REV. DR. TALMAGE. : THE BROOKLYN DIVINE DAY SERMON 8S SUN “Sinking the Level of Brutes Subject; to Text: “Al this the King Nebuchadnezzur," Daniel iv, Colonel Rawlinson, the oriental traveler, savs that the exhumed bricks, only of Babylon, but of a hundred towns in an area of one hundred miles in length and thirty in breadth, are inscribed with the name o Nebuchadnezzar. He was a great warrior and at the glance of his sword nations pros trated themselves, Heo was a great king and built a city reservoir ninety miles in eir- cumference and one hundred and twenty feet deep, and constricted a hanging garden four hundred feet square and seventy-five feet high, some say to please Amuhia, bis wife, who had been born among the hill and others say to get a pleasure ground free from the mosqu , wh I think from his e¢ reason may have imp the former. When he ekiah, so as to have him, he put his eve way of incapac Was a great piace, gardens and the ho with each other Nebuchadnezzar w pension bridges and royal visitor, the vastness the sun kindies the domes almost insufferable and thunder up their pomp monarch, & med ad H y Nebuel stupendous s great Babyl house of the kingd ower and for the er words n was not eae upon oy + ot ara Hed hin no were conn and on perh of his with the by one those su showed realm roe m that instant all ich bad gr being interlers bh by iv shears. What Ave taken pla ] a Lransformati who had bee a and sw vith prince room nian pal n the an | ow eating ¢ MErUoOus Kraas It for man And wal table mrds and vineyards in all an an nmon toar ward who the ore docks and stream earth might i nent! And vet t the daylight When | soe a man to rule in mora! elevati tempting out o his immortal oa, coming his throne of { nto bruta ing his highe s to stooping and coming down til is gone, | ary out, grass like an ox And there are tens of thousands of such Nebuchadnezzars. Ho there are queens w) dedicate themselves to the same humiliation What power for good God gave that w Magnetism of personal prsencs more than inperial. By her intelligence by ber tenderness, by her charm of smile and manner, capable of soothing so much sor row, and reforming so much way war iness and wielding so much elevated power: yet at the call of worldliness, coming out of the throne room of good influence where God would have her reign, coming down over the ivory stairs of mortal power, coming down and coming down until she has no more soul than the dead bird transfized in her millinery or the chinchilla that was slain to afford her warmth, or the kid that furnished her the glove, and finding her only delight in flatteries of brainless mon and midnight schottische and debauchae | novelettes, 1 my, “There is one who might have Leen a queen unto God forever, yet esting straw like an ox.’ and tribat what he scone Is as ff regal nature, ma thought, capabl» of ng fac wing in renims of nis sensual aa ties, sacrifl lower nature ning down and all his influence for g “There is a king eating his pmg, ¢ wr HII Influence 1 look over the pasture fields of folly and | #in and flod many groveling who oaght to be erect. Oh, men and women, go beok to Jou thrones! A young nian ran away from lome and broke his widowed mother's heart Fourteen years passed, and he returned and | | acknowledged the tod came to the window at which his old mother was sitting. She looked up and immedi. ately recognized him and mid: “Oh, Robert Robert! Come in®™ er, | shall never come in i kis is that conviction is not eonversion. | | health “No said he, “Moth, | Who is this monarch that makes the boast about Babylon? The very man who, under the revelation of dreams that Daniel made from heaven, deeply humbled himself, while he confessed that God is a God of Gods and a Lord of Lords, yet behold that that hum bling and arousing whick he before felt did | not result in a radical cha . Thera is no mistake mors fr quent than of SUpDosing conviction a synonym version Conviction is merely a of in: conversion isa view of pardon, Con- viction is merely alarm; conversion is confi dence, Conviction is dissatisfaction with pravity: conversion is a turning from it. Conviction is a sword wound: cone. version is the healing, Conviction the fever of thirst: conversion is the sinking of that thirst. Conviction is the pain: conver- Mon is the medicine that cures it sands have experience rienced ths latter, here are multitudes who think that SOON as a man 1s serious he is fit tor pr {ew What if a man should only of be n merchant; would make him a merchant? What if a man ald only think ssriously of being a would that make him a lawber? What if a man sh hink sertously