Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-19
RELIGIONS POWER.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses on
the Power of Religion
To Help All who Encounter the Worlds
Trials and Temptations The Grand
est Possible Human Adornmeht
is the Religion of
Jesus Christ.

trating the sustaining power of reli-
gion to those who are in daily contact
with the world, its trials and tesnpta-
tons. The text chosen was Psalms,
xviii, 10:
"lhorgh ye have lain among the pots, yet
shall We be as IN. wings OF dove covered
with silver and her tealhers with yellow gold
suppose you know what the Israel
ties did down in Egyptian slavery.
They made bricks. Amid the utensils
of the briclS-lSiln 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 10 rest. they lay down among
the implements of cookery and the inn
plements OF hard work When thev
arose in the morning they found their
garments covered with the clay and
the smoke and the dust, and be-
smirched and begrined with the uten-
sils 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 garb bright and clean
and beautiful apparel No more bricks
for them TO make. Let Pharoah 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
glorious emancipation for which God
had prepared them. he says: Though
We have lain among the pots, yet shall
We be as the wings of dove covered
with silver, and her feathers with yell
low gold"
Miss Whately, the author of eele-
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, just before
shutdown pigeons and doves which
had. during the heat of the day, been
hiding among the kettles and the pans,
with which the food was prepared
picking ap the crumbs that they might
find: just about the hour of sunset they
would spread their wings and ny
heaveuward, entirely unsoiled by the
region in which they had moved, for
the pigeon is very cleanly 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 a far-fetched smile, or an UNI
natural comparison when David in my
text says 10 these emancipated Israel
ties. and saws to all those who are
brought out of any kind of trouble in
to any kind of spiritual joy; Though
We have lain among the pots yet shall
We be as the wings of a dove covered
with silver, and her feathers with yell
low gold"
Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us
DREDGING in a most degrading service;
but after while Christ comes and lie
saws: Let My people go;" and we
pass cut from among the briek-kllns
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 dove
its wings covered with silver, and It's
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 great many people
who suppose that religion is a very
different thing from what it really is
The reason men condemn the hioie Il
because they do not unde rstano tht
bible: they have not properly exam
ined Il. DIR. johnson said that Hume
.old a minister in the bishoprie of Dur
ba,, that he had never particular
axar,ined the New Testament, yet al
bis life warning against It. Haley
the astronomer. announced ms skePtlc
IN, ~ Sir. Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac
N.Na,,,ton said: Now, sir, have exam
49, The subject. and you have not
No. / am ashamed that you proiessiil
i be philosopher, consent 10 con
Emn thing you never have eNa m
Iaan And SO men reject the reilglof
Iasns Christ because they realll
ro,-er investigated it. They thinl
or,a+binU undesirable. something
y,Hl not work, something Peck
snifian. something hypocritleal' some
..;rsr renuisive. when II Is SO orlgh
and Il beautiful You might compare
-. cbaeinch. Won might compare 1t t.
ra,,;n-redbreast YOU might eompar
Il 10 a dove. its wings covered Win 81
ver and its feathers with yellow soiu
p,,t how is it if a young man become
christian All through the eiu
rooms. where he associates, al tarougl
~, business circles where he IS known
- - eonmiseration. They say
s.y-hata pity tina; young man VII
,.ho had such bright prospects shout
~ ~i nave been despoiled by those Chris
sans s, giving up all his worldly pros
ree,s for something which is Of no pa'
tsc,'iar present WORTH Here is
Young woman VINO becomes ehrl'
tan: ner voice. her face her iLlan Ilei
cham of the drawing room No'
ny, =, .,..,,,,rb the fashionable circles tn
al goes: What pity that sue
hrirbt light should have been e.
toned that such a graceful ga