The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-05-03

tlowery wales and fruitful plains. But
Adam, in forgetting God, forgot Para
disc, and so with her posterity.
The cities Of the famed Gyra have
been engulphed by Times sweeping,
unsparing torrent. Balbee and Da-
maseus have lost their stately pride, and
stand the mournful vestiges Of q de-
parted civilization.
Palmyra with her long ranges Of Co
rinthian columns and her imposing
ruins, stands on the Syrian desert the
lone sentinel skill and art left behind to
guard the sacred plain.
Tyre, "Queen Of the Nations" has
melted under the weight Of the dread
sentence pronounced by the Supreme
Judge of the Universe. What a SEN
tence, and how completely executed.
Desolation has not only been a visit
tant of the simple forms Of government
and of costly monuments, but it has per-
vaded alike man and his monuments.
The world has become an immense
graveyard. Hundreds and thousands
have left their bones bleaching on the
plains from France on down through
Asia Minor, in the futile attempt to
rescue the sepulchre o. the Saviour from
the grasp of the Ottoman. Yet Jeru-
salem, still down trodden, is an example
of fallen grandeur. Here We're enacted
some OF the most pleasing scenes in the
worlds history. God said it should be
trodden down by the Gentiles until the
fullness Of time should come, and he
gave an awful, visible testimony of its
truth when the Roman Emperor, Julian,
resolved it should be trodden down of
the Jews instead of the Gentles, and
thus contradict the Word of God. BY
proclamation he assembled the Jews
and what a scene Of rejoicing followed.
Men, women and children, were seen
removing the rubbish. The emperor,
growing impatient, set men to work to
speed operations, while his army, in
the distance, as if defying the powers Of
Heaven, or like Lucifer, waging war
against the Throne of God While this
war was progressing, frebaiIs came
from beneath their foundations, the ar
tillery Of Heaven opened upon them,
which was repeated time and time
again, until finally the work was ADAM
d0ned, the Roman Emperor defeated,
and God triumphant. Jerusalem Is now
under the Turkish domination. ) Mo
hofnpdan mosque eovezs3 the site Of the
temple Of Solomon. Palestine IS II
AWFUL ruins, politically, morally and iEl-
telleetuaHy, Notwithstanding the late
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author says the final issueof Mosleni as
ceadaneE haseverbeen to diifase through
tha world ignorance, despetisia, bar
afisna, and every principle hostile %
human employment.
rs We remarked IN the outset, nations
and Institutions. seem to rise IN d natural
progression but, Ike man, sheif glefy
is soon achieved, their race soon run,
Desoiation claims the dominion Of the
world, and she is more terrible than
an army with banners" Our own dear
country, with her present katherine pros
poets, with her wealth, her Intelligence,
her power, may, amid the wreck CT
future ages, share the fate of her sister
nations
II such should be the case, may TO
" future old Mortality gfope his way
into its ruins, and And inscribed upon
its massive pillars that once supported
the house Of state, this epitanh !. J. Here
les Republic that fell from her own
llsisse.ia.7
i.,t Time, inc Che tomb builder,
Holds his fierce career,
Dark, stern, all pitiless, and p90ses not,
Amid the fearful wreck that streas his
path,
To sit and muse, like ether conquerors,
Over the fearful rnin he has wrought"
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