Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-04


barrenuess where once she challenged the ad-
miratiOn of ali nations. let the baFbaFisns who
SET their rude tents where once her palaces
glittcred- answer the question. She was q
star, but bY her own sin turned 10 norwood |
an has fallen.
Hundred-gated Thebes-for all time to be
the study Of antiquarian and hIeTOgtyphists 1
her stupendOus ruins spFe d over twenty /
seven miles; her sculptures presenting IN
figures OF warrior and chariot and victories
with which The now LOFgDUE a Kings OF
Egypt shook the nations; heI Obelisks and
columns; Carnac and Luxor, the stupendous
temples OF her pride. Who can imagine the
greatness OF Thebes in those days when the /
hIppOdrOme rang with her sports and foreign i
royalty bowed at her shrines and her avenues |
rOaFed with the wheels of professions in the |
wake OF returning SOnQuSrOrs4 WnaE ua6neO /
down the vision Of chariOts and temples and /
thronesf What hands pulled upon the 1
columns Of her glory! What tTut hlessness de- |
faced her sculptured wall aud broke Obelisks |
and left her iHdescribable temples great
skeletons of granted What spirit of destrnc-
ton spread the lair Of wild beasts In her roy al
sepulchres, ana taught the miserable coLtagers
of to-day to build huts in the courts OF her
temples and sent desOI alton and ruin skulk-
ing behind the Obelisks aud lodging among
the sarcoDhagi and leaning against the
columns and STOPPING under the arches and
weeping in the waters which 60 mOurutully By
as though they we're carrying the tears OF al
Ggess Let the mummles break their long
silence and come up to shiveF In the desOla-
ton, aud point TO fallen gates and shattered
statues and defaced sculpture, respOndings
''Thebes Quilt not one temple to God Thebes
hated righteousness and loved sin, Ihebes
was a star but she turned to NORWOOD and
has fallen"
BabFI0n-with her two hundred and nifty
towers and her braZen gates and her embat-
tied walls, the splendOr Of the e nth gathered
within her palaces, her hanging gardens built
BY NebuchadnezzaF to please his bride
Amyittis, who had been brought up in
mountainous country and could not endure
the fat country round Babylon, these hanging
gardens built, terrace above terrace TIL az
the height of four hundred feet there were
woods waving and fountains play
ing, the verdure. the foliage,
the glory looking as if a mountain were on
the wing. On the tip-tOp a king walking
+ with his queen, among statues snowy white
/ looking up at birds brought from distant
+ lands. and drinking out OF tankards OF solid
/ gold, or looking of over rivers and lakes
upon nations subdued and tributary, crying;
''Is not this great Babylon which have
/ builtg" What hatteTing ram smOte the ais!
/ What plOughshare upturned the gardens
. What army shattered the brazen gatess
/ What long, fierce blast Of storm put out this
/ light which ulumined the WOFlds what
crash of discord drove down the music that
poured from palace window and garden grove
/ and called the banQueters to their reVel and
the dancers 10 their feet! l walk upon the
/ scene of desOlatiOn to find an answer and
/ pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and
broken pottery, the remains of Babylon, and
as In the silence Of the night hear tile
surgiug of that biliOW Of desOlatiOn which
rolls over the scene, I hear the wild waves
saying: Babylon was proud. Babylon was
a
turned to NORWOOD and has fallen"
From the prosecutions of the Pilgrim Faith
! ers and the HuguenOts in other lands God
, set upon these shores q nation. The cOuuci
fires of the abOrigines went out in the greater
light Of a free government. The sound Of
the war WhOOp was exchanged for the thOus
and wheels of enterprise and progress
The mild winters, the fruitful summers, thu
heRlthful skies charmed from lther lands
race of hardy men who loved God and wan
ted 10 be free. Before the WOOdman's AK
fell
and churches pillars. Cities on the bank o.
lakes begin 70 rival cities by the sea The
land duakes with the rush Of the rail-car anC
tie waters are churned white with ht
steamers wheel. Fabulous bushels Of West
eFn wheat meet on the way fabulous tons o
| Eastern coal. Furs from the North pass o
the rivers fruits from the South. And tTRdin
| in the same market is Maine lumberman an
! South Carolina rice merchant aud Ohio farm
| er and Alaska fur dealer. And churches an
schools and asYlums scatter light and lOV
and mercy and salvation upon sixty million
Of people.
pray that our nation may not copy th,
crimes Of the nations that have persisted, an
our cup OF blessing turn to WOrmWOOd an
like them We go down. L am by nature an
BY grace an Optfmist, and expect that Tn
country viii continue to advance until I'll
world shall put millennial era and tbs
when Christ comes again he will set b
throne somewhere between the AlleghGnlt
and the Sierra NeVadaS. But be not deceived
; Our only safety is in Righteousness tow al
God and Justice toward man. If we forge
the goodness OF the Lord to this land an
break his Sabbaths and improve not by I'll
dire disasters that have again and again com
10 US a people, and We learn saving lessor
neither from cVI war nor raging epidemic
nor drOuth nor mildeW nor scOurge Of IOcu
/ and grasshOpper, If the political cOrruptiC
which has poisoned the fOuu tains OF publ
virtue and beslimed the high places
authority, making free government at times
kissing and a byWOrd in all the earth, II u
/ drunkenness and hcentiOusness that stage
S nd blaspheme IN the treets # our gre;
cities as though they were reaching after Il
= fame of a COrinth and a SOdOm are not I
/ pented of We will yet see the smoke Of our n
8 TONS ruin; the pi lars of our National al
State ca pitfalls will fall more disas trOusly thi
e when Sampson pulled down DagOn; and f
& ture historians viii record upon the page
deWed with generous tears the story that O
D free nation Of the West aFOs, in splend
e which made the world stare IL had magni
: cent possibilities. It forgot God. 1t hat
i justice. IL Rugged its crime. 1t halted
q its high march. 1t rec ed under the blow
q calamity. 1t fell. And as it was 20 ng dOV
@ all the despOtisms of earth from the top
[ bloody thrones began to shout; "Aha,
Y would We have it, while struggling and c
o pressed peoples look out from dungeon bi
: with tears aud grOans and cries OF untold {
4 Ouy, the scOrn of those and the woe Of the
& / uniting in the exclamation: look yOndt
Il There fell a great star from heaven, burnt
= as it we're q lamp and IL fell upon the tn
+ part of the rivers and upon the fountains
3 waters; and the name OF the star Is cal
: WOFmWOOdP'