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 REV W. M. PIINSIION, M. A. 
 
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 JULY 10, 1868. 
 
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 Rev. W. M. Pimshon's Lecture, 
 
 ON 
 
 "DANIEL IN BABYLON." 
 
 This eminent Lecturer, and brilliant orator, being announced 
 to lecturo in Temperanoo Ilall on Friday evening, the following 
 report of the production, which has been delivered in several of 
 the principal cities in the United States and British America, 
 and always to immense audiences, is published, in ord^r that 
 those who will not have an opportunity of hearing the talented 
 gentleman on the platform, may be enabled to procure a copy of 
 this remarkable address, at a low price. The audiences which 
 invariably greet the learn'^d lecturer, are perfectly entranced by 
 the chaste and simple words which he employs to expres.s the 
 loftiest sentiments, while his language grows in force and 
 elegance as he proceeds. The lecture, of which the following is 
 a copy, will well repay an earnest perusal. It has delighted 
 many audiences, and reports of the production have been read 
 with avidity and great interest, by thousands of persons on 
 both sides of the Atlantic. 
 
 LECTURE. 
 
 There were giants in the earth in those days, when those old 
 heroes and prophets — a marvellous race of men — lived, whom it is 
 difficult for us to regard as parts of the rightful creation. They 
 were not soldiers; and yet when they rebuked kings they ex- 
 hibited a courage v.'hich the most gallant Crusader might have 
 envied. They wore not priests, and yet never priest has spoken 
 more solemn words in greater .simpleness of ideas, nor with finer 
 power. As we trace them to a lotty line, and iheir noble 
 wonders crowd upon our memories, we seek and .shriidc from 
 any discussion of their actions as so many from Sfiirit Land, 
 feuch feelings come over us as might have affriglitened the 
 Gerghesenes when they prayed for the de|»arture of the Saviour 
 from their shores, or the soul of Peter when lie I'olt the influence 
 
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of the miraculous powers, and orictl, " Doprtrt from mo for I am 
 a sinful man" — a sort of mingled feeling whit-'h is half jnhnira- 
 tion, half awe. They arc not men, so much, as distinct individual 
 influences, passing beneath their heating rospiraticn, standing 
 before the Lord, which check *ho lightnings which are his 
 messengers, or the stormy wino» which fuliil his work. It is 
 manifest that the possession of their oflice, and their leading a 
 life dilfercnt from hum;aiity in general, i»revcnt us from ack- 
 nowledging their fitness as examples by which to regulate our 
 own life and conduct. There is running through the entire 
 hun\an nature something which has Ibrmed ideas of its own 
 estimate of what its |>atterns ought to be, and whicli demands 
 certain original comlitions to be rigidly fulfilled. There must 
 bo identity, and there must be similarity of circumstances — tho 
 man must luvve like passions, and those must have been power- 
 fully tried. 
 
 Failure in these conditions at once undermines the force of 
 example, just as the Greek in olden tirno, for a blemish in ids 
 physical symmetry, tried to exclude Apollo from tlu; fellowship 
 of the gods. And there is none among the prophets comes as 
 near 1o us, as like one of ourselves, as the Hebrew youth, 
 descended from the Lions of Judah, wl)08e life we a. ) to study 
 to-night. He was inspired ; but he had a life apart '"om that 
 inspiration in which we recognise elements of danger, deliverance, 
 sorrow and success — perhaps some of thankfulness and blessing — 
 and grief; and his experience is as like tho fits of grief as those 
 that form the constituents of our own. He comes to us, there- 
 fore, not in foreign garments, but robed in our own human 
 nature. He is no meteor beam fleeting across our path, 
 to blaze for a brief space in his brightness before us, 
 and then to vanish into unbroken darkness and oblivion. Ho 
 comes eating and drinking like ourselves, with common failings 
 and common feelings, which prompt him to human action. Let 
 me now draw some lessons from the life of Daniel, and I am not 
 ashamed to state at the outset, that my purpose is to do you 
 good; and though the puYii- ra;her than the platform is tho 
 appropriate place, 1 should be recreant to my life-work :f I should 
 not strive mainly to make my words step upon the future when 
 eternity shall steep its light in the dying of time. (Applause.) 
 It is remarked ot tho religion of Jesus that it is adapted for all 
 circumstances of the human condition, and for all diversities of 
 human character. Clearly, a religion which claims to be uni- 
 versal must possess this assimiliating power, or in the complexi- 
 ties of the world it were disqualified i'or the best aspirations and 
 value. And the claims asserted by its advocates for Christianity, 
 have been put through the crucible for ages and verified by the 
 experience of successive generations. Christianity is not hemmed 
 in by parallels of latitudes, nor circumscribed by any wall of 
 partition in its infiaence upon men. It can exert its transfer- 
 
