The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-20

haven't mended your ways Here is great lesson. Sons seeing the suffering endured by fathers for their wrongs often repeat the same offenses
 "2. You have brought the vessels of gold and silver from Gods house. and your guests are frolicking with them.' This was a great dissertation. Some may say, but we do not desecrate the belong ings of Gods house. But what's worse, they desecrate the Sabbath day. and dese- crate Gods name. It Is common to hear men swear. And the man that swears is a fish caught by the devil without any bait-with naked hook. The man who takes Gods name in vain Is not a fit associate for his own family.
 Crime on Increase.
 The speaker here called attention to and deplored the fact that barrooms in Bir- mingham were fast multiplying. He also referred to the report of the grand jury showing that crime was on the increase. He attributed 1t to strong drink. The speaker here told an anecdote in regard to saloons.
 An old man had just emerged from the front door of a saloon and leaned against the wall to rest. Finally he weakened and fell to the ground in a pile before the door. A newsboy passing rushed into
 the saloon and cried to the bartender: Mister. your sign has done fell down. Continuing about the lessons of the feast, he said You bow down to gods of silver. of gold, of brass. of wood. of iron and of stone'
 Here the speaker referred to conditions in Birmingham, where, he said too many people were worshiping the gods of iron. of steel and of coal. He asked that the people in prosperity be prayed for as much, if not more, than those in trou- ble. The people in prosperity, he thought, were in great danger of worshiping money. Don't understand me to say that we may not have money, but don't let money have us.''
 '"The fifth count was the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.' Daniel then interpreted the writing: God hath numbered thy kingdo mand l finished 1t. Thou are weighed in the bal ances and found wanting. Thy kingdom | is divided and given to the Medes and l Persians.'
 "The army on the outside of the wall | had been working diligently digging a | canal around the city, and into this they ! turned the water of the Euphrates and | marched under the walls into the city. | Beshazzar was slain in few moments.
 
 know when you have closed your office door or closed your threshold for the | last time. So my warning Is. be pre- pared I knew an engineer in Virginia
 once who lived at Charlottesville When
 on the trip coming home he would stor
 at Staunton to receive his orders, and when he took the sheet from the operator
 he would tell him to send word to the l operator at Charlottesville to tell his son | that he would sleep with him tonight | His little boy would run down regularly every afternoon to receive the message. | "One day the operator at Staunton told | the engineer that had a message for him
 this time. It was to the effect that his | little son was dying. There was no stop
 between Staunton and Charlottesville, and
 so the engineer went at full speed the
 entire distance. He arrived just few | minutes before the last breath had passed
 from his sons lips.
 ] While clasping the little fellow to his | breast the child whispered fin his ear:
 Telegraph to God that I will sleep with
 him tonight It was an example of the
 simple faith of a child. o that we could | have more of that kind of faith!'