Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-20
NO. 49,.

tAu ohoh tuUiC ID u HbuuWEltlnS wall.
king fails. great culprit is arrested.
The knees OF wickedness knock together.
| iod Judgment, like an armed host, breaks
upon the banquet, and that night is Bel
'hazzar. the king of the Chaldeans, slain.
Hereis young man who says: ~ cannot
oxicatins cup. Why, 1t is exhlarating! 1t
makes me feel well. l can talk better, think
better. feel better. Icannot see why people
lave such prejudice against it." A few
,Tears pass on, and he wakes up and finds
himself in the clutches of an evil habit which
lie tries to break. but cannot and he cries
out, 80 Lord God. help me!' II seems as
:houSh God would not hear his prayer, and
N an agony of body and soul he cries ont,
1t biteth like serpent. and stingeth like
IN adder" How bright it was at the start
How black it was at the last
Here is a man who begins to read loose
novels. "They are SO charming" he says.
II will go out and see for myself whether all
4 sinful life. He goes in. A sinful sprite
meets him with her wand. She waves her
wand, and it is all enchantment. Why, it
seems as II the angels of God had poured out
vials of perfume in the atmosphere. As
ne walks on he finds the hills becoming
more radiant with foliage and tho
ravines more resonant with the falling
water. Oh. what a charming landscape he
'eesl But that sinful sprite, with her wand,
meets him again. but now she reverses the
sup is full of poison. The fruit turns to
ashes. All the leaves ofthe bower are forked
tongues of Kissing serpents. The flowing
fountains fall back in dead pool stenchful
With corruption. The lu-ng songs become
curses and screams of demoni laughter.
Lost spirits gather about him ami feel for his
heart and beckon him on with ''Hail brother!
Hail, blasted spirit, hail. He tries to get
out. He comes to the front door where he
entered and tries to push it back, but tho
tt,rn ai,,ct tba
hat shutting door he hears these words,
This night is Belshazzar. the king of the
Chaldeans, slain" Sin may open bright ~
The morning. 1t enis dark as :he night
| lean further from this subject that death
Iometimes breaks in upon banquet. Why
lid he not go down to the prisons in Baby
ION? There We're people there that would
ike TO have died. 1 suppose there were men
and women in torture in that city who
would have welcomed death. but he comes
20 the palace. and just at the tine when tho
nirth is dashinS to the tiptop pitch death
breaks in at the banquet. We have
often seen the sa ne thing illustrated. Here
Is young man Just come from college. He
IS kind. He is loving. He is enthusiastic.
He is eloquent By one spring he may
bound to heights toward which many men
have been struggling for years. A profess
lsion opens before him. He is established in
The law. His friends cheer him. Eminent
men encourage him. After awhile you may
lmoving popular assemblage by his elo-
iHuence, as trees are moved in a whrlwind.
iSome night he retires early. A fever is on
him. Delirium, like n reckless charioteer,
EaiZes the reins of his intellect. Father and
mother stand by and see the tides of his life
going out to the great ocean. The banquet
Is coming to an end. The lights of thought
| and mirth and eloquence are being eNtin-
guiShed- The garands are snatched from
The brow. The vision is gone. 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 mirth had dashed to the highest
point when the invading 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 deiuge! Do you suppose it
came through long northeast storm.
that people for days before were sure il was
coming? No, 1 suppose the morning was
| bright; that calmness brooded on the waters;
| that beauty sat enthroned on the hills when
| suddenly the heavens burst and the noun
| tains sank like anchors into the sea that
| dashed clear over the Andes and the Himala.
Yas.
The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians
| tried to cross it. There could be no danger
| The Israelites had just gone through Where
| they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh,
it was such a beautiful walking place!
pavement of tinsed shells AMI pearls. and
| on either side two great walls of water
| solid. There can be no danger. Forward,
great host of the Esyptiansl Clap thi
| cymbals and blow the trumpets OF victory!
After them! We will catch them yet, and
they shall be destroyed. But the walls begin
to trembie! They rock' They fall The
rushing waters! The shrek of drowning
men! The swimming of the war horses in
| vain for the shore! The strewing of the
great host on the bottom of the sea or
pitched by the angry wave on the beach
battered, bruised and loathsome wreck
Suddenly destruction cane. One half hour
before they could not have believed it. De.
trOyed. and without remedy.
am just setting forth "A fact. which yOu
| have noticed as we'll as L. Ananias comes
to the apostle. The apostle says. Did you
sell the land for so much2'' He says, Yes"
1t was lie. Dead, as quick as thatl
Sapphira, his wife, comes in. "Did You sell
the land for so much?" Yes" 1t WIS
lie, and quick as that she was dead! Gods
judgments are upon those who despise Him
md defy Him. They come 81 lienly.
| Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot
| bird standing on sprig nearby. If they are
| skilled, they pride themselv.5 ou taking it on
/ he wing, and they wait till it :. arts. Death
| S an old sportsman and he loves to take men
| flying under the very sun. He loves to take
| hem on the wing. Oh, fee to Goi this
| night! If there be one in this presence who
| has wandered far away from Christ. though
he may not have heard the call of the gospel
for many year, invite him now to como
and be saved. Flee from thy SIN, Flee II
he stronghold of the gospel! Now is the nc
| .epted time. Now is the day OF salvation.
Good night. my young friends; may Won
| have rosy sleep. guarded by Him who never
| sulmbers! May you awake in the morning
| strong and WE'LL But, oh, art thou de-
piser of God? Is this thy last night on
earth? Shouldst thou be awaienel in the
| hight by something. thou knoweSt not what,
| md there be shadows floating in the room.
| and a handwriting on the wall, and you feel
| that your last hour is come, and there be a
fainting at the heart, AMI "A tremOr in the,
limb, and catching of the breath-then thy
doom would be but an echo of the words of
the text: "1n that night was Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeans, slain"
Oh, that my Lord Jesus would now make
| Himself so attractive to your souls that vol
cannot resist Him, ant il yoI have never
prayed before or have not prayed sines
those days when you knelt down at your
mothers knee, then that tonight you might
pray, saying.
| Just as am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me.
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
! q Lamb of God. 1 co me!
But if you cannot think OF SO long praye1
as that. L will give You a shorter prayer tha1
you can say, "God be merciful to me-. n sin
neri" Or, if you cannot think Of 50 long a
prayer as that. L will give YOU Il still slorIer
one that you may utter. lord save mo or 1
perish" Or, if that be TOO long PRAYER. vou
need not make it. Use ths wori ''heio."
| Or. if that be too long word, you need not
use suy word at all. Juso LOOK aui live,
The road to poverty IS easy to fint
but hard to travel.
By desiring what is perfectly good
even when we do not know quite " ha
it Is, and cannot do what we would, ",
are part of the divine power agaIst evil
widening the skirts OF light and
making the struggle with darkness:
narrower.
Many silly woman has been able tt
lead a wise man around by the nose.
Some Americans ridicule fore1gl
ldukes and than claim To he related Il