The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-18

condition. for It was completely obliterated
and will never he rebuilt 1t was 50 bud
that it needed to be buried LOO years be
fore even It's ruins were fl to be uncovered.
So Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with
such turpitude that they were not only
turned under, but have for thousands Of
years been kept under The two greatest
cemeteries are the cemetery in which the
sunken ships are buried all the way be
tween Fire island and Fastnet lighthouse,
and the other cemetery Is the cemetery of
dead cities.
| yet down on my knees and read the
epitapheology of II long line of them Here
lies Babylon, once called 1.-The hammer of
the whole EARTH dead and buried under
piles of bitumen and broken pottery and
vitrefied bricks. And | hear Il wolf howl
and n reptile hiss as | am reading this cpl
taph isaiah xiii, 2D, "'fhe wild beast of the
desert shall he there and their houses shall
be full of doleful creatures
The next tomb kneel before in this GEM
etery of cities is Nineveh. Her winged
lions are down, and the slabs of alabaster
have crumbled, and the sculpture that rep
resented her battles is as completely scat
tered us the dust of the heroes who fought
them Perhaps ! put my knee into the
dust of her Sardauapalus as | stoop to read
her epitaph (Xephaniah ii, AZ: Now is
Nineveh n desolhtion and dry like a will
derness, and flocRs lie down in the midst
of her. All the beasts of the nations, both
the cormorant and the bittern, lodge in the
upper lintels of it," And while read IL
hear an owl boot and hyena laugh. The
next entombed city pass has monument
of so PROSTATE columns of gray and red
granite and it is Tyre.
The next sepulcher of great capital is
covered with scattered columns and de
! faced sphinXes and the sands of the desert
and it is Thebes. As ! pass on find the
resting place of Mycen9, a city of which
Homer sang, and Corinth, which rejected
Paul and depended upon her fortress Ac-
rocorinthus, which now lies dismantled on
the hill, and | move on in this cemetery of
cities, and | find the tombs of Sardis and
Smyrna and Persepolis and Memphis and
Baalbek and Carthage, and here are the
cities of the Plain and Herculaneum and
Staba and Pompeii Some of them have
mighty sarcophagus and hieroglyphic en-
tablature, but they are dead and buried,
never to rise
THE CEMETERY NOT YET FILLED.
But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet
filed, and if the present cities of the world
forget God and with their indecencies
shock the heavens, let them know that
God, who on the oath of August, -,
dropped on "A city of Italy a superincum-
brance that staid there II centuries, is still
alive and hates sin now as much rs he did
then, and has at his command all the arm
ament of destruction withwhich he whelm-
ed their iniquitous predecessors. 1t was
only few summers ago that Brooklyn
and New York felt an earthquake throb
that sent the people af1righted into the
streets, and that suggested that there are
forces of nature now suppressed or held in
check which, easier than a child in nur-
sery knocks, down row of block houses,
could PROSTATE city or engulf "a continent
deeper than Pompeii was engulfed.
Our hope is in the mercy of the Lord con-
tinued to our American cities. 1t amazes
me that this city, which has the quietest
Sabbaths on the continent, and the best or
der and the highest tone of morals of any
city that know of, is now having brought
into as near neighborhood as Coney Island
carnivals of pugilism as debasing any OF
the gladiatorial contests of Pompeii What
precious crew that "Coney Island Athletic
club is, under whose auspices these orgies
are enacted! What II degradation to the
adjective athletic" which ordinarily sug
gests health and muscle developed for use
full purpose! Instead of calling it an ath
letic club they might better style it 9Th,
Ruffian Club For Smashing the Human
Visage."
Vile men are turning that Coney Island
which is one of the finest watering places
on all the Atlantic coast, into place TO:
the offscouring of the earth to congregate
the low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the
pugilsts, and the pickpockets, and the boats
regurgitated from the depths of the worst
wards of these cities. They invite delegates
from universal loaferdom to come to theil
carnival of knr,ckles But do not believe
that the pugilism contracted for and adver
tised for next December will take place il
our neigbborhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going
one step too far. You may drive the hooI
of IA barrel down so hard that it breaks.
will not believe that the international priZ,
fight will take place on Long Island or il
the state of New York until see the rowdy
rabbe rolling drunk off the cars at Flat
bush avenue and with faces banged ant
cut and bleeding from the imbruting scene
Against this infraction of the laws of tn,
state of New York | lift solemn protest
The curse of Almighty God will rest upor
any community that cons ents to such al
outrage. Does any one think it cannot b,
stopped and that the constabulary would b,
overborne? Then let Governor Flower sent
down there regiment of state militia ant
they will clean out the nuisance in ont
hour.
r AMERICAN POLITICS.
Warned by the doom Of other cities tina
t have persisted for their rutfanism, or the
cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissOlute
= ness, let all our American cities lead til,
right way. Our only dependence is ON Coz
: and Christian influences. Politics will d,
nothing but make things worse. Send poll
tics to moraliZe and save a city, and YOU
send smallpox to heal leprosy or car
9 sass to relieve the air of malodor Flo
e what politics will do / refer you to thu
} eight weeks of qualification enacted a
| Washington by our American senate.
American politics will become reforma
tory power on the same day that pandemo
. mum becomes II church. But there are,
| am glad to say, benign and salutary an,
gracious influences organized in all on
cities which will yet take them for Go,
and righteousness. Let us ply the gospe
machinery to its utmost speed and power
City evangelization is the thought. Az
customed as are religious pessimists t
: dwell upon statistics of evil and dolorou
facts, we want some one with sanctifie
heart and good digestion to put in lon
: line the statistics of natures transformed
and prohigacies baked, and souls ransom
: I'd, and cities redeemed
: Give us pictures of churches of school,
e of reformatory associations of asylums {
a mercy. Break in upon the "Misereres" {
1 complaint and dependency with ~
4 DpumS'i and ''Jubi latpSp Of moral and rel