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Rov. Dr. Talma^o preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text, Daniel iv, 28. He said:

Colonel Rawlinson, the Oriental traveler, says that the exhumed bricks, not only of Babylon but of 100 towns in an area of 100 miles in length and 80 in breadth, are inscribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar. He was a great warrior, and at the glance of his sword nations prostrated themselves. He was a

reat king and built a city reservoir miles in circumference and 120 feet deep, and constructed a hanging garden 400 feet square and 75 feet high, some say to please Arauhia, his wife, who had been born among the •hills, and others say to get a pleasure ground free from the mosquitoes which affect the levels. I think, from his character, the later reason may have impelled him as much as the former. When he conquered King Zedekiah, so as to have no more rouble with him he put his eves out— a most barbarous way of incapacitating an enemy. But Babylon was a great place, the houses surrounded by gardens and the housetops were connected with each other by bridges, and one day Nebuchadnezzar walked out on those suspension bridges and snowed, perhaps to a royal visitor, the vastness of his realm as the sun kindles the doinfes with glistening almost insufferable, and the great streets thunder up their pomp into the ear of the monarch, and armed towers stand.- around adorned with spoils of conquered empires. Nebuchadnezzar waves his hand above the stupendous scene and exclaims: 'Us not this great Babyloa that 1 have built lor the house of the kingdom by the might of my p.»vver and for the honor of my majesty?' In other words: What a great man 1 am Babylon was not any thing until I adorned it. Seo those water works see those gardens see those forts. I did all this. I shall never be forgotten. Why, my name is on every briclc in all thosa walls. Just look "at me. I am more than a man. But in an instant, all that splendor is gone from his vision, for a voice! falls from the heavens, saying: "O, King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: thy kingdom is departed from thee, and they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field they shall make thee to eat gras as oxen, and seven times seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom ortnen and giveth it to whomsoever He will/V One hour from the time he made tfye boast he is on his way to the fields a maniac, and, rushing into the forests, he becomes as one of the beasts and is after a while covered with eagles feathers for protection

When I see a man of regal nature made to rule in realms of thought, capable of all moral elevation, besotting his faculties, attempting out of low sensualities to satisfy his immortal energies, coming down off his throue of power into brutalities, sacrificing his higher nature to hU ^ower nature, stooping and stooping, coming down and coming down until all his influence for good is gone, I cry out, "There is a king eating grass like an ox!" And there are tens of thousands of such Nebuchadnezzars. So there aro queens who dedicate themselves to the same humiliation. What power for good God gave that woman. Magnetism of personal presence. Influence more than imperial. By her intelligence,

God would have her reign, corning down over the ivory steps of mortal power, coming down, coming down until she has no more soul than the dead bird transfxed in her millinery. or tho chinchilla that was slain to afford her warmth, or the kid that furnished her the glove, and finding l.er only delight in flatteries of brainless men and the midnight bchottisclie and dsbauched novelties. 'I say "There is one who might have been a Queen unto God forever, yet eating straw like an ox."

no mistake more frequent than of supposing conviction a synonym for conversion. Conviction is merely a sight of sin: conviction is a view" of pardon. Conviction is merely alarm conversion is confidence. Convietion is dissatisfaction with depravity I conversion is a turning away from it. 'Conviction is a sword wound conversion isvthe healing. Conviction is the fever of fchrrst conversion is the siakititf of that wirst. Convi..tion is eonvet

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from the cold, and his nails grow to peetations of this intellect should not look like bird's claws in order that he may di'jf the earth for roots and climb the trees for nuts.

by her tenderness) by her charm of that help turn Nebucliadnezxars into smile and manner, capable of sooth- imbecility or madness. Do uot trifle ing so much sorrow, reforming so with opiates that benumb the brain, much waywardness, and wielding so If you can not live*, without the permuch elevated power, yet at the call petual and enslaving use of them you of worldliness coming out of the had better die. Better die a sane throne room of good influence, whore man than live a

