Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 23 December 1908 — Page 7

The Hand-Writing on the Wall DeaM the Prophet Interpret* It for King Belshazzar. BY THE “HIGHWAY AND BYWAY" PREACHER Scripture authority—Book of Daniel, Chapter 5. Analysis of Book of Daniel.—Th* book of Daniel consists of two distinct volumes, the prohpecles of the .latter being synchronous with some of the historical events narrated In the former: e. g. the first vision occurred In the first year of Belshazzar (B. C. 565); the second In 553; the third In the first year of Darius (538); the last In the third year of Cyrus (634). The historical part (Chapters 2:4-7), Is In Chaldee; the prophetical In Hebrew. In the former Daniel Is spoken of in the third person, In the latter In the first. The book Is generally divided Into two nearly equal parts. The first of these (1-6) contains chiefly historical incidents, while the second (7-13) is entirely apocalyptic. This division, however, takes no account of the difference of language, nor of the change of person at the beginning of Chapter 8. It seems better to divide the book into three parts. The first chapter forms an Introduction. The next six chapters (2 to 7), give a general view of the progressive history of the powers of the world, fcnd of the principles of the Divine government as seen in the events' of the life of Daniel. The remainder of the book (8 to 12), traces In minuter detail the fortunes of the people of God.

SERMONETTE. “Weighed and found wanting!”—Tragic words these. They mark a culmination of a career. The period of testing has passed, and now the judgment. The destiny of a life is not determined by one act. ** The sum total of a life is made up of the progressive deeds which step by step lead up to the logical and inevitable conclusion. The Belshazzar we see at that licentious feast in which deliberate and studied affront is given to the true God, Is the Belshazzar who has been evolved from years of voluptuousness and godless pleasures. Great light had shone upon him, great privileges had been his to improve, but he had chosen the base things and turned away from the light, and behold, at last, the life goes out in the blackness of a night of ignominy and shame. He had lived in contact day by day with the man of God, Daniel, who held such exalted place in his father’s kingdom. He had witnessed the judgment upon his father because he had dishonored God, and he had heard his father the king acknowledge the majesty and power of the true God when at last he was restored to his right mind again and given back his throne. But, deaf to all that Daniel might say, and blind to all that might have convinced him of the error of his ways, he plunged on in his downward course until at last the judgment day came. He was put into God’s balances and “found wanting.” God is weighing men to-day. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year the process of building the life goes on until at last God weighs in the soul and finds —What? Finds what that life has been putting there during the years of stewardship. We are determining now what God will find when he weighs us In at the last. May we build with God now in order that we may not be found wanting in that great day of final testing.

THE STORY. {<I XT HO is this Daniel whose name ff seems to be upon every one’s lips?!’ Thue questioned - ttte " Median king, on that first day after his army had taken possession of Babylon, and he and his chief captains were seeking to restore order and quiet to the city. One by one, as the lords and chief men of the city had been brought before him that he might question them and learn of the affairs of the city, the name of Daniel had been repeatedly mentioned, until at last Darius had asked the question with which our story opens, and before those about him could make answer he broke out with a Second question, saying: "Was he the chief adviser of King Belshazzar?” T— “Nay, he had been great in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, father of Belshazzar, but when the sdn came to the throne ”he set Daniel aside,” replied one of the Chaldean lords who was present at the time. "But how is it that they say he.is now wearing the scarlet robes of , royalty, as though he were ruler in the land?” asked Darius, impatiently. “It was only last night, my lord, that such honor was conferred upon him,” was the reply. “On such a night and such an occasion?” echoed Darius, in astonishment. .“It doth not. commend the man to my esteem. ' Belshazzar hath miserably perished amidst the gorgeous scenes of his wicked revelry. Why escaped the man whom the king delighted to honor on .such occasion?” “But the king does' not understand, else he would not so speak,’’.ventured the man, half fearfully, lest his boldness of speech might offend the king. “Nay. do I need tc? more