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 mation upon cvovy ono, and trani=!lato its comforts into every 
 langu;igo. Like its fou'.dcr, its delight is in the beautiful parts 
 ofiho earth; and wherever man is, in the rich metropolis or 
 amidst tho ro(.'k.s in the forest, whether in his kingliest or most 
 savage position, there, in the neighborhood and in tho heart of 
 man, is the chosen sphere of Christianity — where she woiks Iht 
 changes ami devotions, raist's n[» ln-r witnesses, and proves herself 
 to every one who embraces her at once his angi-! of di.sci{)line and 
 of lift.'. Now, perhaps some ol you are thiukiiiLC that your cir- 
 cumstances are exceeptional. lleligioii, you think, is a very 
 good thing in its way, but it must lie cultivated on streamy 
 banks perhaps, or in a woodland shale, not amid tho roar of 
 business nor th>' turgid heaits of towns. You have read perhaps 
 somewheie, that "Clod niaih' the eomitry ami man made the 
 tnwn." You are dis[)Osed to think that man (iu;;lit to claim all 
 that is the woik of his own hands, but you are quite wrong. 
 Heaven is as near, believe me, to the great city as to the glassy 
 dowii, and you can walk as clo,«e to (iod to-day, and wash from 
 the soul the crime of its many sins in London, the modern Baby- 
 lon, as did Daniel in Bal)ylo i, trie ancient Londtjii. (Aj-plause.) 
 I now come to tiie con.ideration of Daniel's life: Ho was 
 earnest ami eonsist(Mit; his rcdigion was not a surfat^e sentiment, 
 traditions inherited and therefore loosely b.eld. Opinions, you 
 know, are sometimes entailed with estates, handed down as heir- 
 looms Irom one g(;neration to Miother. Men rally round crimson 
 banners and shout lustily for the buff and blue, for no better 
 reason than that it was the same color wdiich was upheld by 
 their grandfathers, perhaps for a century of years. Li the 
 liistory of human o])inion.«, perhajis it is as well to inquire liow 
 much is due to panizan.-^hiii, and how little has been the work of 
 conviction and the consciousness of rigiu. But the seat of 
 Daniel's piety was in the heart, and of that bravo sort, which no 
 disaster could trighten from its integrity, and ii was not easy 
 for him to maintain. Just look at tho circumstances in which 
 ho was placed when first introduced to our notice. He was 
 lonely, terpptcd, he was in ])eril — loneliness! temptation! 
 danger ! That position in hi? age, perhaf)s Irom personal ex- 
 perience some of you ean understand. Now add to these the 
 further condition of itondage, a word thank (Jod wdiich a Briton 
 does not understand, (gi-eat applause) and you will have some 
 conception of the state of Daniel whf n w'e are first introduced to 
 him in the palace of the king of Babyloii. Moreover, the cir- 
 cumstances of Babylon itself at the time he was carried there, 
 would of necessity expose his piety to greater attacks. It is 
 always difhcult for a slave to jirofess a iaith other than that of 
 his master. The victoiv wdiich Nebuchadilezzar had iust gained 
 would barb the tongue of the Chaldeeish scolfer with shaiper sar- 
 casm against the Hebrew prisoners. Babylon was at this time 
 givea to idoli},lry. There the astrologer affected to read in the 
 
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 as in tliv? ppnrldinp: p^nps. Tlioro the followers of Zornstor heavens 
 lingoreil and clung U'naciou.Hly to the mo.st jnu'e ami ancit'ut fuiin 
 of pagan voif-hip is at cce the most priniitivo nn<l the most 
 plausable. Tiievo the first things ol life worn linked to ideal 
 associations, and associated with ideal ceremonirs, so that tho 
 Ilehrew was in momentary e.\]iectaii(in of attack, and llie fear 
 of death. But Daniel's piety stood the test; it was thorough in 
 its consistency and grandeur. It has heen a favorite scolV iu all 
 ages, ever since the insidious query, '' Hath Joh served Gotl lor 
 naught," fell fioni the ni'cli scolTer, that Chi'istians are Ciiristians 
 only for some benefit. Thus some Chaldean scejitic might have 
 thrown the giant against this young llchicw. "Ah! a change 
 will come over him soon ; he has hn atliod noihing hiu a 
 Ilehrew atmosphere ; his soul is ])Ut a chrysalis emerging from a 
 stifl' caeool), Irom simple thought and devotions ; wait until ho 
 has fledged and fringed his wings and loitered among the flowers 
 of Eahylon. Q lus Jordan is but a sluggish stream ; the Euphrates 
 rushes grandly along in its rohes of silver, irom the slopes of 
 lolty mountains. You will soon hear of his defection from his 
 fathers' faith.'' Ah ! but that scoffer, like most others of his 
 kindred, would have found that his propiiecy wnild have very 
 giicvously failed him. Did his jiiety fail liini ? Was he en- 
 tangled in snares of pleasure? Knelt he not as zealously in tho 
 palace of the Assyrian as in the temple of Jerusalem? Did not 
 his heart go out, as its manner was, alter the one Lord of earth 
 and heaven ? But what are the circumstances, I wonder, that 
 they should frighten a true man, when his heart is set within 
 him to do a right thing? Let a man be firmly principled in his 
 religion, and he may ti'avel from the topics to the jiolen, ;uid it 
 won't catch cold on the journey. (Laughter.) >Set him on (he 
 desert, and just as jialm trees send their rootlets down between 
 the stones, the seed manages somehow to get water tliere. 
 Banish him to Patmos, and he gets a grand apocalypse. Place 
 him in the deepest dungeon, and thrust liis feet in the stocks, and 
 a do.xology will arise, winch will make a melody so sweet in his 
 cribbed walls of stone that the jailor shall relat)so into a man and 
 the prisoners, hearing, shall dream of freedom aihl ol home. 
 (Applause.) Now those of you who have got any piety at all, 
 what sort is it? A hot-house [ilant that must be Iramed with 
 glass lest the young fellow, March, sliould blow and shake tho 
 life out of it in his roui;h dallies with the fiowers ? Or is it a 
 hardy flower which, when tho storms howl around, staiuls iirinly 
 rooted, and may bend but will not break. Piety must berolnist, 
 piety must be watchful — not taintc(l with the world's tainted 
 ail', nor frightened Irom itscuur.^e by the noise ot the jeering and 
 the shouring. 
 
