The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
IA SERMON TO VOTERS,
DR.. rALMAGE ScoUReES THE PHARl-
SEES WHO CORRUPT ELECTIONS.

moss, US Donhutitery ana its Suuueh ana
Awful Ruin-Is This Nation Running
the Same Course9
BROOKLYN, Nov. 6.-Rev. DR.. Tai.
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 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 Gomez
Modern scientists are doing splendid
work in excavating the tomb of a dead
empire holding in its 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 look on in
surprise. These scientists find yellow
bricks still impressed with the name Of
Nebuchadnezzar, and they go down into
the sarcophagus of a monarchy buried
more than two thousand years ago. May
the explorations of Rawlinson and La
yard and Chevalier and Opperto and
Lotus and Chesney be eclipsed by the
present archaeological uncoveringl
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 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
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 it.
THE DEBAUCHED 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 puppies extracted from shellfish on
the Mediterranean coast, and rarest scar
let's taken from brilliant insects in
Spain, and worries brought from sue
cessful elephant hunts in India, and
diamonds whose flash was repartee to
the sun, fortress within fortress, en-
battlement rising above embattlement.
Great capital of the ages.
But one night, while honest citizens
were asleep, but all the saloons of satur-
MALTA were in full blast, and at the
kings castle they had filled the tankards
for the tenth time, and reeling and guf-
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
trenches. Babylon had fallen, and
hence the sublime threnody of the text,
calais, alas, that great city Babylon,
that mighty city. for in one hour is thy
Judgment Gomez
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 a
middle life; they have decease; they
have cradle and 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
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, deadr'
Assyrian empire, stand up and answer.
'Deadl' cry the charred ruins of Min
evan. After six hundred years of mag
ni6cent opportunity, dead. Israelitish
kingdom, stand up. After two hundred
and fifty years of divine interposition,
and of miraculous vicissitude, and of he
roic behavior, and of appalling depravity
dead. Phonicia, 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
Miltiades, dead. Sparta, after Leoni.
das, after Eurybiades, after Salamis,
after Thermopyl@, dead. Roman EN-.
pllC, cohiiu VI etu,i dllo WCi-tlup pre- OuCe
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 civiliza
tions, owning all the then discovered
world that was worth owning-Romar
empire, answer. Gibbon, in his "Rist
and Fall Of the Roman Empire.
says, "Deadr' and the forsaker
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 Triumphalis
and the Msmertine prison, holding M
more apostolic prisoners, and the silen
Forum and Basilica Of Constantine, ant
the arch of Titus, and the Pantheon
come in with great chorus, crying
dead; deadw After Horace, after Virgil
after Tacitus, after Cicero, dead. Afte
Horatius on the bridge, and Cincinnatus
the farmer oligarch, after Pompey, afte
Scipio, after Cassius, after Constantine
after Caesar, dead. The war eagle O