Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-01-29
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the damnatlon OF hellw Paul the apostle
preached before a man who was not ready,
TO hear him preach. What subject did no
take? Did he say: "Oh! you are very
good man, u very fine, man. u very noble
man?" No; he preached of righteousness
to man who was unrishteous; OF temper
ancc TO q man who was the victim of bad
appetltos; OF the Judgement to come to u
man who was unfit for H. So we must al
ways declare the message that happens TO
come TO US. Daniel must read IL as IL is.
Another lesson that comes TO us; there Is
great difference between the opening OF
the banquet OF sin and It's close. Young
man, II you had looked In upon the ban
Quet In tho first few hours, you would
have wished you had been invited there
and could sit nj the feast. "Ohl tho
grandeur OF Bclshazxar's feastw you would
have said; but look In at the close Of the
banquet, and your blood curdlcs with horror.
The King OF Terrors has there ghastlier
banquet; human blood Ia tho wine, and
dying groans are tho music. Sin has made
itself a king In the earth. II has crowned
itself IL has spread banquet. Itinvitcs
all the world TO como to II. II has hung
In its banquctlng- the spells OF all king
doms, and the banners OF all nations It
has gathered from all music. II has
strcwn, from its wealth, the tables aud the
floors, and the arches. And yet how often
Is that banquet broken up; and how horri-
bic is its end! Ever and anon there is
handwriting on the wall. king falls.
A grcat culprit Ii arrested. Tho knees OF
wlchodness knock together. Gods
Judgment like an armed host breaks In
upon tho banquet; and that night is
Bolshazzar, the king OF tho Chaldeans,
slain.
learn further from this subject that
| Death sometimes breaks In upon banquet.
| Why did he not go down 10 the prisons in
| Babylon? There were few persons thore
that would like TO have died. ] suppose
there were mon and women In torture In
that city who would have welcomed death.
! But he comes TO the palace; and just Nd
tho time when the mirth IL dashlng 10 tho
! tiptop pitch, Death breaks In at the
! banquet.
We saw tho Same thing. on larger
scale. illustrated ut the last war In this
country, Our whole nation had been sit
! ting ut a national bnnquot-north. SOUTH
eaht and wost. What grain was there but
we grew II on our hills. What invention
| WINS there, but our rivers must turn tho
| now wheel nnd rattle tho strange shuttle.
What warm furs, but our traders must
bring them from the Arctic. What Ash.
but our nets must sweep them for tho
markets. What music, but II must sing in
| our halls What eloquenco, but IL must
| speak In our scnatcs Hol 10 the national
| banquet, reaching from mountain 20 noun
tain and from sea 10 seal To prepare that
banquet the sheepiolds and the aviaries Of
| tho country sent their best treasures. Tho
orchards piled up on tho table their sweet
est fruits. Tho presses burst out with
now wines. To sit ut that table came tho
yeomnnry OF New Hampshire, and tho lum-
! bormcn of Maine, and the Carolinian from
tho rice fields, and the western emigrant
from the pines OF Oregon, and We were all
| brothers, brothers at a banquet. Suddenly
| tho feast ended. What meant those mounds
thrown up nj Chickamauga, Shiloh, At
| lanta, Gettysburg, South Mountain? What
meant those golden grain fields, turned
into a pasturlng ground for cavalry horses2
| What meant the corn fields quilted with
tho wheels OF the heavy supply train? Why
those rivers Of toars--thoae lakes OF blood?
God was angry Justice must comoi A
handwriting ON the wall! The nation had
| been weighed and found wanting. Dark
| ncssl Darsressl Woe to the northl Woe
10 the south Woe 10 the eastl Woe 10
tho west Death Mt the banquet
Arc there any here who are unprcparod
fer the eternal world? Are there any
! here who have been living without God.
| ard without hope? Let me say 10 you
! that you had better accept OF tho Lord
Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chance
be gone Tho lungs will cease 10 breathe;
tho heart will stop. The time win come
when you shall go no more 10 the oificc, or to
the store, or 10 the shop. Nothing W Ill DO
left but Death, and Judgment, and Eter-
nifty. Oh! fieo TO God this hour If there
be one IN this presence who has wandered
far away from Christ, though he may not
have heard the call of the Gospel for many
year, | invite him now TO come and be
saved. Flee from thy sin Flee TO the
stronghold OF the Gospel! Now Is the ac-
ccpted time; now Is the day Of salvation.
Goodnight, my young friendsl May
| you have rosy sleep, guarded by him who
never slumbcrs! May you awake In tho
morning strong and WE'LL But, oh! art
thou despscr OF God? Is this thy last
! night on earth? Shouldest thou BIO awak-
cnod In tho night by something, thou
knowest not what, and there be shadows
floating In tho room. and handwriting ON
tho wall and you feel that your last hour
is come, and there be fainting
ut the heart, and tremor in the limb, and
catching Of the brcath-then thy doom
would 90 but an echo Of the words Of tho
text: Elm that night was Belshazzar, tho
king OF tho Chaldcans, slain"
Hear the invitation OF the Gospel! There
may he somo one in this house to whom
shall never speak again, and therefore let
| IL be In the words OF the Gospel and not
I In my own, with which close: "Ho, every
one that thirstoth. Come ye 10 the waters.
And let him that hath no money come, buy
VINE and milk without money and without
| price, Come unto Me, oil We who arc
weary and heavy laden, and l will give
| you rest" Oh. that my Lord Jesus would
| now make himself so attractive TO your
souls that you can not resist him; and that,
! II you have never prayed before, or have
not prayed since those days when You
knolt down at your mothers knee, then that
/ tonight you might pray saying:
J Just n am, without one plea
/ But that thy blood was shed for me.
/ And that thou bid'st me come to thee,
o Lamb of God, / come!
But il you can not think Of so long
| prayer as that, | will give you n shorter
| prayer that you can say: God be merciful
to me, sinner!' Or, II you cannot think
OF so long prayer as that will give you
] still shorter one that you may utter:
Lord save me, or perishw Or II that
10 too long a prayer, you need not utter
| one word. Just look md live!
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