The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-26
Enterprets Legend of Bel shazzar to Appreciative
 Audience
rGOD TOUCHES A MAN
 ON HIS VITAL SPOT"
Miss Booth Continues Tour of the South This Morning-Inclement Weather Overcome-Morn-
 ing Lecture Enjoyed

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 k Birmingham again paid tribute to Miss Evangeline Booth, commander-in-chief of khe Salvation army in the United States, ht the Jefferson theatre last evening, where this noted woman delivered an ad- Dress upon "The Midnight Tragedy-an h. Depreciation of the Handwriting on the Wall" Miss Booth arrived in this city ,saturday to spend the week end and will continue her tour of the southland this norning, leaving on an early train for Montgomery.
 The auditorium of the Southside Bap- Dist church was thronged at the morning worship hour yesterday morning with Inany interested friends of the Salvation krmy and those who heard her lecture. tThe' Grand March Past" at that time lKeTe inspired with ,-her message of the lbrihcples represented by the workers of Nhe institution which she commands. X J~ .orson We'll Filled
 N Althoug aHt prevailing unfavorable weather :. Edition was reckoning factor ,f last evenings Assembly, the Jefferson theatre was comfortably filled and the boxes occupied by many prominent and Ivell known people of this city. The party bf visiting and local officers and soldiers bf the army were grouped on the stage, making striking background of followers ior the distinctive presence of the com
 handler.
 Miss Booth was seated near her harp,
 Immediately next to Colonel Holz, Mrs. IIolz. Mrs. Erickson, Captain Welsh and other members of her personal staff She Eore a simple frock of blue serge, show Ing her epaulets and other insignia of high position with a slken sash of bright red fiuspended from her right shoulder nearly so the hem of her dress on the left. Musical Programme
 | A musical programme, consisting of sev- bral solos rendered by the official vocal list, Major Mrs. Erickson, who was ac- tompanied by Miss Booth on the harp and ltaff Captain Welsh on the violincello, preceded the main feature of the evening.
 Col Richard E.. Holz, in command of she Atlantic coast province, presented Miss Booth with few remarks bearing lpon her former visits here. Majestic in bearing. and easily placing herself in harmony with her hearers at once by her gracious thanks for the expression bf welcome greeting her, Miss Booth be- ] ksan her discourse with a modest ref EErence to her rank in the army and it's Activities.
 N II have chosen that well known lesson :VFefSc IlOu ifit IiDtc Us tne lOuHudSioi Sbf my talk this evening because of the Elnarvelous example and tragedy involved, has a direct pertinence to my subject, CThe Midnight Tragedy" said Miss Booth.
 The Lesson
 This verse is the interpretation given by Daniel of the handwriting on the wall Flashed before the eyes of Belshazzar i and reads: Thy Kingdom is numbered 1 tni finished; thou hast been weighed and hound wanting in the balance You re- member how the King of Babylon was .easting his lords and friends in his mag lificent palace when the thousand lights were suddenly darkened at midnight and t mysterious hand wrote an inscription ,n the wall in an unknown language, lso Daniel was called m to decipher the ltrange handwriting. He read that Bel ' lshazzar's kingdom was finished, an un- Ilisputable fact when so willed by God What a time 1t will be when the angels Ivrite Finished over the lifetime of the world and there i snothing more to be ! lone, said or recorded. BeishazZar was weighed and found wanting in spite of lis worldly accumulations, vast empire md unequalled possessions as a king and It's man. But there is no cheating, dick l bring or dockering with Gods scale for when he pronounces nation. a gov irnment, a state or an individual to be ound wanting the inevitable follows.
 ITO my mind there is no peer to this story of Belshazzar because of it's ap- palling continuation, brilliant setting and | marvellous picture and for clarity's sake
 have divided 1t into three divisions:
 3elshazzars kingdom. his warning and
 iis doom.''
 Traces Analogy
 Miss Booth then drew a vivid word de-
 cription of the beauties and glories of he ancient Babylon, of Belshazzar's ,nany material achievements designed to inake him the most prosperous of kings,
 tnd to trace tte analogy between the
 ause and result of stifling the divine
 rith the worldly Graphically citing in-
 tances of the fate of man today when
 c forgets his Creator upon becoming
 Lbsorbed in the gain of materialistic
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