HUMBLE YOURSELF FROM DUST YOU CAME FULL

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations? For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the most High. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. He says concerning the great and mighty king of Babylon, 'Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even al the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. Perhaps the most eloquent passage of God's Word is to be found toward the conclusion of the book of Job, where, in most splendid strains of unanswerable eloquence, God hides pride from many by utterly confounding him and there is another very eloquent passage in the 14th chapter of Isaiah, where the Lord's holy choler seems to have risen up, and his anger to have waxed hot against the pride of man, when he would utterly and effectually condemn it.

HUMBLE YOURSELF FROM DUST YOU CAME FULL

Yea, more the everlasting God has mounted to the very heights of eloquence when he would condemn the pride of man and the full gushing of the Eternal's mighty language has been most gloriously displayed in the condemnation of the pride of human nature. Against pride, prophets have lifted up their voices, evangelists have spoken and teachers have discoursed. There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride, and yet there is no vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. The prelude of destruction is pride, and of honor, humility. 'Before honor is humility,' even as before the summer, sweet birds return to sing in our land.

'Before destruction the heart of man is haughty ' pride is as surely the sign of destruction as the change of mercury in the weather-glass is the sign of rain, and far more infallibly so than that. When honor visits a man's house, it casts its shadow before it it is in the fashion of humility.

When destruction walks through the land, it casts its shadow it is in the shape of pride. It is an old and common saying, that 'coming events cast their shadows before them ' the wise man teaches us the same lesson in the verse before us. LMOST every event has its prophetic prelude.

'Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.'В—Proverbs 18:12. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 17, 1856, by the

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