Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 January 1891 — Page 4

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Discourse by Rev. T DeWitt Tal* meg® on God’s 'Messages. they Should be nightly Interpreted and Faithfully Heeded- The JFeaat of Sin, the Wage* of Which, Surely Paid, is Death.

'onderful of tha wall le walls of the Circumference. material for .. , „„ „ . _Tri1_ Iten' Were twenty-five gates of solid brass on eaah side of the square city. Between every two gates a great, watch-tower sprang up into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five gates, on either side, a street ran straight through to the gate on the other side, so that there Were streets, each fifteen miles long, m”'e the city an appearance of regularity. The houses did join each other on the grounds shd between them were garfiehS and shrubbery. From holise-top to house-top bridges SWung, over which the inhabitants were accustomed to pass, A branch of the Euphrates Went through the city, over which a bridge of marvel* ous structure Was thrown, and under which ft tunnel ran. To keep the river from .overflowing the city in times of freshet, a great lake was arranged to catch the surplus, in which the Water was kept as in a reservoir until times of drought, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land, A palace stood at each end of the Euphrates bridge; one palace a mile and three-quarters in compass, and the other palace seven and ft half miles in circumference,. The wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been brought ' h| ameRg^jbe mountains of Media, could not stand'iWj^hfc-ftat coimt¥y af Babylon, and so, to please her, Nebuchadnezzar had a mountain, four hundred feet high, built in the midst of the city. This mountain was surrounded by terraces, for the support of which great arches were lifted. On the top of these arches flat stones Wefe laid; then a layer of reeds and bitumen; then two ro ws of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil was placed. The earth here deposited was so deep thal the largest trees had room to anchor their roots. All the glory of the flowery tropics was spread ont at that tremendous height, until it must have seemed to one below as though the clouds were all in blossom, and the very sky leaned on the shoulder of the cedar. At the top an engine was constructed, which drew the water from the Euphrates, far below, and made it spout up amid this garden of the skies. All this to please his wife! I think she must have been pleased. ( In the midst of this city stood also the Temple of Belus. One of its towers was one-eighth of a mile high, and on the top of it an observatory, which gave the astronomers great advantage, as, being at so great a height, one could easily talk with the stars. This temple was full of cups and statues and censers, all of gold. One image weighed one thousand Babylonish talents, which would be equal to fifty-two million dollars. All this by day, but now night was about to come down on Babylon. The shadows of her two hundred and fifty towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery splendors of the setting sun; and gates of brass, burnished and glittering,

opened and shut like doors of name. The hanging- gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began Jo pour, from starlit flowers and dripping leaf, a fragrance for many miles around. The streets and squares were lighted for dance and frolic and promenade. The theaters and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the city to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail were mingled in every street; godless mirth and outrageous ex> cess and splendid wickedness came to the King’s palace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at the King’s palace! Bushing up to the gates are chariots, upholstered with precious cloths from Dedan and drawn by fire-1 eyed horses from Togarmah, that rear and neigh in the grasp of the charioteers, while a thousand lords dismount, and women, dressed in all the splendors of Syrian emerald, and the color-blending of agate and the chasteness of coral, and the somber glory of Tyrian purple and princely embroideries, brought from afar by camels across the desert, and by ihips of Tarshish across the sea. Open wide the gates, and let the guests come in. The chamberlains and cupbearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the robes and to the carol of the music! See the blaze of the jewels! Lift the banners. Fill the cups. Clap the cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let the night go by with song, and dances, and ovation, and let; that Babylonish tongue be palsied that will not say: “Oh, King Belshazzar, live forever!” Ah! my friends, it was not any common banquet to which these great people came. All parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets and chandeliers flashed their light upon tankards of burnished gold. Fruits ripe and luscious, in baskets of silver, entwined with leaves plucked from royal conservatories. Vases inlaid with emerald and ridged with exquisite traceries, filled with nuts that were threshed from, forests of distant 'lands. Wine brought from the royal vats, foaming in the decanters and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts of cassia and frankincense wafting their sweetness from wall and table. Gorgeous banners unfolding in the breeze that came through the open win dow, bewitched with the perfume of hanging gardens Fountains rising up from inclosures of ivory in jets of crystal, to jjall monds and men looking wall, upon crowns and shields brought from subdued empires. Idols of wonderful work, standing on pedestals of precious stones, about the lars of cedar, laid with ivory and agate. Music, mingling with the thrum of harps, and the clash of cymbals, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall, and breathing among the garlands, and ^_ XI___8-1__3 Xl_ill the" .... ladies, the mighty men and . women of the land, come around the table. Four out the wine. Let foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every one his cup, and drink to the sentiment: “O King BelShazzar, live forever!” Bestarred ices, as again Tear

