XXVIII--THE EDUCATION OF A HEATHEN
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise, and extol, and honour the King of
heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways judgment; and those
that walk in pride He is able to abase.--DANIEL iv. 37.
We read for the first lesson to-day two chapters out of the book of
Daniel. Those who love to study their Bibles, have read often, of
course, not only these two chapters, but the whole book.
And I would advise all of you who wish to understand God's dealings
with mankind, to study this book of Daniel, and especially at this
present time.
I do not wish you to study it merely on account of those prophecies
in it, which many wise and good men think foretell the dates of our
Lord's first and second comings, and of the end of the world. I am
not skilled, my friends, in that kind of wisdom. I cannot tell you
what God will do hereafter. But I think that the book of Daniel like
the other prophets, tells us what God is always doing on earth, and
so gives us certain and eternal rules by which we may understand
strange and terrible events, wars, distress of nations, the fall of
great men, and the suffering of innocent men, when we see them
happen, as we may see any day--perhaps very soon indeed.
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