Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-11-05

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ro,rn,ian king received the book, put re-
s go 20 ~ retnrn thar which he had Dor
r,,Sed and 60 forfeited the seventeen thou
sand seven hundred dollars.
The two nations rose in contention con.
,arning thar one book. Beautiful ana
,,i,,htv hook indeed. But il is book OF
horrors the dominant idea that we are the
/ victims of hereditary influences from "hich
,h..re i no escape. and that fate rules the
world. and although the author does teii
Of Prometheus, who was erucihed on ene
4 rocks for sympathy for mankind, power
Z lll suggestion Of the sacrifice OF Ciiris1 ~
! iater wears. il is n very poor book COM
( pared with that book which we mug toour
I hearts. because it contains our only guide
in life, our only comfort IN DEATH ana our
onlv hope for a blissful Immortality.
two nations could afford to struggle Tor
one copy Of sIsschylus," how much more
can all nations afford 70 struggle LOT 'he
possession and triumph OF the Holy scrip
turess ~,
Ruttb dead cities strung along the Nile
not only demolish infdelity, but thunder
down the absurdity Of the modern doctrine
Of evolution which says the woria sfarteu
with nothing and then rose, ana human
nature began with nothing but evolved
into splendid manhood aud womanhooa OF
itself. Nay, the sculpture Of the world
was more wonderful ia the days OF Mem
phis and Thebes aud Carthage than N the
DAYS Of Boston and New York. Those
blocks Of stone weighing three hundred
tons high up IN the wall at karnac imply
machinery equal TO, If not SURPRISING, the
machinery Of the Nineteenth century.
How was that stafne Of Rameses, weigh
ing eight hundred and eighty-seyen tons,
transported from the quarries two hundred
miles away and how was il llfteds Tell
us. modern machinists. How were those
galleries Of rock, still standing at Thebes,
filed with paintings surpassed by no
artists pencil Of the present day. Tell US,
artists OF the Nineteenth century. The
dead cities of Egypt, 80 far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or sepnlchers
or temple ruins TO tell the story Memphis,
Migdol. Hierapolis. Zoan. Thebes, Goshen,
Carthage-all Of them developing down
ward instead Of upward. They have evo-
luted from mAgniiicence into destruction
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only
elevator Of individual and social NATIONAL
character Let all the living cities know
that pomp aud opulence and temporal pros
perity are no security.
II MORALITY IS COKE. ALL IS LOST.
Those ancient cities lacked nothing but
good morals Dissipation and sin slew
them, and unless dissipation aud sin are
halted, they viii some day slay our
modern cities, and leave our palaces of
merchandise and our galleries OF art and |
our city hall as fiat in the dust as we found /
Memphis on the afternoon OF that Thanks
giving day. Aud II the cities 81 down. the
nation will go down. on you say, that
Is impossible; we have stood so long-yea, /
over a hundred years as nation" Why, I
what of thatf Thefes stood five hundred !
years. Memphis stood thousand years. 4
God does not forget. One day with the /
Lord is rs Thousand years and thousand l
years as one day.
Rum and debauchery and bad politics |
are more rapidly working the destruction /
Of our American cities than sin Of any kind 4
and all kinds worked for the destruction
Of the cities of Africa, once so mighty and 4
now SO PROSTATE But their gods were
idols, aud could do nothing except for de- /
basement Our God made the heavens 4
and sent his Son TO redeem the nations.
Aud our cities will not 90 down, and our
nation viii not perish because the gospel
Is going 70 triumph. Forward all schools
and colleges and churches Forward all I
and missionary organizations.
Forward, all The influences marshaled TO
bless the world Let our modern European
and American cities listen 70 the voice Of
those ancient cities resurrected, and by
hammer and chisel and crowbar he com
PEELED To speak.
! notice the voice Of those ancient cities
Is hoarse from the exposure of forty cen
turtles and they accentuate slowly with
lips that were palsied for ages. but ali to-
yether those cities along the Nile intone
these words: Hear Us, for we are veryold.
aud II IS hard for rs to speak We were
wise long before Athens learned her first
lesson. We sailed our ships while vet
navigation was unborn. These obeliSks.
Ihese pyramids, these fallen pillars. these
wrecked temples, these c0lossi OF black
granite, these wrecked sarcophagi under
he brow of the hills, tell you Of what was
n grandeur and Of what | am coming
Town to be. We sinned and we fell
Dur learning could not save us. See
hose half obliterated hieroglyphics on
fonder wall. Our architecture could not
ave us. See the painted columns of
Phila, and the shattered temple of Esneh.
Jur heroes could not save us Witness
Menes, Diodorus, Rameses and ptolemy.
DUR Gods Ammon and Osiris could not
ave US. See their fallen temples all along
he four Thousand miles OF Nile. Oh.
ie modern cities get some other God;
sod who can help, God who can pardon.
| God who can save. Called up as we are
or little while to give testimony. again
he sands Of the desert will bury US Ashes
o ashes, dust to dustr And as these
Ioices of porphyry and granite ceased, all
he sarcophagi under the hills responded,
Ashes to ashes." and the capital Of a lofty
column fell grinding itself to powder
'mong the rocks, and responding. Dust
o dustsn