REV. DR TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Sunday Sermon. Divine's Subject: “A Hing Enting Grass." Tex»: “The same hour was the thing ful- filed upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and bis body was wet with the dew of heaven, tiil bis hairs were grown lk» eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.” — Dantel iv., 84. Better shade your ayes lest they bo put out with the splendor of Babylon, as some morn- ng you walk out with Nebuchadnezzar on the suspension bridges which hang frow the housetops and he shows you the vastness of his realm. As the sun kindles the domes with glist nings almost insufferable and the great streets thunder up their pomp foto the sar of the monarch, and armed towers stand around, adorned with the spoils ef con- quered empires, Nebuchadnezzar waves his band above the stupendous scene and ex- claims, *Is not this great Babylon, that I have bailt for the houses of the kingdom by the might of my power and tor the honor of my majesty?’ But in an instant all that splendor is gone from his vision, for a vo'es falls from the heaven, saying: “0 King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken. The kingdom is departed from thee, and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the fleid, [hey shall make thee to eat grass as oxen nnd seven years shail pass over thes, until thou know that the Most Hich ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will.” One hour from the time that he made the boast he is on the way to the flelds, a maniae, and rashing into the f stg, he becom of the beasts, covered w for protection from the co growlog to birds’ claws in might dig the earth for roots and climb the trees for nuts, You see there isa great variety inthe 8S rip- tural landscape, In discourses we have looked at mountains of excellen i now we look down into a great, dark ch: of wickedness ns we come to speak of Neb shadnezzar. God in His Word se the beauoty of self deulal, of sobriet) vation, of courage, and then, lest we should mot thoroughly understan! Hi he intro- duced Daniel and Puniand I rah as ilius- trations of those virtues, God tous in His Word as to the h pride, of folly, of impiety ane not thoronghly understand Him, introduces Nebuchadnezzar as n mn of these forms of depravity. y former style of charaeter is a lighthouse, showing us a way into a safe harbor, and the latter style of character is a black buoy, swinging on the roeks, to show where vessels wreek them- selves, Thanks unto God ih the buoy and the lighthouse! The h yf Nebusha nezzar is thundering at the gates of Jerus tem. The crown of that sacred city is struck into th dust by the hand of Babylonish in. solenca., The vessels of the temple, whieh {ane touch were ruthlessly seized acriloge and transportation. Ob, what a sad hour when those Jewsy at the command of the invading army, are obliged to leave the home of their nativity? How their he have been wrang with anguish v ¥ departed, they neard t top of the temple anno morning sacriflos an altars ascending are for wel they knew th they would nev r hear ti behold the majestic ascent Behold those ¢ Jerusalem to they dare not} en grping 88 Ono feathers and his nails order th ales’ 3 he us sevaral ersonatl for Or i i 1 % 1 Aged men t weeping that in hi the sleesin: drer and sob night had falien step 4 teart broke Babylon su " hold their pative ei:y, heard from the eaptiv no splen Buphrates did not | tho brook Kedron or willows of Babylo: thetr nntuned harps, the trees which at the foot of M semed to weep at the departed glory of adah, and all the fragrance that descendad from the banging gardens a th great city was not #0 swret as cone breath of the acaela and frankincense that the high priest kindled in toe sanetuary at Jerusalem. or there am ! they were not as grac ar {hese captives had been brought to his city Nebuchadnezzar @seared with a night vision. A bad man's pillow is apt to be stuffed with deuds and forebo dings which keep talking in the night. He will find that te egies’ down Suilis, The ghosts « ife to wander about in wrkness and beckdn and his< Yet when the roing came he found that the vision had entire y fled from Lis Dreams drop no anchors, and theralore are apt to sail before we ean fasion them, Nebuchadn zzar ealls all the wise men of the land into his presence, demanding that by their necromaney they expiain his dreas. They urse fail, Then their faithful king issues an edict with us little mercy, ordering the slaying of all the learns : meu of the conntry, But Daniel the prophet comes