6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSLAY, FEBRUARY » 25, 1897. SACRED THINGS. A Strong Plea is Made for Their Observance. The Story of Nebuchndnezzar is Told for the Benefit of Sabbath Breakers In Proportion as We ure Wrong Are We Our Contentions, Bolsterous in Religious In his latest Washington sermon Dr, Talmage urges upon the people the im- portance of living a good life. His text was Daniel 4: ‘The same hour the thing fulfilled upon zar: and he was driven from was Nebuchadnez men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was | dew of wet with the heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ and bis nails like birds’ claws.’ Better shade your eyes lest they be put out with the splendor of Babylon, as some morning you walk out with Nebuchadnezzar the bridges which from the tops, and the of kindles feathers, on suspension hang house- vastness the shows As the sun almost insuffer- thunder the h, and armed towers stand around, Spoils of he you his realm. domes with glisterings and the great streets ear of up pomp into the mone conquered buchadnezzar waves his stupendous soene anda t this great Babylon wuse of the m his vision, Heaven hadnezzar, irom » hour from he 18 maniac, and boast shi Him pravit ter is a into a sale nvading are ot ine of nativit) : mirat Sinus been wrun s when, on the day they tr announcir rifice ascending aroun he holy for well : € 3 b is L tant land t trumpet ca fs heard the of the impets temple ng sac nitars hill of Zion ina fard hear that morn and saw noke of the never the majestic ascent o road n and round fing them on and blasphemy, that ' KE ardens rance 2 and fran : | indled in hile after ought Lo his zar is scared with a i wd man's pillow is apt to be stulled with deeds and forebods ings which keep talking in the night. He will find that his pillow will stick him like porcupine quills, The ghosts of transgres- salons are sure to wander about in the darkness and beckon and hiss. Yet when the morning came he found that the vision had entirely fled from him. Dreams drop no anchors, and therefore are apt to sall away before we ean fas. ten them. Nebuchadnezzar calls all the wise men of the land into his pres- ence, demanding that by their necro- macy they explain his dream. They of course fail. Then their wrathful king fasues an edict with as little sense as the engles’ down in old mercy, ordering the slaying of all the learned men of the country. Hut the prophet with the inter pretation just Janiel comes in in time to save the men and the Jewish captive My friends, do you not set and ruin ride in the Nebuchadnezzar the earth, and th him graze with the sheep and the tie! Pride is commander, w { and caparisoned, but it leads dark and frowning host. The { from the Almighty's quiver are sirike a man on th throne of cut ip uméd to when on the wing (ro { linth shakes his greats pear in defiance, but the smooth stones from the fall | under a butcher's bludgeon is down cannot fall. "under bare poles do not feel the foree of the storm, while those with all sails | set capsize at the sudden descent of the | tempest, brook like an He Vessels scudding | { make him stagger and Ox who Remember that we can be as proud | of our humility as of anything else. | Antisthenes the of Athens with a ragged cloak to demon strate his humility, but walked streets Socrates de the his | elared he eould through the all LA in see ourselves hypocrisy We than we were as philosophic as holes cloak vould smaller we are if Severus, the emperor of Rome, w said at the close of his life: and every And when the everything nothing.’ to mand, brought to him, he tie whom the w Do you no ortune « i rible thin | i There is no calamity that can possibly his ashes was, 1 contain urn, tho { befall us in this world rangement of intellect; and yet to fal f a brute, sights, Ls stare. body of ma the instin of horrible the i the mos In this rible sounds, the most he laugh, A worl )f hor the on aown wrible is maniac's driven the when hundreds go never to rise vessel rocks, hundreds drs their mangled and shiveri upon the 1 compared to the lects full of 5 ANA Chipped win vast mt toward t the ve ion by Jesus hrist, praise the Lord for the preserve YOUr reas 5 : I he plagues descend, the locusts, and he destroying angel, iia e, and : have passed s parted behold, in the On, voned army, that God's in a ie Lhe warth W frost through 6 rs attact r cinders of falles and sheriffs with ne cities Joi in the hed I, and God wire to pie HIKE » pot fer ve ( of fire of re putations amid the rain destruetion and « os that were thought impregnable, the truth, which nro His Bible ‘The way of wicked He turneth upside down.’ old-fash- He the foned centuries wrote in As the stars of heaven are reflected from the waters of the earth, even so God's great and magnificent purposes ure reflected back from the boiling sea of human passion and turmoil. As the | voice of a sweet song uttered among | the mountains may be uttered back | from the cavernous home of wild beast | and rocks split and thunder-searred, so | the great harmonies of God's provi dence are rung back from the darkest caverns of this sin-struck earth. Sen- nacherib, and Abimelech, and Herod, and Judas, and Nero, and Nebuchadt- nezzar, though they struggled If | beasts unbroken to the load, were put into & yoke, where they were come { pelled to help draw ahead God's of | ments | } store- | with letters | great project of mercy, that the and carrey let ws léarn the les be sacred vessels of the temple Again, ou men iunting can guilty of po ing them away to Babylon. 