of bai a “Istian; Chris sight In hou sion of religion nk seriously that witness nk i you to FET YOu rehearse IRAZiving, next t nrist, praise Your ressomn are be vat het a Hey | » opiates that bee Annot withou then, lio a sane man right bave you t it in will Jangls But ram the an anything ele hers nothin a] in to put a man, adners ar, « on all fours Sarna bh turns from Nobu i position ’ ” on if you and ensiav die. Botte V hat brain and tem live og use of ia Cause tae wheel to how fa Those now in even though HED up own went nea places power, na few years who this day are ob sure and poverty stricken, will ride up on be shoalders of the pe ple to take their turn st admiration and the spoils of how quic ily the turns! are the steps on which men come down ten ax they go up. Of those who few years ago successful in the scoumnulation of property how few have not met with r verses of fortune, while many of those who then were straitens! in eclrcumsiances now hold the bonds ani the bank keys of ths na tionand win the most bows on the ox clin ge OF ali fickle people in the world Fortune t fickle. Every day she changes and woe to that man who puts what promises or proposes. Nhe cheers when you go up and aughs when you coms down, Oh, trust not A womasnt your heart's affections to this changeable world Ancaor your soul in God. From Corist's love gather your joy Then come sorrow or gladoess, success or defeat, riches oc poverty, honor or alygraoe or sickness, lite or death, tine or otarnity, all are yours and we are Christ's apd Christ is God's Learn also from my subject the comfort ing truth that aMictions are arrested as soon asthey have accomplished their mission they sh id live, will be dis regarded, while some of)» ££ whee! Jallot boxes ns were a is the mos her mind any confidencs in she | For seven years did Nebuchadnezzar dwell among the beasts of the flold, but at the | expiration of that time his reason returnsd, and as soon of heaven he was | #it among the princes of God at for con. | Away | i the former and never | nw | | hax done for them. | eution should come as of old, and they may as with proper humility he palace, Abraham's faith Is sufficiently tried the lamb is provided. As soon ax Pharash eon. sonts wo let the children of Jerael depart the lague pauses, As soon as the Israelites have fe sufficiently disciplined by their wander- ings they find thelr way into’ Canaan. But tosome the Hmit is not set | his life, Their whole pligrimage is throuzh the wilderness | and the world is to them a valley tears, | But perbaps God has a throne in heaven th no « aint ean occupy, and by extraori.nary trials He has prepared that Christian ut for extraordinary glory. 1 will not keep you in the furnace one ent too long Just ag s as Paul bad t with enough i‘nprisonment and scourg- he reached up and plucked his eternal wn, God will keep us no longer under ¢ hammer and on 16 slock than is NeCE- for entrance into the haven of to the divine HONE Nave acco ire arrested [life have some It nan that he immortal Of win ‘ pecial wainary (Hox ol (Hoev be RrAcH mission, they i ts and » Wl bho greatest 1use Dante fatled and wy row vantage was ay A states It Wits I. That Now | gion and what w well what | you Went wo masteriy | would trast me used. 1 was ill humored, | and hating. What has religion done Mank God, 1 am not afraid to put Ami | not a happier man than | 1 1] not a better workman and a r companion Would | onoe have put wits what | now bear from vou? | could neat any of you as easily now as ever Whydon't | Do you ever how a foul word from my ith* Do you catch me at a public he Has anybody a score against Go and ask my neighbors if | am not siterad for the batter. Go and ask my wife it my h bear witnes fod be praised, here is what Christianity has done for me: thers is what infidelity has done for Henry and Usorge Out of tas andience | could gather a thou sand men and women who could tell you an thrilling a story as that ss to what religion Yen, if times of perse. drin and money and nots was mn He Ue come, they are a thousand heres who would for Christ's sake as « heer/ully walk into the furnace of fire as though It were an arbor of thyme and honeysuckle, and face the | Hous as taough they wera lambs of friskiog of the hillside, ant wade down into the deep waters which are to submerge them as hap pily as ever at Narragansett beach they took the surf a\ a sumer bathing, Come uo and join those on the way to a What an absurd thing for a king to be eating grass. Instead of living on the poor fodder that the world affords come and the royal banquet and hear the bands play: “Est, O Friends! Drink, O Beloved” Hore is a | crown, wear It, Here lan scepter, sway it pride is and He enough adversity to bumble it, Just how worldly munded we ars and Just bey snug h to detach us from w Ha Here in a throne, mount it, This is your hour, improve it —————— During the last scholastic year 83,700 pupils attended the colleges and lycees maintained by the State and Govern. ment of France, In addition there are about 250 other h schools with an attendance of 15, | | | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAY, LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 14, Lesson Text: Jeremiah “The New Covenant” xxxi 37 Golden Texe: 84 Jeremiah xxxi, Commentary, 27. