The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-11-12
Professor Bissk vt tho Opera House.

General GRno @ epod the EXERCISES
at the opera house ys4terday afternoon,
when Professor Black preached. Great
as ia the multitude VINO attend his ser-
mons, there arc bat few, porhspF, who
renljz tho wonderful interest thai Is
being excited in these discussions, be-
tween tho people and the great man
who is pseaGhiug to them. The
propheog Of Daniel was bis text.
and he preached from tho thirtosnth
and fourteenth vGrAes OF ons OF ihs
chapters, which was tho THIRD.
HIns nistoIica! r6oOr,s OF d AAiei sho" .
that when he was IL years OF ags-e
mere youth-Nebuchad carried
hin ceptive from J4raaGlem to Bsby I.
lon, Favoyi,ism or fancy inoueeo
rovol Nebueaadut zzar to take him into
hia fanily and educate him
as ono of his family, YET
PANEL declined to conform 10 the Gus
toms of the royal househOid, and even
In tho matter of observancss, with
reference TO food, oiet, ETC., declined
TO depart from the customs OF his Is
raeliiish forei4thers.
SNOW, little things are the mi0sies
and tho muckles OF tho scotch. Ih"y
msKe up The sum total. Some exam
pies ia tho worlds history
will better illustrate what l
desire to tell you than q
recountlpg of the events themselves.
The falling OF thu spple from the tree,
witnesss d by one whom many regard
as the great man OF the earth, gave TIE
900 rua OF gravitatiOn to mankind,
The aosting drittw God which the gall
ors discerned a. they were approaoh-
ing the shores OF America gave birth
10 q new continent. These things are
Significant and fully as Important
as those classical little Ia
bles which We hear and read about
concerning Athens, Rome
and The Yellow Tiber.
Again. Trsnklin's kite was o small
mater in itself, but IL evolved from
nature the hidden secret or tne crack
ing electrtcify. Geese that Now ever
r inc saved the city from destruction.
d mel made his stand on q little qdes-
s,on or table etiquette and obediepcet 70
municipal and provincial laws. Daniel
nnnnped the name of one of his couri-
trymsn to Shacraek, refuting the
C1a,dsan. idea. Daring Daniels SON
iinusnce In The royal family,
his oemrAdes were sent west
for their consumption, but DsSiel
would eat none OF IL, and he Iefrsined
from inJulging bis appetite because
he Thought It wss right to abstain. For
reasons best known to himself, he pre-
TERED to eat pulse aud other vegetables
ana believed that he WAS obeytng bia
a ID when ha did so. The king disoov.
ered that Daniel was hear der and
atouter than the other young men and
believed that there was some
scientific reason at the bot
Iom OF this vegetarian habit. He
took Kindly to it, was attracted by
Dsniel,s ronsistency and kept him in
his MAD. BY this consistent conduct,
DAnfei kept his heart pure.
.The vi,tnry that Daniel won was
over tin. Thinking that Il would have
bsen wrong for him to have acted
otherwise, be did not act otherwise.
Phocian wes another instaucs Of this
devotion 10 principle. The young man
Who dsvotes himself 20 pIiDoiple 1s
made great man. With Coos help
H. has bsen IN ade great and ~ ontitled
"a soms of the reward. N
ssCh syi9s Carr II /, nf Cerrolltor, wbHn
lib sixnsd ~ nsme 20 the Deel IT alto I,
ri Irdepnrdsnse.. had Ia spggtsied 20
min. /, = 4 person la the hall thst Il
was & very : Asy tntnR for him 70 a,to
l,iS nafrss' as Charles C4rfoll, Tor tn9
reos6n That there we're > dozen ~