DISCOURSE: 1126 BELSHAZZAR WARNED OF HIS IMPENDING RUIN Daniel 5:5. _In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance was chan... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1127 IMPENITENCE REPROVED Daniel 5:22. _And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this_. AMONGST the endowments of a pious minister, two of the most important are, disinterestedness and fidelity. A man who is “looking to his own gain,” or is af... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1128 BELSHAZZAR’S IMPIETY AND OURS COMPARED Daniel 5:23. _The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified_. WHEN we look around us, and see what iniquity prevails in the earth, we are ready to imagine that God does not notice the affairs of men, o... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1129 SCRIPTURE BALANCES Daniel 5:27. _Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting_. THE words before us were uttered in reference to a single individual, Belshazzar, king of Babylon, whose open acts most fully attested the truth of the allegation contained in them. But God d... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1130 BELSHAZZAR’S DEATH Daniel 5:30. _In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain_. “KNOWN unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” We speak of things as fortuitous and contingent, because we see not the hand by which they are directed; but, in realit... [ Continue Reading ]