11 nered in the were the cups and plates f wold 5 er with the rites monies were ce The laying of hands upon them and the carrying them off as spoils was ve 8 tempie niem and which 1'¢ere ehrated, heathen tnun bounded offense to the the ten ple Yet Nebuchad this very wicked king is gone, the gurated walk up and down ommitted Though that Ar « BOACrIICye in ne nau wrth to century. the + cursing it from century The sin of desecrating sacred by those day take the while their conversation and deeds all show that they live down in How solemn is the things committed who on RACTR mental communion cup Babylon It is a time for vows, a time repentance, a time for faith. stander with its fire-split clouds, and Calvary, with its victim, The Holy over the scene, and the en seems to gather in the sanctuary. Vile mdeed | come in from hi foll of sacrament! for Sinal Hear, Spirit broods giory of Heavy must that man be who will and unrepented i108 to take hold of the sacred vessels the temple 0, thou Nebucl Back with you to Da desecrate This is the the rob te WM Lg heavenly choirs and the hosanne of nite robed seein to ly worship We fant of Bethlehen llows tion, even of Sabbat) slves are commanded corn and the wheat and the Just ot} the coming ETAMR grow as rapidly on the Sabbath as on er 80 that while they sit in are richer in worldly sanctuary they actually be things He who breaks the Sabbath not more certainly robs God than robs himself Inevitably, f continuous desecration o the sacred day ends either in bank ruptcy health. A great merchant said: “Had it not been for the Sabbath I have no doubt 1 should have a maniac long ago.” This remark was made in a company of mer “That or destroved been chants, and one of them said Corre sponds with the exper: He often ’ friend, a great I'he the week to plan st importer Sabbath is the best wocesafal v said any VAges He has f yeu y in hospita Thos chadn the Holy Seri whe use ' ment of an insane there ff Nebu- desecrate and will probably die the LZATr Who In any also repeat sin « WAY There Bre pltures men ord of God as an instru Bigo 4 : niroverssy ® heart them they It is Wo with what me that some vere made to men no horns to hook with, and hoofs and What Christ said to off the ear of Malehus, He with with claws to grab with rash Peter, when he struck save to every controversial sword into its again thy they that take the sworn with the aword Just in proportion as men are wr Daovisterous in their religis he lamb of re will they be ous contentions | gion is aiwavs gentie. w ¢ there Is no on ion that goes 8 | : : r k fierce as mring he r devour, GGibraltars beleh their war wo ebout Lat on the sea, the Hellespont with the smoke of their batteries, but forever and ever let there seeking whom flame and the Dardanelles darken be good will among those who profess to be subjects of the gospel of gentle ness. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men What an embarrassing thing to meet in Heaven if have not settled our controversies on earth, So | give out for all people of all religions to sing John Faweett's hymn, in short meter, romposed in 1772, but just as appro. priate for 1807; Biest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above we From sorrow, toll, and pain, And sin we ahall be free, And perfect love and friemdship reign Through all everniy. LL | R | press Eugenie was partly an Irish wom- THE RETIRED BURGLAR. An Experience Which Was Unexpected nnd Decidedly Unpleasant, “Looking over the stuff board of a house I was in one retired burglar, ‘1 | help think this was a fair | ymple of I'd Jost a night, | Silver plated teapots and sugar bowls fit hold tea and sugar and everything els on the side nignt, ! gil couldn't ig that if Ki house for nothing but to and spoonholders In the drawers, ated spoons and forks, lot of forks, sc pouvenir just the anong the nmi LT ERE there thin wrecly Was silver worth Crab and light ff, and a BPO ns CArTYing « two, but I sorted out laid "em together, corded in a little pik on the left hand side of the top of the sideboard, handy to pick up when 1 was roady, I had finished the sideboard and | picked up the spoons and was just about to put ‘em into my left hand inside coat | spoon or these things and | pocket when I beard somebody say : ** "There, that'll do nicely!’ “Naturally enough, I suppose, I faced around toward where the from, still holding the in my hand. 1 realized in a minute just what it meant, and I might have throwed the spoons at him or turned the other wa or dropped ; but, to tell you the a surprised-—it's a sOuUnad Came KPOOGDW was on Little watchful wan that's never surprised-—and in the ther ood ng about it there was i lick and fraction of a seetind that 1 ng away without a everythin The Giants and the Flood, # when the that Ug, their d his foot upon the f My with his wi hands Then, DE to this same queer story, the and boiled the flesh from the bones of the haughty giants The Targum of Palestine says that the waters of the flood were hot and that the skin of the rhinoceros lays in folds because he was not enter the ark, but saved himself by hooking his horn under the sides of the | and floating with it But the | water which was directly under and at | the sides of the ark was not hot—the | rhineroceros loosened his skin swim. | ming from a mountain peak to the side of the One account says that Og and another giant named Lami saved themselves by taking refuge the ana windows of heaven "Grod made waters bot RinO allowed to vesse] VoRee] also in the cool water edge of the ark’s hull with the rhinoceros, One rabbinac authority quoted by Gould in his “"Patriarchs and Prophets'' says that Og saved himbelf by climbing upon the top of the ark, and that when Noah id tried to dislodge him he Noah's family Louis under along discovered swore to be a siave to forever if allowed to remain, —St Republic Bow Legged Stockings. 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