The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-02
OUT OF THE BRICK KILNS.
TaImagG Pictures the ISTaeliteS In
Slavery In Egypt.

The Bible Condemned Only Because
Men Do Not Understand 1t.
Brooklyn, April lin the Brooklyn
Tabernacle to-day, Rev. DR.. TalmaEe
preached to a crowded audience. Ona sub
iect of unusual interest, as illustrating
the sustaining power Of religion to. those
who are in daily contact with the world
its trials and temptations. The text
chosen was Psalms 6S: l3; Though ye
have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be
as the wings of a dove covered with sill
yer and her feathers with yellow gold"
suppose you know what the Israelitcs
did down in Egyptian slavery. They
made bricks. Amid the utensils of the
brick-kiln there were also other utensils
Of coo5ery-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 10 rest,
they layed down among the implements
Of cookery and the implements 81 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 a while
the Lord broke up that slavery and he
took these poor slaves into a land where
they had better gaTb, 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 -klus into the glorious enamel
patton for which God had prepared them,
4.FTR- L.. tagv.
the pots. vet shall We be 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 cooking
their food on the tops of houses, and
that she had often seen, Just before sun
down, pigeons and doves which had dur
ing the heat of the day, been hiding
among the kettles and the pans. with
which 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 unsOileu by the region in which
they had moved, for the pigeon is very
clearly bird. And as the pigeons flew
away the setting sun would throw silver
on their wings and gold on their breasts.
So you see it is not far-fetched smile,
or an unnatural comparison, when David
in my text says to these emancipa ted
lsraelites, and says to all those who are
brought out of any kind of trouble into
any kind of spiritual 10y: Though We
have lain among the pots, yet shall We be
as the wings of a dove covered with sill
yer and her feathers with yellow gold. "
Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps US drudg-
ing in a most degrading service; but after
a while Christ comes and he says: Let
my people co. ana we pass out from
among the brick-kilns of sin into the glo-
rious 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 dove,
its wings covered with silver, and its
feathers with yellow gold.
] am going TO preach something which
some OF you do not believe. and that is,
that the grandest possible adornment is
the religion of Jesus Christ. There are a
great many people who suppose that re-
hgion is a very different thing from what
it really is. The reason men condemn the
Bible Is because they do not understand
the Bible; they have not properly ex-
amined it. DR.. Johnson said that Hume
told a minister in the Bishopric of
Durham that he had never pap
tiCularlY examined the New Tesla
1itnbs NGb al HIS ne warning against IL.
Haley the astronomer, announced his
skepticism to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir
Isaac Newton said CHOW, sir, | have
examined the subject and you have not;
and am ashamed that you, protesting to
be a philosopher, consent to condemn a
thing you never have examined" And so
men reject the religion of Jesus Christ
because they really have never investi-
gated it. They think it something unde-
GiF1hIn Cnmnfbinp that will
something Pecksniffian, something hYpo-
critical, something repulsiye, when it is
so bright and so beautiful you might com
pare it TO chatfinch you might compare it
to robin-redbreast. you might compare
II TO dove, its wings covered with sill
yer, and its feathers with yellow gold
But how is il If a young man becomes a
Christian All through the club-rooms,
where he associates, all through the bust
ness circles where he is known, there is
commiseration. They say: What pity
that a young man who had such bright
prospects should so have been despoiled
by those Christians, giving up all his
worldly prospects for something which is
of no particular present worth! - Here is
a young woman who becomes a Christian;
her voice, her face. her manners 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 extin-
guished, that such graceful gait should
be crippled, that such worldly prospects
should be obliteratedl !" An, my friends.
il can be shown that religions WAYS are
ways of pleasantness, and that all ner
paths are peace; that religion, instead of
being dark and doleful and lachrymose
and repulsive is bright and beautiful
fairer than 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 a man may naturally be before
conversion, conversion brings him up to a
higher standard of cheerfulness. | do
not say he will laugh any louder: / do not
say but he may stand back from some
forms of hilarity in which he once in
dulged; but there comes into his soul an
immense satisfaction. A young man not
Christian depends uEou worldly sue
cesses to keep his spirits up. Now he is
prospered, now he has a large salary, now
he has beautiful wardrobe now he has
pleasant friends, now he has more money
than he knows how to spend: everything
goes bright and well with him But
trouble comes-thcre many voting men in
the house this morning who can testify
out Of their own experience that some
Times to Young men trouble does come
his friends are gone, his salary is gone.
his health is gone. he goes down, down.
lie becomes sour, cross, queer, nissan
thropic, bames the world, blames society.