wm\ , t huzza! for great i_ is that on the plastering of thq Wall? Is it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it Gad? Oat 6f the black sleeve <A the darkness « finger of fiery terror trembles through the air and comes to the wall, circling about as though it would write, and then, with sharp Up of i iame, engraves on the plastering the doom of the king. The music stops. The goblet falls from dhe nerveless gr; ap. There is a thrill. There is a start There is a thousand-voiced shriek of horror. Let Daniel be brought In to read that writings. fie eOmes in. fid reads it: ‘‘Weighed in the balance and found wanting.'’ IteehWfille the Assyrians, who for two years had been laying siege to that city,- took advantage of thft eafottSal and <jame in. .1 hear the feet of the corqwfdtft oh the palace stairs. Massacre rushes in with a thousand gleaming knives. Death bursts upon the scene; and 1 shut the door ef that banqueting hall, for } do hot want to look. There is nothing there but torn banfcerfe and broken wreaths, and the slush of upset tankards, and the blood of murdered women, and the kicked and tumbled 0areas s of a dead King. For “in that night'was Belshazzar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain.” 1 go on to learn that When God writes any thing on the Wall, a man had better reed it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret of modify the handwriting on the Wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the Gospel to preach always things that the people like Of the people choose. Youngmen, What shall I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of the dignity of human nature?

Snail I tell yon of the wonders that our race lias accomplished? “Oh! no,” you say; “tell me the message that came fram God.” I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall, it is this lesson: “Accept ol Christ and be saved!” I might talk of a great many other things, but that is the message, and so I declare it. J esus never flattered those tor whom He preached. He said to those who did wrong-, and who were offensive in His sight: “Ye generation of vipers! ye whited sepulchers, how can ye escaps the damnation of hell!” Paul the apoBtle preached before a man Who was not rea dy to hear him preach. What subject did lie take? Did he say: “Oh! you are a good man, a very fine, a very noble man?” No; he preached of right-1 eousness to u man who was unrighteous; of temperance to a man who was unlit for it. So we must always declare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel mnst have read it as it is. A minister preached before James I. of England, who wps James VI. of Scotland. What Subject did he take? The King was noted all over the world for being unsettled and wavering in his ideas. What did the minister preach about to this man who was James I. of England of James VI. of Scotland? He took for his text (James 16.): “He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed.” Hugh Latimer offended the King by a sermon he preached, and the King said: “Hugh Latimer, come and apologize.” “1 will,” said Hugh Latimer. So the day was appointed, and the King’s chapel was full of Lords and Dukes, and the mighty men and women of the country, for Hugh Latimer was to apologize. He began his sermon by saying: “Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou art in the presence of thy earthly King, who can destroy your body. But bethink thee, Hugh Latimer, that thou art in the presence of the King of Heaven and earth, who can destroy both body and soul in heU-fire.” Then he preached with appalling directness at the King’s crimes. Another lesson that comes to us: there is a great difference between the opening’ of the banquet of sin and its close. Young man, if you had looked in upon the banquet in the first few hours, you would have wished you had been invited there, and could sit at the feast. “Ob! the grandeur of Belshazzar’s feast!” you would have said; but you look in at the close of the bqnquet, and your blood curdles with horror. The King of Terrors has there a ghastilier banquet; human blood is the wine, and dying groans is the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It lias crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it. It has hung in its banqueting; hall the spoils of all kingdoms and the banners of aU nations. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn, from its wealth, the tables, and the floors and arches. And yet how often is that banquet broken up; and how horrible is its end! Ever and anon there is a handwriting on the wall. A King falls. A great culprit is arrested. The knees of wickedness knock together. God’s judgment, like an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet; and that night is Belshazzer, the King of the Chaldeans, slain. . - Here is a young man who says: “I can not see why they make such a fuss about the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating! It makes me feel well. I can talk better, think better, feel better’. I can not see why people have such

