Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21
Belahaysar's Midnight Revel and It's
Tragic Close.
Contrast Between the End and the Be-
ginning Of B~anquets.
The Grim King Of Terror Enters in at the
Feast.
In that Night Was Belshaszsr
Slain.
Thrilling Description OF the Terror In
xpirsd by the Mysterious
And Cabaiistic Hand Writing on the
An Eloquent Sermon Descriptive Of the
Heavenly Banquet.
Thrilling Description Of the Terror In
spirsd by the Mysterious
And Cabalistic Hand Writing N the
Wall
An Eloquent Sermon Descriptive Of the
Heavenly Banquet.

MoNoNA. Wis, Aug, s, lS86.-A
great outdoor meeting wa held here
to-day. Thousands attended from the
city of Madison. which is only a few
miles distant. The Rev. Il. Dewitt
Talmage, ID. D., lectured here yester-
day, and to-day he preached to I'M
counted multitudes. The subject of
the sermon w.s
'eTHE MIDNIGHT RBsRL,'
and the text was Daniel ", 80: lin
that night was Belshazzar the king of
the Chaldeans slain" DR.. Talmage
said:
Feasting has been known in all ages.
1t was one of the most exciting times
in English history when Queen Eliza
beth visited Lord Leiscester at Kenil-
worth Castle. The moment Of her arrival
was considered so important that all
the clocks in the castle "-cre stopped,
so that the hands might point at that
one moment as being the most signifi-
cant Of all. She was greeted at the
gate with floating islands and torches.
and the thunder Of cannon and fire.
works that set the night ablaze, and a
great burst of music that lifted the
whole scene into perfect e~nchantment.
Then she was inti oduced in q dining
hall the Injuries OF which aetonishcd
the world; four hundred servants
waited upon the guests; the entertain
ment cost 5000 each day. Lord
Leicester made that great supper in
Kenilworth Castle.
Cardinal Wolsey entertained the
French ambassadors at Hampton
Court. The best cooks in
fine land prepared for the ban
quet; purveyors went out and Travelled
all the kingdom over to find spoils for
the table. The time came. The guests
were kept during the day hunting in
the kings park, so that their ,ppctites
might be keen; and her in the even
ing, to the sound of the trumpeters.
they were introduced into a hall hung
with silk and gold. and there were Ia
Hes a-glitter with imperial plate, and
laden with the rarest of meats, and a
blush with the costliest wines; and
when the second course Of the feast
came it was found that the articles of
food had been fashioned into the shape
of men, birds and beasts, and groups
dancing, and jousting parties riding
against each other with lances. Lords
and princes and ambassadors out Of
cups filed to the brim drank the
health, first of the
KING OF ENGLAND,
and next to the king of France. Car
dinal Wolsey prepared that great sup
per in Hampton Court.
But my text takes us to a more ex-
citing banquet. Night was about to-
come down upon Babylon. The shad-
ows of her two hundred and fifty tow
ers began to lengthen. The Euphrates
cooled on. touched by the fiery splen-
doris of the setting SUM-; and gates of
brass, FURNISHED and glittering, opened
and shut like doors of flame. The
hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with
heavy dew. began to pour from starlit
flowers and dripping leaf, a fragrance
for many miles around. The streets
and squares were lighted for dance
and frolic and promenade. The thea
tres and galleries of art invited the
wealth and pomp and grandeur Of the
city to rare entertainments. Scenes Of
riot and wassail were mingled in every
street; and goddess nirth and outrage
Gus excess and splendid wickedness
came TO the kings palace TO do their
mightiest deeds Of darkness.
A royal feast tonight at the kings
palace! Rushing up to the gates are
chariots upholstered with precious
cloths from Depan and drawn by fire.
eyed horses from Togarmaii. that rear
and neigh in the grasp of the chart
Oteers; while a thousand lords dis
mount, and women dressed in all the
~splendor of Syrian emerald, and the
color blending of agate, and the chaste-
ness of coral. and the sombre
GLORY on TYRIAN
purple, and princely embroideries
brought from afar by camels across
the desert and by ships of Tarshish
across the sea. Open wide the gates
and let the guests come in! The cham
her n ms and cup-bearers are all ready.
Hark TO the rustic of the silks and to