Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-26

"Oh, no. answered the lady. I'VE
have nothing here but venison and
grouse and trout. We have these so
often that we are sick of the sight OF
them. We were in hopes of obtaining
some beef by the last steamer, but we
were disappointed, and so we can give
you nothing but what our country pro.
duces." THAT reminds me-" said one
of the officers ut tho table, "or the
| mutiny which was threatened Mt n
Florida post in olden times because
the soldiers protested against being
served with green turtle soup more
than once n week." SO you can SEQ
that, even under the very brightest
conditions, the most enticing of foods
pals upon the palate IL they are served
too often and too long.
But Daniel had never been an cpl
cure. He had never been one who
was devotec of sensual pleasures.
lie, had grown up with the plain,
coarse, SIMPLE and yet wholesome food
upon which most of us were reared in
our fathers homes. lie had the simple
breakfast and the simple dinners elnd
the simple suppers common to Jc\ ish
childhood. This pulse" which he n\l-
tons is the general name given to tia
leguminous plants, such as the beans
and peas. etc. Thus you can see what
temptation must have come to Daniel
in sensual way when he suddenly
had placed before him the vands anI
the wines of the kings banquet hall.
Oh. they looked SO good. and they
smcled so good. The boy probably
wanted to taste them. He wanted
To feast on them And yet. had he
Toasted thus and kept on feaSting,
he would surely have spiritually died.
The meats Ivy the Mosaic law were I'M
clean. God had said, Thou shalt not
eat this food"
True says some one, "the kings
meat may have been unclcan food for
Daniel. but it is not unclcan for me.
We are not living under the old but
under the new diSpcnsation. What
was sin for Daniel to eat is not a
sin for me TO eat" Oh. of course we
are not asserting hat it is sin for us
The ancient Hebrews. although all peo-
pie would be better off if they cd not
eat the condemned swine's flesh. But
we are asserting that there is a direct
connection between what man eats
and what Il man spiritually is. And
we are asserting that the sins Of the
palate are among the very worst of
all sins. They are the sins which are
often the forerunners of all other sins
They are the sins which will turn
man into n beast and may unkennel
all TIE tigers and the wolves and the
hyenas and the jackals of his lower
nature. Beware, o man, Of the king
meats and wines, which Satan Is
ready to spread for us in many ban
Quet hail. The Scilians erected an al
tar in Ceres to Adephagia the goddess
of gluttony. May we, as servants Of
the true God, never be found Worship
ing at this brutalizing, this mental
and physical and moral and spiritual
depicting shrine.
Ten Thousand Gods.
But, stepping into this banquet hall,
where is spread the unclean food Of
the royal kitchen, find another star
Ting fact. The kings meat and the
kings wine are served amid the vitiat-
ing atmosphere Of religious liberalism.
The Babylonish people were not athe-
lists, so called. They were deists, like
the Greeks or the Romans or the mod
ern Hindoos. who have 10000 gods.
They not only had 10000 gods, but
they could make new god whenever
they go willed. They could make him
of stone or wood or clay or even of Il
man himself. 1t was just as easy for
the Babylonish inhabitants to make
new god as it is for the British minis
try to create peers for the upper house
of parliament. You remember Benja-
min Dsraeii'S biting sarcasm. He was
attending public banquet. BY the
social law of English prestige the mem
bers of the English house of lords
marched in first. After the members
of the nobility had gone In Disraei
turned and took Il gentleman's arm to
march in. and he said: Come on, my
friend. 1t is our turn now. We must
follow in after my lords. But am 60
ing to manufacture dozen of these
same kind of lords next week, if
live" SO the Babylonish Inhabitants
were not atheists. They could manu-
facture a new god as easily as Benia-
min Disraeli could create new lord
for the upper house of parliament,
During the French revolution. Oh the
motion Of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette,
who was afterward guillotined, the
Cathedral Notre Dame was turned in
to the "Templc of Reason" Then, on
the 10th Of November. 1903, the young
and beautiful wife Of Jacobin
printer, Nine. Momoro by name, was
carried through the streets OF Paris In
an ivory chair. She was borne upon
the strong arms Of men, There she
was crowned within the cathedral
which in q few years was to see tho
coronation Of Napoleon and Josephine.
She was saluted as the Goddess Of
Reason. Similar to the deifying Of
poor printers wife in the Partisan
capital in 1893 was the attempt to
defy King Darius in the Babylonish
capital in 538 Is. c. All the presidents
and governors and the princes and the
counselors and the captains of the
kingdom came to the king and said.
Establish royal statute and make 4
Arm, danroa that xvhospavar ohulI oely ,