a prejudice against it.” A few years pass on and he wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of an evil habit which he tries to break, but he can not, and he cries out: “Oh, Lord God, help me!” It Beems as though God would not hear his prayer, and in an agony of body and soul he cries out: “It biteth like a serpent and it stingeth Uke an adder.” How bright it was at the start! How black it was at the last! Here is a man who begins to read corrupt novels. “They are so charming,” says he; “I will go out and see for myself whether all these things are so.” He goes in. A sinful sprite meets him with her wand. She waves her wand, and it is all enchantment. Why, it seems as if the angels of Gcid had poured out phials of perfume in the atmosphere. As He walks on He finds the hill becoming more radiant with foliage, and the ravines more resonant with the falling water. Oh! what a charming landscape he sees! But that sinful sprite, with he wand, meets him again; -but ne w she reverses the wand, and all the enchantment is gone. The cup is full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. All the leaves of the bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool, stenchful with corruption. The luring songs become curses and screams of demoniac laughter. Lost spirits gather about him and feel for his heart, and beckon him on with: “Hail, brother! Hail, blasted spirit, hail!” He tries to get out. He comas to the front door where he entered, and tries to push it back, but the door turns against him; and in the jar of that shutting door he hears these words: “This night is Belshazzar, the King of tie Chaldeans, slain.” Sin may open bright as the morning. It ends dark as the night! X learn further from this subject that Death sometimes breaks :in upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to the prisons in Babylon? There were pc pie there that would like to have died. I suppose there were mun and vfomen in that city who would have ■td the when the

as trees are moved in whirlwind. Some night he retires early. A fever is on him. Delirium, like a rcekless charioteer1, seizes Ithe reins of his intellect; Father and mother Stand bv and see the tides d his life going but to the gteat ocean. The banquet is coming to an end. The lights of thought, and mirth, and eloquence are being extinguished- The garlands are snatched from the blow. The vision is gone. Death at ite banquet! We saw the same thing, on a larger scale, illustrated at the last war in this country: OllT Whdld Nation had been sitting at a National banquet—North, South, East and West What grain was there, but we grew it on our hflls. What invention was there, but our rivers must turn the new wheel and rattle the strange shuttle. What warm furs, but our traders must bring them from the Arctic. What fish, but our nets must BWeep them for the markets. IVTiat music, but it must Sing in our halls. What eloquence, hut it must speak in our Senates. Ho! to the National banquet, reaching from mountain to mountain and from sea to sea! To prepare the banquet the sheepfolds and the aviaries of the country sent their best treasures. The orchards piled np on the table their sweetest fruits. The presses burst out with new wines. To sit at that table came the yeomanry of New Hampshire, and the lumbermen of Maine, and the Carolinian from the rice fields, and the Western emigrant from the pines of dragon, and we are all brothers—brothers at a^ banquet* Suddenly the feast ended. ” What meant those monnds thrown up at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South Mountain? What meant those golden grain fields, turned into a pasturing ground for cavalry horses? -What meant the cornfields gullied with the wheels of the heavy sup

ply train? Why those rivers of tears— those lakes of blood? God was angry! Justice must come. A handwriting on the wall! The Nation had been weighed and found wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to the North! Woe to the South! Woe to the East! Woe to the West! Death at the banquet! I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious and of those who despise God will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had= dashed to the highest point when the Assyrian army had broken through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. How was it the deluge? Do you suppose it came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were siflt it was coming? No, I suppose the morning was bright; that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hills, when suddenly the heavens burst and the mountains sank like iron into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Himalayas. The Red Sea w as divided. The Egyptians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through; where they had gone, why not the Egyptains? Oh! it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great wallgof water—solid. There can be no 55li|§.r. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the /cymbals and blow the trumpets of victory! After them! We will catch them yet and they shall be destroyed. But the walls begin to tremble. They rock! They fall! The rushing waters! The shriek of drowning men! The swimming of the war-horses in vain for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by the angry waves on the beach—a battered, Tpruised and loathsome wreek! Suddenly destruction came. One half hour before they could not have believed it. Destroyed; and without remedy. I am just setting forth a fact, which you have noticed as well as I. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says: “Did you sell the land for so much?” He says: “Yes” It was a lie. Dead! as quick as that! Sapphira, his wife, comes in. “Did you sell the land for so much?” “Yes” It was a lie; and quick as that she was dead! God’s judgments are upon those who despise Him and defy Him. They come suddenly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you aippose that any of the people knew that he was coming? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? No! No! Suddenly, unexpectedly, he came. Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird standing on the sprig near by. If they are skilled, they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and he loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Are there any here who are unprepared for the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living without God and wi thout hope? Let me say to you that you had better accept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chance: be gone. The lungs will cease to breathe, the heart will stop. The time will come when you shall go no more to the office, or to the store, or to the shop. Nothing will be left but death, and judgment, and eternity. Oh, flee to God this hour! If there be any in this presence who has wandered

