The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-11
OUT OF BRICKKILNS.

OUT OF BRICKKILNS.
DR.. TAtMAGE breaches UPON THE
SUSTAINING POWER OF RELIGION.
The Usual Great Audience EnrapturedO Over
HIS Glowing DiscourseeTrials n Temp
tattons OF the World-AC Curious Text and
unique Sermon.
BRooKLYN, April LIN the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached to a crowded audience on
asubject Of unusual interest, as illustrat-
ing tine sustaining power of religion to
these who are in daily contact with the
world, It's trials and temptations. The
text chosen was Psalms xvii, 10,
Though ye have lain among the pots,
yet shall ye be as the wings of above
covered with silver and her feathers
with yellow gold"
Isuppose you know what the Israelites
did down In Egyptian slavery. They
made bricks. Amid the utensils Of the
brickkln there 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
heclay, and the smoke, and the dust,
andbesmrched and begrimed with the
utensils of cookery.
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 APP
parel. No more bricks for them to make.
LetPharaoh 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, .sThoughye
hare balm among the pots, yet shall ye
be as the wings of a dove covered with
silver and her feathers with yellow
gold-D
AHARD TAskMAsTER.
Miss Whately, the author of a ceie-
bFated book. Life In Egypt" said she
sometimes saw peopiein the east cooking
theirsfood on the tops Of houses, and that
she had often seen just before SHUTDOWN
pigeons and doves, which had during the
heat Of the day been hiding aGonstl tie
kettles and the panswih which the food
wasprepared, picking upthe crrmbs that
they might find. Just about the hour Of
sunset they would spread their WINS
and fly heavenward, entirely unsoi!ed TX
The region In which they had moved, for
the pigeon is a very Clearly bird.
And as the pigeons few away the set
ting sun would throw silver on Their
wings and gold on their breasts. So yen
see it is not a farfetched siraile or an
unnatural comparison when David, in
my text, says to these eznancipated 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 lam among the pots, YET shall ye
be as the wings Of a dove covered with
silver and her feathers with yellow gold.'
SIMS the hardest of all tasknasters.
Worse than Pharaoh. it keeps us drudgg-
ing IN q most degrading service, but
after awhile Christ comes, and he says,
ssLet my people co. and we pass oct
from among the brickhlns of sin into
the glorious liberty Of the gospel. We
put on the clean robes Of a Christian
and when at last we soar
away to the warn nest which God has
provided for us in heaven we shall go
fairer than a dove, its wings covered
with silver and It's feathers with yellow
gold
TIE DOVE ASA COMPARISON.
I 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
great many people who suppose that
religion is a very different thing from
what it really is. The reason men con-
denim the Bible is because they do not
the Bible. They have not
properly examined it. DR.. johnson said
that Hume told q minister in The bishop
ric Of Durham that he had never par
ticularly examined the New Testament,
yet all his life warning against it. Hal
ley, the astronomer, announced his skep
ticism to Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Isaac
Newton said: "Now, sir, Fhaye exam
ined the subject, and you have not. And
I am ashamed that you, processing to be