than to know that this Daniel was In tarot’ with Belshazzar?” he asked, with a certain menace in his voles. “But he was not In favOr with Belshazzar because he spoke good concerning the* klhg, but ill, for he did tell of thy coniing, and behold thou art already in possession of the city," replied the man earnestly. "A soothsayer?” questioned Darius, with growing interest. “Nay, more,” exclaimed the man, “a prophet of the great God, the God of the Hebrews.” “You do Interest me. Tell me more.” “It was last night while the king was in the midst of his revelry and was drinking out of the golden vessels which had been brought from the Hebrews’ temple at Jerusalem, that a mysterious hand did appear and write on the wall of the banquet hall over against the king. And a great terror fell upon the king and he called for all his wise men to tell him what the hand wrote, but there was none that could do so. Then it was that the queen remembered and reminded Belshazzar of Daniel, who years before had told the dreams of Nebuchadnezzar. And in haste was this man Daniel sent for, and the king promised him great honors and riches if he would but tell him the meaning of that which the mysterious hand had written upon the wall. And behold he did, and scarcely had this Daniel departed from the banquet hall wearing the Bcarlet robes and the gold chain which the king had placed upon him when thou and thy army descended upon the palace, and the rest thou dost know, how that Belshazzar and many of his lords who attempted to escape were slain, and now the city is in thy hands, even as this Daniel said should come to pass.” Darius was silent for many minutes after the man had ceased speaking, deep in thought. “A hand writing on the wall,” he repeated, as though to himself. “The gods of the Medes.BWere never known to do this.” Then, looking up, Darius asked; “Did this Daniel claim that it was his God who had put forth his hand and written upon the wall?” “Yea, he did charge King Belshazzar with wickedly and willfully dishonoring the true God of heaven and declared that the handwriting on the wall was God’s judgment upon him, telling him plainly that God had weighed him in his balances and had found him wanting and that the kingdom had been given to the Medes and the Persians.” “Wonderful!” ejaculated King Darius, in amazement. “And why did not Belshazzar keep such a man as one of the counsellors of his kingdom?” With a deprecating shrug of the shoulders the man made reply as follows: “While Belshazzar was a mere stripling Daniel was serving in the court of his father, and in the prophet’B solicitude for the affairs of the kingdom he sought to exert a right influence over the young prince and to shield him from the corrupting influences with which the court life was surrounded. This the young prince resented, for he was a strong-willed boy, and when he came to the throne he forced this man Daniel into retirement and had quite forgotten his existence until the incidents of last night called him forth.” “I would know this man Daniel,” exclaimed the king. “Let him be brought hither.” With an intensity which marked the inner movings of his Inmost heart, Darius watched the tall, stately figure as it entered the room and advanced toward him in response to his beckoning hand. He never could forget that face. Those deep-set eyete, that'high forehead; the firm lines about the mouth. Jew it was plain to see he was and, despite the natural prejudicj which he held against that race, there was an expression in that face and depth of meaning in those eyes which held him and won him. This was the man who could tell dreams and read mysterious writings, he thought to himself. And then aloud he asked: “Thou art Daniel?” “Thou hast saldC”' “Thy robes speak of regal authority?”.Dkrius next said, as he let his eyes move from the face of the man before him to the scarlet robe he still wore. "Belshazzar caused it to be put upon me,” was the quiet response. “A thing which would not commend thee to me,” ejaculated Darius, “had I not heard of the handwriting on the wall, and of thy interpretation thereof in the name of thy God. Now the authority and honor with which Belshazzar did clothe thee I declare unto thee shall in truth be thine if thou will but serve me.” . * “I will,” was the quiet response of Daniel.

A Woman’s Apathy. It is unquestionably true that one of the greatest obstacles in the woman’s, path of industrial progress has been her own apathy. She is reproached by the men in her trade for her lack of interest in trade unionism; she is reproached by the philanthropist for her lack of ambition —her seeming willingness to remain unskilled and underpaid. But in this new movement for the franchise, we have the women who are already in the ranks of the skilled workers, and who have long since proved their capacity for organization taking, another great . step forward. They have at last learned that their industrial regeneration can come only through their own efforts and the importance of this, new spirit of independence, this enlarging of „the working woman’s sphere of activity to de mand a “voice in the Jaws that regulate her toil,” would be difficult to overestimate. —Edith Abbott in September Atlantic.

A VARIETY OF EXPEDIENTS. Little Sinner Was Providing for Future Emergencies. Muriel, a flve-year-old subject of King Edward VII., has been thought by her'parents ts> young to feel the weight of the rod, and has been ruled by moral suasion alone. But when, the other day, she achieved disobedience three times in five minutes, more vigorous measures were called for, and her mother took an ivory paperknife from the table and struck her smartly across her little bare legs. Muriel looked astounded. Her mother explained the reason for the blow. Muriel thought deeply for a moment. Then, turning toward the door with a grave and disapproving countenance, she announced in her clear little English voice: “I’m going up-stairs to tell God about that paper-knife. And I shall tell Jesus. And if that doesn’t do, I shall put flannel on my legs!”— Everybody’s Magazine.

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