The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-12
AWFUL WARNIN G.
.Yha y sarfui Fate Of Those Who De-
s.''s.e spise the Lord.
oe.th ut the banquet Board-Tho Lessons
Taught by Belshazxar's Feast-ser-
mon by Rev. DR. T. Dewitt %.
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Az Sundays serVlces Ut. lhlmhRe
.ook for his SUI ject, Handwriting on
.hs WALL the text chosen being Dan.
40. I'm that night was Belshazzar,
,hs King OF the Chaldeans, slain"
NIGHT was about to come down on
BABYLON. The shadows OF her $50 tow
~. began to lengthen. The Euphrates
.olled on, touched by the fiery SPLEEN
aors or the setting sun, and gates of
hrass. FURNISHED and glittering opened
md shut like doors of fame. The
hanging gardens Of Babylon, wet with
.hc heavy dew, began to pour from
starlit flowers and dripping leaf fra
GRANGE for miles around. The streets
and squares were lighted for dance
and frolic and promenade. The theaters
and galleries OF art invited the wealth
and pomp and grandeur Of the city to
yare entertainments. Scenes of riot
and wassail were mingled in every
street, and goddess mirth and outrage
ous excess and splendid wickedness
came TO the kings palace to do their
mightiest deeds of darkness
A royal feast tonight at the kings
palace! Rushing up to the gates are
chariots, upholstered with precious
cloths from Dedan, and drawn by fire.
eyed horses from Togarmah, that rear
and neigh in the grasp Of the chariot.
GERS, while a thousand lords dismount,
and women. dressed in all the splend-
ors OF Syrian emerald, and the color
blending of agate and the chasteness
OF coral, aud the somber glory of Ty-
rian purple, and princely embroider-
les, brought from afar by camels
across the DESERT and by ships of
Tnrshish across the sea.
Open wide the gates and let the
guest come in. The cham berlains and
cup-bearers are all ready. Hark TO the
rustic Of the silks and the carol of the
music! See the blaze of the jewels!
Lift the banners. Fill the cups. Clap
the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let
the night go by with song and dance
and ovation; and let the Babylonish
tongue bo palsied that will not say 20
King Belshazzar, live forever!"
All, my friends, it was not any COM
mon banquet TO which these people
came. All parts of the earth had sent
their richest viands to that table.
Brackets and chandeliers flashed their
light upon tankards of FURNISHED gold.
Fruits, ripe and luscious, in baskets of
silver, entwined with leaves, plucked
from royal Conservatives. Vases in
laid with emerald and ridged with
exquisite traceries, filled with nuts
that were threshed from forests of dis
tant lands. Wine brought from the
- ~ fha
and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts of
cansia and frankincense waiting their
sweetness from wall and table. Cor
geous banners unfolding in the breeze
that came through the open window,
bewitched with the perfumes of hang
ing gardens. Fountains rising up
from Enclosures of ivory, in jets
Of crystal, TO fall in Gathering
rain of diamonds and pearls Statutes
of mighty men looking down from
inches in the wall upon crowns and
Shields brought from subdued empires.
Idols of wonderful work standing on
pedestals of precious stones. En-
broiderics STOPPING about the windows
and wrapping pillars OF cedar and
drifting on floor inlaid with ivory and
agate. Music, mingling the thrum of
liarps, and the clash of cymbals, and
. the blast of trumpets in one wave of
transport that went ripping along the
wall and breathing among the gar
lands, and pouring down the CORR
iors and thrilling the souls OF thou
sand bnnquetcrs. The signal is given
and the lords and ladies, the mighty
rysaE - 81 1nY
around the table. Pour out the wine.
Let foam and bubble kiss the rim!
Hoist every one his cup and drink to
fiie sentiment: 20 King Belshazzar, live
forever!" Bestarred headband and
carcanet Of royal beauty CLEAN to the
suplifted chalices, as again and again,
ard again they are emptied. IA Away
with care from the palace! Tear royal
dignity TO ,tattersl Pour out more
wine! Give us more light, wilder mu-
sic, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to
lord, captain ogles captain. Goblets
clash; decanters rattle. There come
In the obscene song, and the drunken
hiccough, and the slavering lip, and
the guffaw OF idiotic laughter bursting
from the lips Of princes, flushed, reel
ing bloodshot; while mingling with 1t
all ! hear: ''Huzza! huzza! for great
Belshazzarg, nl @ T.
What is that on the plastering on the
wall? is tia spirit? Is it phantom2
Is u God? The music stops The gob-
let's fall from the neryeless grasp.
There is thrill. There is a start
There is thousand voiced shrek Of
horror Let Daniel be brought in TO
read that writing. He comes in. He