, 1885-01-24
PRINCE OF MEN.
DR.. De La Maiyr's Able Lecture
on Daniel.
Vivid Word Painting of Noted BlbIl-
cal Scenes.

iao1 cfchinB IN TINS city 70 q lhlr SIZED
audience. His subject was, Daniel, the
prince Of men,"
DIR. De La Matyr is a tall, big boned,
well made man with a face expressing
force and determination Of character. His
treatment of his subject was in keeping
with his looks, and he made emphatic
statements and points with no halfway
manner.
He opened his lecture by abiding to
the evident care Raphael bestowed upon
the creations Of his genius in portraying
the beauty Of form and face Of women and
the evident dissatisfaction of the artist
with his work, az proved by his many re-
productions Of the subject. The master
pieces of the Bible stood out clear and
bold in their perfectness, surprising the
creations of any human writer. At the
head and front Of these bold types was
Daniel, the prince OF men.
The darkest periods of the worlds his
tory have always been the time for bring
ing out the grandest characters. When
the fogs and mists of Ignorance
and superstitions most closely folded the
world in their deadly miasma was the
time for the coming Of some grand char
acter, rising like a mountain to perpetuate
truth and whatever was worth preserving.
When the people of Israel were in the
dreadful depths into which slavery will
sink a people Moses rose as a deliverer.
He raised the handful of slaves to a posi-
ton of wealth and civilization far in adj
vance of their surroundings. OF the life
Of Solomon who was at the head of the
Israelitish people at the time of the great
est successes, the speaker regarded il as
the saddest upon record and a miserable
failure. He found the nation mon an
elevated and increasing scale of progress;
he left it on the downward path which It
kept until the Assyrians desolated the
northern portion of the kingdom. the
Chaldeans captured Jerusalem and sacked
its temples and led its people captive to
far off lands. That was the darkest period
in the worlds history after the food.
When the Church of God seemed an
initiated was the time for the special dis
pensation Of Jehovah. Instead Of physi-
cal manifestations of His power He in
spired the grand soul of Daniel to rise up
and by sublime living to place among the
people such a SPLENDID type of manhood
as should be the preservative of what
was good non them. With the youth
of other noble families Daniel was carried
off as hostage by Nebuchadnezzar to
Babylon, when he was II years of age.
The keynote of his character is shown by
his refusing to drink the wine and eat the
meats from the kings table, against the
rules of the Jews. with whom it was de6le-
ment He had that great trait Of charac-
ter, decision, and with it he had the pur-
pose to consecrate himself to the service
of God. Alexander the Great had the
same trait, but his purpose was only to
conquer, and when that was done and
there were no more worlds to subdue. his
ending ofhis life in drunken revelry was a
fitting close to his career. When Daniel
reached the high place to which his decis-
ion ofcharacter brought him, God was
beyond and still inspired him onward.
Daniel spent three years in study. He
mastered the Chaldean language and the
civilization of the times. He was not too
squeamish and too much wrapped up
in the mantle of his piety to
prevent his taking part in
politics and society and in civilization.
His example is a good one for the Chris
tains of the present day who let the devil
have the sole management Of politics and
allow him to run the primaries 10 suit