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SPRVTfJES science of the western world; btit when three young Hebrew captive*, rbeae ^^t-h'p k'Lmii*it**:omimnv”>u ' I •-"th'T arose, to disturb tl„- waN^ aud ; ^ , U .U“nd il: ' i>! -torn, and battb-'; in
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ter. inniead of his way> of thinkini' in i aine a t hristian freeman matter, the sun would be a frozen ball in>;toii anil bis compatriot
• appeared, to
and all life on the earth would perish, in spite of coal beds and reservoirs of natural gas. In order that matter may give beat to men, («od must be present in the atoms. Before tbesnnscan burn with the power of <Jod, the power of
Ood must hum in the suns.
If the law - of light were only Bod’s
lash the sea of conviction into fury, the oppression of the tyrant was transformed into the Declaration and achievement of Independence; when
greater than the king These are the three
dared to stand when prinees fell. These
are the three young men who heard the immortal.
thoughts concerning matter, instead <>l went I _ c t ' i . . .. > I. . » .. .. v ... I
the reign of God in matter, the -tars would not shine and the sun would he as black as night. The star- cannot shine until God shines in the stars. It is not what God thinks about the sun that makes it shine; for he thought the same before the sun was made. It is the enthronement of t.oil in tiie atoms that
gives effect to his thought.
Diamonds do not grow on hushes, nor do roses bloom in the mines of South Africa. It is not what God thinks on his throne that makes diamonds and roses. The law of the diamond and the rose has been present with God from eternity, but not until he went down into the earth and stamped his truth in the atoms did diamonds appear; and not until In- set up his throne in sunshine, soil, air and water, did the roses begin to bloom. Go through the universe of matter, whether it be living or dead, and go through the thoughts of God concerning the material universe, and you tind possibility everywhere; hut you tind power only where the truth of God has been inwrought in the
very atoms.
It this be true of God, it is no less
so of men. If it be true that it is not what God thinks concerning bis universe. but the immediate presence of God in his universe that makes the phenomena of matter what they are. it is equally true that it is not the opinions
which men entertain concerning their ] they go
environment but the concretion of these opinions in objective realties, that is of
substantial vaiue in the world. A man cannot live in the pinn of his
house, whoever may he the architect; hut he can live in the house after the architect’s plan has become a reality in wood, brick ami stone. A man cannot cross East Kiver from New York to Brooklyn on a mathematical formula, but when that formula takes shape in curves of steel, it becomes a highway for the commerce of the two great cities. The air is full of muthemutical curves of infinite variety that have exi'ted from eternity in the formula- of God ; and many of which are recorded In books in the eipiations of human invention. We st-itel on invisible curves; we part invisible curves when we walk forth; we breathe invisible curves into our lungs and swallow them into our stomachs; they keep u- perpetual company; but not until these curves come out from the invisible recesses of their equations and take form in things, can you go over the seas in steamships or over the land in palace ears. The sculptor’s brain is full of angels, hut the world cannot see them until they appear in marble. The universe is riiuning over with truth, but in spite of
that, men are steeped in ignorance. Truth is of no avail apart from
things. Truth wrought into the essence of things is law. Truth wrought into the intellect and will, is purpose. Truth wrought into conscience is conviction. A man of conviction is a vehicle of truth. A conviction is an incarnate truth. The world i- as full of truth as the air of curves. There is truth enough in the world to make all men free; but it is not incarnate. There is truth enough hovering over the great cities of the world to purge them of ignorance, misery and sin ; hut the trouble is, it hovers,- it does not comedown. It (louts with eyes skvward instead of earthward. It flies aloft when it onght to walk. It reaches upward from the tops of the houses to the top of the universe; but it does not reach down to the pavements. 11 touches the sky, hut it does not touch the people. Men cannot s -e it, though it is all about them. O. that the truth in the world might take on llcsh and bones and walk among men! Then would the deep gorges of ignorance he bridged with knowledge, and the deep seas of
sin become the highways of holiness. A conviction is not a whim ;ir is not a
stubborn adherence to a line of action; ii more than an opinion ; more than a purpose; yea, even more than a truth. It is a truth made visible. It is a truth dwelling among men. It is a truth reigning on the throne of conscience. It Is a truth, not doating in the upper air, but moving along in tliecurreut of hum.tn history. It reaches from the
skies to the earth.
A conviction is com in a tiding, for it attracts the gazu of the world. A conviction is mighty, for it reverses the tides of human uttairs. A conviction is holy, for it is the voice of God in the sold. A conviction is divine, for it par-
takes of the nature of God.
