Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-07
WORD OF THE LORD
Or. Taimage Scourges the
Election Corruptors.
HOT SHOT FoR The PHARlsEES
The Wszd=Ttal City Of Babylon. rs
Greatness. Its D-baucheEy and Lts
satd-n snt Awful Ru.a.


subject sufficiently appropriate for these
times. when throughout the United
states great political questions are being
discussed and the aaEion u about 70 20
To the ballot box and decide who shall
rule In neighhorhood. town. city and ma
ton The text chosen was Revelation
xviii. 10. Alas. alas. that great city
Babylon. that mighty city, for IN one
hour Is thy Judgment eomsr
Modern scientists are doing splendid
work IN sxcsvating the tomb Of a dead
efapire holding IN It's arms dead city
mother and child Of the same name,
Babylon. The ancient mound invites
the spades and shovels and crowbars,
while the unwashed natives lock on in
surprise. These scientists find yellow
bricks still impressed with the name Of
Neboch2anezzar, and they 80 down into
the sarcophagas OF monarchy buried
more than two thousand years ago. May
the explorations of Rawlinson and La
yard and Chevslier and Opperto and
Lotus and Chesney % eclipsed by the
present archaeological uncoyering,
Bat Is 1t possible this IS all that re-
mains OF Babylon city once five times
larger than London and twelve times
larger than New York? Walls three
hundred and seventy-threo feet high and
ninety-three feet thick. Twenty-Five
FURNISHED gates on each side, with
streets running clear through TO CORE
spending gates on the other side. Six
hundred and twenty-five squares. More
posnp and wealth and splendor and sin
than conld De 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, Amyris. from becoming homesick
for the mountainous region IN which she
had spent her girlhOod. The waters OF
the Euphrates spouted mp 70 irrigate this
great altitude into fruits and flowers
and sborescence unimaginable-a great
river running from north 10 south clear
through the city. bridges over it, tun-
nels under il. boats on it.
THE DEsAUcHED CITY.
A city OF bazaars and market places,
unriyalel for aromatics and rnguents,
and high mettied 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 puppies extracted from shellfsh on
she Mediterranean coast, and rarest scar
ets taken from brilliant insects in
spain, and worries brought from sue
sessful elephant hunts in India, and
diamonds whose flash was q repartee TO
Mo sun, fortress within fortress, en-
hattlsnent rising above embattlement.
Great capital OF the ages.
But one night, while honest citizens
were asleep, but all the saloons Of satur-
aaha were In full blast, aud at the
kings castle they had filed the tankards
for the tenth time. and Keeling and guf-
fAwtng 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
trenches. Babylon had fallen, and
hence the sublime threnody Of the text,
ALAS. alas, that great city Babylon,
that mighty city. for in one hour is thy
judgment GOMEZ
But DO nations die? Oh, yes; there is
great mortality among rnonarchies and
republics. They are ike individuals In
the fact that they are born; they have a
middle life; they have decease; they
have \ 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 SONS OF the dead cities and let some
one answer for them
Egyptian civilization. stand up
Dead" answer the ruins OF Karnak
and Luxor, and from seventy pyramids
ON the east side Of the Nile there comes
up great chorus. crying. Dead, deadi''
Assyrian eingirs. stand up and answer.
Dead" cry the charred ruins OF MIN
evs.h. After six hundred years Of mag
nifcent opportunity dead. israelitish
Kingdom, stand up. After two hundred
and fifty years OF divine interposition,
ar Of miraculous viclssitude. and OF he
roie behavior. and Of appalling depravity,
deal Phosnicis, stand up aud answer.
Ar inventing the alphabet aud
GIVING it 20 the world. and send
ing cut her merchant caravans ia
one direction 20 central Asia, and
sending out her navigators 70 the At
lsntic ocean ia another direction. dead.
Plllsrs u Hercules and rocks on which
the TyTian fishermen dried their nets
al answer. Dead Phoenicia." Athens.
after Fhidias. after Dsmosthenes. after
Aiisiades. dead. Sparta, after Lsoni-
dsz. after Eurybiades. after Salsmis,
after Thermopyle. dead. Roman EN-
yire. stand up and snswer-sfnpire once
bounded By the British channel ON the
porth. by the Euphrates On the east. BY
she great SshaEs desert IN Africa on the
south, by the Atlantic ocean on tbs
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