Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-26

4 popular asse nblage by his eloquence, as
trees are moved in whirlwind Some
/ night he retifes early A fever is on him.
I Delirum, Id, n reckless charioteer, sei2es
I the reins OF his intellect Father and
mother stand by and see the tides of his
! LIE going ont 10 the great ocean The ban.
I quet is coming TO an end The lights of
| thought and mirth and eloquence are
being eXtinglished. The garlands 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 ut the last war in this country.
/ Our whole nation had been sitting at a
national banquet--north, south, east and
west, What grain was there but we grew
1t 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 it must sing in our halls What
eloquence but it must speak in our SEN
ates. Hot to the national banquet, reach.
ing from mountain to mountain, and from
sea TO sea! To prepare that banquet the
"'iN lA'AAio anu INC tNluIitS Vi llle country
sent their best treasures The orchards
piled up on the table their sweetest fruits.
The presses burst out with new wines. To
SIT at that table came the yeomanry of
New Hampshire, and the lumberman of
Maine, and the Carolinian from the rice
fields, and the western emigrant from the
pines of Oregon, anu we were all brothers
brothers at banquet Suddenly the
feast ended
What meant those mounds thrown up at
Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettys-
burg, South Mountain2 What meant those
golden grain fields turned into pasturiug
ground for cavalry horses? What meant
the corn fields quilted with the wheels Of
the heavy supply train? Why those rivers
of tears-those lakes of blood? God was
angryl Justice must come. A handwrit-
ing on the WALL The nation had been
weighed and found wanting. Darkness!
Darkness! Woe to the north! Woe to the
soulful Woe to the eastl Woe to the westl
Death at the banquet
have also to learn from the subject that
the destruction Of the vicious and of those
who despise God, will be very sudden. The
wave of mtrth had dashed to the highest
point when that Assyrian army broke
through 1t was unexpected Suddenly,
almost always, comes the doom Of those
who despise God and defy the laws of
men, How was it at the deluge? Do you
suppose it came through long northeast
storm, 50 that people for days before were
sure it was coming? No; / suppose the
morning was bright, that calmness brood.
ed on the waters; that beauty sat en-
throned on the hills, when suddenly the
heavens burst, and the mountains sank
like anchors into the sen that dashed clear
over the Andes and the Himalayas.
OVERWHELMED IN THE WATERS.
The Rcd sea was divided The Egyptians
tried to cross it. There could be no danger.
The lsraelites had just gone through. |
Where they had gone, why not the Egyp-
tians? Oh! it was such a beautiful walking |
place! A pavement of Hinged shells and !
pearls, and on either side two great walls |
of water-solid. There can be no danger. |
Forward, great hosts of the Egyptians !
Clap the cymbals, and blow the trumpets |
of victory After thcml We will catch |
them yet, and they shall be destroyed But !
the walls begin to tremble. They rocki |
They fail! The rushing watersl The shrek |
OF drowning men! The swimming of the |
war horses in vain for the shore! The |
Of the great host on the bottom of |
the sea, or pitched by the angry wave on |
the beach-a battered, bruised and loath- |
some wreck Suddenly destruction came. |
Onehalf hour before they could not have !
believed it. Destroyed and without |
remedy
| am just setting forth fact, which you
have noticed as well as l. Anuuias comes
to the apostle. The apostle says, did you
sell the land for 50 much" He says,
YES It was lie. Dead rs quick rs thatl !
Sapphira, his wife, comes in. Did you
sell the land for so much" Yes" ltwas
a lie; and quick rs that she was dead.
Gods judgments are upon those who de-
spise him and defy him. They come sud
denly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt, Do you suppose that any of the
people knew that he was coming? Did
they hear the Nap of his great wing? Mol
no! Suddenly, unexpectedly he came,
Skilled sportsmcn do not like to shoot
bird standing on a sprg near by If they
are skilled they pride themselves on TAX
ing it on the wing and they wait till it
starts. Death is an old sportsman, and he
loves to take men Aying under the very
sun. He loves to tlkc them en- the wing.
WORD TO THE uNcoNNEHffD
Are there amy here who are unprepared
for the eternal world? Are there amy here
who have been living without God and
without hopey Let me say to you that you
had better accept OF the LORD Jesus Chrlst'
lest suddenly your last chance be gone.
The lungs VIII cease 70 hfeaIae, the heart
will stop, The time VIII come when you
shall go no more to jhe once or TO the
store or to the shop. Nothing Wll be LETT
but Death and Judgment aoI Eternity
Oh. flee to God this hour. II there be one
in this nrpSNUUp who has wandered lar