The march of a storm cloud across
to send his own conviction downward | with a king. They were not abashed land and sea; . .
I into the depths, the Christian slave be- in his presence, for they have been ac- pestilence am . ,-arll.
when Wash- ! customed to hold audience with a and vipers nests; tn y',' , ' e rf .7;'
of Babylon, and on mountain summits; »n earth attu voting men who heaven; in time and in eternity. A conviction is sublime, because it is
You cannot drown it in the
corn eG s' "sou 1 id” and" "yet with sublime , tlood. for God will build j> « r |;
Abraham Lincoln and the freedom- courage stood erect before the gods of and tellow-u ox er ie s» .1-.
Nebuchadnezzar, but who, or. hearing J not smother it ... a ' , ' k . ' ‘ the heavenlv signals, have been accus- Egypt, for God will pour 11. upon it the
tinned to tall down before the God of air of heaven and ilhinnnate it with hi-1 lrict Indiana conference,
down before tin-’ advancing tide. I the Hebrews. It takes more than the glory and luing it •° ,, h ''I j'' t e rvent praver. An anthem,
orchestra of Babvlou and the sight of the throne. Y on eannot dazzle it lenen. ^
1 it’i 1-1 rate royalty to bring them down the magnificent court of I h.itaoh, t 1 j wen ty Hurd I snlm. n>‘n in worship. It takes more than a king- it is yet togaze without Ihncl'i"^ onthe composed of Mrs. Blakemade god to bend their knees. They greater majesty of God for forty years a quaritt | „ , pr might have far had not in Miilian. You cannot discouragejt Xcwhoitse. Misses Kowle\, Hank 1
loving American people lifted on high the waves of awakened conscience, the consummate villainy «>f human slavery
gallery of M'■harry hall by the side of those of Bishops Simpson and Bowman. The memorial exercises attending its unveiling were as
follows:
The impressive services were opened by all singing “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” after which Presiding Klder Willis, Bloomington dis-
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And when the tides of the sea of puhlii conviction shall once he set in motion against the Gibraltar of Ktiin. not all the de\ ils of hell can -ave it from its
doom.
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he think of a conviction? 1 some pietext to account for their ah- honey. 1 <m cannot • 1 '' ' i 'ns held to pav honor to thememGod thinks enough of a conviction to . But they swords of the Amalek.tes. for the s« o.d was IK Id to pay .10..
keep it company in the flames of Nebu-
chadnezzar's furnace.
their spiritual
t.iid ihs-- not come down to the earth for trifles. He does not take on human form for a spectacle. He does not work a miracle for applause. He does not
happen at the spot where a tierce moral opinions eoiuprotni
battle is waging, simply because be ha- 1 promise. But conviction, never. And nothing else to do. When God sends -o they were hurried before theenraged Ids chariot of lire down to the earth, it I king. After all, it was not yet too hit
is not an accident that it alights in the valh-y of Jordan where Elijah and Elisha await its coining, rather than at the royal palace where Jehoraru is the king; and when the God of firedescentls from heaven, it is no accident that he lirul' his way to the furnace instead of the throne of Nebuchadnezzar. God is not so likely to put honor on David as
he sends Lriah forth to the front of the
account for their ah- honey. "You cannot kill it were there. They swords of the A malehites, for the<
might have bowed the body when the of the Lord ami of Gideon will L'' orv 0 r u great and good man.
cornets sounded and have withheld sheathed in its defense. You cannot
obeisance from the shrivel it with a drought of years, fm
golden image; but they were not cow- God will sliow the 1 i-hliity jiiophet a arils. They were not accustomed to cloud over the waters of the Modi - compromise. Whims compromise, erranean. You cannot trigliten it with 1
Purposes com- the roar of hungry lions in the land o!
Chaldea, for God will go down with it into the loathesome den. Y'ou cannol burn it in the flames, for the form ol the Fourth tiiat is like unto the God of j would sound.! Fire will he there.
