Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-02

on a subject Of unusual interest, as
illustrating the sustaining power of
religion to those who are in daily con-
tact with the world. its trials and
temptations. The text chosen was
Psalms 6S:13:
Though ye have lain among the
pots, yet shall ye be as the wings Of
dove covered with silver and her feath-
ers with yellow gold"
/ suppose you know what the Israel
ites did down in Egyptian slavery.
They made bricks. Amid the utensils 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 70 res they lay down among the
implementf n COOKERY and the imple-
ments OF hard work. When they arose
IN the morning they found their gar
ments 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, ana be took
these poor slaves into land where
they had better garb, bright and clean
and beautiful apparel. No more bricks
for them 20 make. Let Pharoah make
his own bricks. When David, ia my
text, comes 20 describe the transition
OF these poor ISraelites from their bond
age among the briCk-kilns into the glO-
riOus emancipation for which God had
prepared them, he says: 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.
Miss Whately, the author Of a cele-
6rated book, Life In Egypt said she
sometimes saw people In the East cook
ing their food
on TIE TORS or 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, wiki
which the food was prepared. picking
up the crumbs that they might find;
just about tho hour OF sunset they
wRuld spread their wings and dy heay-
onward, entirely unsoued by the region
To- which they had moved, for the pigeon
is a verv clearly bird. Aud as the
pigeons flew away the setting sun would
throw silver on their wings and gold on
their breasts. So you see 10 is not far
fetched simie, or an unnatural COM
parisOn, when David in my text saws 90
these emancipated ISraelItes, and saws
70 all those who are brought out OF any
kind Of trouble into any Kind OF spir-
itual JOY; Though ye have lain among
the pots. yet shall ye be Gs the wings of
a dove covered with silver and her
feathers with yellow gold.
Sin is the hardest OF all taskmasters.
worse than Pharaoh, ia keeps US drudg-
iug if~a most degrading service; but
after a while Christ comes and be says:
'Let my people CO. and we pass from
among the briCk-kilns OF sin into the
glorious liberty OF the Gospel; we put
on the clean robes OF a Christian pro-
fessiOn, and when, at last, we soar away
10 the warm nest which God has pro-
vided for US Ia heaven, we snail 20
fairer than a dove, it's wings covered
with silver, and lts feathers with yellow
gold.
lam going to preach something which
some Of you do not believe, and that is,
that the grandest possible adOrnment
ia the religion Of Jesus Christ. There
are great many people who suppose
that religion is very different thing
from What 10 really is. The reason men
CONDEMN THE BIBLE
is because they do not understand the
Bible; they have not properly examined
t. Or. Johnson said that Hume told q
minister in the BishoDric OF Durham,
that be had never particularly examined
the New Testament yet spent all his lie
warning against it. Haley, the astrou-
omer, announced his SCepticism 20 Sir
Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac Newton
said: "Now, sir, 1 have examined the
subject aud you have not; and / am
ashamed that you, protesting 90 be a
philosopher, consent % condemn a
thing you never have examined And
go men reject the religion Of Jesus
Christ because they really have never
investigated TO- They thing 10 some
thing undesirable, something that will
not work, something Pecksaiilian, some
thing hypOcritical, something repul.
sive, when il is so bright and so beauti-
ful you might compare iJ 90 q chafiuch,
YOU might compare 10 to TO0iu-red-
breast, you might compare &c 10 a dove,
its wings covered with silver, and It's
feathers with yellow gold.
But how is 10 IF young man becomes
q Christian? All through the club
rooms. where he associates, all through
the business circles where he is known,
there is cOmmiSeratiOn. They say:
''What a pity that young man who
had such bright prospects should have
been desDOiled Oy those Christians, Civ
ing up all his worldly prospects ,Or
something which is of DO particular
present worth" Here is young wo-
man who becomes q Christian; ner
voice, her face, her manners the charm OF
THE DRAWING ROOM
Now all through the fashionable circles
the whisper goes: "Nhat pity that
such bright light should have been
extlnguisked, that such q graceful gait
should be crippled, that Such worldly
prospects should be Obliterated" All,
NV friends, IL can be shown that rellg-
IONS WAYS are ways Of pleaSautneSS,
and that all her paths are peace; that
religion, instead Of being dark aud
doleful fnl lachrymoSe and repulSive,
is bright and beautiful, fairer than
dove. its wings covered with silver aud
its feathers with yellow sold.
See. I'm the first place, what religion
will do for a mans heart. care not
how cheerful a man may naturally be
before conversion, conversion brings
. him I'D 10 higher standard of cheer
L. Ia.