The national leader., 1889-09-07
!, DR.. 7>GE.
BROOKLYN DlvrNE,s SUN.
DAY SERMON.
'ec weighed in the Balances" +"
preached at Omaha, Neb.)

J""'tA tc0ntl7lg. ."-Danlel
93yion was the paradise of architecture,
P;,,o,s q &c ouG from thence the grandest
81 u niodern times are only the evil
al u ner Iall. The site having been
Ceu Ior tne city, two million men were
oyeu IN the rearing of her walls and the
;,s9,a; - ner WORKS. 1t was a city sixty
slhscircumference. III There was a trench
round the city from which the materia;
me building of the city had been digged.
ieIe were twenty-five gates on each side
1iCyi DeVWeen every two gates tower Of
use sprlnglng into the skies: from each
On one one slde,a street running straighb
Pusn 10 the corresponding gate on the
Sioe, SO uhere were fifty streets fifteen
long. Through the city ran branch
ne river EuphrateS This river some
es overhowed its banks. and to keep it
the ruin of the city a lake was con-
EcUed, INTO which the surplus water of this
Pr would run during the time of freshets.
the water was kept in this artificial lake
y Ilme OF drought, and then this water
liz sIream down over the city. At either
OF the bridge spanning the Euphrates
re was palace-the one palace mile
nan around, the other palace seven
half miles around.
ne wife OF NebuchadneZzar had been born
brought up in the country and in a
untalnous region, and she could not bear
nat dlstrIcG OF Babylon; and so, to please
VIE. NebUchadneZzar built in the midst
Fhe city mountain 400 feet high. This
|untain was built out into terraces SUP.
fted on arches. On the top of these arches
layer Of fat stones; on the top of that q
FER OF reeds and bituman; on the top of
Rt two layers of bricks. closely cemented;
the top of that heavy sheet OF lead, and
the top OF that the soil placed-the soil SO
|ep that Lebanon cedar had room to an
[or Its roots. There were pumps worked by
Pghty machinery, fetching up the water
pm the Euphrates to this hanging garden.
it was called, so that there were fountains
|outing into the sky.
Standing below and looking up it must
hve seemed as if the clouds were in blossom,
as though the sky leaned on the shoulder
cedar All this Nebuchadnezzar did to
lease his wife Well, she ought to have
zen pleased. | suppose she was pleased. If
nat would not please her nothing would.
here was III that city also the temple Of
'elus, with tOwers-one tower the eighth OF
mile high, in which there was an observa-
ory where astronomers talked to the stars.
here was in that temple an image, just one
mage, which cost what would be our fifty
wo million dollars.
o what city! The earth never saw any
hing like it. never will see anything like it.
And vet have to tell you that it is going to
De destroyed, The King and his Princes are
mt the rich wine into the chalices. Drink to
the health of the King. Drink to the glory
Of Babylon. Drink to a great future.
A thousand Lords reel intoxicated. The
KING. seated upon chair, with vacant look,
as intoxieatcd men will-with vacant look
stared at the r,all. But soon that vacant
look takes on intensity, and it is an 2frighted
looIx. and all the Princes begin to look and
i'S-.s5s- Abst is the matter, and they look at
W. MonuO a"r,a mint on the wall And then there
It.o ss go darkneSs into the room and puts out
aIo ~, So,a If tie golden plate, and out of the
the i.u p,' of the darE ness there comes finger
sleeve eV2or ~ fsfy telrcr circling around and
nIo li.o- oro,ud as though it would write;
clrclhs In # comes up and with sharp tip of
ana .D;n = ;uscribesS ON the plastering of the
name u NV ~ doom @ of the King: NV Weighed in the
wan WALTZ Suo and and found wanting" The bong
oalanCeS SaOvy fiss against the gates of the pal
Oh neaa ua followed by the breaking in OF the
ace @ aio thousand cleaning knives strike
ooorS' thousand quivering hearts. Now
1nto "a i, ;s King and he is seated on a throne
" Dsatm .ornses = In that hall there is balance
lifted God swung " un one enotn;t;eS snag Q, 5n0
Oa Oaiae t5e other side OF the balance are put BEL
Of. on .ne 1aors G sins The SINS come down. Hls
o,,Innanortunities go up. =" eis' 'iie0 III 'iie E''
ances-lV%ub %.s been great deal of cheating
There el~trv noh with false weights and meas
IN our cJuI bsIsnces, and the government, to
ures anu thst state Of things, appointed COM
change ~ whose business it was to stamp
nd measures and balances and
weighs Sif If the wrong has been corrected.
great Gs0, after all, there is no such thing as
But still alsnce on earth The chain may
perfect ~le LSome of the metal may be clipped,
break ore way the equipoise may be a little
disturO%sn %ssnnot always depend upon earthly
YOn ga pound is not always pound,
balances nav for one thing and you get an
and your YOU IN the balance which is suspended
Other; tSrone gr1 ne of God, pound is pound, and
to the light, and wrong is wrong, and
right: D soIl, and eternity is eternity, God
has Zion. When merchants weigh
nerfect IN the wrong way, then the Lord
their g3Geu' Goods again. II from the imper-
yyegbsae, 30 the merchant pours out what
feet Tsasob Tso he gallon of oil and there is less
preteneI Iaon. Zion God Knows it, and He calls
than @racording angel to mark it: $50
upon b ing in that measure of OIL" The
much Fan~esS in from the country. He has
farper ~l s~spl He has an imperfect measure
apples out the apples from this imperfect
H FssEsss EsEs down it, He Sc Snys gadT to sae ap
recortss saw1an W. imperfect measure" We
nIes 10 To- ourselves and we may cheat the
Nav cbe. va cannot cheat God, and in
word world m'd dsy OF Judgment it will be found
+he g' .shat we learned in boyhood at
mt bst that twenty hundred weight
ocboob on and one hundred and twenty
lake p,ske a cord of wood. No more,
Lid fsf ND religion which does not take
% les :. - life as wei as the life to come is
i,old G dn at all. But, my friends, that is
no' l,o re bgon ciad of balances l am to speak of
not t 80 = ;s not the kind of weights and
+o-dsg t'II + am to speak of that kind of bal
,s,essi5ss roSsi s;.h can weigh principles, weigh
nnces lnU FDr,Sseigh men, weigh nations, and
aubeS aLSrCbeS MI sds s.Whatr' you say, ''is it pos
cnG lnira 6crlu a,r world IS to be weighed". Yes.
WE We o~o,lld think if God put on one
Sim 5nSy ya ya.,ances suspended from the throne
W,S3ths EpJ the prrenees. and the Hima-