Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-08-28

! land , is this BACKYARD mode of in
strnction.i And what is generally
learned thisvast expense of time
and money? a little Latin, Greek,
and mathematics; perhaps u little
moral philosophy, and with that they
are entitled, not qualified, 60 teach
0thers, and especially TO teach the
people the important science Of sal
! vatfon.-a 70 such shepherds, (and
1there are many such D tho hungry
sheepsloox up and are not fed; and il
all are not such, no +, thanks to the
plan of our national education y
~ Aitor all that is said of this age Of
4 progress, does our system OF educa-
ftibn entirely escape the keen criti-
cisni of the learned Doctor Where
is the student, who in three years has
mastered several sciences, and a diff
ficuIt aud strange language? Daniel
/ did il in the royal school at Babylon.
laAt the examination, Daniel and
his class showed themselves ripe
scholars, and were preferred before
all the royal students At the end
OF three years, Ashpenaz brought
4 thom all before Nebuchadnezzar,--
llThe king communed with them, and
lamong them all was found none like
daniel, Hannaniah, Mishael, and
lAzaria; therefore stood they before
the King, and in all the matters of
wisdom and understanding that the
king cnqnired of them, he found that
they were ten times better than all
the philosophers and astronomers in
all his realm. Daniel was the supe-
lriorin learning of oil the students,
OF his own class, of the learnod men
of the empire, and was endowed with
a divine sagacity in the mysteries of
Providence and the affairs of State.
~ Second Daniel as the Prime Min
lister Of State. iicfrl e . Iaa a.s ~ ,I,h
! His divine sagacity made him prime
minister of State to the court of Ne
4 buchandnezzar. On one occasion
Daniel stood before the monarch, and
called his attention to lost dream,
] i'm which the king had seen a vast
image, exceedingly luminous, of ter
ribe form, whose head was of fine
gold, his breastand his arms of silver.
/ bis belly and his thighs of brass, his
legs of iron, and his feet and toes of
iron anf clay. He saw the image
broken by q stone, and the stone be-
gcame great mountain and filed the
whole earth. Daniel explained to the
king that The awful .sybols Of the Wis
ion were sybols Of monarchy; that
this was the golden monarchy; that
alter them should arise asilver mon-
tarchy inferior to his; that after this
should arise brazen monarchy that
should bear rule OYER all the earth,
THAT after the. third should arise a
fourth, and iron monarch, which
would break to peaces and bruise;
that in the days of this monarchy
the God ofheayen shall set up king
dom which shall never be destroyed,
and the kingdom Shall not be left to
other people, but IL shall break in
peaces and consume all these king
doms, andit shall stand forever
Nebuchadnezzarg overwhelmed at
what he heard from the lips of Dan
iel, fell upon. his face and worshipped
him, and commanded thatthoy should
offer an oblation and sweet odors un-
to him. Then the. king made Dam
iel great man, and gave him many
gifts, and made him ruler over the
whole province Of Babylon, and chief
Of the governors over all of the wise
men of Babylon; and Daniel sat in
the gates of the king strangel
Daniel. tells Nebuchadnezzar the fate
of his empire, and pronounces the
doom ofall monarchy, and is. consti.
tuted by the king himself prime
minister of State, s.q ...s
Daniel was prime minister during
the reign Of Nebuchadnezzar and of
his son Evil. Merodach, and also du
ring the reign Of his grand son Bel
hshazzar, the drunkard. In tho first
| years Of Bellhazzar, Daniel was called.
ITO decipher some of tho most awful
symbols ever exhibited by myste-
rious Providence to man, 4, In the
1 first year he saw -four great beasts,
an cagle-wingcd lion, a bear, q four
winged, four headed leopard, and
ten horned monster, dreadful and
terrible, strong exceedingly, having
! iron teeth and nails of BRASS In
| the first symbol Daniel designated
the Babylonish monarchy; in the
second the,A do-Persian monarchy;
In the third the Greek monarchy; in
the fourth the Roman monarchy; in
the ten horns the ten. kingdoms Of
the Roman empire, and in another
! little horn, before whom three of the
first horns were plucked up by the
roots" he pointed out Popery, and
4 It's three Kingdoms. '- ~ n'.' ieiaho
4 In the third year Of Belshazzar,
Providence submitted to Daniel two
national symbols of fearful import
In the first he saw Medea and Persia
united together under Darious, and
making conquest OF the world? in the
second he saw Alexander the great
carrying every thing before him, con-
curing the Persian empire and the
world, passing suddenly from the
sfh gc--liis kingdom broken and di-
yided into four. fsfn 3ta .ysasg 3. l.is
odIn the last year of Belshazzar, Dan
iel was promoted to q higher position,
as 1linisterof State. This preterment
was givenas areward for:the eminent
learning which he displayed in d
| most intricate matter. Belshazzar
I had made feast to thousand Of HIS
lords When the king, his wives, his
concubines and his lords were heated
! wine, lac ordered the golden vessels
Itallel-ay Nebuchadnezzaf from the
49, fy.-s',o Jerusalen TO be brought in.
itWbile the Jewellers profane 'thensncred
Fsosyels q taieM High, and praised
hth;s ses.sS sodp of Babylon.I the fingers, of
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