tar away rrom unnst, tnoug'n ne may not have heard the call of the Gospel for many a year, 1 invite him now to come and he saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the Gospel! Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation. Good night, my young friends. May you have rc«y sleep, guarded hy Him who never til umbers. May you awake in the morning strong and well. But oh, art thou a despiser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou he awakened in the night hy something thou knowst not what, and there he shadows floating in the room, and a handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fain tint! at the heart, and a tremor in the limb, and a catching of the breath —then thy doom would be but an echo of the words; of the text: “In that night was Belshazzar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain.”Just as I aim, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Tbou bid’st me come to Thee, O, Lamb of God, 1 corns. But, if you can not think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a shorter prayer that you can say: “God he merciful to me, a sinner!” Or, if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter one that you may utter: “Lord save me, I perish!” Or, if that be too long a prayer, you need not utter one word. Just look and live! —The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we Bee nothing to visit us, W

—■- ~ TION ©F BIRDS. of Their Lengthy i*fc . . • • . the distinguished Germjm who iisa so recently died, toys lore and hunger are the birds’ only guiding impulses., The, statement u made, and is a very interesting one, that those that cross the Medlterraheiin sea in going from Africa to Europe fidlow certain fixed routes: First, by the Straits of Gibraltar; second, from Tunis Co Sardinia and Corsica to the shores of the Gulf of Genoa; third, frofik Tripoli by Malta and Sicily to Italy, etc. How were these lines of passage learned? In the diluvial period, what is now the Mediterranean sea consisted of two large lakes, one of which was out off the ocean by a broad strip of land where now are the Straits of Gibraltar, and which were separated from each other by a land dike composed of Italy, Sicily, etc., which connected the two continents. The birds, as they increased in numbers, migrated by these routes in search of better breedingplaces, and as the lands sank they continued to follow them over gradually narrowing belts of land, over marshes and lagunes, and finally oover broad waters, and yet no one generation was aware of any change. They carried with them the memory of their warm winter home, and on the approach of the European winter, when their food supply failed, returned to it with their young. If this explanation is the correct one, it is evident, says Forest and Stream, that we have failed in our efforts to introduce these migratory birds because we have attempted to reverse the process by which the habit of migration was acquired, and, in .order to succeed, instead of turning them loose in the north, we must give the strangers, skylarks, nightingales, quail, etc., a suitable southern winter habitat (Florida, Louisiana, Mexico), from which in sprisg. fodct filing or driven by an inherent tendency (as asserted by Prof. Baird), they may wander to some other locality suitable for raising their yonng, and to which, by virtue of memory thus acquired and finally inherited, they may return when food fails them in their