The next thought that presses into my mind from the contemplation of tins incident is that conviction is not conversion. Who is this monarch that makes the boast about Babylon? The very man who, under the revelation of dreams that Daniel made from heaven, deeply humbled himself, while he confessed that God few have not met with reverses of is a God of Gods and a Lord of Lords, I fortune, while many of those who yet behold that that humbling and then were straitened in circumnrousing which he before felt did not stances now hold the bonds and the result in a radical change. There is bank keys of the nation and win the

the medicine aiu$$ have er«never ex

perienced the latter. There are multitudes who think that as soon as & man is serious he i9 fit for profession of religion. What if a man should only think seriously of being a merchant would that make him a merchant? What if a man should only think seriously of being- a lawyer would that make him a lawyer? What if a man should only think seriously of being a Christian would that make him a Christian? Felix was convicted but not converted. The Jailer was convicted before he got out of bed, but not converted until at the advice of Paul he believed in Christ. Are you convicted but not converted?

Learn also from my subject that pride is the precursor of overthrow. Pride is a commander well plumed and caparisoned, but it leads forth a dark and frowning host. "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." The arrows from tho Almighty's quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in defiance, but the smooth ston fro.i the brook make him stagger and fall like an ox under a butcher's bludgeon. He who is down can not fall. Vessels scudding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm.

Again learn from the misfortune of the King of Babylon hat a terrible thing is the loss of reason. There is no calamity that can Dossiblv befall us in this world so great as the derangement of intellect—to have the body of a man and yet to fall even below the instinct of a brute. In this world of sad sights,! the saddest is the idiot's stare. In this world of awful sounds, tho most awful is the maniac's laugh. A vessel on tho rocks, wheu hundreds go down never to rise, and other hundreds drag their mangled and shivering bodies up the wintry beach, is nothing compared to the foundering of intellects full of vast hopes and attainments and capacities. Christ's heart went, but to those who wet*e epileptic, falling into the (ire, or maniacs cutting themselves among toaibs. We aro accustomed to be more grateful for physical health than for the proper working of our mind. We are apt to take it for grant ed that the intellect' which has served us so well will always be faithful. We forget that an engine, such tivmendous power, when the wheels hava such vastness of circle and such I swiftness of motion, and the least impediment might put it oul of gar. could only be kept in proper balance by a Divine hand. No human power I could engiueer this train of immortal faculties.

How strange it is that our memory on whose shoulders all the success and misfortunes and occurrences of a life-time are placed, should not oftener break down, and that the scales of judgment, which have been weighing so much and so long, should not lose their adjustment, aud that fancy which holds a dangerous wand,should not sometimes maliciously wave it bringing into the heart forebodings and hallucinations the most appalling. Is it not strange that the ex-

be flashed to pieces on its disappointments? Though so delicately attuned, this instrument in untold harmonies plays on, though fear shocks it. aud vexations rack it. and sorrow and joy and loss and gain in quick succession beat out of it their dirge, or draw from it their anthem. At morning and at night, when in your prayer vou rehearse the objects of your thanksgiving, next to your salvation by Jesus Christ, praise the Lord for the preservation of your reason.

How many intellects are being destroyed by anodynes and anaesthetics, which were given by Providence for occasional use in alleviation of pain or insomnia, but by being employed continuously, after awhile capture and destroy? Chloral, cocaine, bromide of potassium, opium aud whole shelves of seductive etceteras

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have you to kill your brain, and put I in wild jangle your nervous system? But rum is the cause of inoro iusanity than anything else. There is nothing like rum to put a man. like Nebuchadnezzar, down on all fours.

Again, learn how quickly turns the wheel of fortune from how high up to how far down wtmt Nebuchadne/.zur. Those now in places Oi position and power, even though they should live, will, in a few years, be disivgarded, while some who this day are obscure and poverty-stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of the people to take their turn at admiration aud the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot boxes are the steps on which men come down as often as they go up. Of those who were a few yeai's ago successful in the accumulation of property, how

fickle people in the world Fortune is the most fickle. Every day she changes her mind, and woe to thut

