Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

full Of lords and dukes and the mighty
+ mon and women of the country, for Hugh
p Latimer was 20 apologize He began his
sermon by saying, "Hugh Latimer, be-
think thee Thou art In the presence Of
thine earthly king, who can destroy thy
body. But bethink thee, Hugh Latimer,
!. that thou art in the presence Of the king
!. Of heaven and earth, WHO can destroy both
!. body and soul in hell fire" Then he
preached with appalling direotness at the
kings crimes.
The End Of Sin.
Another lesson that comes to us tonight:
! There is great difference between the
! opening Of the banquet Of sin and its close.
! Young man, IL sou had looked in upon
, the banquet in the first few hours you
would have wished you had been invited
there, and could sit nc tho feast. "Oh the
grandeur Of Belshazzar's feastp' you
would have said but you look In at the
close OF the banquet and your blood cur
dies with horror The king of terrors has
thoro a ghastlier banquet; human blood is
the wine and dying groans are the music
Sin has made itself a king In the earth It
has crowned itself. It has spread ban
quot 1t invites all the world to come to
it, It has hung in its banqueting hall the
spoils of all Kingdoms, and the banners Of 4
all nations. 1t has gatl cred from all mu-
sic. 1t has strewn, from its wealth, the
tables and floors and arches And vet how .
often is that banquet broken up, and how 4
horrible is its end Ever and anon there /
is a handwriting on the wall king .
falls. A great culprit is arrested. The
| knees of wickedness knock together.
/ Gods Judgment like an armed host,
breaks in upon the banquet, and that
/ night is Belshazzar, the king Of the Chal-
deans, slain.
Hero is "a young man who says: IT can
not see why they make such a fuss about
the Intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarat-
ingi 1t makes me feel we'll / can talk
bettor, think better, feel better. cannot
sec why people have such a prejudice
against it." A few years pass on, and he
wakes up and finds himself in the clutches
of an evil habit which he tries to break
but cannot, and no cries out, 80 Lord
God, help mep' It seems as though God
would not hear his prayer, and in an agony {
of body and soul he cries out, "It biteth
like serpent, and it stingeth like an adj
der" How bright it was at the startl /,
How black It was at the last \
Hcre is man who begins to read loose I
novels. "They arc so charming, he says.
81 will go out and see for myself whether
all these things are so" He opens the gate +
Of a sinful life He goes in. A sinful I
sprite meets him with her wand. She h
waves her wand, and it is all enohant- q
ment Why, it seems as If the angels Of Il
God had poured out walls of perfume in Y
the atmosphere. As he walks on he finds
the hills becoming more radiant with foil
age and tho ravines more resonant with
the falling water. Oh, what charming
landscape he seesl But that sinful sprite,
with her wand, meets him again. But %
now she roverses the wand, and all the en- ID
chantment is gone. Tho cup is full Of /,
poison. The fruit turns TO ashes. All the OF
leaves of the bower are fOrlxed tongues Of a
Kissing serpents The flowing fountains %
tall back in a dead pool stonchful with be
Tho Turing songs become U
purses and screams of demoniao laughter. 10
Lost spirits gather about him and feel for al
his heart and beckOn him on with "Hail,
brother Hail, blasted spirit, haill" He
,ries to get out, He comes to the front
loor where he entered and tries to push It Pi
back, but the door turns against him, and
n the jar of that shutting door he hears
hose words, "This night is Belshazzar, m
he king Of the Chaldeans, slain. Sin til
nay open bright as the morning. 1t ends Sc
lark as the night an
Death at the Banquet. ed
learn further from this subject that &C
cath sometimes breaks in upon a ban ll'
net. Why did he not go down to the pris- NC
MS in Babylon? There were people there ~ },
hat would like to have died / suppose IN
here were men and women IN torture in SCI
hat city who would have welcomed DEATH hh'
ut he comes to the palace and just at the va
me when the mirth is dashing to the tip an
)p pitch, death breaks in at the banquet. tel
70 have often seen the same thing Illus Sol
'ated. Here is a young man just come -
ON college. He is kind He is loving. an
10 is enthusiastic. He is eloquent. BY DC
ne spring ho may bound to heights to- Oh
ard which many men have been strug- no
ling for years, A profession opens before ON
I'm. He is established in the law. His ISL
lends cheer him. Eminent men encour- Iac
&c him. After awhile you may sec him CT
anding in the American senate, or moY, y
y a popular assemblago by his elOquenca Oh
trees are moved IN a whirlwind. Some 0n'
ght he retiros early. A fever is on him. per
elirium, like a reckless oharioteer, seizes Dy
e reins Of his intellect. Father and
other stand by and see the tides of his tru
o going out to the great ocean. The MS
nquet is coming to an end. The lights an
thought and mirth and eloquence are OF
ing extinguished. The garlands are IN
atched from the brow. The vision Is ch'l
ne. Death at the banquet ana
We saw the same thing, on a larger scale, MAJ
ustrated in our civil war. Our whole IN
ton had been sitting at a national ban a iii
south, east and west. What me
ain was there but we grow it on our NC
Us? What invention was there but our one
ers must turn tho new wheel and rattle luei
3 strange shuttle? What warm fuEs but iiNe
r traders must bring thein from the arc tno
? What fish but our nets must sweep prli
an for the market? What music but MAJ
must sing in our hallsg What elOquenoe
t 1t must speak in our senatesg Ho, to PORT
national banquet reaching from noun cam
n TO mountain and from sea to seal To gam
pare that banquet the sheepfolds and mp
aviarics Of the country sent their best ant
assures Tho orchards piled up on the was
lie their sweet fruits. The presses burst cieN
with now wines. To sit at that table anu az,
nc the yeomanry Of New Hampshire, nc
tho lumbermen Of Maine, and the gre',
'olinian from the rice plantation, and IN u
western enigrant from the pines Of
gon, and we were all Observation-Disclosures
banquet. Suddenly tho feast ended, a
at meant those mounds thrown up at s eno
Ickamauga Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettys- ~
g South Mountaing What meant those bisto
den grainleds, turned into pastur- ami
ground for cavalry horses? What ann,
ant the cornfelds quilted with the mon
sels Of the heavy supply traing Why IN An
Sc rivers Of tears-those lakes Of bloods Or
was angry Justice must come. A nj 81
dwriting on the WALL The nation had tion
n weighed and found wanting Dark If III,
81 Darknessl Woe to the north Woe mad
he south Woe to the east Woe to the ed IL
Il Death at the banquet, ON
Sudden Judgment. man
have also to learn from the subject numl
the destruction Of the vicious, and Of ploye
% who despise God will be very sud gume
The wave Of mirth had dashed to the it, Nj
TEST point when the invading army BIRTHS
20 through. 1t was unexpected Sud- dian
~ almost always comes the doam % Sir
o who desplse God gnl defy the laws bers
men. How was it ut the deluge? Do anus
suppose it came through long north what
storm, 80 that people for days before did, n,