Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-26


the front door where he entered, and tries
10 push 1t back, but the door turns against
him. and In the lar OF that shutting door
he hears these words, "This night is Bel
shazzar, the king Of the Chaldeans, slain"
Sin may open bright US the morning. 1t
ends dark ~ the nightl
! learn further from this subject that
Death sometimes breaks in upon banquet
why did he not go down to the prisons in
Babylon' There were people there that
would like 10 have died. ! suppose there
were men and women In torture in that
city who would have welcomed Death. But
he comes to the palace; md just at the
time when the mirth is dashing TO the tip
top pitch Death breaks in AZ the banquet
We have often seen the same thing illns-
trated. Here il a young man just come
from college He is kind. lie Is loving.
He is enthusiastic. He is eloquent. by
one spring he may bound TO heights
toward which many men have been strug-
Cling for years A profession opens before
him He is established in the law. His
friends cheer him. Eminent men encOur-
age him.
After a while you may see him standing
In the United States senate, or moving
popular assemblage by his eloquence, as
trees are moved in "a whirlwind. Some
night he rctires early A fever is on him.
Delirium, like reckless charioteer, seizes
the reins OF his intellect. Father and
mother stand by aud see the tides Of his
| life going out to the great ocean. The ban
quet IL coming 10 an end. The lights OF
thought and mirth and eloquence are
being extinguished The gtrlands are
snatched from the brow. The vision is
gone. Death at the banquet
DEATH AT THE BANQUET.
We saw the same thing on larger scale
illustrated at the last war in this country.
| Our whole nation had been sitting at II
national banquet-north south, east and
west. What grain was there but we grew
II on our hills. What invention was there
| but our rivers must turn the new wheel
and rattle the strange shuttle. What warm
| furs but our traders must bring them
| from the Arctic. What fish but our nets
must sweep them for the markets. What
music but IL must sing in our halls. What
| eloquence hut it must speak in our sen
atcs. Ho! TO the national banquet, reach
| ing from mountain to mountain, and from
sea 10 seal To prepare that banquet the
sheepfolds and the aviaries Of the country
| sent their best treasures The orchards
| pllel up on lht llblt butll hNttltSI lIulJ0
| The presses burst out with new wines. To
sit at that table came the yeomAnry Of
New Hampshire, and the lumbcrman Of
Maine, and the Carolinian from the rice
fields, and the western emigrant from the
pines OF Oregon, and we were all brothers
brothers Mt II banquet. Suddenly the
feast ended.
| What meant those mounds thrown up at
| Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettys-
| burg, South Mountainr What meant those
| golden grain fields turned into IL ptsturiug
| ground for cavalry horscsy What meant
the corn fields quilted with the wheels Of
the heavy supply train' Why those rivers
| Of tcars-those lakes OF hloOdy God was
| angry Justice must come. A handwrit.
| ing on the WALL The nation had heeu
weighed and found wanting Darknessl
| Darknessl Woe to the northl Woe TO the
south Woe to the east Woe To the westl
Death at the banquet
have also TO learn from the bject that
the destruction of the vicious, aud uf those
who despise God, will be very sudden. The
wave OF mirth had dashed 20 the highest
point when that Assyrian army broke
through Il was unexpected suddenly,
| almost always, comes the doom of those
who despise God and defy the laws OF
men. How WAS 1t AZ the delugel DO you
suppose II came through long northeast
storm. sd that people for days before were
sure II WIS coming1 No; suppose the
morning was bright, that calmness brood
ed Oh the waters; that beauty sat en-
throned on the hills, when suddenly the
heavens burst, and the mountains sank
like anchors into the sea that dashed clear
over the Andes and the llimalayAs.
ovRRwuELMED IN rHR wArERs.
The Red sea WAS divided The Egyptians
tried TO cruss It, There could be no danger
The lsraelites had just gone through.
Where they had gone, why not the Egyp
tiAns' OH Il was such beautiful walking
piaoel \ pavement Of tinged shells and
pearls and ON either side two great walls
OF water solid, There can be no danger,
Forward grcat hosts OF the Egyptians
Clap the cymhals, and blow the trumpets
OF victory After them We will catch
them yet, and they shall bc destroyed. But
the walls begin 10 trvmhle They noek
They fall The rushing wAtersi The shrek
Of drowning men! The swimming 81 the
war horses In vain for the shore The
stIewing of the great host On the buttoul OF
the sea, or pitched by tho angry wave ou
the bcach a battered, bruised and loath
some wreck suddenly destruction came
One.half hour bcforc they could not have
believcd It, Destroyed, aud without
rcme,iy
Lam Just setting forth fact, which you
have noticed "a we'll As | AnAuiAs comes
to the APOSTLE The apostle says, did you
sell the land Tor So much~ lie says
"Nrs." Il was a he DaAdl as quick ~ that
Sapphire, bis wife, eomes in. Did you
sell the land for 50 muchf" Yes, % IL twa'
lie, and quick os that she WAS dead
God's judgments ARE upon those who dc
spise him and defy him. Ehey como sud
denly,
The destroying angel went through
Egypt IN you suppose that any of ia,
pooplc knew that ho WAS comtug' ID,
Ihry hear the dap of his great wing' No
nol Suddenly uncNpoctcdly, he came,
Skilled sportsmeu do not like - shoot .
hipi standing on sprig near ny II they
Aro Akillcl they pride themselves on tax
ing u on the wing, and they wait I'LL Il
starts. n,ath Is an old sportsmAa, and he
lovcs 10 IAkr men dying un,ier the VeFl
sun. Hc loves % take then, cu che wing
A WORD 10 rus UNCoSySKrEn
An tAcrv any here who Arv uuprvparS
for the eternal world' Aro therv any her,
Who have brcn living without God anl
without hopoi les me sAy 70 YOU thai yog
haA lslter scocpt of the l.opi Jesus ChrisI
le-t suddenly yo0r lAst chance be gone
The luuss will coAss ~ hrcAthe, the hear
will stop The time will come when yog
shall 10 No m0rc ~ the 0iiioe, "a % tbs
stoFv, az a. the shop. Nothing will h len
bat h,Ath and Judgment and kisrnigy
on No. IA God this hour, II thoro he ons
IA this pFvssnor wAo has wanderSl ial
away fF,tln Christ. thoogh he may nos hAv'
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