The Washington herald., 1918-01-25
+ YOU WANT To CURSE
Then CURSE THE DEVIL;
DON'T BLASPHEME JESUS
EVENING SERMON
Weighed and Found Wanting

kingdom. and of Hebrew extraction.
He is a Jew, and in him dwells the
spirit OF the Gods. he can read those
strange hieroglyphics for you"
So on his mothers request, Bel
shazzar sent for Daniel.
can imagine when he saw Daniel
enter the room, he said, How are
you, old top? / am in an awful hole.
Do you see that writing up there on
the wall? It's got my goat. I've got
a bunch OF fourflushers and I have
been a fool to buy their meal tickets
for all these years. They can't help
me out Of this. They are nothing but
q bunch OF false alarms, excess bag
gage. I tell you what I will do. II
you will tell me what that Is up there.
I will put a gold ring on your finger
and a chain around your neck and
you can ride in the chariot behind
me-"
Handwriting On Wall.
And Daniel spurns his protfered
gifts. He said, Have you forgotten
how when your grandfather, Neb-
uchadnezzar, walked out and swelled
his chest and blew rings above his
head from a twenty-five-cent cigar,
didn't God Almighty knock him down.
and he fell on his hands and knees and
crawled there for seven years. He ate
grass like a COW, and the frosts, and
the rain beat upon his body. His body
was covered with hair. Haven't you
got sense enough to learn from an
example that you can't put God out
of business? Keep your gifts!"
Daniel read the strange writing,
Meme, Meme. Tekel. Upharsin."
Thou art weighed in the balances.
and found wanting. Your kingdom is
divided and given to another: This
is your finish. The clock has begun
to strike twelve. Sir, this is your
windup."
He called for the royal robe. for he
wanted to make good his promise. He
put 1t around Daniel, put the ring
on his finger, and the chain around
his neck, then the hilarity increased.
Hark, hear the tramp, tramp.
tramp. tramp, OF the feet OF soldiers!
What has happened? While old Bel
shazzar and his band were hittin' 1t
up, Cyrus and his army came up. The
City OF Babylon was built with the
Euphrates River running through the
middle Of it; around the city was
wall Cyrus came up with his army
and besieged the city.
He dug a great ditch down in the
reservoir from which they used to get
their drinking water. He separated
his army. He put half where the
water came up and the other half at
the exit They broke this ditch and
turned the river out OF its channel,
on yonder into that reservoir. As soon
q tina w halo
they started to walk under the wall,
and they knelt in the bed of the river.
Isaiah prophesied 40 years before
the event that three of those gates
would be left open. and that night in
their drunken revelry. Belshazzar for
got to have those gates shut up, and
they rushed through these gates.
rushed into the banqueting hall; they
turned it into a slaughter house, and
blood flowed instead of wine. That
night was Belshazzar. the King of the
Chaldeans, slain. the night of his
licentiousness.
God VIII Be Judge.
Daniel said, You are weighed in
the balances, and are found wanting"
Whose balances? Gods! Not mine
or yours. Not your own estimation or
yourself, not the public opinion. You
may be great man so far as the
public opinion is concerned, while you
may be a mutt so far as God Almighty
is concerned.
Man may applaud you, and God turn
his back on you. God doesn't pay the
same Difference to men that the world
does Therefore, every man and
woman Is going to be weighed in Gods
balances, not public opinion. Public
opinion is not competent to Judge.
You assault any old and long en-
trenched evil, and you must prepare
to have yourself become the object OF
the venom of the gang or the clique
who feed and fatten upon that.
You assault the whlskey business.
Every brewer and every distiller and
his gang, and the politicians who are
holding offices because OF the vote OF
that dirty. sinking bunch, will all
jump on your back.
You assault anything that is cursing
this old world, and they will be after
you.
DR.. Jenner said that es people out
Of 100 used to die from smallpox. I'd
rather have smallpox than typhoid
fever or pneumonia. You give small
pox another name and It won't bother
you. DR.. Jenner said, ct can vac
cinate people" He reduced the NOR
talfty, SO that now only four out of
100 die today. Yet they expelled him
from society. Who was right? Public
opinion that condemned him, or DR..
Jenner?
Bacon could look down and see laws
that would take the place of laws
that were then operating. He had to
spend ten years in prison. Who was
right? Bacon was right.
Calico said, The world moves" On
his knees he was compelled to re-
tract his statement, and as he arose
he said, 1T moves notwithstanding
It. Who was right? Calico, or
public opinion that condemned him?
Christopher Columbus said, Il can
sail West and get East"
They said, You are nuts; you are
dippy, and IL Ferdinand and Isa-
bella hadn't hooked their jewels to
get money enough to send him, It
probably wouldn't have been found
yet But who was right, old Column
bus or public opinion that condemned
him?
Some people set great store by their
morality, their culture and their re-
nnement Well, II you only knew how
little these weighed before God! They
don't bring you salvation.
Somebody says, "Can we tell?" Sure
ly we can. Yes sir, I am going to
take the Ten Commandments, the
moral law, as the basis for what I
have to say this afternoon. I believe
that God Almighty wrote the Ten
commandments on tablets of stone
and handed the stones to Moses. III
don't believe that Moses wrote them.
believe that God wrote them and
gave them to Moses. .s.-