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
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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
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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
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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
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“What
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Paradoxical:
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Askins—Was it hard to accomplish?
Hard? It was as hard as it is
red-nosed man to look coldly in
Puck
think 1
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makes Mudge
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‘or a
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She--1
might love
not so extravagant
more
He
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Life
“1s your picture in
you
if you
It's my ext
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Some
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Pu
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Mr. Peck (during
den
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rile
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First Author
two
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Second
My ve
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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. The barbarian, without
jooking up, gays, busily: “Please throw
them in the basket yourself—I haven't
time just now.” —L'Illustre de Poche,
“Curious circumstances under which
Stickem left his boarding house,” said
a drummer, speaking of an acquaint.
ance whose character wasn't above re
proach. “Indeed! What was there cu.
rious about it?" asked a friend. “That
he didn't take the house with him. "=
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1 have spoken to you about it already
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