Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

REV DR. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW A
KING WAS INUNDATED.

He Uses q Weird and Strange Scene to
Enforce Useful Lesson--The Desecra-
ton of Sacred Things-Use of the Sab
bath.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l4-Dr. Talmage
zn this sermon uses weird and strange
scene of ancient times to illustrate the
beha cior of modern people who desecrato
sacred things, and for their arrogance
get bad tumble. His subject was "a
King Eating Grass and the text
Daniel iv, 33, 1.-THE same hour was the
thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar,
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 splendor of Babylon,
as some morning you walk out with
acknowledgements On the suspension
bridges which hang from the house tops
and he shows you the vaEtness of his
realm. AS the sun Eindles the domes
with glisterings almost insuferable and
the great streets thunder up their poInl
into the ear of the monarch, and armed
towers stand around, adorned with the
spoils of conquered empires. Nebuchad-
neZZar waves his hand above the stu
pendous scene and exclaims, lis not
this great Babylon, that have built fO1
the house of the kingdom by the might
of my power and for the honor of my
majesty" But in an instant all that
spIendor is gone frcm his vision, for
voice falls from the heaven. saying: go
King observation-disclosures, to thee it is
spoken. The kingdom is departed from
thee, and 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 ruleth in the
kingdom of men and giveth it TO whom
soever he will" One hour from the
time that he made the boast he is ON the
way to the fields, a maniac. and, rush
ing into the forests, he becomes one OF
the beasts, covered with eagles feathers
for protection from the cold, and his
nails growing to birds claws in order
that he might dig the earth for roots
and climb the trees for nuts.
On the Road to Babylon.
You see there is q great variety in the
Scriptural landscape. In several dis
courses we have looked at mountains Of
excellence, but now we look down into
great, dark chas1n of wickedness as we
come to speak of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. God
In his Word sets before us the beauty of
self denial, of sObriety, of devotion, of
courage, and then, lest we should not
thoroughly understand him, he intro
duced Daniel and Paul and Deborah as
illustrations of those virtues. God also
speaks to us in his Word as to the hate
fitness of pride, of folly, of impiety
and lest we should not thoroughly I'M
derstand him, introduces Nebuchadnez-
Ear as the impersonation of these forms
of depravity. The former style of char
acter is lighthouse, showing us a way
into safe harbor, and the latter style
of character is black buoy, swinging
ON the rocks, to show where vessels
wreck themselves. Thanks unto God
for both the buoy and the lighthousel
The host of observation-disclosures is thunder
ing at the gates of Jerusalem. The
crown of that sacred city is struck into
the dust by the hand of Babylonish in
science. The vessels of the temple,
which had never been desecrated by pro-
fame touch, were ruthlessly seized for
sacrilege and transportation. Oh, what
sad hour when those Jews, at the
command of the invading army, are
obliged to leave the home of their ma
tivity? How their hearts must have
been wrung with anguish when, on the
day they departed, they heard the trum-
pets from the top Of the temple an
nouncing the hour for morning sacrifice
and saw the smoke of the affairs ascend
ing around the holy hill of Zion; for
well they knew that in far distant
land they would never hear that trumpet
call nor behold the majestic ascent of
the sacrificed 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 hCot 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 them
selves to sleep when the night had fall
en-. 1t seemed as if at every step heart
broke. But at q turn of the road Baby
Ion suddenly springs upon the view Of
the captives, with it's gardens and pal
aces. A shout goes up from the army as
they behold their native city, but not
not one huzza is heard from the cap
tives. These exiles saw no splendor
there, for it was not home The Eu-
pirates did not have the water CLEAN of
the brook Kedron or the pool of Sloan.
The willows of Babylon, on which they |
hung their untuned harps, were not as
graceful as the trees which at the foot |
of Mount Moriah seemed to weep at the |
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