And now we tread on holy ground, j rev j ew j n „ ih<
A conviction cannot be strangled in the manaer of Bethlehem. It cannot be killed by the bloody ineii of Herod. It
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They might still have another trial
Once more the cornet
not so like to suspend the law of gravitation for Pharaoh ami his hosts while
down between the uplifted
waters, as for Moses and the Hebrews while they cross dryshoil over the tloor of the sea. He is not so likely to hang pillars of cloud and of tire in the heavens for the king of Egpyt as for the leader of Israel. Gods thinks more of the wooden tod of Moses than of the
Rev. George \V. Switzer, ’81, Brazil, was lirsl introduced whose theme was “His Impress l pen the Student.” Presiding Elder W. R. lla'stead, Evansville district Indiana conference, discussed “His Idle in Home, Community and Church,’ |
Once more tin- royal pageant would he And now we tread on iioi\ gioumi. rev j ( . w j n g the earlv liI’e in Scotland enacted on their behalf. Perhaps it A conviction cannot be strangled in !he v . , . was not of purpose they had failed to| man-er of Bethlehem. It cannot be and America; his apprenticeship, bend the knee. Let musie again till j killed by the bloody men of Herod. It |,j 9 work as teacher, student; his the air and nerchanee they will repent cannot be bought in the wilderness ol . , , : 1 , their folly and tall down before the Judea. It will not weary with toilsome executive labors as president ot heathen god. Or, give them to marches over the hills ot Gallih-e. H ( . 0 |] l , ures . |,j s cflicient services at deliberate. It may be, if they can will not tremble before the angry mobs f . . ,
battle, as on Nathan, when, with God- I think it over fora night, they may tind of Jerusalem. It will not falter at the conference*, ecumenical, general, lik<‘courage, he say* in the very face of *ome way to hush their conscience, ami gates ot the (jarden ot hethseniane. It anmla | district and quarterly; his royality, “Thou art the man.’’ He is bargain with God. Perhaps they did will not halt at the foot of M t. ahaiy. ’
: know the penalty. Rehearse it to It will not flineli on the cross when all family life. Ihere was baldly a them once again, o king of Babylon, hell combines against it iiinl a.I hc.tv - n ( | rv ( .y t . ln (he vast audience at the
and ask them. “Who is that God that seems to forsake it. And it will imt - j
shall deliver them out of thy hands?” stay long in Joseph’s new toinh. close ol Doctor Halsteads interestBut no. They hail taken tl'icir course A conviction ? It is divine, jnjr address. Bishop Thomas Bow-
w ith premeditation and deliberation, has put infinite honor upon it whenever ^ 1
They neeiled no further time to con ami wherever 11 mis appealed among man spoke on “His Work in the si'ler. They were ready. They clearly | men. He has taken up Llniversitv.” Bishop Bowman preunderstood the penaltv. But the (iod it; he has lientthc lieaieitsin its heh.ill. • , 1 without whose power 110 furnace lites he has opened the portals of the skies ceded Doctor Martin in the prest-
golden throne of Pharaoh. The rocks had ever vet been kindled could protect to do it lioniiige;auil he once inearnati-d 1 .• ,1 nnivcrsitv and at his
are dry and the heavens brass in the 1 hem if he saw best. And if he did not. Itiinsell for thirty-three years inallu-
presenVc of Pharoah’s throne, but at -till they preferred God, to the golden man Life that was completely ab.-orls-d retirement selected Doctor Martin the wave of s’ rod. the rocks be- imag--. They preferred to burn for God ! by an omnipresent,unalterable and holy u8 gucuesigoi. and ur ,r ed his an eame fountains and the sky a storehouse j i-atlier than to cringe before Nebuehad-1 eonvietion. j' ' ' ’ ^ * of tnauna. God doe- not put honor on mv/ar. Do you want the eompany of <iod? puintmont "Shtill We Gather at
And now we return to our unpreten- Then have a ••onviction. I do not . ..u lions scene. There is nothing in it to; sav have eon vietions; but rath- 1<1 > ■ 11 • ni_, nil ) in attract. No vestige of rovaltv is left, er, have one far-reaching, all- in^r. Doan Hilary A Gobin porDura. They care for pomp and : night and by day; at home and abroad: jn<r]y hi- passed in review those sssta Unk.
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whims or mere opinions, or bare purposes, or ethereal, abstract truths; be puts honor 011 holy convictions bv keeping them company in tire ami storm and arraving his Omnipotence in their
behalf.
