The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-27

she wouldn't listen to the advice of
good friends. She will go on with
that. then she begins to realize when
she Is on the way TO become the
mother of an illegitimate child that
she was the fool, not the one who
warned her to fee from the compan-
ionship.
So the mother came in and she said
to him: $50. King" five forever. Let
not your thoughts worry and trouble
you There Is a young man in your
kingdom. and of Hebrew extraction.
he Is a Jew. and In him dweIls the
spirit OF the gods: he can read these
strange hierogiyphics for you"
So on his mothers request. Beishaz-
zar sent for Daniel
Needs Daniels Help.
/ 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
bunch OF four -f1ushers and / have
been fool TO buy their meal tickets
for all these years. They can't help
me out of this They are nothing
but a bunch of false alarms. excess
baggage. l tell you what / will do,
II you win tell me what that is up
there I will put a gold ring on your
finger and chain around your neck
and You can ride in the chariot behind
me"
And Daniel spurnx his proffered
gifts. He said: Have You forgotten
how when your grandfather. Nebu-
chadnezzar. wkalked out and swei,ed
his chest and blew rings above his
head from a ascent cigar, didn't God
Almighty knock him down, and he fell
on his hands and Enees 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 exam
pie that You can't put God out Of
business7 Keep your gifts!-
Daniel read the strang: writing
Meme, Meme. Tekel. Upharsin"
Thou art weighed in tho balances
and found wanting. Your kingdom
In divided and given to another: This
Is your finish. The clock has begun
to strike twelve. Sir. this Ia 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
hts neck; then the hilarity increased
Hark. / hear the tramp. tramp.
tramp. tramp OF the feet of soldiersi
What has happened? While old Bel
shazzar and his band were hittin't 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 a
wall Cyrus came up with his army
and besieged the city
He dug great ditch down In the
reservoir from which they used to
get their drinking water. He sepa-
rated his army. He put half where
the waiter came up and the other half
at the exit. They broke this ditch and
turned the river out of Its channel. of
yonder into that reservoir. As soon
as the water became narrow enough
they started to walk under the wall.
and they knelt in the bed Of the river.
Isaiah's Prophecy.
Isaiah prophesied I40 years before
the event that three of those gates
would be left open. and that night
In their drunken revelry BelshaxzSr
forgot to have those gates shut up, and
they rushed through these gates
rushed into the banQueting hall: they
turned At into q slaughter house, and
blood flowed instead of wine. That
night was Beishaxzar, the king OF The
ChaldeanS, Slatn-the niEht of his
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Daniel said: You are weighed in
the balances and are found wanting"
Whose balances? God'sl Not mine
or yours Not your own estimation
Of yourself. not the public opinion.
You NAL be great man SO far an the
public opinion Is concerned. While you
may be mutt so far a. 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 whiskey business
Every brewer and every distil,er and
his gang, and the politicians who are
holding offices because of the vote Of
that dirty. sinking bunch; win ALI
jump on your back.
You assault anything that Ia cursiny
this old world. and they will be after
you.
DR.. Jenner said that ss people out
OF hundred used to die from small
pox. ia rather have smallpox than
a.
give smallpox another name and IT
won't bother you. DIR. Jenner said.
Il antvaccinte people," He reduced
the mortality. SO that now only four
out Of one hundred die today. Vel
they expelled him from society. Who
was right! Public opinion that con-
demned him or DR.. Jenner?
Bacon could look down and see laws
that would take the place Of laws ;,snt
were then operating. He had to spend
ten years In prison. Who was right9
Bacon was right
Calico said: THE world moyes.-
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
pubic opinion that condemned him
Christopher Columbus said: II can
sail west and get east"
They said: You are nuts: you are
dippy," and II Ferdinand and Isabella
hadn't hooked their Jewels to 81
money enough 70 send him, Il prob- J
ably wouldn't have been foun6 ypk
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