Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-11-16
AMERICAN SUFFRAGE.
Political Bribery Assuming Huge
Dimensions.
~he Future Destiny OF This Country
Threatened. and n Parallel to Nations
OF the Past Pronised--A Sermon
by Rev. +. Dewitt lai-
mage. ID. ID.


The text chosen by DIR. Talmage Sun
day was Revelations xviii i0-"Alas,
alas that great city, Babylon. that
mighty city, for in one hour is Thy
Judgment come"
Modern scientists are doing n splen-
did work in eScavating the tomb of
dead @mpire holding in its arms n dead
city, mother and child of the same
name-Babylon
The ancient mound invites the spades
and shovels and crowbars, while the I'M
washed natives look on in surprise
These scientists find yellow bricks still
impressed with the name OF Nebuehad-
nexzar, and they go down into the sar-
cophagus of n monarchy buried more
than 1000 years ago. May the explora-
ticns OF Rawlinson and Layard and
Chevalicr and opperto and Lotus and
Chesney be eclipsed by the present
archaeological uncovcring.
But Is IL possible this is all that re-
mains OF Babylon--a city once five
times larger than London aud twelve
times larger than New York Walls
373 feet high and % feet thick. Twenty
five FURNISHED gates on each side, with
streets running clear through to corrc-
s,onding gates on the other side. Six
hundred and twenty-five squares. More
romp and wealth and splendor and sin
than could be found in any Eve modern
cities combined. A city OF palaces and
temples. A city having within IL gar
den on an artificial hill 400 feet high.
the sides of the mountain terraced. All
this built TO keep the kings wife.
Amytis, from becoming homesiclS for
Il.
had spent her igirlhood The waters OF
the Euphrates spouted up TO irrigate
this great altitude into fruits and low
ers and arhorescence unimaginable. A
great river running from north 20 south
clear through the city, bridges over IL,
tunnels under IL, boats on IT.
city OK bazaars and of market
places, unrivallcd for aromatics and
unguents and high-mcttled horses with
grooms by their side. and thyme wood,
and African evergreen, and Egyptian
linen. and all styles Of costly textile
fabric and rarest puppies extracted
from shell-Gsh on the Mediterranean
coast. and rprcst searlets taken from
brilliant insects in Spain, and worries
brought from successful elephant hunts
I'm India. and diamonds whose flash was
repartcc 10 the sun. Fortress within
fortress. rising above en-
battlcmcnt Great capital of The agesi
But ono night while honest citizens
were asleep. hut all the saloons of Sat
urnnli were in full blast, and at the
kings castle they had filled the tank
ards for the tenth time, and reel
ing and gufrawing and hiccough-
ing around the state table were the
rulers OF the land, Gen. Cyrus ordered
his besieging ARMY TO take shovcls and
spades, and they diverted the river
from It's usual channel into another
direction SO that the forsal<cn bed OF
tho river became the path on which
the besicging army entered. When the
uorring dnwncd the conquercrs were
inside the outside trenches Babylon
had IL IN. and hence the sublime
thrcno' of the text: "Alas, alas, that
great city OF Babylon. that mighty city.
for in one hour is thy Judgment como"
But do nations die? Oh, yes, there Is
great mortality among monarchies and
republics. They are ike individuals
in the fact that they are born, they
have middle life, they have n decease.
they have cradle and grave. Some
of them are assissinated, son. de-
stroycd by their own hand, Let me
call the roll of some OF the dead civiiiza-
tions, aud some of the dead cities and
let some one answer for them.
Egyptian civilization, stand up
''Dead!' answer the ruins of KarnalS
and Luxor, and from seventy pyramids
on the east side of the Nile there comes
up great ehorus, crying Dead, deadl"
Assyrian Empire. stand up and answer
'DeadiF cry the charred ruins of Nine
veh. After COO years OF magnificent
opportunity. dead. Isrneltish King
dom stand up After go years of di-
vine interposition, and of miraculous
vicissitndes and OF heroic behavior,
and of appalling depravity, dead
Ph@nfcia, stand up and answer After
inventing the alphabet and giving 1t
20 the world. and sending out her mer-
chant caravans in one direction 20 Cen
trial Asia, aid sending out her naviga-
tors TO the Atlantic ocean in another
direction dead.
Pillars Of Hercules and rocks on which
the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets
ali answer. Dead Phmnicia-" Athens,
after Phidias after Demosthenes. after
bliltiadea, dead. SPARTA, after Leoni-
das. after Euryhiades after Salamis,
after Thermepyle; dead Roman EN-
pire. stand up and answer. Empire once
bounded by the British channel on the
north by the Euphrates on the east, by
the great Sahara desert i'm Africa on the
south. by the Atlantic ocean on the
west Home OF three great civiliza-
tions. owning all the then discovered
world that was worth owning, Roman
Empire. answer. 0ibbon, IN his Rise
and Fall Of the Roman Empire" says
Dead" and the forsaISen seats OF the
ruined coliseum. and the Skeleton 81 the
aqucducts, and the masma OF the Cam
pagna, and the fragments Of the marble
baths, aud the useless piers OF the
bridge Triumpalis, and tho Maufnertine
prison, holding no more apostolic pris-
oners and the silent Forum, and Basil
ica Of COnstantiuople, and the arch OF
Titus, and she Pantheon come In with
great chorus, crying. Dead. deadr'
After Horace, after Virgil, after Tacifua,
after Cicero. dead. After Horatius on
tho bridge. and Cincinuatus, the farmer
oligarch. after Pompey, after Scipio,
after Cassius. after Constantine, after
Cnsar. dead The war eagle Of Rome
fcw 80 high u was bliaded by the sun
and came whirling down through the
heavens and the owl Of desolatiOn and
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