The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-05
FOUND WANTING
|suos BY DIR. TAhMAoB
,.,.,ce Iifted in the Banquet,
Hall OF BeIshszksr.

T. and art Jo""" "
tho paradisc Of architecture,
s9y,.,, s9yon ont from thence the. grandest
drNeu ,,odern times are only the evil
tnss hcr fall The site having been
3 ,,r the city. two million men were
ieu In IN The rearing Of her walls ana the
loy " - :" nor works. IL was city sixty
ilns y, c,,rf,rcnce. There was a trench
> neI ,Se CITY from which the material
srVuhn@ uh"ildiny Of the city had been digged.
tne eI Vs,,, ,,sre twenty-five gates ON each side
here hctveen every two gates n tower OF
cill ,,r,reing into the skies; from each
" H. one side, n street running straight
"a "a 10 the corresponding gate on the
sde va ~ there were fifty streets fifteen
Inc Through the city ran branch
siSer Euphrates. This river some
~ ,,eraowed its banks, and To Keep II
,Ss min Of the city a lake was CON
~ into which the surplus water oi TINS
,nuH run during the time OF treshetS
-. vsicr was kept in this artiiicial lake
,re of drought, and then TINS water
"a .,r,au1 down over the city. At clther
% tbs bridge spanning the buphrates
as palncc-the one palace mile
IN around. the other palace seven
half miles around. ,,,. -.
vifeof Ncbuchadnezzar hnd been born
trpeht up in the country and IN
.,,ip1us region and she could not bear
Al district of Babylon, and 50, To please
nj Nehuchadnezzar built IN the midst
Il atya mountain 400 feet hgh. ms
.. ga. built out into terraces sup
Jon arches. On the top OF these arches
n sat stones: on the top of that n
n reeds and bituman; on the top OF
.,o i,vprs of bricks, closely cementcd,
= top of that a heavy sheet of lead, ana
.,r ~ that the soil placed-the soil 50
ttsta Lebanon cedar had room TO an
.raot. There warC pumps worked by
y machinery, fetching up tue water
,bs Euphrates 10 this hanging garden,
ga. called. ~ that there were fountains
,ng INTO the sky.
hping below and looking up ~ must
.ssr,ci ns II the clouds were In blossom,
,borrb the sky leaned on the shoulder
c,lar All this NebuchadneZzar did To
M, wife. Wen. she ought 10 have
rleaspd | suppose she was pleased. III
would not please her nothing would.
va. i'm that city also the temple of
with towers-one tower the eighth of
high. in which there was an observa-
1 rharr astronomers talked 10 the stars.
was in that temple an image, just one
which cost what would be our fifty
million dollars
vhat a CITY, The earth never saw any
Ike il. never will see anything like Il.
ye, have TO tell you that it is going to
,,royei. The King and his Princes are
Xf,ast They are all intoxicated. Pour
tha rich wine into the chalices Drink 10
salth Of the King. Drink 10 the glory
Whylon. Drink 10 great future.
Thousand Lords reel intoxicated The
sated upon chair with vacant look.
Intoxicated men will-with vacant look
i at the wall But soon that vacant
&takcs ON intensity, and il is an aifrighted
and all the Princes begin to look and
iar what is the matter, and they look at
ame point on the wall. And then there
darkness into the room and puts out
aze Of the golden plate. and out of the
h Of the darkness there comes finger
kger Of fiery terror circling around and
ng around as though it would write;
hhen il comes up and with sharp tip of
il inscribes on the plastering of the
the doom Of the King: Weighed in the
bees and found wanting The bang
hwy fists against the gates OF the pal
re followed by the breaking in of the
A thousand cleaning knives strike
a thousand quivering hearts. Now
b is King, and he is seated on a throne
brTses In that hall there is balance
God swung il On one side of the
bce are put Belshazzar's opportunities,
y other side of the balance are put Bel
|nrs sins The sins come down. His
Ftunities 90 up. Weighed IN the bal
found wanting
pr has been great deal of cheating
country with false weights and meas
and balances, and the government, To
y that state of things. appointed com
pn'rs whose business IL was 20 stamp
bis and measures and balances, and a
deal Of the wrong has been corrected
8tlll, after all, there is no such thing as Il
II balance on earth. The chain may
or some Of the metal may be clipped.
some way the equipoise may be little
fhei
cannot always depend upon earthly
pcs. A pound is not always n pound.
guu pay for one thing and you get an
but IN the balance which il suspended
throne of God, a pound is u pound, and
Is right, and wrong is wrong, and
soul, and eternity is eternity. God
perfect bushel and perfect peck aud
gallon. When merchants weigh
goods IN the wrong way, then the Lord
p the goods again. II from the imper-
measure the merchant pours out what
nds 10 be gallon of oil and there is less
gallon, tod knows il, and He calls
iilS recording angel to mark il: $50
wanting IN that measure Of oil.n The
comes IN from the country. He has
10 sell. He has an imperfect measure.
purs out the apples from this imperfect
lre. God recognizes IL. He says to the
dlnS angel: Mark down SO many APP
700 tew-an imperfect measure We
cheat ourselves and we may cheat the
but we cannot cheat God, and in
kreat day OF judgment II will be found
nav what we learned in boyhood AT
ihcorrect--that twenty-hundred weight
ton, and one hundred and twenty
ieet make cord of wood. No more,
ANA religion which does not take
La TINS life as well as the life 10 come is
hgion at all. But, my friends, that il
pc KIND OF balances ! am to speak of
y that is not the kind of weights and
pres, lam 10 speak of that kind of bal
which can weigh principles, weigh
hes, weigh men, weigh nations, and
worlds "Whatm you say, "is 1t pos
That our world is 10 be weighedY. Yes.
You would think IL God put on one
De balances suspended from the throne
Fps and the Pyrenees, and the Hima,
and Mount Washington, and all the
gI The earth, they would crush IL. No,
he time will come when God will sit
on the white throne 10 see the world
ei and ON one side will be the world,
tnnities, and on the other side tn,
SINS Down will 20 the sins and away
- The opportunities, and God viii say e
essengers with the torch: Burn that
weighed and found wantingr
"lll weigh churches. He takes a greaI
That great church, according to TN,
W estimate, must be weighed He put
one SIDE the balances, aud the minister
ne choir and the building that cost il
els OF thousands Of dollars. He put
on one side the balances. On the othei
mat scale He puts what that churcl
70 ue what its conservation ought :,
llat Ms sympathy for the poor ought I,
nat It's devotion 10 all good nught IN bn