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 commend to your imitation. It is this. He made the stand at 
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 hoart that ho would not Mclilo himsplt' with thn King'a moat, nor 
 with thi^ jioi'tion of wino which ho drank. Now voii know that 
 a^ a tnio UlIiitw, hound liy the i)ror('[itH of tho Mosaic law, cer- 
 tain meats were iorhidili'u to him which other nations ate without 
 Scruples. Yiiii know also that the chances nro that both tho 
 bread and the wine had been idolatroiisly consecrated, for tlio.so 
 old pajjians wore not asliauK d as wo are to nii.\ iiii religion with 
 tho commonest afi'airs of life; to take; them, therefore, was for- 
 bidden by ihcir ceremonies, and also by their idolatrous associa- 
 tions, and it was his duty to refiiso. I see that cuil up(iii the lip 
 anil countenance of tho scornful wwldling, and as \i may puzzlo 
 him to e\[)lain, I will try to lielp him into words: "A snicill 
 tiling, a Very unneciss.vry occasion for a very .^upni'cilious fa.sti- 
 diousness — wli;i.L wiT^o would he have been were ho not so 
 fanciful and singular, lie had as yet ueeil to know that tliiM'e is 
 no connection of idolatry about it. Whv so much troul>lod 
 about such a trill; ^isthis?" A trifle ! Yes, but these trifl'3 
 compose some of the most mighty forces in the universe. The 
 fall of an a[)ple, the drifting of a lou; of wood, the singing and 
 jjiifrmg of a tea kettle, what trifles tliev are! Let the real mind 
 meilitato upon them ! What tiuMi ? The law of gravitation, tho 
 discovery of America and the iliusiuhI and one appliances of 
 steam. There are no trills in the universe of God. Speak to n e 
 but a word to-day, and it shall go mingling on through the ages; 
 sin in your liei'dK^ss youth, and I will show you the characters 
 long years aflerw.irds, gmveii up in the soul's temple of the 
 body. Commence the good polic^' as well as the piety of Daniel. 
 He made the stand at once. The foremost cham[iion of tho 
 enemy was slain, and il was easy to conquer the re^t. It may 
 be that I spe.ik to sonu3 ti)-night over wliorn the critical moment 
 imp(Miils. You are beset with <liliieulties even now, — difliculties 
 so fVightful that you shudd.'i' as you think of them. Does 
 wealth or lieauty woo, or authority commau<l you to sin? Does 
 the carnal rea-uii (;lose over good ile.-ires, and deprecating fancy 
 whisper " Isn't it a little one," and the rushini!; waves of passion 
 strive to hurl you down? Now is the moment, then, on your 
 part for a most valorous resistenee — on my pirt for the most 
 alTectionato and solemn wai'iiing. It is ag;iiiist this beginning 
 of evil — this first breach upon the s;icivdness of conscience, 
 that you must take this stand ; it is the one false step wdiicli 
 hurls the traveller into the deep : it is the first careless 
 drifting olT the rapids into the maelstrom which speeds 
 the bark into the foaming gulf, ami it may be you aro 
 lost forever. Go to that scene of dissipation, enter that hell of 
 gaml)ling, follow that strange woman to her house, make that 
 I'raudulent entiy, enirage in ili.it doubtful B[)eculation, make 
 light of that Salibath ami its blessings, and you have weakened 
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 assassin who waits to stab you, nnfl you aro accossory in a JTioa- 
 sure, to llioHiurder of your own soul. Brotliers, with all a l»i'o- 
 ther'.s t('n(l<;nu'SH, I warn you ai^'.tiii.-^t a |ioril which is at onco so 
 thi't'atoning and so near. Now, while time ami cliiinco arc f,MVL'ii, 
 while in iho thickly jit'oploil air there aro spirits that await 
 your ruin, ami otlier spirits that to give wait you ministry to 
 your salvation, now iire.ik from the lionils that an; closing round 
 you, strive us you ran to (sriijie the living hell of slavery, ho it 
 vours to make your escape from tho toils, they are close at your 
 heels; tiierc is a vengeful and a cruel enemy after your life, still 
 run on though your feet hlced, and face; that wall and scale it; 
 once get within the gates of tlio city and you aro safe, for neither 
 God's love nor man'.s,jwill, if al! the world demiinds him, give up 
 to iiis purau(M's the poor fugitive slave. 
 
