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LONDON: MORGAN & SCOTT, 12, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. LONDON: MORGAN AND SCOTT, 12, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C. And may be ordered of any Bookseller. ONE PENNY.] [7/6 PER 100. 1 AUG 84 OXFORD JUST READY. Tinted covers, 6d. ; Cloth, 1s. DANIEL THE PROPHET. A SERIES OF ADDRESSES ON THE LIFE AND By D. L. MOODY. I. THE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON. II. "THOU ART THE HEAD OF GOLD!" IV. NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S SECOND DREAM. VII. THE DEN OF LIONS. *** This Book, now published for the first time, contains in full, and in a collected form, the Addresses given at various times, and in different places, on the Life and History of Daniel. LONDON: MORGAN AND SCOTT, 12, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. |BOUT six hundred years before Jesus Christ lived in Jerusalem, the city was besieged and taken by an Assyrian monarch, who carried away many prisoners of the leading men of Judea; amongst others a young man named Daniel, which means, God is my Judge." We know very little about Daniel's early education; but we have good reason to believe he had a godly mother, and a godly training. Daniel is one of the very few characters in the Bible, in the story of whose life we find no blot, the path of whose pilgrimage is not crossed by some black shadow. When we read the life of such a wonderful man, it is well to pause and ask ourselves the question : What was the secret of his success? What was it that enabled him to walk, so that even the Holy Spirit could write his biography without a single fault being found in it? Of course you will say that the God of Abraham was with him. So He was; and that was really the secret of his success. But there is another thought I want to impress upon you; and that is—he had backbone; he had force of character; he had learned to say "No" at the right time. Many a man has been lost because he could not do this. There are very few men in the Bible who have not something on record against them; you can reckon the whole number of such upon your fingers. But here is a man, whose light began to shine in his early youth, and went on shining right down to the evening of life. No cloud appears to have crossed the path between him and his God. He seems to have walked with an unclouded sun. And if there was anything against him, the Holy Spirit has not put it on record. We know, of course, that Daniel was not perfect; for he had a fallen nature like the rest of us: none but Jesus Christ ever was perfect on this earth. We find in Daniel's prayer that he humbled himself, and made confession of sin; for he knew there was nothing good in him but the new nature had taken such possession of him that the "old man" was down, and the "new man" reigned triumphant. The first thing we hear of Daniel is that a great temptation has crossed his path. It is a question if any young man has come up from the country into one of our great cities, without meeting with some great temptation. God will not have a man whom He cannot test. When temptation came to Daniel, he was able to say "No!" And it would be a good thing if all young men would follow his example, and when they are tempted, say "No" at the right time, and stick to it. Soon after Daniel had been taken to Babylon, the great king Nebuchadnezzar gave orders that certain of the young captives who were good looking and had no blemish, should be brought to the king's palace, and should be placed under the charge of tutors and eunuchs to be instructed in all the wisdom of the Chaldeans. Daniel did not object to learn; there is no harm in a Christian getting all the useful information he can. But there was something more. The Hebrew youths were appointed a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank, that they might be fit to stand in the presence of the king. But Daniel had conscientious scruples about taking this meat and this wine. Now, just suppose some Christian of the nineteenth century had met Daniel, he would, perhaps, have begun by giving him advice something after this sort: "It was quite right, Daniel, when you were at Jerusalem, where it is the law not to eat that which is offered to idols: but, my dear fellow, you must consider you are not in Jerusalem now, but at Babylon; and you must give in a little." Such advice would have been just in harmony with the old adage, “When you are at Rome, do as the Romans do." Then the adviser would very likely have continued: "Think, that if you humour the king just a little now, he will be very likely to take you into favour some day, and you will get into office. Consider what good you may then have it in your power to do to others. And, besides, if the king hears that you are refusing his meat, he will perhaps have your head off: and then what good will you be able to do?" There are a great many Christians to-day who act upon advice somewhat resembling this, and who thereby live a miserable, wretched life. Daniel, however, took his stand at Babylon, and purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the meat and wine of the king. People now resolve in their heads; but Daniel purposed in his heart. A resolve made in the head does not; stand long but if we let it |