Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-18
NEBUCHADNEZLAR.
Nai's Like a Eird's Claws, Hair Like
the Eagles Feathers.

Nai's Like Eird's Claws, Hair Like
the Eagles Feathers.
The kiag Was Driven From Among Men
and Ate Grass with the Oxen-Mcn
Who Descend TN They Seem "a
BsasIs-Dr. TsImgas's sermon.
nr. Ta!maVc's subject Sunday was:
"A King Eating Grass" and the text,
Daniel iv., SO: The same hour was
the thing iulhlled upon Nebuchadnez-
Ear; and he WAS driven from men, and
did eat grass as oxen, and his body Was
wet with the dew Of heaven. till his
hairs were grown like eagles feathers,
and his nails like birds claws"
Better shade your eyes lest they be
put out with the Splcndnr of Babylon,
as some morning you walk ont with
NehachadncZzlr ON the suspension
bridges which hang from the house
tops, and he shows YOU the vastncSs Of
his realm. A. the sun kindirs the
domes with giistcnings almost insult
ferable and the great streets thunder
up their pomp into the ear Of
the monarch, and armed towers stand
around, adorned with the spoils of
conquered empires, Nebuchadncz-
gar waves his hand above the stupen-
dous scene and eNclaims: lis not this
Babylon. that I have built for the
house of the kingdom ny the ;ght of
my power, and for the honor of my
majesty but in an instant all that
splendor is gone from his VisioH, for 4
voice falls from Heaven, saving: -.
King NebuchadnczZar, TO thee IL il
spoken: The kingdom i departed from
thee; AMI they shall drive thee
from men, and thy dwelling shall
be with the beasts of the field :
they shall make thee To eat
grass As oxen. and seven years shall
pass over thee, until thou know that
the Most High ruicth in the kingdom
Of men, and givcth it To whomSocver
he will One hour from the time that
he made the boast he i ON his way Ia
the fields, a maniac, and rushing into
the forests, he becomes one of the
beasts, covered with eagles feathers
for protection from the cold. ami his
nails growing to birds claws in order
NAdN hhAEhA tAA AiaN III AbE lobtA
and climb the trees for nuts.
lou see there is great variety in
the Scriptural landscape. in several dis
courses we have looked At mountains
of existence. bat now we look down
into a great, dark chasm of wickcd-
ness. as we come "a speak of Nebu-
'chadnezzar. God in His Word sets be-
fore us the beauty of self denial. of
spbriety, of devotion. of courage. and
then. lest we should not thoroughly
understand him, he introduced Daniel
and Paul. and Deborah. as illustrations
of those virtues. God also speak tons in
His word a. TO the hatcfulness of pride,
of folly, Of impiety lest We
should not thoroug
him, introduced Ncb
the impersonation Of -
'-pravity. The fo;mer style GA ,...r-
Is lighthouse, showing us a
..H charbor, and the latter
seter is black buoy.
he rocks TO show where
themselves Thanks
unto God Ior both the buoy and the
lighthouse The host of Eebuchad-
Jerusalem. The crown of that sacred city
is struck into the dust by the hand of
Babylonish insolence. The vessels of
the temple, which had never been des-
ecrated by profane touch, were ruth
lessly seized for sacrilege and trarspor-
tation. On, what a sad hour when
those Jews, at the command of the in
vading army. are Obliged to leave the
home of their nativity. How their
hearts must have been wrung with an
guish when, on the day they departed,
they heard the trumpets from the
top of the temple announcing the
hour for morning sacrifice and saw the
smoke OF the affairs ascending around
the holy hill Of Zion, for well they
knew that in a far distant land they
would never hear the trumpet call,
nor behold the majestic ascent of the
sacrefce. Behold those captives on
the road from Jerusalem to Babylon!
Worn and weary, they dare not halt,
for roundabout are armed men urging
them on with boot and shout and bias
phemy. Aged men tottered along on
their slaves, weeping that they could
not lay their bones in the sleeping
place of their fathers, and children
wondered at the length of the way and
sobbed themselves TO sleep when the
night hal fallen. IL seemed as il a;
every step heart broke.
But at a tqrn of the road Babylon
suddenly springs upon the view OF the
captives, with its gardens and palaces.
A shout goes up from the army as they
behold their native city, but not one
huzza Is heard from the captives.
These exiles saw no splendor there.
for it was not home. The Euphrates
dill not have the water-gleam OF
the brook kedron or the pool of
Sloan. The willows of Babylon, on
which they hung their untunei harps,
were not as graceful as the trees which
at the foot of Mount Moriah seemed to
wcep at the departe glory OF Judah.
anu II the fragrance that descended
from the hanging gardens upon that
great city was pot so sweet as one
breath of the acacia and frankincense
that the high priest kindled in the
sanctuary at Jerusalem.
On a certain night, a little while
a ter these cap.ives had been brought
to his city, Nebuchadnezzar is scared
with a night vision A bad mans pill
low is apt to be stuffed with deeds and
fo 'bodings which keep talking in the
R.sht He will find that the eagles
down IL ais pillow will stick him like
porcnrire quilts The ghosts of old
transgresslons are sure to wander
nik..aSe darkness and beckon