 Having shown you tho approjuiato, the Corinthian pillar of 
 character, we will glance at some acanthus trees which climl) so 
 gracefully around, and perhaps it would not he amiss if wo 
 learned to he so contented, niider all changing circumstances, as 
 Daniel's piety made him. He is suj)posed to have been about 
 twenty years old, wlien ho was carried to J*.aliylon in tho (lower 
 of his youth, at an age when the voic'c of a former time hail not 
 faded from tho fancy, and when the future stretches brightly be- 
 fore the view. His connection with the royal family of Judea 
 might not unnaturally h;".vo opened U[) to him a lile of state and 
 pleasure without dreaming of sorrow or pain. It must have been 
 a hard fate to have been at once torn from his fatherland and 
 robbed of freedom ; every sensibility rudely shocked, every hope 
 cruelly blighted by the transition from a court to menial's olHco 
 — from Jerusalem to Babylon. Now, how did ho act in these 
 circumstances? There were three courses open to him other than 
 the one he took. He might have resigned him.«!elf to tho 
 dominion of sorrow, have sufFored grief for his privations, to 
 overly every energy of his being, and bemoan idly and 
 uselessly as, beneath the trailing willows, ho we[)t when he re- 
 membered Zion. He might have harbored some solemn [uirjiose 
 of revenge, or have glared out upon his captors with an eye 
 whose meaning being interpreted was 'niurdoi';' or he might have 
 abandoned himself to those listless drcamings, too indolent for 
 present service, and take a better opportunity for the l'ullilm<>nt 
 of his own dream. But Daniel was too li'uc and bravo a man, 
 and had too revei'cnt a recognition lor the rrovideiice ot God, to 
 do either the one or the otlier. He knew that his duty was to 
 miko the best of circumstances around Lim; to create a content 
 and to exemplify it, although the conditions which had formerly 
 consti'ained it surrounded and inspuvd Irm no longer. HiMice, 
 though not indifferent to his altered foi'tunes, though there 
 would of' en come U]>on his sudden fancy the hills and temples 
 of his native land, he resigned them to bo happy. ami upon them 
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 Somo of you, wftAry with har<l work for the onriching of other 
 people, are di^poHod to regret your tlestiny, and rehol against 
 tiio ibrtuuo that doom.s you to toil and drudgo. This, however, 
 i.s not unnatuial to us. H' we could horrow to night half the 
 trouhlca of the lame De (ireun, of Le Sage, and if wo could part 
 lieartsas well as houses, wo might fancy that a great business 
 w<uild not ho the host lor sonu* of us. Under these conditions 
 somo become highly unfitted for the common duties of lile, while 
 others drivel down into useless liangers on, always on the look out 
 like Mr. !Micawl»er, for something to turn up, of sometime dropping 
 into an accidental prosperity. I am not so sunt wh<Hhcr tlie modern 
 system ot lecturing has not been to blame in this matter. Young 
 men are often told to have ambition, to have a soul which rises 
 above the shop. I think it as well for them to have bodies 
 above the shop. We liavo licard so much aoout great men 
 rising from lower conditions of life, such as Sir Isaai; Newton, 
 Milton, Bunyan, Luther, and others, it is no wonder that some 
 of these young men, fired with these examples, become embued 
 with false ideas and a distaste for their own positions. It very 
 often unfits them for that or any other. I hope it will not turn 
 out as bad as the boy I read about in the newspapers a while 
 ago, who attempted in vain self-destruction, and asserted as a 
 cause for the rash act, as the newspapers always call it, that he 
 was made by God to be a man, but doomed by man to be a 
 grocer. — (Laughter and a[)plause.) Well, if we lecturers con- 
 tributed to the propogation of the evil, it ought to be ours to 
 atone by working expiation. I can conceive of nothing more 
 perilous to practical succes.s — more destructive to everything 
 energetic in the character, than the indulgence of these idle and 
 ■unprofitable reveries. The mind once surrendered to this spell 
 lias lost all powers of soul and is passive like the opium eater 
 under the influence of the horrible narcotic. Ileal life is dis- 
 couraged as unlikely, in the dreamer's range of vision, and it is 
 wonderful how people iream — one is an imaginary senator with 
 every imaginary eloriuence, or passed oil' with a great fortune, 
 riding in a chariot and four, he goes on revelling in these im- 
 possibilities until crash goes the crockery, or down falls the bale 
 of muslin upon his niost bunioned toe, (laughter,) or a river of 
 gambouge is protection too sure to a basket of eggs. (Laughter). 
 Kow, however foolish and unreal is this, how near akin to the 
 spirit of the gambler who has lost all his fortune at hazard and 
 then risks his last dollar, just because it is so small ! What 
 then ? I think I hear somo indignant youth exclaim, what! do 
 you mean that all the counsels wo have heard are to go for 
 nothing? are we not to cultivate self-reliance, nor ever 
 hope to rise above the sphere in which we are found to-day ! 
 Oh yes — yes, some of you may, and it the elements of greatnesg 
 are in you they will come out. (Laughter and applause.) Aye, 
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 out of a rock, and your head in a bard stone ; but then it is no 
 use blinking the truth, ninety-nine out of every hundred of you 
 will remain the men that you are. (Lausjhter.) There is not 
 the slightest doubt about it, that grocers to-day, you will be 
 grocers until the end of the chapter. (Laughter.) Still, what 
 of that? what is that ? Better the meanest honest occupation, 
 and that is a long way below a grocer, (laughter), than to be a 
 dastard or a drone! — bettor a j)oor, weary-footed mendic.tui, who 
 does not know where the morrow's bre;ikfa^c is to come from, 
 than to be a wealthy and unscrupulous rascal who is hurled down 
 the street in a cai'riage, built, cushioned, horsed and harnessed, 
 all with other people's money. (Great applause.) God has put 
 you in a position in whicli you can be honest and excel. Do 
 yourdi y ia the present, and Gotl will take care of the future. 
 Depend upon it the way to rise in life is, neither to repine, and 
 so add to troubles and misfortunes and sow troubles o)' [)assion 
 and envy, nor to waste in dreams the energy which would go far 
 toward the accomplishment of the dreamer's wealthiest desire. 
 Do not aim then at ai;y i.upossilM." heroisms; try rather to be 
 quite wise in your own sj)liere. Don't live up in the cloud of 
 some transcendental vision. Bring glory (jut of r<Ml vision — 
 bring down a ray out of it to lighten your lahor in this workailay 
 workl. Don't go out ascetic, soured ly, among your tellow men. 
 Try rather to be industrious in your homes, so that a light will 
 linger over them as you meet them, and your voice may come 
 to them in harmony like tlie benediction that falls in prayer. 
 Thfi illumination in which men ceh'hi'ate a victory — what is it? 
 It is a liyiht — the one li<d 
 
