The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-24
CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH.

THE LOST EMPIRES OF THE woRLD-sERMoN BY
THE REV. DIR. NEWMAN
The Rev. DIR. Newman commenced in the evening.
series of ten discourses in the Central Methodist
Episcopal Church on the Lost Empires of the
World" illustrative Of prophecy fulfilled The first
discourse on alexander and his Empire" the
prophecy being taken from Daniel XII. l. 2, and
The Doctor saidI design to show that events in the
history Of men and nations were foretod with the
minuteness and accuracy of historical statements
and as prophecy is history foretold and history is
prophecy fulfilled, might safely rest the divine in
spiration of the Bible the 18th chapter of Daniel
1t historical fact that Darius the Medic and Daniel
the prophet contemporaries and that the former
regned in Babylon and that the latter minister
of his court. II is also true that between the reign
Of Cyrus and Alexander the Great there thirteen
kings. but only four are mentioned ins the second
verse, and they directly, because connected with the
PROPHECY FULFILLED.
And now, with q single bound the prophet leaps
over l25 years and foretels the coming. the con.
quests aud death Of Alexander. His history Is con-
dcnsed in two verses which contain in brief the sub
OF ell that has been said OF him by Heroditus
Plutsrch and Rollin. Nature had made him tor
greatness. Handsome in person. compact in form.
he brilliant In intellect, educated In philosophy
by the great Aristotle and in by Leonidns.
Homer's "lliad' his favorite study, which he
he acted Ie as Regent e in so Ss SIX,
of his father, ut eighteen he fought the
battle OF Cnneronaa at twenty he was crowned King,
Mt twenty-five he won the battle of Granicus, at
twenty five he conquered Darius at Arbela, and be-
master of the East. HE shall rule with great
dominion" His vast empire included Macedonia
all Greece, Thrace, TO the Danube: Asia Minor
Egypt and Arabia syria. aud Palestine Baby ona all
Medca and Persia and India beyond the Indus. He
supreme over the lives and fortunes of friend
and foe In his station he fancied himself God. and
demanded divine honors; he cruel beyond meas
Al Tyre he crucihed 1000 men tho scashorc;
AZ Jesus he made bridge of the bodies of the slain
over which he walked In pride and triumph. lie
would not allow even Dscchus to outdrink him, and
having drank To his twenty guests scveray he then
called FOR the cup of Hercules, which contained
quarts. This killed him In the thirtythrd year OF
his age, 323 u. q.
''fiis kingdom shall DO divided toward the four
winds OF heaven" The frst division into eight
parts these we're consolidated by conpuests
into Ave great sections, but ut the battle psus
Phrygia. twenty-five years after Alexandcrs death,
Antigonus defeated, and then came the division
into four parts Coward the four winds OF heaven.
In fifteen years after his death not of his family
or postcrty remained alive. He died tragical
death. His three wives, Stara, Roxine and Barsine
and their murdered Aridacus, his
natural brother. and his wife Euridice. were put
TO death by Olympias, and finally Olympas herself
slain by those whose relatives she had destroyed
''Ifis kingdom shall be plucked up and given to
others beside those" One by the four kings
yielded. and the Romans rcigned over Aloxander's
vast empire.