summer home. If they wander in all directions from the winter home, those that go to the most favorable localities will most certainly survive and multiply, while none of them will be in such unfavorable conditions as those that may be turned loose in our Northern States. They will then, so far as we can arrange it for them, be best prepared for the struggle for existence in this country, over the whole of which, if they find favorable conditions, we may expect 'them soon to spread, and thus repay us for our expenditure of effort and money. By imitating the processes of nature we shall make haste slowly, but we shall finally have our reward. GREEK MYTHOLOGY. A School Where the Grecian Heroes Were Taught. In the mountains of Greece there was a great cave, and in that cave lived a man who was half a horse. He had the head and breast of a man, but a horse’s body and legs. He was fame :l, writes Andrew Land in St. Nicholas, for knowing more about every thing than any one else in all Greece. .He know about the stars, and the plants of earth, which were good for medicine, and which were poisonous. He was the best art her with the bow, and the best plftyer of the harp, he knew most songa ai d stories of old times, for he was the last of a people half-horse and half-nan, who had dwelt in ancient times on he hills. Therefore, the Kings in Gre :ce sent their sons to him to be taught; i hooting, singing, and telling the truth, and that was all the teaching they had hen, except that they learned to hunt, and fish, and fight, and throw spears, and toss the hammer and the stone. Many of the boys taught by Chiron lxicame famous. Among them was Orpheus, who played the harp so sweetly lliat wild beasts followed his minstrelsy, and even the trees danced after him, mil settled where he stopped playing; and there wasMopsus, whocould understand what the birds say to each, other, t.sid there was Butes, the handsomest of men; and Tiphys, the best steersman c l a ship; and Castor, with his. brother Polydeuces, the boxer; and Heracles, the strongest man in the whole wo:-Id, was there; and Lyncens, whom fhey call Keen-eye, because he could sec so far, and he could see the dead men in their graves under the earth; and th are was Euphemus, so swift .and light-footed that he conld run upon the gray sea, and never wet his feet; and there were Calais and Zetes, the two sous of the North Wind, with golden wings upon their ffeet; and many others were there whose names it would he to; Long to tell. They all grew up together In the the hills, good friends, healthy, and brave, and strong. There Is no symptom of ill heilth more discouraging than weakness. That constant feeling of fatigue and disinclination ,to exert oneself. Life to such seen* languid and insipid, and the invalid almost becomes reconciled to die. Do you sutler thus? Would you be enthusedt Do you wish your strength renewed! Try a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla It will greatly assist your recovery. Soon will you then exjxirience a feeling of new life and returning power. No longer will the least exertion give fatigue and cause your heart to palpitate unnaturally. No more will that feeling of dizziness oppress you when you suddenly get up from your chair. No longer vail indigestion and urinary disorders continue to break down your constitution. Every function will resume its natural activity and you will soon enjoy a glorious feeling of self control and confidence. No longer nervous, afraid and imaginative of gloomy disaster. Ambition will take the place of discouragement and you will be happy in health and kindly hope.—Caldwell Post

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A Fact. (From an interview, N. Y. World.) In an interview with a leading drug-house the N. Y. World, Nov. 9,1890, gives the following comment on the proprietors of reliable patent medicines: “He is a specialist, and should know more of the disease he actually treats than the ordinary physician; for while the latter may come across say fifty cases in a year of the particular disease which this niedicine combats, its manufacturer investigates thousands. Don’t yon suppose his prescription, which you buy ready made up for 50 cents, is likely th do jnore good titan that of the ordinary physician, «vho charges yon anywhere from *3 to $10 for giving it, and leaves you to pay the cost of faavingit prepared! “The patent medicine man, too, usually has the good sense to confine uimself to ordinary, every-day diseases. He leaves to the physician cases in which there is immediate danger to life, such as violent fevers. He oes this because, in the treatment of such ses, there are other elements of importance besides medicine, such as proper dieting, good nursing, a knowledge of the patient’s strength and so on. Where there is no absolute danger to life, where the disease is one which the patient can diagnose for himself or which some physician has already determined, the patent medicine maker says fearlessly: ‘I have a preparation which is better than any other known and which will cure you.’ In nine cases out of ten his statement is true. ” This is absolutely true as regards the great remedy for pain, St. Jacobs Oil. It can assert without fear of contradiction, that it is a prompt and permanent cure of pain. It can show proofs of cures of chronic eases of 20,30 and 40 years’ standing. In truth it rarely ever fails if used according to directions, and a large proportion or cures is made by half the contents of a single bottle. It is therefore the best. Thb trouble in lending our ears Is that ihe borrowers take such liberties with them before returning them.—Atchison Globe. An Illustration Of the value of extensive and judicious adve 'Using of any article of undoubted merit is ound in the remarkable success of the Cjupornia Fig Sybup Co., which has been pb inomenal, even in this age of great enterpr ses. \ Organized a few years ago to manufacture a laxative with original and attractive features, prepared from delicious fruits and he ilth-giving plants, one which would be pleasant and refreshing to the taste, as well as really beneficial to the system, the manag unen t very wisely concluded to select the lei ding newspapers throughout the United St ites to make known to the public the merits of the new remedy, Syrup of Figs. Ai happens with every valuable remedy, ch lap substitutes are beiBgoifered, but it is be Miming more difficult each day to impose on the public. Health is too important to be trified with, and reiiutahle druggists will nos attempt to deceive, as they all know that Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. of San Francisco, CaL, Louisville,fey.,New York, N. Y. No wondzr policemen are good fighters; they are able to stand up after a good many rounds.—Binghamton Republican.

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