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 in v/hich men have twisli-d the Ijascst metal ; and thus the com- 
 monest things can be honored with the transniissir .1 of such 
 other dignity. Seek to make bright your business, illustrated 
 with holiness, and so u'athered alonLi; and stand in your miirht — 
 it shall be a happy one. Tiu^. contentment of the soul will paint 
 sunny smiles upon your countenance; ami if ynu contrast your 
 position with the jicsiiion of some a little higher in the social 
 scale, that is, a little more favored by that ol'l goc ^ ^ss who is 
 said to be both lickle and blind, you can expiess yourself in 
 verse : 
 
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 Lot for lot, with all attendance, 
 
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 The religion of Daniel not only made him content in hia 
 bondage, V)ut made him courteous to those by whom he was sur- 
 rounded. He won, in the earlier years of his residence in 
 Babylon, the fuvor and tender love of the pnnco of tlin eunuchs. 
 His resistence of what he deemed unworthy subserviency was 
 not rudely nor harshly manifested. He bore himself respect- 
 fully, yet without an attempt at servility, not compromising his 
 fidelity to God, l)ut neither insolent in his contempt of idolatry, 
 nor forward to withhold honor and esteem where due. It may 
 not be ami^s, perhaps, in this matter, to commend him to the 
 age in which wo live, and amid many incentives to reach that 
 independent intolerance of the shams, counterfeits and scoffers 
 which worked his maturer character. There his been so much 
 said about openness or bluntness of speech, that p,;ople are apt to 
 be led away by their enthusiasm on the subject to the opposite 
 extreme. Some men fancy themselves very clever when they 
 are only very coarse. True grandeur and greatness has always 
 gentleness associated with it. The smith's steam hamnier can 
 be so nicely guided as to clip an egg without breaking; it can 
 come down again and shatter at a touch a ponderous bar of iron. 
 We are awed l)y mighty iorces and attracted by the energy 
 which holds that mighty force in control. So a life energy of 
 man will — we cannot help it — e.xtort our reluctant admiration; 
 but frank, willing courtesy comes into our hearts like a sunbeam 
 and llings the glow of July over a still January night. This 
 courtesy wuicli I want you to exhibit is not a companion to 
 religion !iut a yiart of it. The " wisdom from abive" is gentle. 
 Who savs he is gentle and easy to be entreated? Christ, it has 
 been we'! said, was a Prince in courtesy as well as in beneficence 
 and wisdom ; but a Christian is not more bound to respect his 
 own rights than he is oourd to be tolerant to the opinions and 
 religion.- of others. Even Fashion at tlie bottom of it has religion 
 for the basis of its rules, and is a sort of rabinical ofTshoot of 
 Chi'istianity. There is no usage of cultiva'ed society which had 
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 religious life of society. The good Samaritan knew how to behave 
 himself in che drawing-room as we know he did on the high road 
 and field. In all the essence of politeness it is worth man's while 
 to cultivate. I repeat the language of one of the old masters when 
 giving advice to a pupil, "Cultivate your heart miss, cultivate 
 your heart." Why should it be otherwise. It is not necessary 
 in order to be a good man that we should always be abrupt 
 and gruff. Truth is not a salad, is it ? that we should dress it 
 up in vinegar for your friends, who might say with truth of you, 
 " Ah, he was kind, frank, manly and generous, until he became 
 a Christian." As if that had contracted the opinions which 
 alone can rightly expand them — as if that had frosted the heart 
 which alone is the source of everything good and lovely. Have 
 a care, that if even this reproach has begun to cling to you, wipe 
 it off, or as far as you are concerned your religion will be wound- 
 ed in the house of its friends. You will be so strongly principled 
 that you can afford to be kind. And not only in Christian 
 experience but also in the divers duties of Christian witness- 
 bearing, there must be this courtesy also. A sober countryman 
 once straggled into Westminster Hall and sat in a state of 
 edifying patience for two hours while two eminen*^ lawyers 
 wrangled over a case, the whole of which was just so much 
 Greek to the countryman. A visitor, amused by the country- 
 man's deep apparent interest in the proceedings, and his 
 perplexed countenance, inquired of him which of them he con- 
 sidered the best of the two. He answered, " The little one, to 
 be sure, because he put the other one into a passion." Daniel's 
 religion constrained his fidelity to duty and his diligent fulfiU- 
 mpnt of every trust confided to him. How fine an illustration 
 of diligent anl successful industry we h^ivc in the character of 
