing You never have examined. AnC
so men reject the religion of Jceu
Christ because they really have nevc
! investigated it. They think it some
thing undesira BILE, something that viii
| not work, something Pccksnitlian
something hypOcritical something re
pulsivc, when it is so bright and 5,
beautiful you might compare it to :
chaffinch, you might compare it to d
robin redhreast, you might compare il
to a dove, its wings covered with sill
yer and its feathers with yellow gold
But how is it if young man be
comes a Christian? All through the
club rooms, Were he associates, al
through the business circles where he
is known, there is cOmmisera ton
They say: What a pity that a young
man who had such bright prospect.
should so have been despOiled by those
Christians, giving up all his worldly
prospects for something which is of ne
particular present worth Here is {
young woman who becomes a Chris
tan: her voice, her face, her manner,
the charm of the drawing-rOom. Now
all through the fashionable circles the
whisper goes: What pity that such a
bright light should have been ex,
tinguished, that such graceful gait
should be crippled, that such worldly
| nroSnects ShOuld he obliteraIed " All
my friends, it can be shown that relig-
ion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and
that all her paths are peace; that re
ligion instead of being dark and dole.
full and lachrymose and repulsive, is
bright and beautiful, fairer than a
dove, its wings covered with silver and
its feathers with yellow gold
See in the first place, what religion
will do for mans heart | care not
how cheerful man may naturally be
before conversion, conversion brings
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