Two scenes present themselves before me. One is a royal pageant. It is the
dedication <>f tt golden imago in which they tor disgraced
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eoiu-lusion of Dean Gubin’s remarks Doctor John called for spontaneous testimonies from any who desired to speak. Dr. Fisk, Mr. J. W. Cole, Dr. Baker, Dr. Bynum. Rev. Wilbur
their death? Let the pageant go on, present and omnipotent 01 GUT, driv- , ,, and if the poor Hebrew prisoners in mg and drawing you into the will of l luW, ' 1 ' | ul lactorlor good among all their last extremity cry out for help, J God. Do you know, that is why thclwith whom hi-associated. At the
the gods of Babylon will nut hear; or if Son of Man and the Hon of God kept I they bear, they will not b ed, for there uninterrupted company with each | is more music to their ears in the noise other during thirty three years of nn-
of pageantry than in the agonizing cry exampled test.
for help. I D you want the company of God, The scene is simple. Three men are you must be Godlike; and if you would dragged along by a few of the mighti- be Godlike, you niiist set your faces ttn-est-oldiers of Babylon’s army. These ' alterably and eternally against all >in.
law; treasurers in eliaig*- of kingly men cannot resist.for they arc bound God "ill By to you as s\v iftly as he Hew | |),. Tlios, Goodwin, Dr. r^venih ^; comisHlors wIiosp voices haml iincl foot. And now thi*y halt, to the sons of tin* Hebrews, it u eonvio- iy !>• i i i i reHch theears of the k\n£. The rub rs Here i?* one of the famous furnaeee of lion drives you into a furnace of lire. 1 1 oucllcr, Hr. hidpHth and Dr. ( ur of tb“ provinces are here from tin-east Babylon. At it- ordinary tempera-, He w ill speed to your ri-seue a-straight Ljga responded, “iviii"- personal
and the north and west. Theyarehere ture. It will disintegrate the most re- as he sped to Daniel, tl a conviction 1 from the mountainous ramparts of I fractory substance; but now it rages forces you into the jaws of the wild Susiana and from the western region with sevenfold fierceness. Open the | beasts of calu-i ny and persecution, lie of aneient Assyria. They are here from doors, ye mighty soldiers of Babylon! may not save you from the tire, as he the valley of the Euphrates, the natiiral | The flames are impatient for their | did the Hebrew captives; he may not
gateway of the west, through w hich j prey. Their hot tongues dart to and Abraham had passed on his way from fro in search of their victims. Open
the Babylonian god of lire is supposed to dwell. It the gods ever come down among men, they arc present on this notable occasion. The plain of Dura ithick with the dignitaries of the empire. The common people are not here; it is a day for royality. Princes are here "ith their paraphernalia of nobility; governors, with their insignia of authority: captains with the trophies of victory; judges whose opinions an
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I r of the Chaldees to the land of Ca- wide the doors and east the llehrews uuiin. They arc here from the slopes of into the hottest of the tire. I hey Hc-
Mesopotamia and from tin-fertile soil tied the king of Babylon; now let the
of Syria. Tlu-v are herefrom Idumaea, the land of the Aiualckib--, and from Damaseus, the country of forest trees and delicious fruits. They are here from Palmyra, the city of palms, and Phoenicia, “the land of the purple date.” They are come from the ends of the earth at the request of the mighty king of Babylon, to do homage to their favorite god. It is one of the most magnificent pageants the world ever saw. The royal orchestra of Babylon is here, with cornet and flute; with harp and siickhut; with psaltery and dulcimer, and with every instrument of music known to the ancient world. The royal chorus is here, ready at the king's command to break forth in praise of the golden god. The voice of a herald
insulted heathen tire god wreak bis vengeance on the miscreant rebels! O ye stalwart soldiers, why fall ye down in death without the furnace
save you /row the lions, as he did hiservant of old; but he will save you /u the tire and in the den; and after all, what more could be desired? It was a very small matter to those heroic souls, whether they went to their Mnal reward by way of the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar or by way of his throne. It was a small matter to Daniel whether In-
doors? If ye give way before the stepped into heaven from the den ot
spark that issues forth from that tierce flame, who shall save the Hebrews in
the midst thereof?
Ah, where is the tire god now ? His golden image is yonder on the Dura plain, and king and prinees do him homage; and yet these Hebrew sons, who detied the king of Babylon <>n his throne, now defy the Babylonish tire god himself on his very throne of tire. Burn, ye flames, your hottest! Wage, ye tires, your flereest! Consume the bonds that hind thesonsof the Hebrews and set them free! But touch not those
ring- out over the
“O people, O nations, O languages! What a cosmopolitan gathering is this! “YT* princely people of Babylon; ye representatives of the nations of the earth; ye that speak in unknown tongues, hear! Hear, ye prinees and potentates, the word of the king, and at the cornet’s sound, full down before
Dura plain; mantles that enwrap them, for see ye
not, they Jehovah?