in with nier- pretation just in time to save (i and the J. wish captives, My iriends, do you ne that pride and ruin ride in the same saldie? Ses NsLuchad- negaar on the prcudest throne of ail the earth, and theo see him graze wth the sheep and the cattie! Pride ia commander, wail piomed and comparisoned, but it leads forth un dark and frowping host, The arrows from the Almighiy's quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes his greal spear in deflavce, but the smooth far tha ¢ AWaY of of S61 OAs Ww. “oe mnd eounld engineer the trata of fmmorial mealifes, Mow stravgze {t is that memory, on whose shoulders ‘all misfortunes nnd successes and occurrences sf a lifetimo are placed, should not oftener break down, and that the seales of judgment, whieh have been weighing so much and so ong, should not los? their adjustment and :hefr fancy, which holds asdangerous wand, shonld not sometimes maliciously wave it, bringing into the heart forehodipgs and aallusinations the most appalling: is ft not strange that this mind, whieh hopes so much in its mighty leaps for the attainment of its objeots, should not be dashed to pleces ou its disappointments? Though so delicately tuned, this instrument of untoid harmony plays on, though fear shakes it and vexa- tons rack it and sorrow und joy and loss snd gain ina quick succéssion beat outof {it their dirge ar toss from it their anthem. At next to the salvation by Jesus Christ, pralre the Lord for the preservation of your reason, See also in this story of Nebuohadnezzar makes of bad men, The wicked are used as instru- ments for the punishment of wickedness in others or as the {illustration of somo prine the divine government, Nebu- Even 80 I will go back with you to the history of every reprobate that the world has ever [will show you how to a great ex- its de- structive power and how God glorified Him- self in the overthrow and disgrace of His enemy. Babylon is full of abo nination, and Persia fills the niquity, and vile Alexander puts Macodon must be chastised, The Bastile is corrupt Napoleon ven so selfish and wicked ade to accomplish great and Jo ! hren wera meaean- slavery t have been t God never cup of ita i and bloody Emiltus does it, bs destroyed, nnd wceomplishes it, are o pu glorious byw ¢ f He who is down cannot fall, dizg under bars poles do not feel the force Hemember tha: we can be as proud of our humility as asoything else, walked the streets of Athens with a ragged sloak to demonstrate his humility, but Bo- erates declared he could ses his by through the holes in his cloak. Wé I+ all sew course ves smaller than we ars if Wi were as philosophic us Severus, the Emperor of Rome, who sald at the close of N's itfe, *f have seen evervthiog, and Sverything i sothing.” And @ntain his ashes ¥*, at his command Bright 10 Bim, b~ oq14 ‘Little urn, thou Shi} contain ote for whom the world was ie, Youu not ales learn from the misfortune bis king 0: Babylon what a terrible thing the loss of reason? There is no calamity ‘that enn possibiy befall us in this world s¢ great as deranvement of intellect; 10 have the body of man and yet to fall even below tha instinet of u brute, In this world of hor rible sights, the most horri ls is the idiot" stare. In this worid of horribie scund«, the most horrible s the maniae's laugh. A ves sot driven on the rocks, when hundreds ge who never to rise and other hundreds drag their mangle and shivering bodies upon the winter's beach, 18 nothing com to the joundering of intel ects full of vast hope and attainments and capacities, Christ's heart went out toward those whe were epl'eptie, falling into the fire, or mand nos sutting themselves among the tombs, Weare octint Omud jo be more armetul foi physicial health thun for the proper wo of our mind. We are apt to take it for grant that the intellect which has served us so well will alwass be faithful, We orget that ar engine of such tremendous power, whers the bave such vastoess of eirels and suck swiftness of motion, and the least impediment might put it out of gear, oan only be kept is proper balance by a divine hand. No humm | becoms the Pharaoh oppres most diaboiie ty ie the salvation o ary 4 +) 1 19, The IOCUSts, str ange! show b t who will defend the yf His finally, after the Israsidtes ha yah the part ea, behold, in t yf the drowned a hat God's enem as chall In som » the right Houses and foundered wealthy credit lead in the vine ad i rm ies are fluancial night and warning pped streat, and money ran up the long ladder of tweaty-five p y inugh lown upon those who climb alter