The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-11-19
L1KENED TO BABYLON.
AMERICAN CITIES ARE THUS
COMPARED.

AM HlOAN CIlIeS AXE tSV6
COMPARED.
Explorations Of the Ruins OF the
Ancient and Wicked C~Ity--Des-
crIption Of lts Magniflcence
--lts Final Doom,
Brooklyn, Special.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage selected for his text Rev. xviii,
10: "Alas, alas, that great city Of
Babylon, that mighty ethyl for in
one hour is thy judgment come"
Modern scientists are doing q splen'
did work in excavating the tomb
of q dead empire holding in its arms a
dead city, mother and child of the
same name-Babylon. The ancient
mound invites the spades and shovele
and crowbars while the unwashed ma
tlves look on in surprise These
scientists find yellow bricks still i'm
pressed with the name of Nebuchad-
nezzar, and they 20 down into the sar'
cophagus of a monarchy buried more
than two thousand years ago. May
the explorations of Rawlinson and
Layard and Chevalier and Opperto
and Lotus and Chesney be cclipsed
by the present archaeological uncover
ing.
But is it possible this is all that re-
mains of Babylon? a city once five
times larger than London and ia
times larger than New York? Walls
373 feet high and SO feet thick.
Twenty-Five FURNISHED gates on each
side, with streets running clear
through to corresponding gates ION
the other side. Six hundred and
twenty-five squares. More pomp and
wealth and
sPLEND0R AND SIN
than could be found in any FIVE mod
ern cities combined. A.city OF palaces
and temples. A city having within it
garden on an artificial hill 400 feet
high, the sides of the mount. in ter
raced. All this built to keep the
king 8 wife, Amytis from becoming
b ms ok for the mountain region in
which she had spent l.er girlhood.
The waters OF the Euphrates spouted
up to irrlgate this great altitude ill.,
to fruits and flowers and a~rborescence
imaginable. A great river running
from north to south clear through
the City, bridges over it, tunnels under
it, boats on it.
A city OF bazaars and of market
places, unrivalleu for q ON tics aud
and high-mettled horses
with rooms by their side. and thyme
wood, and African evergreen, anil
linen, and all styles of cost.
iy textile fabric. and rarest puppies
exi racted from shclitish on the Medi-
teri anean coast, and rarest ~scariets
from brilliant insects in Spain,
aud worries brought from successful
hunts in Mia, and dia-
n,otsds whose flash was Il repartee to
the %un. Fortress within fortress,
eMtattlenent rising above emtattie-
m-nr. Great capital of the ages. But
one night, while honest citizens were
asleep, but all the saloons of satur.
nalla were in full blast. and at the
castle they had filled the tank.
ards FOR the tenth time, anu Keeling
and guttawing aud hiccoughinga ound
The state table We're the rulers Of the
land. Gen. Cyrus ordered lbs besieging
army to take silovrIs and epades, and
diverted THE river from it's usual
into another direc, ion SO
The torsaken bed of the river be-
'aIne the path on which the besieging
army entered. When the morning
he conQuerors were inside
The outside trenches.
BABYLON HAD FALLEN.
ind hence the sub me threnody of the
ext: "AI"s, alas, that great city,
that mighty city. for ia one
is he ju. ement COME" But do
nations die? Oh, yes, there is great
among mOnarchies and re-
,%"l'lics.. They are like individuals in
.hela THAT hey are born, they have q
life. they have q disease,
hey have q cradle, and q grave.
OF them are assas-inated. some
lest roy-d by their own hand. Let
" call the roll of some Of the dead
and let some one answer for
hem.
Egyptian civilization, stands up.
answer the ruins of Karnak
nd 1 ux"r, an : from 20 pyramids on
I've east side Of the Ni,e here comes
y y great chorus, crying: dead, !
rad!" Assyrian empire, stand up
mi answer. ''llrad!" cried the char.
I'd ruins of Ninevah. After 600
ards Of magnificent opportunity, +,
-ad lsraeli, ish kingdom, stand up.
.fter $50 years OF .livine interpretation !
nd of miraculous Weiss tude and of
eroic behavior and of appalling de-
ravity, dead. Phenicia. stand up
nd answer. After inv-nting the
Iphal.et and giving it to he world,
MI sending out her merchant cara
ans in n direction. to Cen raj
.sia, and sending out her navi.
stors to the Atlantic Ocean in
mother direction, dead. Pillars
Hercules and rOcAs on which
ne Tyrian fisherman dried their nets,
u answer, "Dead Phenica." Athens.
tier Phidias, after emosthenes, after
Ill fades, dead, Sparta, after Leoni-
no, after Eurybiades, after Salam,s,
tier Ihermopyle; deaf. Roman EN-.
stand up and answer. Empire
nee bounded by the British channel
n the north, by the Euphrates on