him- with the splendor of Come not upon those hosen
lions or from the court of Darius, The
only question of interest tolhose ancient
heroes was this: will tind keep us company in tin- fire and iu the den ? If you live long and get flu-right focus on eternity, you will find that there are many tires through which you must pass that will he hotter than the sevenfold heat of a Babylonian furnace. When you tind yourselves in those flames, you will want to see the Fotm of the Fourth your side. Vow eternal allegiance to him, however the pageantries of time or eternity may beckon you t--fall down before another king; and then in the furnace, the tied of Fin
reminiscences anil personal estimates uf Doctor Martin’s great worth. Dr. John spoke of the void that has existed since the departure of the great Christian saint to higher acclivities ! That although Doctor Marlin was missed hv col lege senate, faculty, executive committee and students, yet he missed him more. “The Sweet By-and-By” whs then sung and benediction was pronounced hy Bishop Bowman. The services were attended by numerous visitors from various parts ot the state, and they could not hut help inspire all with determinations to try in some degree to ut I emulate the nobility of character and the sincerity of purpose which ever characterized the lamented
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in which they walk, for know ye not. I will be with you; on the stormy seas, j si niiav night's meKTixu. •y glow with the presence of God ? the God of the Waves win be under Dean CJobiii, reverent imnrcs
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Breathe not your ticry breath upon those turbans that crown their heads, for see ye not they radiant with the glory of
the image of gold or hunt in tin-lierce vinity ? Rage, ye tires, your hottest! flames of a raging furnace.” Burn, ye flames, your fiercest! But Now the air is full of music. The j touch not the three men that walk in orchestra sounds forth; the chorus j your midst; for lo, your Master has sings; and the surging multitudes fall i come! The tire god has fled, but the prostrate on the ground. Y’onder in j God of Fire has appeared. The God
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“ ■ nrosuttiv on me ^roumi. i omier in ui rut- nos nppvairti. i ne uiou j . . , \i r u .,, the horizon is grninl; but grander still fhl . ,| llsI !lr e the rolu-s of royalty ; nnd | who kimlled the suna and who dwells 1 ‘ noer 'Dirt-.n. one ol UoTauw s dc- " Hbtir Miernlan oll'cred prayer.
is tin- uittreh of a mighty i-on\ietion | | )r j ni . e g H))( | governors, captains and forever in their flames is here. He came | parted builders. The work was ex-■ Tl' c Old atliwarr uh* hon/on of JiuiiRin history. | judges, treasurers ami oounsellors, slier- j not to do honor t-o the royal pageant on ( ) IV i) r . in jj
file rmnhle of nil earthquake is awe-| ltt8 Hll ,| provincial rulers, all, all do inspiring as it rocks the world with its ou-isutu-e to the god of gold, unseen hantls; but who can measure the \11 y not a n || er ,. are t|i rPe awe that overshadows us when we Hebrew captives. Tliev In-aril theeomhear the tumbling of an irresistible maml of t he king’s In-rtild. Theyliearil eonvietion that shakes down thrones! t | K . ^rst note of cornet ami flute. I’liev ami overturns tin* aceiiniulated super- saw the multitudes go down ontlieir stition, ignorani-e and sin of centuries? faces before the image; but here they l ln- noiseless sweep of the planets i „ tan <i in Uelianee of the king, around the sun is majestic; hut wlm Such is the Hrst scene that Is pictured ' an tell the majesty of tht* toiglit sweep before me, a scene of royal pageantry, of a Godlike conviction as it In-arson- unexcelled, if not unequHilcd intheunward in its orbit around the very throne „h1s of time. But Go.l did not come of Gotl t down from his throne to put honor on I-aith. hope tind love are heautiful; i \ e tmchadnezzar in this magnitlcent conviction is suhliuie. pageant. He blazed in Horeb’s hush If the conviction of one heroic soul for Moses, hut the tltill eyesofNebuawakens within us the emotion of moral j ehadtiezzar’s golden image waited in sublimity, what shall we say when an vain for the coming of God’s glory. II
the plain of Dura, hut tin- heavens could not hold him when his truth was
submerged in a tiery furnace.
