Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: From ' Sphere": U. S. Copyright, JV. )'. Herald Co. Bird-man And Bedouin. The "ship of the desert" has no chance against the ship of the sky, while musket or scimitar is powerless agaiust homb and machine-gun. him. He was driven from the sons of men and his heart was made like the wild beasts and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dews of heaven, till he knew that the Most High Grod ruleth in the kingdom of men and that He appointeth over it whomsoever He will. " 'But thou, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this, but hast lifted thyself against the Lord of Heaven, and they have brought the vessels of His house before thee. Thou and thy lords have drunk wine in them and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know. . . . Then was the part of the hand sent by Him and this writing was written. " 'And this is the writing that was written— Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. " 'This is the interpretation of the thing: " 'Mene—God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it! " 'Tekel—Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting! " 'Peres (Upharsin)—Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians!' "And, David," the old scholar continued, "even at the very time that the bold Hebrew prince was standing before the king announcing the destruction of his kingdom, by secret tunnels and passages under the palace and throughout the city, the soldiers of Cyrus were creeping in. By stratagem and treachery, the waters of the Euphrates had been diverted from their main channels, and up the oozy bottoms, into the water-gates the invaders came.1 "True to his oath, Belshazzar called for ...