Christian herald and signs of our times . not ready to hear him•reach. What subject did he take? Did he say,Oh! you are a good man, a very fine man, aery noble man? No; he preached of right-ousness to a man who was unrighteous; of;mperance to a man who was the victim ofad appetites; of the judgment to come to atan who was unfit for it. So we must alwayseclare the message that happens to come to Then he preached with appalling directness atthe kings crimes. Another lesson that comes to us: there is a great differencebetween theopening of thebanquet of sinand its m a ii, ifyou had lo
Christian herald and signs of our times . not ready to hear him•reach. What subject did he take? Did he say,Oh! you are a good man, a very fine man, aery noble man? No; he preached of right-ousness to a man who was unrighteous; of;mperance to a man who was the victim ofad appetites; of the judgment to come to atan who was unfit for it. So we must alwayseclare the message that happens to come to Then he preached with appalling directness atthe kings crimes. Another lesson that comes to us: there is a great differencebetween theopening of thebanquet of sinand its m a ii, ifyou had lookedin upon the ban-quet in the firstfew hours, youwould havewished you hadbeen invitedthere, and could) sit at the ! the gran-deur of Belshaz-zars least ! you LATIMER REPROVING THE KING. W O U 1 d have said ; but you look in at the close of thebanquet, and your blood curdles with King of Terrors has there a ghastlier ban-quet; human blood is the wine, and dying groansare the music. Sin has made itself a king in the. earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread abanquet. It invites all the world to come to has hung in its banqueting-hall the spoils ofall kingdoms, and the banners of all nations. Ithas gathered from all music. It has strewn,from its wealth, the tables and the floors, andarches. And yet how often is that banquetbroken up; and how horrible is its end! Everand anon there is a handwriting on the king falls. A great culprit is arrested. Theknees of wickedness knock together. Godsjudgment, like an armed host, breaks in uponthe banquet; and that night is Belshazzar, theking of the Chaldeans, slain. Here is a young man who says, I cannot seewhy they make such a fuss about the intoxicat-ing cup. Why, it is exhilarating ! It makes mefeel well. I can talk better, think better, feelbetter. I cannot see why people have such aprejudice against it. A few years pass on, andhe wakes up and finds himself in the clutchesof an evil habit which he t
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