Connecticut western news., 1892-11-10
A SERMON TO VOTERS
DR. TAlMAGE ScouRGEs THE PAARI- GEES WHO CORRUPT ELECTIONS.

TAs Wonderful City of Babylon, Its Great
 ness. Hts Debauchsry and It's Sudden and
 Awful Rutn-Is This Nation Running
 tho Same Coursea
 BROOKLYN, Nov. 6.-Rev. Dr. Tal. mage today selected for his sermon a subject sufficiently appropriate for these times, when throughout the United States great political questions are being discussed and the nation is about to go to the ballot box and decide who shall rule in neighborhood, town, city and na tion. The text chosen was Revelation xviii, 10, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, for in one hour Is thy judgment comer'
 Modern scientists are doing splendid work in excavating the tomb of dead empire holding in it's arms dead city mother and child of the same name. Babylon. The ancient mound invites tho spades and shovels and crow wbars, while the unwashed natives look on in surprise. These scientists find yellow bricks still impressed with the name of Nebuchadnezxar, and they go down into the sarcophagus of monarchy buried more than two thousand years ago. May yard and Chevalier and Opperto and Loftus and Chesney be eclipsed by the present archaeological uncovering!
 But Is it possible this is all that re- mains of Babylon-a city once five times larger than London and twelve times larger than New York? Walls three hundred and seventy three feet high and ninety three feet thick. Twenty burnished gates on each side, with streets running clear through to core spending gates on the other side. Six hundred snd twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth and splendor and sin than could be found in any five modern cities combined. A city of palaces and temples. A city having within it gar den on an artificial hill four hundred feet high, the sides of the mountain ter raced. All this built to keep the kings wife, Amytis, from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates spouted up to irrigate this great altitude into fruits and flowers and aborescence unimaginable-a great river running from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tun- nels under it, boats on 1t.
 THE DKBAUoHED CITY.
 A city of bazaars and market places, unrivaled for aromatics and unguents, and high mettled horses with grooms by their side, and thyme wood, and African evergreen, and Egyptian linen, and all styles of costly textile fabrics, and rar- est purples extracted from shellfish on tho Mediterranean coast, and rarest scar lets taken from brilliant insects in Spain, and worries brought from suc- cessful elephant hunts in India, and diamonds whose flash was repartee to the sun, fortress within fortress, em- battlement rising above embattlement. Great capital of the ages.
 But one night, while honest citizens were asleep, but all the saloons of satur- nalia were in full blast, and at the hng's castle they had filled the tankards for the tenth time, and reeling and gulf fawing and hiccoughing around the state table were the rulers of the land, General Cyrus ordered his besieging army to take shovels and spades, and they diverted the river from its usual channel into another direction so that the forsaken bed of the river became the path on which the besieging army entered. When the morning dawned the conquerors were inside the outside n.I hl f1l hence the sublime threnody of the text, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment comep ...
 But do nations diep Oh, yes; there is great mortality among monarchies and republics. They are like individuals in the fact that they are born; they have middle life; they have decease; they have a cradle and a grave. Some of them are assassinated, some destroyed by their own hand. Let me call the roll of some of the dead civilizations and some of the dead cities and let some one answer for them.
 Egyptian civilization, stand up "Desd" answer the ruins of Karnak and Luxor, and from seventy pyramids on the east side of the Nile there comes up Q great chorus, crying, Dead, deadw Assyrian empire, stand up and answer. ''Deadr' cry the charred ruins of Min evah. After six hundred years of mag nifcent opportunity, dead. Israelitish kingdom, stand up. After two hundred and fifty years of divine interpretation, and of miraculous vicissitude, and of he roic behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead. Phenicia, stand up and answer. After inventing the alphabet and giving it to the world, and send ing out her merchant caravans in one direction to central Asia, and sending out her navigators to the At lantic ocean in another direction, dead. Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which the Tyrian fishermen dried their nets all answer, ''Dead Phenicia." Athens, after Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Attitudes, dead. Sparta, after Leoni- das. after Eurybiades, after Salamis, after Thermopyls. dead. Roman em- pire, stand up and snswer-empire once bounded by the British channel on the north, by the Euphrates on the east, by the great Sahara desert in Africa on the south, by the Atlantic ocean on the west; home of three great civiiza- tions, owning all the then discovered world that was worth owning Roman empire, answer. Gibbon, ill his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, !" says, "Deadr' and the forsaken seats of the ruined Coliseum, and the skeleton of the aqueducts, and the miasma of the Campagna, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge T4iumphalis, and the Mamertine prison, holding nc more apostolic prisoners, and the silent Forum and Basiica of Constantine, and the arch of Titus, and the Pantheon como in with great chorus, crying sDead: deadr' After Horace, after Virgil