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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. THZ MIDNIGHT REVEL, [Preached at Monona* Wk) 'Text: “In that night was Ee'.snnz ar, the King oi the Chaldeans, slain. ’’ Daniel v., 30. Fea ting has Le?n known in all ages It wasoaem tbein.* tvctaig times >u Eng dish history when Queen rlhan th visited Lord Lei« ester at Kcnhwort’i < astle. The moment of h r arrival wa*<otisid*re<l ao im portant that a!i the < locks of the castl * were stopped, ao th hands point to that one moment as be ng th* most signifi cant of al. She wa* greeted to the gate with floating islam s and torches and the thunder of cannon and fireworks that set the night abla: o, and a grtat bur.-t of music that lifted the wh »le scan? into j erfeet enchant ment. Then she was iutio lucod in a dining ball, Ih> luxuries.of wh ch astonished the world; 40(Hervant« wui ed upon the g< e.*ta; the entertainment cost *5,(00 each day. Lord Leicester mad • that great supper in Kenilworth Cadle. Cardinal W olsey entertained the French ambav-adors at Hampton Court. The best cooks in all the land prepared lor the ban quet; pi.rveyois wur out and traveled all the kingdom over to find s oils for the table. The time cam *. The gusts were kept during the day hunting in the King’s pare, so that their appetites might be ko<n: and then, in th • evenin;, to the sound of the trumpet *rs, they were introduced into a hall hung with silk* and cloth of gold, and there were tabl s a glitter with imp erial plate and laden with the rarest of meats and a blush with the cost liest of wines; and when the second course of the f< ast came it was found that the arti cles of food lai been fashioned into the shape of men, birds and beasts, and groups dancing and jousting | arties ridiu r against ea h other with lan es. Lords and Priuces and Ambassadors, out of cups filled to the brim, drank tha health, first of the King of England and next to the King of Franc?. Cardinal Wolsey pre pared that great supper in Hampton Court. But my text takes us to a moi e exciting banquet. Night was about to come down ujK-n Babylon. The shadows of her 250 tow ers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery splendors of the set ting sun; and gates of brass, burn shed and glittering, opened and shut like doors of flame. The hanging gardens of B ibylon, wet with heavy dew, began to pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf a fragran e for manj miles around. The streets and s [Wires were lighted for dan e and frolic and prom enade. The theatres and galleries of art in vited the w ealth, and pomp, and grandt ur of the city to rare entertainments Scenes of riot an 1 was ail were mingled in every street, and 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 tlie King’s | alace! Rushing up to the gates are chariots upholstered with pre cious cloths from Dedan aid drawn by fire eyed horses from Togarmah, that rear and neigh in the grasp of the chariote. rs, while a th* usand Lords dismount, and women dressed in all the splendor of Syrian emerald, an I the color blending of agate, and the cnasteness of coral, and the sombre glory of Tyrian purple, and princely embroideries brought from afar by camels across the desert and by ships of Tarshish across the sea. Open w ide the gates and let the guests come in! The chamberlains and cup-bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the silks and to the carol of the music! Seethe blaze of the jewe’s! Lift the ban ners! Fill the cups ! Clap the cymbals! Blow the trumpets! let the night go by with song and dance and ovation, and let that Babylonish tongue be palsied, that will not say: “O King Belshazzar, live for ever!” Ab, my friends! it was not any common banquet to which these great people came. All parts of the earth bad sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets an 1 chande liers flashed their light upon tankards of bur nished gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious, in baskets of silver, entwined with leaves, plucked fronQ royal conservatories. Vases inlaid with emerald and ridged with exquis ite traceries, fillel with nuts that were threshed from fore ds 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 bree e that camo through the opened window, bewitch d with the perfume of hanging gardens. Fountains rising up from inclosures of ivory in jets of crystal, to fall in clattering rain of diamonds and pearls. Statues of mighty men looking down from niches iu the wall upon crowns and shields brought from subdue 1 empires. Idols of wonderful work standing on pedestals of precious stones. Embroid eries drooping about the windows and wrapping pillai s of cedar, and drift ing on no rs inlaid with ivory and agare. Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of cymba s, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wall and breathing among the gar lands, and i ouring down the co ridors, and thrilling the souls of a thousand banquet-rs. The signal is given, and the lords and ladies, the mighty men and women of the land,come around the table. Pour out the wine! Let foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist ev»>ry one his cup, and drink to the sentiment: “Oh, King Belshazzar, live forever!” Pestarred headband and carcauet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices, as again and again and again they are emptied. Away with ca r e from the pa la e! Tear royal dig nity to tatters! Pour out more wine! Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, c aptain ogles to cap ain. goblets clash, decanters rattle. There omes in the obs eno song and the drunken iccough and the slave ring lip and the e ilfaw of idiotic laughter bursting from the lips of Princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; while mingling with it all I hear: “Huzza, huzza, for great l elsha zar!” What is that on the plastering of the wall? Is it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it God? The music stops. The goblets fall from the nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. Thera is a start. There is ath >usand-voiced shriek of honor. Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing. He comes in. He reads it: “Weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Mem while the Assyrians, who for two years had been laying a siege to that city, took advantage of that carousal, and came in. I hear ihe feet of the conquerors on the palace stall’s. Massacre rushes in with a thousand gleaming knives. Death bursts upon the s ene; and I shut the door of that banqueting hall, for I do not want to look. There is nothing there but torn banners and broken wraths, and ihe slush of upset tankards, and th blood of murdered women, and the kicke land tumbled carcass of a dead King. For in that night was Belshazzar slain. I. I learn from this, that, when God writes anything on the wall, a man had better read it as it is. Daniel d d not misinterpret or modify tie handwriting on the wall. It is ail foolishness to expe ta minister of the gos pel to prea/h always things that the people like or the people c hoose. What shall I preach to y m to-day? Shall I tell you of tho dignity ol human native? Shall 1 tell you of the wonders that our lace has accomplished? ‘ Oh, no!” you say, “tell me the me csage that came from God.” I will. If there is any handwriting on the wa : l, it is this lesson: “Repent, ac ept of Christ and be saved.” I •might talk of a great ma iy other things, but that is the menage, and so I de dare it. Jesus never flattered those to whom he preached. He said to those who did wrong and who Mere offensive in his sight: “Ye generation of vipers! y f e whited sepulchres! how can ye escape the damnation of hell I ’ Paul the Apostle preached before a inan who was not ready to hear him preach. What subject did hetaxe? Did he say: “Oh, you a ea good ttau, a very fine man, a very nob e man?'* he preached of righteousness, tj a man who was unrighteous; of temperance, to a man who was the victim.of bad a petites; of the judgment to come, to a man who was unfit for it So we must always deciare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel mast read it as it is. A minister preached before Jamo* JL of England, who wa> James VI. of Sc >tland. What snbje tdi Ihe take? Tue itiug aus noted au over the world lor being iiu.k-i Jed an i wavering in his ideas. V»’uu oi<i cue minister predL h about to Ims nitu w.iu wa» va.nes L oi England and ! J.i ..e« » i. o. Scot and? He too < io. ins text, vu.ac.;i.. i.: •Hj t at wavvreth is like a wuveol the sea u.**ea with th wind aud t »>ed Hugh Latimer o..ended the n.ng I b, a serin n ue pr a *a_\i, and the Kia; >a it: • *-i gh ai ner co uu and apolog.u.” ’1 I wi.i. u«i H .gu La.imcr, So the day was j appoint *u, and in» King’s caapei was full of Lord* and Dukes, and the mighty m n am! women o. tae country, lor Hugh Latimer to apologize, he uegan 7i IS , l *y “Hugn katimer, be- ! think thee, ihou art in the presence of thine 1 y, King, who can destroy thy body! ; I But oethiuk thee, Hugh Latimer, t. at thou ; art in tue presea. eui th? King of Heaven and earth, wh > can destroy both bo ly and soul in nod ure. uh. King, cursed be thy 1 crimes:” I 2. Another lesson that comes to us: There !is a great diife. eave between the opening of . the banquet ol sin and its dose. Young man, if you had looked i i upon t.ie banquet in the nrst tew hours, you would have wished you had been invited there and could sit at the feast. “Uh, ih? grandeur of Belshazzar's least, • you would have said; but you look in at tho close of the banquet and your bloo l curdles with horror. Ihe King of Terrors has the.ea ghastlier banquet: i.umnn blood is the wine and dying groans are the music. Sin his made itself a iving in the ea th. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it! It has hung in its ban , quoting hall the spoils of all kingdoms and the banners of all nations. It has strewn from its wealth the tables and floors and arches. And ytt how often is that banquet broken up and how horrible is its end! Ever and anon there is a handwriting on tue wall. A King falls. A great culprit is arrested. Ihe knees of wickedness Knock together. I God’s judgment, like an armed host, breaks? in upon the ban piet, and that night is Bel-’ sha<zar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain. Here is a young man who says: “lean-’ njt see why they make such a fuss about the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating. It makes me feel well. 1 can talk better, think better, feel better. I cannot see why people have such a prejudice against it.” A lew years pass on and he wakes up and finds hmiself in the clutches of an evil habit which he tries to break, but cannot; and ho cries out: “Oh Lord God, help me!” It see ms 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 like an adder.” How bright it was at the start! How black it was at the last! Here is a man who begins to read French ' novels. “They are so charming,” he says; “I xvi 11 go out and see for my r self whether all these things are so.’’ He ojiens the gate of a sinful life. 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 God had poured out phials of pei fume in the atmosphere. As he walks j on he finds the hills becoming more radi- 1 ant with foliage, and th? ravines more resonant with tho falling water. Ob, what a charming landscaoe he sees! But that sinful sprito with her wand meets him again: and now she reverses the wand and all the enchantment is gone. The cup is full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. Ail the leaves of the bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing i<>; m ains fall back in a dead pool stenchful with corruption. The luring songs become curses and screams of demoniac laughter. Ijost 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 comes to the front door where he entered and tries to push it back, but tho door turns against him; and in the jar of that shutting door he heirs these words: “This night is Belshazzar, tho King of the Chaldeans, slain!” Sin may open bright as the morning; it closes dark as tho night. 3. I learn further from this subject that death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet. Why did ho not go down to tho prisons in Babylon.' There were people there that would like to have died. I suppose there were men and women in torture in that city who would have welcomed death. But ho comes to the palace, and just at the time when the mirth is dashing to tho tiptop gitch, death breaks in at tho banquet. Wo ave often seen tho same thing illustrated. Here is a young man just come from col lege. Ho is kind. He is loving. Ho is en thusiastic. Ho is 010 iuent. By one spring ho may bound to heights toward which many men have been struggling for years. A pro session opens before him. He is established in the law. His friends cheer him. Eminent men encourage him. After awhile you may see him standing in the American Senate, or moving a popular assemblage by his o!o quence, as trees are moved iu a whirlwind. 1 Some night he retires early. A fever is on him. Delirium, like are kle-s charioteer, seizes the reins of his intellect. Father and mother stand by and see the tides of life going out to tho great ocean. Tho 1 anquet is coining to.an end. The lights of thought and mirth and eloquence are being extin gui-hed. Tho garlands aro snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. We saw the same thing on a larger scale illustrated at the last war in this country. Our whole nation had been sitting at a na tional 1 anquet—North, South, East and .West. What grain was there but wo crew it on our hills? What invention was there but our rivers must turn the new wheel and rattle tho strange shutt'e.' What warm furs but our traders must bring the n from the Arctic? What fish but that our nets must sweep them for the markets? What music but it must sing in our 1 halls? What eloquence but it must speak in cur Senates? Ho! to :the national banquet, reaching from mountain to m nn tain and from sea to sea! To prepare that banquet the sheepfolds and tho aviaries of tho country sent their best treasures. The orchards piled up on the table their swe test fruits. '1 ho presses burst oat with now wines. Te >it at teat table camo the yeomanry of New Hampshire, and the lumbermen of Maine, and the tanned Carolinian from the rice swamps, and the harvesters of Wisconsin, and the West rn emigrant from the pirn s of Oregon; and we were all brothres—br< thers at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended What meant those mounds thrown up at Chickahominy, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South Mountain? What meant those golden grain fields turned into a pasturing ground for cavalry hor-es? What meant th * corn fields gull io 1 with ihe wheels of tho heavy supply train? Why those rivers of tears, those lakes of blood? God was angry. Jus tice must come. A handwriting on the wall! Tho nation had been weighed and found wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to the North! Woe to tho South! Woe to tho East! Woo to the West! Death at the ban quet! 4. I have also to learn from the sub je* t that tho destruction of the viciojs and of those who despise God will bo very sudden. The wave of mirth ha 1 dashed to th i highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, al most always, comes tho doom of those who despise God and defy tho 1 iw? (J men. How was it at tho Deluge. Do you suppose it ;a through a long northwestern storm, so that people for days before were sure it was co n mgf No: I suppose the morning was bright; that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthrone 1 on the h its, when sud denly the heavens burst and the mountains sank like ant hors into the sea, that da Led clear over the Amies and the Hi i.alaya< The Red Sea was divi led. The Egy tians tried to cross it. There could be no tian er. The Israelites had ust gone through; -a here jhey had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of timed sheila and pearls, and on either side a great wall of water, solid. There can bi no danger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trumpets of victory! After them! We will tat h them yet and they shall be destroyed. But the walls of solidified vi ater begin to tremble. They rock. They , fall. The rushing waters! The shriek of I drowning men! The.swimming of the war horses in va n for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of tho sea, or pit bed by the angry wave on the b a h—a nattered, bruised and loathsome wre'k! Bud dcnly destruction came. Ono half hour ba fo o they could not ha\ e believed it. 1 am just setting forth a fa t which you have noticed a* well a< I. Ananias come* to tho apo tie. Tho np<»st !o says: “Did you soil th** lan I former much?” He says: “Yes.” It was a lie. Dead! As qui ka* that! Snnnhira, his wife, com sin “ i 1 you s*U the lan I tor so in ich ” •• Yes.” It was a lie, and quick as that >u? wasdea I! Gods judg ments a e upon th »>o who despise and doty Ejm. Th-y come suddenlv. The des:roving angel went through Egypt. Do yo i sup[M)se that any of the p<*op!i’ knew that n? was coming.’ Did they hear th » flap M h s great wings? No! No! Suddenly, unoxpect<> Uy. he came. Skilled s ortstnen do not like to shoot a bird standing on a sprig nearby. It'they Are sk lied, they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and ho loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Ara there any hero who are unprepared for the eternal world? Aro there any here who I ave been living without God and with out Hope? Let, me say to you that you had bet ter accept of tho Lord Jesus Christ, lest snd dnl v your last chance be gone. Tho lungs will cease to breathe, tho lieart will stop. The time will come when you shall go no more to the office, or to the* store, <»• to the shop. Nothing will l>e left but death, and judgment, and eternity. (>h, flee to God this hour! If there be one in this presence who has wandered faraway from Christ, though he may not have heard tho call of tho gospel for many a year, I invite him now to come and be saved. Flee from thy sits! Flee to the stronghold of the gospel! To- lay I invite you to a grander banquet than any I have mentioned. My Lord, the King, is the banqueter. Angels are tho cup bear rs. All the redeemed are the guest*. The halls of eternal love, frescoed with light, and | avtsl with joy. and curtained with un fadin ; beauty, are tho ban [noting place. Tho harmonies of eternity are the mu<i *. Tho chalices of heaven are the [ late; and I am one of tho servants coming out with both hands filled with invitations, scattering them everywhere; and of that, for yourselves, you might break the seal of the invitation and read the words written in red ink of blood by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: “Come now, for all things are ready.” After this day has rolled by and the night has come, may you have rosy sleep guarded by Him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strong and well! But. oh, art thou a despiser of God? Is the coni ing night tho last night on earth? Shouldest thou be awakened in the night by some thing, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, and a hand writing on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be fainting at the heart, and a tremor in tho limb, and a catching of the breath—then thy doom would be but an echo of the words of my text: “In that night was Belshazzar, the King of tho Chaldeans, slain.” THE HAWAIIAN VOLCANO. An Immense Flow of I.ova—A Brilliant Spectacle. “The day we celebrate,” was duly honored by Madame Peele, she pouring out great volumes of liquid lava in her favorite home—Halemaumau. A party of us went down to the edge of the lake in the crater of Halemaumau, and were much struck with the increase in its size since June 29. Then the surface of the lake was about 435 feet in diameter from north to south and 225 feet from east to west.. These measurements were made by counting the steps of the guide, who ran across the thin black crust of the lake in two directions noted, and calcu lated that he covered three feet at each step. We found that this comparatively smooth surface had been raised about ssventy-five feet above the former level, its original dimensions and form being preserved intact, while all around its edge numerous flows of lava had filled in the space between it and the surrounding slopes of the crater. The central position was still some twenty-five feet above the edge on which we stood, and from the under surface of this smooth, black table-like crater there poured out two grand rivers of lava. The liquid matter flowed down in a mag nificent stream, about forty feet in width, into the low portion of the basin filling it to near the level of the middle portion. The vent from which the lava poured out was formed by an immense slab being lifted up bodily, and forming a gaping mouth out of which gushed the bright red lava like a torrent of water. This stream as it flowed down was cooled at a short distance from its visible source, so as to appear in the bright noonday sun of a glistening satiny blackness. At the same time the cooling of the surface re tarded its flow, so that it “gartered” it self, as it were, in narrow, smooth folds arranged in parallel curved lines across tkc surface of the flow. As the stream widened in its course this cooled surface thickened ami was forced into contorted folds and wrinkles. These would be come enlarged by the pressure of the li quid lava beneath, which finally burst through the lower edge or face of the told, and then rolled out again in slow moving streams of a rich red color. The heat was very great from the mov ing masses, and it was with some diffi culty that wc approached near enough to get out, on long poles, lumps es the partly cooled lava, and the imbedded loins in them. The display of light and illumination of the clouds at night over the west pit has been very fine at times during the last week.