Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-04-05
AT THE TABERNACLE
Or. TALMAeE's SERMON wAsoN "oUT
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More JOY In One Drop OF Christian Salts
faction Than In Rivers Of Sinful Delight.
Napoleon, voitaire and the Apostle Paul.
Danger In Delay.
BROOKLYN, April I'm the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached to crowded audience on
a subject of unusual interest, as illustrat-
ing the sustaining power of religion to
those who are in daily contact with the
world, its 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 lsraelites
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 imple-
ments of 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
awhile the Lord broke up that slavery,
and he took these poor slaves into land
where they had better garb, 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 oi
these poor Israelites from their bondage
amid the brickkilns into the glorious eman'
cipation 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"
SIN A HARD TAsKMAsTER.
Miss Whately, the author of celebrated
book, "Life In Egypt" said she sometime
saw people in the east cooking their foot
on the tops oahouses, and that she had OF
ten seen, just before sundown, pigeons an,
doves which had during the heat of tn
day been hiding among the kettles ant
the pans, with which the food was prepar
ed, picking up the crumbs that they nigh
find. Just about the hour of sunset the.
would spread their wings and fly heaven
ward, entirely unsoiled by the region il
which they had moved, for the pigeon is
very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons fieN
away the setting sun would throw silve
on their wings and gold on their breasts
So you see it is not farfetched simile G
an unnatural comparison when David j
my text says to these emancipated Israel
ties and says to ali those who are brough
out of any kind of trouble into any kin
of spiritual joy, "Though ye have lai
among the pots, yet shall ye be as th
wings of dove covered with silver an
her feathers with yellow gold"
Sin io the hardest of all taskmaster'
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us drudgin
in most degrading service, but afte
awhile Christ comes and he says, "Let N
people go, and we pass out from anon
the brickkilns of sin into the glorious Iii
erty of the gospel We put on the clea
robes Of Christian profession, and whe
at last we soar away to the warm ne
which God has provided for us in heave
we shall go fairer than a dove, its wing
covered with silver and its feathers wit
yellow gold.
lam going to preach something whic
some of you do not believe, and that
that the grandest possible adornment
the religion of Jesus Christ. There are
great many people who suppose that rel
gion is very different thing from what
really is. The reason men condemn Il
Bible is because they do not understar
the Bible; they have not properly exar
Sr,ad Nv 1ohncou sold thot Hnynn ta
a minister in the bishopric Of Durha
that he had never particularly examin'
the New Testament, yet all his life vi
warning against it, HALEY, the astronome
announced his skepticism to Sir Isaac Ne,
ton, and Sir Isaac Newton said: "Ne,
sir, have examined the subject, and "
have not, and am ashamed that you, pr
Tossing to be philosopher, consent to co
demn thing you never have examined
And so men reject the religion of Jes
Christ because they really have never
vestigated it, They think it something u
desirable, something that will not wor
something Pecksniffian, something hyp
critical, something repulsive, when it
so bright and SO beautiful you might COZ
pare it to a chai1inch, you might compare
to robin rcdbreast, you might compa
it to dove, its wings covered with silve
and its feathers with yellow gold.
PATHS OF PEACE.
But how is it if a young man becomes
Christian? All through the clubrooI
where he associates, all through the bu
ness circles where he is known, there
commiseration. They say: "What pi
that a young man who had such brig
prospects should SO have been 6espoiled
those Christians, giving up all his world
prospects for something which is Of
particular present worthp Here is
young woman who becomes Christia
her voice, her face, her manners the chal
of the drawing room. Now all throu
the fashionable circles the whisper go
tsWhat pity that such bright lie
should have been extinguished, that su
a graceful gait should be crippled, I'll
such worldly prospects should be oblit
ated!n All, my friends, it can be shoy
that religions ways are ways Of plsasal
ness, and that all her paths are peat
that religion, instead Of being dark a
doleful and lachrymose and repulsive,
bright and beautiful, fairer than do
its wings covered with silver and its feat
,ers with yellow gold.
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