It is better to be iu the furnace with the God of Fire than on the throne with the tire god of Nebuchadnezzar. The noise of Babylon’s pageant was not heard beyond the plain of Dura, but the God of the Hebrews, dwelling on the throne of His Holiness, and listening to the anthems of angels and archangels,heard a note higher than angelic chorus had ever sounded;and cherubim and seraphim dropped their harps
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Testament lesson was
read by Miss Nora Hammerly, of the Y. P. S. C. K. of the Baptist church. The New Testament lesson was read by Mr. George Lockwood, of the university \\ M. C. A. Prayers were made by representa-
forth many commendatory remarks 'ives of the Locust Street Epworth yesterday. The alumni of Green-! Y. 1*. S. C. K. of Presbyterian
and listened to the strain; and God himself bent his ear to catch the triumphant note; and thus it ran: “O ,
Nebuchadnezzar, we are ready to answer dollar . wh L h
thee. If it be so, our God whom we
castle decided last March to have I‘‘hurch, College Avenue Epworth the portrait painted and appealed League, Y. P. S. C. K. of the Chris
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Some twenty-live testiwere given. Reverence and worship seemed to till
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every
Mr. John Hillis sang “Since I’ve hound Mv Savior.” The touching «ords ot this song, 80 splendidly
rendered, was one of the
asked for. The general heeding of -™; one oi tn© greatest this request is a source of much nl tlll: meeting. Mr. HilHs gratification to the many friends llas -' ll8t ri!tur ned from a two years’
very
overmastering conviction takes posses-1 hid hiin«elf in the widow’s ciit-e’of oil | serve, is able to’ deliver itsfrom the I generally responded to several
> on of the people? The voice of the in honor of the Hebrew prophet, but! hurniitg tiery furnace. The tires of thy sendiniz in i
people is the voice of God only when the sight of princes on the plain of furnace are hot, hut hotter are the tires ® u - 111 inwir desire to show the truth of God is incarnate in the | Dura did not tempt him from his throne, of God’s consuming wrath. Sevenfold | t fi e ' r a PPteciation and love lor Dr
people. The voice of a mob is the voice Above the deafening roar of hungry may he the fury of thv flames, hut sev- Martin nu.m- t;.i of the devil. But w hen a heaven-born lions In- heard the victorious song of [ enty times sevenfold is tlie power of our , ’ u “ n ' lIllu ‘ s *- ,ll> conviction seizes upon the people, de I Daniel, hut the blast of Babylon’s or-1 God. Wi can hurn at tin- i-oininand of seending to them through some heroic ehestra did not reach to the skies, it an ephemeral king, hot we cannot turn soul, as Luther. Wesley, Washington takes more than a royal pageant to traitor to the king eternal. Our God or Lincoln, no power on earth can stay I bring God down to men.' w ill deliver ns out of thy hand, O king, its march. It will take the chains from | But another scene ri-es before me l But whether he will deliver us or not, Bibles as well a* from slaves. It " ill It is only an hour later. There is no l »e it knownto thee. O king, that we bring liberty to the ( hristiau as well as music in the air. There are in> thrones I will not serve thy gods, nor worship to the patriot. {insight. There is no Maze of royalty, j the golden image which thou hast
A sleeping infant can lie with safety There is no concourse of princes, i s ct up.”
onthe bosom of the quiet sea. but There are no plumes or banner-. There No wonder God hastened from Ins ' u,lva B» M- J- Beckett, Miss F'c io accept Christ tit the present when the ocean is lashed into fury | are no shouting imiliitiiiU-s. No golden throne to hide himself in the sand Martha Ridputh J. U Tm-L...-. .. nm( ‘- urged all youno ,.hri«
image is liere. No Babylonish g<><l ap- take otf their edge of tire before the 1 , ‘ l< 1 tians to be active (liiritnr .• ' pears in view. So far as human eve Hebrews came. i ,n * t as tfeagurer, with Dr. 11. A assist their n 7 ” v 1 UCtttl »n, .-an discover, the only actors in this That is what God thinks of a comic- ( >ul»» as general superintendent wn.L r • p!l8l0 ! s IM 'fit' good scene are a few Babylonian soldiers and tion. lie keeps it couipany in the hot-i The portrait will be humr .i " souls. Benediction
uun 8 in the j was pronounced by Dr ""
U,„l Hl.o ,h, relntivc, j 'X"' Dr. Martin. Ihc ciiminiuco Imv- Uobin dosed lh» , M ' n
,, , . closed the exercises with an I ing the work in charge were Dr. T. faruest exhortation to younsr i.e., i <; n,.....n \i .... oli' ti, ......—* /. i ; . J . rs l” o
by the storm, its power is irresistible. For many a long century, slavery, troth religious and political, rested securely on the sea of the sleeping eon-
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