The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-12-11
he is arrested. Perhaps he has been
WALKING down the street and has heard

| take you up, sir. Take me up +?
! What for p why, to be executed.
Have you not heard the decree ?
| Nebuchadnezzar, the king, has had a
| dream, and it has gone from him so
that he cannot remember word of it..
| He wants the wise men to tell him
| what it was because they cannot
they are all to be slain. You are
classed among the wise men, and you
are to be beheaded like the rest.
why says Daniel, the king has
been very hasty. Go back and tell
him that I believe my God will reveal
to me the dream and the interpreta-
tion.' Arioch went and told the king
| what the young man said, and Nebu-
chadnezzar ordered him to be brought
before him. Daniel knew that his
| God was the revealer Of secrets and
that he could tell him all about the
dream so when he entered the king
palace he asked to be allowed day to
pray to his God and see if He would
not reveal to him the dream and it's
Interpretation.
"I dare say Nebuchadnezzar was
glad of Daniels offer, and he allowed
him till the following day to find out
the dream. But said he, mind, if
you do not tell me then off comes your
head + Away went Daniel to his
three companions to tell them all
about it. I do not fancy they took
much time to eat or drink that night.
They had prayer neutrality-suspicious.
the first prayer meeting ever held in
Babylon. These four men prayed
earnestly together that God would
reveal the matter, then they retired to
rest.
IT do not think you or I would
sleep much if we thought our heads
were coming off in the morning. Dan
iel slept, anyhow; for we are told the
matter was revealed to him in dream
or night vision. Likely enough his
three friends were praying at the very
time but Daniels faith was so strong
that he could sleep calmly in the pros
pect of death.
''In the morning he went away to
the palace, got into the guard room
and said to the officer, Take me to
the, king, and I will tell him the
dream He then stood in the pres
ence of the king, and like Joseph in
Egypt, he gave God the glory, and
then went on to tell the king his
dream. 'The secret which the king
hath demanded cannot the wise men,
the astrologers, the magicians, the
soothsayers, show unto the king, but
there is a God in heaven that revealeth
secrets and maketh known to the king,
Nebuchadnezzar, what shall be in the
latter days. Thy dream and the
visions of thy head upon thy bed are
these: Thou, 0 king, sawest and be-
held a great image. This great image
whose brightness was excellent, stood
before thee and the form thereof was
terrible. The head Of this image was
Of fine gold.' The king g face begins
to brighten up. 'Ah, l begin to re-
member. It comes back to me now.
A great image, very bright; head Of
gold. 'Yes, 1 can remember that.
His breast and his arms of silver
'Yes, yes,' cries the king, L remem-
ber that So Daniel goes on till he
comes down. to the toes of iron and
clay. why, that is it exactly says
the king; I reoollect it all now but
surely there was something more.
Then Daniel begins again: Thou
sawest still that stone was cut out
without hands and rolling down from
the mountain smote the image Then
he tells of the image being broken to
pieces and winds up with the stone
becoming great mountain and filling
the whole earth. 'Ah + aaid Nebu-
chadnezzar, that is it; that is my
dream. It has all come back to me
now. Can you tell me the interpreta-
tion p Daniel replies: I cannot,
but my God can. He has sent the
Interpretation to me. Thou, 0 king,
with all thy power, and honor and
glory-thou art the head. God has
given thee a kingdom above all other
kingdoms
"When Nebuchadnezzar heard this
Interpretation he was pleased, and he
felt quite sure he had found wise
man at last. The result was that
Daniel was made ruler; and at his
request his friends were put into Office
and high position at once and then
they found that God had stood by
them, and that they had lost nothing
by being faithful to Him.
"For fifteen years we lose sight Of
Daniel, who was most likely living in
retirement. Nebuchadnezzar has gone.
Belshazzar has great feast. He Or
dered God 8 holy vessels to be broug ht
out. They were brought and these
impious heathens drank wine out Of
them. All are jolly when 10 what is
the matter ?
"The king is struck by something !!
He has turned deadly pale The wine
cup has fallen from his hand l
should not wonder if his lords and
princes were laughing in their sleeves
at him, thinking he was drunk. But
quickly they, too, saw that terrible
writing on the wall, cleaning forth in
letters of fire But the king had seen
more. The message was for him, and
he saw the part of the hand that wrote.
The finger of God wrote his doom on
the wall. Call the wise men ! he
shouted. They were called and the
king cries out: If you show me the
Interpretation of that writing you
shall be the third ruler of the king
DOM" But they could not. No un-
circumcised eyes could read the writ
ing. They had to confess themselves
beaten. The king is more troubled
than ever; ; even his drunken lords
are astonished. The queen had not
been at the table just then, but some
one rushes off to her. She came in to
the king at once; she told him not to
be afraid. There was man who had
told all the wonderful dreams of the