Connecticut western news., 1894-04-05
OUT OF BRICKKTLNs.
OR. TAlMaGE BREACHES UPON THE SUSTAINING POWER OF RELIGION.

His Glowing Discourse-Trials and Temp tations of the World A Curious Text and Unique Sermon.
 BROOKLYN, April In the Brooklyn Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. Dr. Tal- mage preached to a 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, it's trials and temptations. The text chosen was Psalms xviii, 13, 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"
 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 i'll the morning, they found their garments covered with the clay, and the smoke and the dust, and beernirched 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 ap- ol~ f<,. t<>r olxe Let Pharaoh.mske hisown bricks When David, in my text, comes to describe the transition of these poor Israelites from tn 1T bondage amid the brickkilns into the glorious emancipation for which God had prepared them, he says, Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold"
 AHARD WESTMINSTER.
 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 sundown 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 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, for the pigeon is very cleanly 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 1t is not a farfetched simile or an unnatural comparison when David, ip 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. ,
 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
 
 provided for us in heaven we shall go fairer than dove, it's wings covered with silver and it's feathers with yellow gold.
 THE DOVE AS A COMPARISON.
 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 very different thing from what it really is. The reason men con- demn the Bible is because they do not understand the Bible. They have not properly examined it. Dr. Johnson said That Hume told 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, have exam ined the subject, and you have not. And l am ashamed that you, protesting to be philosopher, consent to condemn a thing you have never examined"
 And so men reject the religion of Jesus Christ because they really have never in. vestigated it. They think it something undesirable. something that will not work, something Pecksniffian, something hypocritical, something repulsive, when it is 30 bright and so beautiful you might . compare it to 8 chaffinch, you might com. pare it to a robin red breast, you might compare it to 8 dove-its wings covered with silver and it's feathers with yellow gold.
 But how is it if young man becomes a Christian? All through the clubrooms where he associates, allthrough the busi ness circles where he is known, there is commiseration. They say, "What pity that 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 worthp' Here is a young woman who becomes Chris tian-her' voice, her face, her manners the charm of the drawing room.
 Now all through the fashionable cir cles the whisper goes, What pity that such bright light should have been ex tinguished, that such a graceful gait should be crippled, that such worldly prospects should be obliteratedr' An my friends. it can be shown that re ligion's ways are ways of pleasantness and that all her paths are peace; that re ligion, instead of being dark and doleful and lachrymose and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than dove, its wings covered with silver and its feath CTS with yellow gold.
 DROWNING TROUBLE.
 See, in the first place, what religion will do for a mans heart. I care not how cheerful man may naturally be before conversion, conversion brings him up te . 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 indulged, but there comes into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man not q Christian depends upon worldly