man who puts tiny confidence in what

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eternity, all are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's. Learn also from my subject the comforting truth th&t alliotions are arrested as soon as they have accomplished their mission. For seven years did Nebuchadnezzar dwell among the beasts of the field, but at the expiration of that time his reason returned, and as soon as with proper humility he acknowledged the God of heaven he was brought back to his palace and reinstated in his former affluence and power. Now, it does seem that when heavy trials come upon us as though they had no lim.t. We exclaim, "All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me," but forget that the dcpt.li of that sea and the power of that billow are definitely determined. God fees how mu:h our pride is, and he sends just enough adversity to humble it. He sees ju -it how worldly-minded we are. and pulls us just hard enough to detach us from our follies. He sees how hard our heart is, and smiles just hard enough to break it. He sees how our eyes have been blinded, and he cuts only just enough to remove the scales from our spiritual vision. As soon as Abraham's faith is sufficiently tried the lamb is provided. As soon as Pharaoh consents to let the children of Israel depart, the plagues pause. As soon as the Israelites have been sufficiently disciplined by their wanderings, they find their way into Canaan. But to some the limit is not set in this life. Their vviiole piigritnage is through' the wilderness, and the whole world is to them a valley of tears. But perhaps God has a splendid throne in heaven that no ordinary saint can occupy, aud by extrordinary trials He has prepared that Christians )iil for extraordinary glory. God will not keep you in the furnace one moment too long. Just as sojn as Paul had met with enough imprisonment and scourgings he reached up anilplucked his eternal crown. God will keep us no longer und ?r the hammer and on the stocks than is necessary to fit us for-the "entrance intt? the haven of eternal rest. .G3ory be, to -theDivine grace that, as soon as oui- afflictions have accomplished their mission they are arrested.

Again,' learn from rhy subject that connected with the'most distressing judgments of God there are displays of divine mercy. God might justly have left Nebuchadnezzar in the lield, but in finite compassion brought him back to the palace. No sooner was Eden blasted than a blessiug followed on the heels or the curst* promising the coming of one who would destroy siu and make the vyhole world a paradise. The Deluge descends, but not until Noah had invited the people, into the ark. The Destroying Angel comes upon Egypt for the smiting of the first born, but lcrt every house whose door was sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice Fiery tempests bear down upon Sodom, but not until two angels have warned Lot and his family to flee from tho destruction. Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, but no until Jeremiad had sounded an alarm bidding them turnr from their abominations. On the da kst cloud of wrath there is a rainbow of mercy. Zachariah in his prophet'c vision be held four chariots, symbolical of God's government. The first chariot wa drawn by red horses. They indicated the wars that were corning. The second chariot was drawn by blaci horses. They indiacated the coming of a famine and pestilence. The third chariot was drawn by white horses. They indicated the, spotless purity of his con quests. But, mark well that the fourth chariot was drawn by hoi*ses "grisled and bay," denoting that mercy was mixed with all the desolating idgment of God. Sinai can not thunder so loud as to drown the invita tions of Calvary. The Lor 1 utters the admonition, "The wages of sin is death, but exhaustless mercy re sponds, "Deliver him from going down to the pit, for 1 have found a ransom." Hide Thee quick in the rock, Christ Jesus. Let not this in significant "Now" absorb Thee more than tho great hereafter. The path leading to this side of the grave is only a few furlongs, but the path which commences at the other sid of it is without end.

The powers of darkness gat.h» about your sou!, and the temptationof an evil heart and the alluremeut.* of the world I know are trying drown the voic of the preacher, but taking hold the silver trumpet of the Gospel which made Felix tremble,and at the Pentecost brought 3,000 souls out of their sepulclier, I would blow one long loud blast, crying "Whosever will lot him come."'

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The historic ii t'leory th:it Frankforl-on-the-M.iin wasfoumleJ by t,ho Franks has been thoroughly sha'ce.i up by the recent discovery tberj of S3ver.il relies of the Rotntuis of the timj of Christ. Stone work and trlas* of the old Roman style has bsen uneart'.iad under tiie city. A sewer of Roman construction was found fourteen feot unclor groun 1. A tile bearing the inscription. Leff. gave the best clew to the presence and worlc of the Romans, since it is known that the Fourteenth Le^ioti came back to Germany from the north in the year 70 after Christ and made its hciidinartonj nt Mnyence. Another proof that the Romans had a settiom nt jit Frank ort was furnished a short time

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