Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-02
rbou Art Weighed in the Bal.
esand Art Found Wanting.
rrsry Day is a Day of Judgment and
al People are To-Day Being
Weighed and Inspected.
-, .bo wealth in the World Placed in the
Scales Against Mems Sins Viii Not
Pull the Balance Down.
THE BALANCES LIFTED,


OMAHA, NEB., Sept. 1.-Great inter
-. ras manifested here to-day, the Rev
Dewitt Talmage, d. D., preaching TO
immense congregation. His text was:
-.~rou art weighed in the balances, and
49,. found wanting. Daniel Y, u. The
rsacher said:
Babylon was the paradise of architect
go ana driven out from thence the
-,,75sst buildings of modern times are
.,r~ the evidence of her fall. The site
tarfrr been selected for the city, 2 ZOO, -
-1men were employed in the rearing of
walls and the building Of her works
T. was a city sixty miles in circumfer-
wee There was a trench all around the
..r from which the material for the
rir7Ing of the city had been digged.
There we're twenty-five gates on each
side the city; between every two gates a
over of defense springing into the skies;
fam each gate on the one SIDE, street
rrrnjn- straight through to the CORE
.-,rafng gate on the other side, so there
Tara City streets fifteen miles long.
through the city ran a branch of the
D.
-rarfoved It's banks, and to keep it from
-hs ruin of the city a lake was construct
al INTO which the surplus water of this
-.rar would run during the time of fresh
.-s and the water was kept IN this arti-
a=gI lake until time of drought, and
,rsn this water would stream down over
-ha city. At either end Of the bridge
canning this Euphrates there was q pal
srs-the one palace a mile and half
around. the other palace seven and half
niles around.
The wife Of NebuchadneZZar had been
horn and brought up in the country and
ina mountainous region, and she could
not hear the fat district of Babylon; and
50. TO please his wife, NebUchadnezzar
f-ft in the midst of the city a mountain
900 feet high This mountain was built
mtlut0 terraces supported on arches.
M the top of these arches a layer of fiat
stones: on the top of that a layer of reeds
and bimmen; or the top Of that two lay
srs of bricks, closely Cemented; on the
pD of that 4 heavy sheet of lead, and on
tie top of that the soil placed-the soil
s0d5zp that n Lebanon cedar had room
uagch0r its roots. There were pumps
worked by mighty machinery, fetching
un tae water from the EuphTates to this
hanging garden, as it was called, so
that there were fountains spouting into
& tie sky.
Standing below and looking up it must
4 have seemed as if the clouds were in
blossom, or as though the sky leaned on
tie shoulder of a cedar. All this Neb-
1,ladnezzar did to please hiswife. Well,
sls ought TO have been pleased. I sup
pose she was pleased. If that would not
Please her nothing would. There was i'll
thar city also the temple Of Belus, with
tTals-0ue tower the eighth of q mile
high in which there was an observatory
where astronomers talked to the stars
There was in that temple an image, just
ore mage, which cost what would be
.-T S.. 900 600.
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES.
q, what a ethyl The earth never saw
anything ike it, never VIII see anything
Ike i. And yet l have to tell you that
Ills going 20 be destroyed. The king and
lis princes are at a feast. They are all
intoxicated. Pour out the rich wine into
lie chaGcas. Drink to the health of the
La-. Drink to the glory of Babylon.
Drink ~ q great future
A'E, seated upon a chair, with vacant
.'-a, as intoxicated meI wIll-with va
cant lock stared at the wall But soon
HAT vacant look takes on intensity, and
us an aErighted look ;and all the princes
t-la 10 look and wonder what is the
matter, and they look at the same point
% The wall. And then there drops q
darkness into the room and puts out the
81
a-e'e Of the darkness there comes a fin
s"-a finger Of fiery terror circltng
-."ult and CiTcling around as though it
'.ll- write: and then it comes up and
WIN sharp tip of flame it inscribes on the
mastering of the wall the doom of the
any: % Weighed in the balances and
.--i wanting. - The bang of heavy
-'.s AGAINST the gates of the palace are
.-oTed by the breaking in Of the doors.
thousand cleaning knives strike
~'o " thousand QuiveTing hearts. Now
a.-.- is King, and he is seated on a
.-.oAe of cOTpses. In that hall there is
balance lifted. God swung it. On
--7 side of the balance are put Belshaz-
' opportunities, on the other side of
--' .@.auee are put BelshazZar's sins.
-, Sis come down. His opportunities
~7.' Weighed in the balances found
Tal-nE.
mere mas been q great deal of cheat
s- oaEcouutry with false weights and
ENSURES and balances, and the govern
-.-.' 10 change that state of things, ap-
-.-.ra eammissIoners whose business it
-' 10 stamp weights and measures and
t-.-4yes, and a great deal of the wrong
4 1sen c0rrecten. But still, after all,
.'s IS no such thing as a perfect bal
.- Oh earth. The chain may break or
-5 %, The metal may be clipped, or in
s 49,. ray the equipoise may be q little
aen $ BALANCES ARE ACCURATE.
ION cannot always depend upon earthly
--lees. A pound is not always q
-.---r and you pay for one thing and
get another; but in the balance
-s- Is suspended to the throne of God
-ad s q pound, and right is right,
A. wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul,
~. eternity is eternity. God has a per-
4. -"shel and a perfect peck and per-
~ gallon. When merchants weigh |
H., goods in the wrong way then the |
D. weighs the goods again. If from !
~, imperfect measure the merchant |
~ OUT what pretends to be a gallon of |
--" there is less than a gallon, God !
s-, IL ,sand He calls upon His recording |
~, ~ 10 mark it: $50 much wanting in /
+ :. measure of oil. - The farmer comes |