 Daniel ! He rose rapidly in the king's favor, and by his ad- 
 ministrative ability secured the confidence of four successive 
 monarchs who occupied the throne of Babylon. Darius, 
 the Median, who succeeded Belshazzar, whom ho had slain, 
 thought to put him as ruler over the whole of the empire. 
 As it was, ho was placed over one hundred and twenty provinces. 
 Now the duties devolving upon Daniel must have been of the 
 most various and complicated kind — how complicated the 
 prob'ems which presented themselves before him to solve, will be 
 seen when we recollect that he had to deal with foreign lan- 
 guages, customs, and different dynasties of kings. [We have in 
 En<;land an unfortunatf individual called the Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer — perhaps you have a similar functionery here — 
 whose duty it is to manage all the monetary affairs of the nation 
 and get well abused for his labors, who is sujiposod to have a 
 thorougli knowledge of all classes of business and traffic in which 
 men engage, even down to that of grease, he did not mean 
 classical Greece, hnt " grease that's living grease no more'" If 
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 ofHce, bat was r>t the same time Lord Chief Justice and Prime 
 Minister over oik; hunilrod and twenty Provinces, we would 
 agree that he had enough on his uands and a great deal too 
 much, thus attending at onco to the cares of two worlds.] Tho33 
 with whom he had to work, the wise men of Babylon, were not 
 inconsiderably vei'sed in starry and other sciences. He must 
 have been a ruling man, a man of large, almost inexhaustible 
 capacity, one wdio could see the end from the beginning. This 
 knowledge he got, not from inspinition, but by industry, lie 
 first interpreted a dream, but did not flash u}ion a dialect. 
 There was no royal road for him any more than any other for 
 Ihe attainment of knowledge — only by toil and study he became 
 what h(! was — prince among the provinces, an excellent spirit 
 among the f.irfamed wise men of Chaldea. Then the administra- 
 tion oi' justice lormed no small part of his duty. It was his to 
 hear a cause, to weigh the evidence, and adjudicate upon it. 
 Then lie must have been prepared for all the contingencies which 
 in those troublous times were constantly occurring ; he must 
 have been Argus-eyed to scent disaffection or disunion amongst 
 the more distant provinces under his control ; quick to catch the 
 muimurs ol those nearer home, and also to be able to discern the 
 battle from afar. On him also devolved the management of the 
 finances, to get from each reluctant Satra]) the trihute iV lUi Ids 
 province, to check accounts and see the tale told into the treasury 
 of the king, and that it suH'ered no loss. Now what do you think 
 of all the press thus resting on Daniel's shoulders, hurried as he 
 was with an unreasonable and strong complication of offices, 
 Finance Minister, Lord Chief Justice, Homo Secretary, War 
 Minister, aye, and Premier to boot. I suppose you think Daniel 
 had aliout enough on his hands, and that rightly to discharge 
 the duty would rc'iuiru both tact, energy and a rigid and con- 
 scientious frugalty of time. Fi'om this, too, wi' learn some 
 valuable lessons. First, the unreally pious are fitted with appre- 
 hension of the sensitive spirit which, like the moUusca of the 
 rock thrusts out his long anthenaj, at the least possibility of 
 danger. They say they have too much on their hands, more 
 than any man outxht to have. Tt would be quite impossiljle 
 for him, amiist this round of secularity, to think of 
 eternity; it would be quite impossible for him to main- 
 tain that nvogiiition of Divim^ influence, that [U'ovision for the 
 interest of the soul, that it is so necessary for man to realize. 
 The appi'chension does you honor, my brother. I do not chide 
 you for being thus jealous of your future. But you need not 
 fear. Never yet saw this earih a man with more of Heaven's 
 glory on i.is brow. See, he comes out of the [iresence chamlitr; 
 wlu>tli('i' will he go? He goes to the closet; the lattice is open- 
 ed towards Jerusalem, and there trembles through the air some 
 ]is;dm, followed by some fervent strain of jiraver. Oii ! there is 
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 As long as memories of home and temple are fragrant — as long 
 as the morning sun shines through the lattice upon that silvery 
 hair as he rests on his i^neos — he who can thus prny will neither 
 be recreant to man nor to Gorl. In that attitude of prayer ho 
 linds his safety and strength, and thus exhibits for your 
 encouragement and i'or mine, that it is possible to coml)ine the 
 grandest harn'ony of eliaraeter by dedicating to iluty and to 
 God; and that all descriptions of labor, whether of hand or 
 brain, should keep a loyal heart within us, every pulse of which 
 beats eagerly for him. " WelV' some one says who, though 
