The morning news., 1892-02-08

! ness OOQ Will Ah6b you DaGk. 1ley art
waiting for you up in the palace. Nebu-
chadnezzar was the son Of Nabopolassar who
ruled before him, and you are the child OF
/ a king.
The next thought that presses into my
1 mind from the contemplation Of this incl
dent is that conviction is not conversion.
" no is tins monarch that makes the boast
about Babyloni The very man who, under
1 the revelation Of dreams that Daniel made
1 from heaven, deeply humbled himself.
/ while he confessed that God is a god Of
I gods and Lord Of lords, vet, behold that
/ that hum bling and arousing which he be-
I fore felt did not result In a radical change.
| There IS no mistake more frequent than Of
sHppOsing conviction a synonym for con-
| version. Conviction Is merely sight OF sin
! conversion is a view of pardon. Conviction
| is merely alarm; conversion is confidence.
! Conviction is dissatisfaction with depravity {;
conversion Is a turning away from
It. Conviction is sword wound ;
| conversion is the healing. Conviction is
the fever of thirst; conversion Is the slak-
ing of that thirst Conviction is the pain ;
conversion is the medlciue that cures it,
! Thousands have experienced the former and
never experienced the latter. There are
multitudes who think that as soon as a man
is serious he is fit for profession OF res
ligiOn. What II e man should only think
seriously of being merchant; would that
make himsa merchanti What If man should
only think seriously CT being a lawyer;
would that make him lawyer9 What if a
man should only think seriously Of being a
Christian, would that make him a Chris
tians Felix was convicted but not con-
verted. The jailer was convicted before he
got out of bed. but not converted until at
the advice Of Paul he be-
lieved in Christ. Are you
convicted but not converted9 l tell you
lak r,aEa fhfnk Of Wn,. ho.
made up your mind for proper consideration
to deed away property. You have drawn
the deed. The seal is affixed opposite where
you are TO write your name. The commis-
sioner OF deeds is present to witness. You
have your pen in hnnd. There is ink in the
pen. There is only one thing for you to do,
and that Is 10 sign your name. Suppose
you stop now without signing your name,
what does it all amount tog Nothing SO
you have resolved to give yourself
up to God. You propose 60
sign off to him your body, your
mind, your soul. You have all things
necessary for the transfer. The angels of
God are here to witness the eternal trans
fer. Why do you not now with your will
complete the work9 Halt where you are,
and all goes for nothing. Sign your name
to this spiritual transfer. Prof Arago the
mathematician, got wofully discouraged in
his work and was about to give up, when
he saw some words on the paper which had
been used TO stlffen the cover Of his book,
and the words being iudistinct he dampened
the cover until he could take it off and saw
the words plainly, aud he found they were
words Of advice given by D'Alembert TO a
student, and the words were, go on, sir; /;
go onm o ye who are convicted go on n
You must take one more step, or ell tho
steps you have taken will amount to moth
ing. 60 on.
Learn also from my subject that pride is
the precursor of overthrow. Pride is
commander well plumed and caparisoned,
but it leads forth dark and frowning host.
pride Roeth before destruction, and
naughty spirit before fall The arrows
from the Almightys culver are apt to strike
man when on the wing Goliath shakes
his great spear in defiance, but the smooth
stones from the brook make him stagger
and fall like an OK under a butchers blud-
gon. He who Is down caunot fall. Vessels
scudding under bare poles do not feel the
force Of the storm. What are those three
sleds that have Just gone into the yard Of a
miserable hotel In Warsaw, Poland, on the
cold night Of Dec. 10, 1922 Who are they,
who from these sleds have entered, and the
servant Is trying to build for them a fire
with some green wood2 Napoleon, with six
attendants, on retreat from Moscow. The
fire amid the green woods has gone out
and the emperor is walking the floor to keep
from freezing. Then bounding into his
sled, the thermometer twent y-six degrees be-
low zero. he disappears in the darkness. He,
who little before had an army under his
command, together with troops offered
by other nations in all one million one
hundred and eighty-ssven thousand men.
now retreating through that December
night with three sleds, and those of his
army not dead under the snow, reduced for
nn1 20 n hnn fYTl Of
with gunpowder for lack of salt, and a
mouthful Of horse-desh. From what a
hight to what a depth Nebuchadnezzar
in the palace; Nebuchadnezza forsaken in
the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune of the
King of Babylon what terrible thing is the
loss Of reason. There is no calamity that
can possibly befall US in this world 50 great
as the derangement of intellect-to have
the body of a man and yet O fall even be-
low the instinct OF a brute. In this world
of sad sights the saddsst is the idiots stare.
In this world of awful sounds the most
awful is the maniac's laugh. A vessel on
the rocks, when hundreds go down never to
rise, and other hundreds drag their man-
gled and shivering bodies up the wintry
beach is nothing compared to the founder
ing of intellects full of vast hopes and at
tainments and capacities. Christ's heart
went out to these who were epileptic, fall
ing into the fire, or maniacs cutting
themselves among the tombs. We are
accustomed to be more grateful for physical
health than for the proper working Of our
mind. We are apt TO take 1t for granted
that the Intellect which has served us so
we'll will always be faithful. We forget
that an engine with such tremendous power,
when the wheels have such vastness of
circle and such swiftness of motion and the
least impeachment might put it out of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance by a
divine hand. No human power could
engineer this train of immortal faculties
How strange it is that our memory, on
whose shoulders all the successes and mis-
fortunes and occurrences of a lifetime
are placed, should not oftener
break down, and that the scales
OF Judgment, which have been
weighing so much and so long, should not
lose their adjustment, and that fancy which
holds dangerous wand should not some
times maliciously wave 1t, bringing into the
heart forebodings and hallucinations the
most appalling. Is it not strange that the
expectations Of this intellect should not be
dashed TO pieces on its Disappointment
Though so delicately attuned, this instru-
ment Of untold harmonies plays on, though
fear shocks 1t, and veXations rack it, and
sorrow and joy and loss and gain in quick
succession beat out of it their dirge, or
draw from it their anthem At morning
and at night, when in your prayer you re-
hearse the objects of your Thanksgiving,
next to your salvation by Jesus Christ,
praise the Lord for the preservation Of your
reason.
How MANY fine intellects are being de-