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INEvIrIBLE SCALES INTO WHICH EVERY

INEVITIBLE SCALES INTO WHICH EVERY
MEMBER OF TIE HUMAN RACE
MUST FALL
A Balylontan King Who Carried Things
to Eatrcmcs IN Trying to Please His
IYUc-TNc Aan YAo Thinks the SAB
bath a Vulgar Interruption and Drums
for Uustomers-A Sight for tie Whole
Lniuerse.
BROOKLYN, April 25.-Serviocs in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle were opened this
morning with the singing of the hymn:
"Jesus shall reign whcrc'or the sun
Docs his successive journeys run"
Dr. Talmage preached the following dis
course, taking his text from Daniel 5, 27--
"Thou art weighed in the balance and
found wanting" His subject was
MEN, CHURCHES AND NATIONS WEIGHED.
Babylon was the paradise of architecture.
Driven out from thence, the most elaborate
structures of modern times are only the
evidences of her fall. After tho site of
Babylon had beon solicited, 100000 of
men wcro employed for the construction of
tho wall and principal works. The walls
OF the city were sixty miles in circumfer-
cncc. They wcro surrounded by trench
out of which had been dug tho material for
the construction of the city. There were
twenty-five gates of solid brass on each
side of the square city. Between every
two gates great watch tower sprang up
into tho heavens. From each of the TWEEN
ty-fvo gates on either side street ran
through to the gates on the other side, SO
that thero were fifty streets, each fifteen
miles long, which gavo to tho city IN
appearance of wonderful regularity The
houses did not join each other on the
ground, and between them wcro gardens
and shruobcry. From house top to house
top bridges swung, over which the inhab-
tants were accustomed to pass. A branch
of the Euphrates went through the city,
over which bridge of marvellous structure
was thrown, and under which tunnel ran.
10 keep the river from ovcrAowing the city
in times Of frcshct, great lake was ar
ranged to catch the surplus, in which the
water was kept as in reservoir until times
of drouth, when it was sent streaming
down over the thirsty land A palace
stood at each end of the Euphratcs bridge;
one palace mile and three-quarters in
compass and the other palace seven and a
half miles in circumference. The wife of
Nobuchadnezzar, having been brought up
amid the mountains of Media, could not
stand it in this fiat country of Babylon, and
SO, to please her, Nebuchadnczzar had
mountain four hundred feet high built in
the midst of the city. This mountain was
surrounded with terraces, for the support of
which great arches were lifted On tic
top OF thcso arches fiat stones wero laid;
then layer of reeds and bitumcn; then
two rows Of bricks closely ocmented then
thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil
was placed. The earth here deposited was
so deep that the largest trees had room to
anchor their roots. All the glory of the
fowcry tropics was spread out at that trc-
mcndous height, until it must have seemed
to one below as though the clouds were all in
blossom, and tho very sky leaned on the
shoulder OF the cedar. At the top an engine
was constructed, which drew tho water
from the Euphratcs, far below, and made
it spout up amid this garden of tho skies.
All this to please his wife. l think sho
must have been pleased.
In the midst Of this city stood also tho
temple of Beus. One of its towers was
onc-cighth of mile high, and on the TOP
of it an observatory, which gave the astro-
nomers great advantage, as, being at SO
great height, one could easily talk with
the stars. This temple was full of cups
and statues and ccnscrs, all of gold Ono
image weighed a thousand Babylonish
talents, which will be equal to fifty-two
million dollars. But why enlarge? The
city is bcsegcd and doomed. Though
proVisioncd for twonty years, it shall fall
tonight. See tho gold and silver plate
flash on tho kings tablet Pour out the
rich vino from the tankards into the cups.
Drink, my lords, to tho health Of tho king.
Drink to tho glory of Babylon. Drink to
the defenders of the city. Drink to a
glorious future. Startle not at the splashed
wine on tho table, as though it were blood
Turn not pale at'tho clash of tho cups, as
though it were tho clang of arms. On
with tho mirth
THOUSAND LORDS
Neel on thoir chairs, and quarrel and curse.
Iho besottcd king sags back on his chair
and stares vncantly on tho wall. But that
vacant look takes on intensity. 1t is un
aaifrighted look. AS he gazes the lords gaze.
Every eye is turned to the wall. Darkness
falls upon tho room. The blaze of the gold
plate goes out. Out of the black sleeve of
the darkness fugor of fiery terror tromblcs
through tho air and comes to tho wall.
oircling about as though it would writo,