 not caring for religion, is delighted wdth Daniel's assiduity, 
 his con.'-cieiiciousnc'ss and successful diplomacy, "what more can 
 he do for God other than these his woi'ks. And what needs he ? 
 Ilis deeds are his best pra, .■rs. Surely if ever umii might mako 
 his wc.rk his woi'sl!i|), it is ]:e. Let him alone. lie is a bi'ave 
 true man, and did his work in aright manly way. What has he to 
 pray for, except his own lading lile need not come to a close so 
 soon?" And so you think that is :.dl ciernity requires; that 
 liuman nature when human natuia? wears out, left to t)e of no 
 dignity; left her place among the gods ! Jjiit we may stop here. 
 Alas! for you that you arc not in the secret that ;)*'a?/cr is the 
 cxf)lanati(Mi ol' everything you admire in 'ho man. i^ he bravo? 
 What made him brave? B.'causo the fear of Goil lias filled his 
 heart so full that there is no room for the fear of man to get in. 
 Does he walk warily by the ])ieturi\ turn pale — almost diz?.y? 
 Why? Because if the mountain is high, the sky is liighor. Is 
 he rigid in every d(-partment of duty? What makes him so? 
 Because he has learned and remembers that every one of 
 us must give account of hiir.self to God. Go thou and 
 and learn his piety, betake thyselt into tliv chamber as he does, 
 when though wilt r(!ceive higiier vii'ws of life than even yet thou 
 iias realized, a new world lla.-hing uniler a new heaviui, a 
 stalwart arm and eiinninu; hrain lie thy strength with the 
 guidance, ooiiiid(Uiee and in the joy of the Lord. (Applause.) 
 But then, there is another voici' — not in.-i.te, I hojie, lait I don't 
 know — perlia|is we may want the man for illustration before we 
 have done with him, so let us sujipose him inside. You have 
 heard spoken outside i;: a crowd the voice of one who hi<lts a 
 small, miserly, scoliing soid. '• lie is a statesman ! some sinn(}r, 
 canting always about this W'retchod conscience and 'luty. I 
 don't believe a word of it. You will find out. Aye, and I hate 
 these sects. They are always hy|)ocrites at bottom — profess to 
 be better than anything else. Watch his accounts narrowly. You 
 will find some discord by-and-bye. There will 1)0 a grand ex- 
 posure one day ot his [ilunder, rapacity and wrong." And it 
 would please you mightilv, I dare say, to find yourself among 
 the pro|ihets. (Laughter.) But, now, if you should make him 
 out as bad, don't you think those rejoicing in it must be worse. 
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 ancostors shall come fonvard. You are not the first of the line 
 by a iiing way. Pee [irinces, councillors and sceptics — all of 
 them meet to devise mischief and ruin on him that believeth the 
 Loid. And we shall know the woist. You may be sure if Danivl';! 
 ministry has been a lailure, or a i'raudulent (inc, the whole woi'ld 
 will find it out. Malice is in his ti'ack and has a keen scenl, for 
 blemishes. Envy is at work, and if it cannot see itself it will 
 .suborn witnesses to SAvear they saw spots on the sun. AW liis 
 administration is brouvht under unfriendly I'evicw." Well, 
 come, scofter, and hear what thy fellows say — " We shall not be 
 able to find any occasion against Dani<'l, except ice find it against 
 him concerninr/ the laio of his God." What ? !No occasion of 
 charge against the Prime Minister! When men are busy setting 
 upon him with all iheir arts ! Was ever such a thing heard of 
 in this world? Ko failure ol' duty; no lack of sagacity which 
 they might torture into premeditated wrong ! Xo personal en- 
 richment! What ! Never a son or ne}diew got ir.to some good 
 post? (Great laughter and apjilause,) This is very marvellous 
 — very grand ! Speak it out again — it is the noblest testimony 
 that malice ever bore — " we shall not be able to find any occasion 
 against this Daniel except wo find it against him concerning the 
 law of his God." There he stands — sjiotless, on the confession 
 of his enemies! It does not matter what becomes of him now. 
 The character, which is the man, has been adjudged free from 
 stain. Cast him to the lions if you like — his faith will stop their 
 mouths, savage and hungry though they be. Fling him into the 
 seven-fold heated furnace, you shall not find a smell of fire upon him. 
 Hell in full i)Owermavu;iv(Ui is title "Daniel, thel'aithful amonu; men 
 — Daniel, the beloved of the Lord." (Ap[)lause.) Brothers, if the 
 exhibition of this character has produced the efiect upon you 
 which I fondly hope, you will have learned some l('^<ons which 
 may come to bo of use in your own life, that though here and 
 there may lie a si!ver-sjiooiu>il favorite of icirtuno who goes up in 
 a balloon to a high ))Osition without the trouble of climbing, lor 
 you anel me it is just — to foot it. (Laughter.) You will have 
 learned that labor is the true alchemist which beats out in 
 patient transmutation the basest metals into gold. And you 
 will, every one of you, I ho[ie, avoid that state in which the 
