Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-02-20


Enforce Useful Lesson-The DesecRa-
tlon Of Sacred Things-Use of tho Sab
bath.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Dr. Talmage
In this sermon uses weird and strange
scene of ancient times to illustrate the
behavior of modern people who desecrats
sacred things, and for their arrogance
get bad tumble His subject was "a
King Eating Grass" and the text
Daniel Nv, SO, 1.-The same hour was tho
thing fulfilled upon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
and he was driven from men, and did
cot grass as oxen, and his body was wet
with the dew Of heaven, till his hairs
were grown like eagles fenthers, 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
Nebuchadnezzr OH the suspension
bridges which hang from tho house tops
and he shows you the vastness of his
realm. AS the sun kindles the domes
with glisterings almost insufferable 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, Nebuchad-
nezZar waves his hand above the stu
pendous scene and exclaims, lis not
this great Babylon, that l have built for
the house of the kingdom by the might
of my power and for the honor Of my
majesty" But in m instant all that
splendor is gone from his vision for
voice falls from the heaven, saying: 20
King Observation-Disclosures, to thee 1t is
spoken The kingdom is departed from
thee, and they shall drive thee from
men, and thy dwelling shall DO with
the beasts of the field. They shall make
thee to eat grass rs 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. =" Ono hour FROM the
time that he made the boast he is Oh the
way to the fields, Il 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 great variety i'll the
Scriptural landscape. In several dis
courses we have looked at mountains OF
excellence, but now we look down into
q great, dark chasm Of wickedness Ms we
come to speak of Nebuchadnezzar. God
in his Word sets before rs the beauty OF
self denial, of sobriety, of devotion, OF
courage, and then, lest we should not
understand him, he intro
duced Daniel and Paul and Deborah us
of those virtues. God also
speaks to us in his Word as to the hate
fulness of pride, Of folly, of impiety
and lest we should not thoroughly un-
derstand him, introduces Nebuchadnez-
Ear as the impersonation of these forms
of depravity. The former style of char
acter is lighthouse, showing US 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 Gcd
for both the buoy and the lighthouse!
Tho host of Nebuchadnezzar is thunder
ing at the gates of Jerusalem. The
crown Of that sacred city is struck into
tho dust by the hand Of Babylonish i'll
science. The vessels of the temple,
which had never been desecrated by pro-
fame touch, were ruthlessly seized for
sacrilege and transportation. Oh, what
a sad hour when those Jews, at the
command of the invading army, are
obliged to leave the home Of their ma
tivity2 How their hearts must have
been wrung with anguish when, Oh 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
we'll they knew that in far distant
land they would never hear that trumpet
call nor behold the majestic ascent of
the sacrifice Behold those captives Oh
the road from Jerusalem to Babylon !
Worn and weary, they dare not halt,
for roundabout are armed mon 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 them
selves to sleep when the night had fall
en-. 1t seemed as if at every step heart
broke. But at turn Of the road Baby
Ion suddenly springs upon the view OF
the captives, with its 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 splcndor
there, for 1t 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
departed glory Of Judah, and all the
fragrance that descended from the hang
ing gardens upon that great city was
not 80 sweet as one breath of the acacia
and frankincense that the high priest
kindled in the sanctuary at Jerusalem.
On certain night, little while after
these oaptives had been brought to his
city, Nebuchadnezzar is scared with
night vision. A bad mans pillow is apt
to be stuffed with deeds and forebodings
which keep talking in the night. He
will find that the eagles down In his
pillow will stick him like porcupine
quills. The ghosts Of old transgressions
are sure to wander about in the dark
ness and beckon and hiss. Yet when