Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-09-24
STATESM A NSlIIP.

A Statesman notes tho train of events
or the connection between cause and
consequence. lie secs all along the
coast of political seas shipwrccks of
States, the bones and skulls of naviga-
tors the waves have washed ashore and
has heard of many a proud ship found
cred at sea. The ruins of some of the
greatest empires are still TO be seen.
What caused the downfall of so many
and such magnificent kingdoms and
empires ! Surely it could not have been
the sterilty of the soil. The overflow
ing of the Nile, the Tigris and the Eu-
pirates, MS well as the wash from the
Afric and Asiatic mountains composed
soil that brought to the cities of
Thebes, and Memphis, and Nineveh,
and Babylon, and Tyre, and Sidon and
Jerusale EN- an overflowing abundance of
the choicest kinds of fruits and grains.
There were the storehouses of corn, the
grapes of Eschol, n land overilowing
with milk and honey. The downfall
of these great empires conld not have
been for the want of skill in the arts and
sciences, or manufactures. There were
savans that called the stars by name as
well as all the variety of objects on the
face of the earth. Tho ancient archi-
tects built aqueducts, canals, temples,
coliscums, amphitheaters, ornamented
with pillars and columns, models of
beauty and grandeur which attract
universal admiration. Those ancient
manufacturers made fine linen, laces
and cloths, embroidered and tinted
with colors that We'd with natures most
bewitching hues. Those ancient cngi-
necrs put massive blocks of marble in
to towers, pyramids and walls that
have resisted the tooth of time for thou
sands of years. The commerce of Egypt
Asia Minor, Phoenecia and Assyria, was
greater than that of New Orleans, New
York, Philadelphia. Boston and Chicago
combined. Did those great political dy-
nasties come to grief for want of cour-
age? No armies of modern times have
fought with greater desperation and
left more dead on the field rs a proof of
bravery than those commanded by the
Pharaos, Solomon, Nero, Titus, Cyrus,
Xerxes, and Alexander the Great. The
mummies of Egyptian men and women
together with the ruins of Cities and
marats of trade and commerce, frag-
ments of the arts and sciences, prove to
us that those ancient empires were
great and powerful and had all the re-
sources that might have made them
permanent. What then was the secret
cause of so many stupendous wrecks?
Inspired men have revealed the secret
and history has solved the problem.
Egypt slew the first born of her slaves,
defied Jehovah and tried to crush out
the soul of humanity. Solomon
had three hundred wives and seven hun.
dred concubines; Babylon tried to burn
three men who would not bow the knee
to golden image, cast another into
den of lions because he prayed TO the
0Ou VI INafch anu tdEtn NIutNGn ulu
more than hundred and twenty thous.
and who did not know right from wrong.
Babylon was the mother of harlots and
denominations. Tadmor, Palmira, Tyre,
Sidon, Sodom and Gomorrah were her
daughters. In each one, all of them
mighty empires. each section and para.
graph of the higher law were habitually
violated. Then Nimrods, mighty men
of valor, neither feared God nor regard
ed man. Love 10 God and love To man
would have saved them. If they had
listened they might have heard voice
give ulterance TO sure warning, to-wit:
"Whoso heareth these sayings of mine
and doeth them not shall be likened un-
to a foolish man who built his house on
the sand-it fell, and great was the fall
thereof" Here is the cause and the |
which no statesman can
fail 10 discern. Let those States and
nations that elect whoremasters to the
chief magistracy take warning.
JUROR.