 hvpocrite is too devout to w(jrk, and the worker to busy to |. -'.y. 
 You will have learned how hollow the [ilea of the procrastinator, 
 who has no time for religion, when hero is the minister of 120 
 ]>rovinces ready for prayer three times a day. Above all, you 
 will Inive learned that a ri'pntation liuilt up for many years does 
 not fall by a blast of the -corner's trumpet, that God turns the 
 wrath of the wi<'keMl to good, and that neither earth nor hell can 
 personaJly harm you if you In; followers of that wliieh is i:ood. 
 There isonly one thing U'-cessary, that I may present the lull orb of 
 character before you — that is just this: that when the interests 
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 clangor of t^oing into tlie propcnco of Ins God. The* men wlio 
 plotte(l the niiii of Dani*;! laid tlicir plans very cunningly. Thoy 
 knew very well he was faithful in all respects, and may bo, liko 
 that other famous council of which Milton sings, thoy were 
 about to separate in despair of acc()m|ilisliing their purpose; 
 •when some congenial spirit suggestt'd that one ildelity should I'C 
 pitted against the other, assured in tli.it case that Daniel's piety 
 would pi-onij-jt him to obey God ratlur than man. They pre- 
 vailed on the king to i.-sue a decree that no God should be 
 W'orshipiiod during a period of thirty days. They well know 
 how Daniel would act. How would he act? You will observe 
 that it was inevitalile. Dai'ius could not relent, ior the Persian 
 law Was wonderlu'ly inllcxible, scarcely permitting a man to 
 change his own mind. Then shall Daniel leave off his worship 
 an<l desert his God? I know how some would act in such a case 
 now-a-days. I can almost iiear the |)hilosophic ar<:cumcnts 1)V 
 wdiich they would justify their cowardice. " What!'' thoy would 
 have said, "the |)osture of prayer is nothing; it is ouly an ac- 
 cident of devotion. It is the heart which [irays. If I pray 
 in my heart nobody wdl know it — without comin'omising the 
 word 'duty' I have oidy just to forego my habit of retirement, 
 and kneolinu:, and abandon the window toward Jerusalem. I 
 can ]>ray still as nnudi as I have ever done." Yes, yes, the old 
 spirit, "I will follow Thee, Lord, the true God; I will lollow 
 Thee; but when my nmster cometh into the l;ouse, and remaining, 
 leancth on my arm, and I go, Loi'd, [lardon me this one thing — • 
 let me have religion, and let me keep my place.'' (.\pplauso.) 
 Well, Danicd is wont so to retire, to go to God undisturbed, to 
 kneel in a spirit of contrition and repentence, to open his window 
 toward Jerusalem — that prayer of Soloman, as if approaching to 
 the dedication hymn of the temple, and praying for its re-establish- 
 ment. Shall he sustain for an hour the devotion to his God ? 
 I think you could almost answer that from what you alrendy 
 know of the man — he did exactly what he had been accustomed 
 to. lie did not close his window so that it would not he noticed 
 or he interrupted. He would have been a coward if he did so. 
 He did not enquire what was expedient, but what was right. 
 And he had to brave the penalty; his enemies lying in wail, 
 brought him before the king, who, unable to revoke his law, was 
 compelled to order him to be cast into the lions' den. The 
 king stood th.e whole day watching him, and in the 
 evening ho came out without a hair of his licad injured. 
 The triumph of his persecutors, like that of the wicked every- 
 where, was short, Insting but a day, and their piini^^liment was 
 swift and sure. Let Daniel's life be not an unjirulltalih) exaniple 
 with you; bo steadfast in gooil living purposes towards your 
 fellow-men, and in unswerving devotion to your (jiod. Arm 
 yourself at all points, and if vulnerable at all, let it be, Achille.3 
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 Drawing an entrancing of tlie vision past, presont and future of 
 the human race, tho hitter bright with the huds of promise, the 
 speaker concluded in these words : — Brothers, this vision is no 
 faVde. It is for an appointed time, and it will not tarry. It is 
 the nearer for every outworn lie and for every trembling fraud. 
 And all of you can aid it 'n its coming. Children, flinging seeds 
 about in sport; little girls scattering flowers bv the wayside ; 
 youth, manhood in its prime, and womanhood in her ministry of 
 mercy — all may speed it forward. Be it ours in reverent ming- 
 ling of faith and labour, at onc3 to watch and work for it. Do 
 not look at the past — tha' h.as gone to give place to better times. 
 Do not fear the advent of the future, my brother. It shall 
 burnish in broader and safer glory. Come, one and all, come, and 
 upon illustrious faith be anointed as Daniel of to:day — at once 
 the prophet and the worktn-, — the brow bright with the shining 
 prr/|)hecy the, handsfuU of earnest anil of holy deeds. 
 
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