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Judah, with the sed of man, and with the of beast Jereminh prophesied during the last forty years of Judab's history ere the two tribes were car. ried captive; during the last vighteen years of Josiah's reign aud the twenty-two yoary of the four kings foll wine. He was simply Grodd's speaking God's Chapter | XXX have been “a bo wi 1 lke Rom reading Israel oe | essen goer Message, and xxxi, a book” {of a careful reference 0 chapter to mean « and the t Israel and Judah ah the ten tribes I'he S gathering ar this and say fF OF ome the aith J if th fore M Israel also shal i n belt a before Me nap now and has not been fo nation in the eves of rae has never ceascd t God, for “The Lord seet ashe will le a 2 hefore sough 1 fro mono | nati he parallel pas saith s Lord he eo sage in BIE BO tions, admired. b because of : In oan le roeasured off all the send of laras have done, saith the Lor when we speak of larasl's fut consider all that they b done, they forieited everything You truly. they have ond tioned forfeited all that was obedience, but the unconditional ; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob God will kes fulfill for His own great name's sake xii, 35; Beek, xxxvi, 2 2 Note fully that when Jerusalem in the restoration it shall "4 on joy Jehovat us sett he AT » » Ave hiave pon their romisss of pani lea CAre rebutit thrown 16 nye of Is by re. simply fie, but to live Lord seen making Christ bw ue stinl never Pe ol 1" down again (verses you would see and Mss glory you must now | lwranl’s King. Then being member that you are redee to go to haven you here ne ng — fit Wo do your part known in all the world, that the church, His lasly, may gathered out of the nations Being ignorant of the mys tary thet “Blindness in part is unto larasl until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.” and that then all Israsl shall be savel (Rom, xi, 25 be church has be oom conceited and vainly imagines that her mission is to convert the whole world, let no preacher, pastor or missionary think that be bn commissioned to convert all within his reach, but rather to be a faithiul withess in the power of the Spirit, “that be may by al. means save some’ (| Cor. ix, 2: Rom. xi. 4, And let every preacher lay to heart what the writer receives through Dr AT Plerson, that our parish is not our field, but & portion of the feild, which is the world, from which we are to gather and instruct a foree with which we may do our part in working the field so as to gather out the church and hasten the day of Israel, —Les son Helper, Sy redeemed aloemed when the in w0 be IT may be felt that the action of the Belgian Government in prohibit. ing the exercise of hypnotism for ex- hibition unless permission is given by a special lleense costing 20,000 francs is a trifle arbitrary, but there can be no question of the general sssump- tion that the hyhnotle power is too dangerous to be a legitimate means of popular amusement. Physicians and scientists are still at liberty to make scientific Investigations, but in Belgium, at least, there Is to be no more idle trifling with the mysteries of hypnotism. - i ———— AX Ann Arbor man has succeeded In eating forty quail in forty days What have the opponents to co-ed ucas tional colleges to say to that? happened | i ! Always on Time, Washington had many admirable traits worthy of imitation, and one of them was ngid punctuality, This was well illustrated by an incident during his visit to Boston, Mass, , years ago. Having appointed eight o’clocl in the morning as t! should one hundred we hour at which set out for I his horse just ns the ( striking that hour cavalry which was to escort hi arrive till after his not overtake him till he rea tiver Bridge. — New York A How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars rewsrd any came of catarrh that cannot be « taking Hall's Catarrh Cur Jd. 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