— CunHtitution. Appreciating the Occasion. The other evening a patrolman found a well diessed woman sitting in an open ballway next door to a marble shop, and thinking she might be a stranger iu troubl ■, he accostci her with: “Anything wrong, madam?” She came out to him and replied: “No, sir—netting wrong. I’m wait for my husband.” “And he—?” “He is in the marble shop figuring on a tomb tone.” “And you don't want to go in on ac count of the gloomy surroundings?” “The gloomy surroundings wouldn't affect me at all, sir, but I hope I know whit belongs to the proprieties. lb’s in there figuring on a tombsone for his first wife, who's b en dead three y-ars, but I presume you can appreciate the oc casion?'’ “Certainly, ma’am. Sit right down ?u the stairs and if any of the boys bother you 111 raise lumps on their heads.”— Detroit Free Drees. H’s Future Assured. “I gue.s Im p ’etty s ife abo it going t° Heaven,” remarked Bobby to young .Ur Fcatherly. Mr. I eatherly replie 1 that h ■ earnes ly hoped so, and then inquired why Bobby felt so confident a’>out the matter. “B cause,” evpl linrd Bobby, “ma says that it ain’t safe t > trust me where there's a fire.”— N u> York Hun. CLIPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS. Tho cost of running a locomotive is said to be a little more than twenty cents a mile. It is thought that a dozen shots from the new German bomb, charged with dynamite shells, would destroy tho strongest fortifications in the world. The Chinaman is very fond of dross, and, though sometimes dirty in his hab its, is scrupulously clean in his person. His religion enjoins vegetarianism and cleanliness. In the National Museum at Washing ton there is a pipe that belonged to John Brown and the rifle taken from Jefferson Davis when he was captured. They aro labelled “the beginning and the end of the war.” Cultivation has so affected tho tomato that the seeds are fast disappearing and bid fair to pass out of existence entirely, as in the case of the banana, leaving the propagation of the plant dependent on cuttings. A dweller on the banks of the Codorus in Pennsylvania ties short lines with baited fishhooks to the legs of his geese and drives them into the water. The fish bite and jerk tho lines, and then the frightened geese hurry to shore,drag ging the fish after them. A moonlight mirage was lately wit nessed in Illinois. The moon was shin ing brightly, but a dense fog hung over the flat lands near St. Joseph, and the passengers iu a railroad train saw a phan tom train suspended in the air under the fog bank. The apparition was visible for several minutes. Fifty years ago the boys had a very hard time of it. There were no furnaces in the house and few stoves, bedrooms as cold and colder than barns nowadays; warming pans for bed at night in con stant use, as the bed clothes were like two cakes of ice. Washing was done by first breaking through tho ice found in the pitchers over night. All cooking was done by wood fires, and tho wood had to cut by the boys. Fats mid Frauds. Some persons have assumed that be cause butter-substitutes have been pre pared so skilfully that persons could not tell the real from the false butter when placed side by side, therefore the false is as wholesome as the true. The real point is the question of relative digesta bility of the animal fats, tallow and lard, as compared with milk-fats or but ter. The digestibility is to be consid ered not from the standpoint of robust and vigorous men like miners and lum bermen, but from the standpoint of those who consume but little fat except butter, namely, women and children. A Russian may make a light supper of half-a-dozen tallow candles, and an Es quimaux may swallow pound after pound of train blubber, but these facts would give little assistance in arranging a dietary for the refined and delicate. Milk-fats tire the most easily digested of all known fatly bodies, with the possi ble exception of fresh olive oil. If tallow and lard separately are dif ficult of digestion by delicate persons, will a mixture of these, to constitute 60 to 75 per eent. of a compound, no matter how thoroughly disguised, acquire such an increase of digestibility as to place them on a par with the milk-fats? If not, then their sale as butter is a fraud, and a damage to the public health. The question does not lie between clean animal fats and rotten butter. No one advocates the use of the latter; tho point is between good butter and good biitterine. If the latter is as good as butter, why is it palmed off on an unsus pecting public as “choice creamery?” At present prices, and selling under fraud, the bogus butter butchers can afford to use clean tallow and lard for this manufacture. But when competi tion has brought down these substitutes, how are the public to know how much cholera-hog and diseased-steer rnay en ter into this “choice creamery” process? —Dr. 11. C. Kelzie. A Diff-rence of Opinion. She went into a furniture store with her husband, a faint hem ted little man who carried a second fiddle under his nrm. She dragged the salesman all over the ground floor,ai.d leaving her husband down stairs, she took the clerk to the second floor to look at some willow chairs. 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