The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-25
TEMPERANCE LIE ssoN.

LEssoN TExT-Dsn. b:1-a ur.
GOLDEN TExT-Thou art weighed in the bal,
snces and art found wanting.-Dan. b:27.
CENTRAL TRUTH-Soripture, reason, science
and experience demand the destruction Of In
temperance.
TIMI-B. O. $50 Near tho close Of tho exile.
PLACE-Babylon, on the Euphratos. -s,f
RuLlRs-Nabonidus King Of the Babyloniaa
Empire, now st BorsippA bslshasxsr. his old
est son, associated with him aad reigning q
Babylon. Cyrus King OF the Nedes and Pers-
lana 5} 40 9ri Ni-H tfiH
DAxuI-Now ssout eighty ysars old.
BSISHAzxAR, the grandson OF Nebuchadnes.
with his father - King. He was probably six-
teen or seventeen yssrs old HiEfatheF, hsv.
INK attacking Cyrus who was besieging Baby.
lon. was defeated, and was kept from rstarnilg
70 the city By the besteging eay. 30 that Bel.
shssxsr was the only King now In Babylon.
HELPS Oven HARD PLAcEs.--1. ITO
Q thousand Of his lords:" this was not
70 large number in Oriental banquets
ss It may seem to Us; 1900 men fed
daily ct tho Kings cost In the Persian
courts. Alexander the Great once in
vited 10000 to . wedding feast. Drank
wino:" 1t was the excitement of strong
drink that led the King to tho sin and
to ruin. .. ''Golden vessels out Of the
temple:" taken by Nebuchadnezzar, B.
@. eo4 and $50, 6e and 4s years before. 8.
"Drank in them:" the wickedness Of
this aot consisted: (1) In profaning
these saored utensils to base uses. (a5
Increasing the insult by doing 1t ct .
feast to sn idol, thus implying that the,
Idol was superior to tho living God. o.
BY doing it at An immoral and drunken
eevel, thus insulting the moral law Of 4
God. (l) In addition to these, Bel
shazxsr asguilty Of pride, revelry and
neglect Of warnings from the past Zee
70. 1922. 8. Fingers" the hnssrs
that held the pen, with NO arm or person
10 move them. showed that 1t was super.
natural. "Over against the CANDLE
stiok:" that stood ON the Ktng's table.
DO % to be seen in the brightest Light.
THE HANDwRIrIxo was-Mene, memo,
tekel, upharsin. These are Aramaio Or
Hyriac words. Meme; numbered, tho
last number Of its years counted.
Tskel: 1. O., weighed. Peres: divided,
broken to pieces. This is the singular,
Of which Uphsrsin is the plural. Per
sian is the same word. Even while this
was going ON, the army Of Cyrus had en-
tered the city, by drawing OF the water
Of the river Euphrstes, which ran
through the city. His army marched uI
the river-bed, and entered by the braxen
gates which In their revels the guards
had left open.
I. STRONG DRINK 10 weighed 80 as to
SEQ plainly its true value. There is, on
the one hand the wealth, the profit to
dealers, the luxury and pleasure Of
drinkers. the excitement the large
business. occasional help in sickness;
and, on the other hand, sin, crime, sell
nshness, ruin Of body, loss Of soul. in
Jury to others, disaster to business. pow
erty. wretchedness, ruin, death. VA:
IL 6rRoAo DRINK, with its sttrsc-
lions and dangers, II weighed against:
() the value of the soul; (9) the pros
pesity Of the Nation; (s) the good OF 60
oiety; ~ the virtue Of the people; (1
the harpiness Of mani (e) the hope Of
Heaven. tr.