it. Dealers stood shops In a on the rock of 1 without with poockels iting in the deal Men rushed down the streets notes after them. Those who b it hard to spand thelr money wero yut Mouey to spend, Laborers rwant of work, to see hunger in *hair at the table pn upon the hearth. Winter blew his breath of frost through lagers of icleles, and sheriffs with attache nents dug inders of fallen st houses, an es joined {a the loag funeral pro , marching to the grave of lead fortunes ar a fallen commerce, Yer ily th t i with the wicked, ad the worst of { come togeth- were I, and repuatses thought sho wit! t iaft with- went home their ’ TP, rn RECN OSs + an rung back ! this sia stra iCK earth. © # Hor I 1 3 i laying of on hands upo a At tha carrying 1 off 88 spo Is were an uaboundad offense £ ie, Yet Nebuohad- this very sacrilege. 1king {3 gone, the sins kK upand down the earth, t century, things fa ymmitted Though that wicke AMTTUNG he inaugurated wal cursing it from century to ecrating sacred those who on sacramental z the comuunion eup, while aversation and deeds all show that y live down in Babylou. How solema is is Sacrament! It ir a time for vows, & time repentance, A tims for faith, Sinai stands near with ts fire split clouds and Cal vary with its vietim, The Holy Spirit broods over the scene, and the glory of heaven seams to gather in the sanctuary, Vile in. mast that man be who will come in from his idols and aarepsnted fo lies to take hold of the sacred vesasis of the temple, Oh, thou Nebuchadoeszzar! Back with you to Jabylon! Those ales desecrate sacred things who usa the Sabbath ‘or any other tha religious purposes, This holy day was let down from heaven amid the intense secularities of the week 10 remind us that we are immortal and aOMm- Ee of happiness. It is a green spot in the hot desert of the world that gushes with fouan- tains and waves w.th palm trees, This is the time to shake the dust from the robe of cur awords for fatare that seems 80 far off on cthor days, alights upon the earth, ani the song o heavenly choirs and ths conflict, Heaven, earthly worshin, Wo hoa the walling i=. fund of Be’ istiom, and ho hanmor stro% of tha oarpenter’s weary sn 1a Nazareth, tf ery of Golgotha of the Sabbath ! God divides this Glory ba unto the Lord With that oié 237 In sevdh gr at sea of business and g yoty, that so, lig shod, we may pass be. tween the worldly Dosis Bs vu: the past and the worldly businsss o' the fatns, Just fn propor.iou a3 men are wrong wil they be boisterous in thelr religious conten. tions. The lamb'of religion is always gen tle, while there Is no lion so force as the roaring Hon that gors about sesking whom he may devour. Let Gibraitars beloh their war flame on the sea, and the Dardanelles darken the Hellespont with the smoke of their batteries, but forever and ever let there be good will among those who profess to be subjects of the «| of gentleness, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth pease, good will to men.” What an embarrassing thing to meet In heaven If we have not setiled our contro. versions on earth, 8o [ give ont for all p eof all mligions to sing Johan Fawoet's hymun, in short meter, Sombosed in 1772, but just as appropriate for 1897 : Bleat be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love, The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above From sorrow, toil and pain Mo sin ro shall ha tod; 4 periset love and friendship reign Through alk eternity, p A553 Ninety-nine cents sounds only about half ns big to a woman as a dollar, Mes haute know the trick, Gi “What “He Paradoxical: look so vacant? ilanapolis Journal Askins—Was it hard to accomplish? Hard? It was as hard as it is red-nosed man to look coldly in Puck think 1 were makes Mudge is fall.”"—In- 4 Feller ‘or a Jlectual She--1 might love not so extravagant more He ravagant nature that makes Life “1s your picture in you if you It's my ext me love you so the Academy n wonde was? “That's what I am Some 1 one sald it was worth Pu n CGzazet Mr. Peck (during den I'ti you're calling me a North American. bat--my r wif lence, sir! rile Mmraer Brazen B it « fran Ow I'a age 1s iy n Boarde Baltimore First Author two Weeks, an't get the 1 Second My ve i Enquls Cawker read is It is a continued story. Stops short, does it? “Yes” strange. range on This ] Rg: completed in Mrs, to glory J nie aot number. Then 1 should say It was a discon- tinued story.” Harper's Bazar, The poet enters timidly. “Here are a few verses, Mr. Editor,” he says, def. srentially. 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