The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-19

I tum bled carcass OF dead king. FoT
/ In that nIzht was Belshazzsr slain
l. ! learn from this, that when God
! writes anything on the wall a man had
be ter real il as il is. Daniel did not mis-
interpret or modify the handwriting on the
wall. 1t is all fool shness 90 expect q
minister Of the gospel TO preach alv avs
things that the people like or the pc pie
choose. what shall preach to YOU TO-
day! Shall I tell you Of the dignity Of
human nature! Shall / tell you of the
wonders 'hatyour race have &C ac,omplishedf
"Oh. no." YOU say, "tel me the MESSAGE
that came from Cod" will. II there is
any handwriting on the wall it Is this les
son: Repent, accent OF Christ and bs
ssved." might talk Of a great many
other things, but that is the message, AMI
80 declare it. Jesus never fatterei those
20 whom he preacEe /. He said to those
who did wrong and who were ofensive in
his sight: "Ye generation of viuers, Ye
whited sepulctc~s! How can We escape
the damnstion Of hel:" Paul the Apostle
preached before man who was not really
t. hear him preach. What sal jet dill he
take? y i he say: "Gh, you are a good
man. a very fine man a very noble m Inr''
No; he preached Of righteou-na-s to
msn who was unrghteous; of Temperance
to man who was the victim
of bad apPe'ites; Of the iuiC-
ment to come 10 a man who was unfit for
it. So we must always declare the mes
sage that happens to come to US. Dtniel
must read il as it is. A mini ster preached
be ore James I. Of Englanl, who was
James VI. OF Scotland. What subject did
he take: The King was noted al over
the world for Icing unsettled and waver-
Ing in lis IDEAS. What did the minister
preach about to his man who was James |.
Of ENGLAND and James VI. Of Scotland?
H took for his t-xt:
+ He that wa vereth Il Iika a we've 81 the sra
driven with the wind and tossed james.
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I Hugh Latimer offended the King by a
serm n he preached, and the King said:
t "Hugh Latimer, come and apologize"
! 81 vill," said Hugh Latner.
SO the day was apl oInted, and the
K nz's chape. was full of lor Is and dIkes,
AMI the 1htv men and women OF the
country. fOr Hugh latilrer was t. apollo
gig. lie he an his sarmon by savin-:
''Hu d La'imer, bet hink thee, Tnou art
IN the presence Of thine earthly Kin, who
can destroy the body! But bethnk tLee,
, Hugh Latimer that thou art in the pre-
ence of he King OF Heaven and earth,
who can destroy both BODY AMI soul in
hell fire. o, Ksng, cur ed te thy crimes :"
= Another lesson that comes to "a:
There is great difference between the
opening Of the banquet of sin and its ciose.
} Young man, if vou had looked in u!ou the
banquet IN the first few hpu.s YOU would
! have wished you had been invi there
and could sit at the feast. 40, the grand
! eur Of Belshazzar's feast, >" vou wrullhave
1 said; hut you look in at the close of the
! bau4uee and your blood Gu dos wi'h hor-
/ ror. The King of Terrors has there a
/ gh&s.lier banquet: human blood is the
| wine and dying groanaa the music. Sin
has made itself a king in the arth. l. has
crowned itSel'. 1t has spread banquet.
II invites all the world to come to il. l.
has hung in its bangunting hail the spoils
Of all kingdoms and the han1"rs If All ma
tionS. 1t has gathered from al music. It
ha, s'rewn from its wealth the table and
fl Ors and arches. And ,et how often is
that banquet broken up, an how horrible
/ is lis END! Ever and anon there Is Il hand
| writing on the wall. A king fails.
! great culprit is arrested. The knees of
wickednes> kno. Eed together. Gods judg-
ment, like an ann Il host, breaks in upon
| the banquet, and that night is Bel5hazzar,
the KIM Of the Chaldeau-, Sla II.
! Here is a young man who saws: "T can
/ not see why tney make such a fuss about
the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhil-
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talk ct er, think better, feel better. lean
not see why pc pie have such a prejudice
cainst it." A few years pass on md he
wakes up and fin Is himself IN the clutch
Of an evil habit which he tries to break,
hut he can not; aud he c,ies out: "Ol,
Lord God. help ne,' 1t seems as thou=h
God would not hear his prayer, AMI in an
agony of body and soul he cries out:
l. hitetI like a serpent and stingeth Iikean
adder.
How bright it was at the start! how
Llack it was at the last.
Her" is a man y ho b"gins to read
French novels "They are so charming.O
he says; Il Will go out and see for myself
whether all these thngs are So" He
opens the,gate of a sinful life. He goes
in. A sinful sprite meets him with her
wand. She waves her wand and it is
all enchantment. Why it seems as if the
ANGELS of God had poured out phials of
perfume in tie atmosphere. As be walks
On he finds the hills becom ng MOI radiant
with the falling water. q, what a charm
ing landscape he sees! But that sinful
sprite with her wan | meets him again;
| but now ,he reyerses the wand, and all the
enchanment is gone. The cup is tull of poi
son. The fruit turns TO ashes. All he
leaves of the bower are orked ION ues of
Kissing serpents. The flowing fountains
fall hack in a dead pool, sten chfu with
corruption. The Turing songs become
curses and screams of demoniac laughter
Lost spirits ga her about him, and feel or
his he TT, nd beck n him on with: "Hai
brother! Hail, bias ed spirit. II - He
tries to get cut. He comes to the from
door, where he enterei, AMI tries to push
it back, VI the door turns aEainst hini;
and in the jar of that shutting door he
hea 5 these words:
This night is Belshazzar, the King of the
Chaideans, slain.
Sin may open bright as the mo ming; it
clC sos dark as the night.
8. l learn further from thi, subject that
death sometimes breaks in upon a ban
quet. Why did he not 60 down to tho
prisons in BabylonE There we people
there that would like to have died. l sup
poe there were men and wCmen in tor
ture in that city who would have well
coined dea b. But he comes to the palace,
and just at the time when the mirth is
dashing to the tip-top pitch death breaks
in Of tba Lappuat IVa bora ofto, C.an