Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-13

Tor they shall be called the children OF Godp
Onc-half the world Il down, and tho other
hale Is up, and the half that Is up Has It's
heel ON the half that "a down II you, az a
boss workman, on os a contractor, or ns
bishop. or as a state or national official, or
as potent factor in social life, or IN any
way are oppressing any one, know that the
same devil that possessed the Roman Coli
scum Expresses you. Tho Diocletians are
not all dead Tho cellars Leading into the
arena Of lifo'sstruggle aro not all emptied Of
their tigers The vivisccton by young doc
tors of dogs and cats and birds most OF tho
timo adds nothing 70 human discovery, but
IL only continuation OF Vcspasian's Coli
scum.
Tho crucltics OF tho world generally be-
gin In nurseries, and Ia homo circles, and in
day schools Tho child that trNnsnxcs a
fly with pin. or the low feeling that scts
two dogs into combat, or that bullies n
weak or crippled playmate, or the indiifor-
cnco that ataryos canary bird, needs only
10 DO developed Ia onlor TO make y first
class Ncro or full armed Apollyon. lt
would be good sentence 60 no written ON
che top line OF child's book and n nc In
scrlptiuu 20 be embroidered In the arm.
chair OF the sitting room, aud an nppropri-
ate motto Tor judge and jury and district
attorney aud sheriff 60 look nc In the court
house, blessed are tho mcrciful, FOR they
shall obtain mercyw
SOLEMN LESSONS FROM ROME
And 60 the ruins OF that Coliseum
proach 20 me. Indeed tho most impressive
things on earth nro ruins The four great
est structurcs ever built are Ia ruins The
parthcnon in ruins the tumplc OF Diana
Ia ruins the tcmplc OF Jerusalem In
ruins, the Coliseum In ruins Indeed tho
earth itself will yet DO pllo OF ruins,
tho mountains IN ruins, the seas ln ruinn,
the cities Ia ruins, the hemisphurcs Ia
ruins Yea, further than Tint, all mp and
down the heavens arc worlds burned M,
worlds wrecked, worlds cXtinct, worlds
abandoned Worlds ON worlds In ruiusl
But am glad TO say Il IL the N0mc old
| heaven, and Ia an that world there 10 not
one ruin aud never will be ruin. Not ono
Of the pcarly catcs will over become UNI
| hinged. Not one ~ tho nmothystino tow
oB viii ever fall Not one of the mansions
| Will ever decay Not ono of the choriots
will ever be unwhColcd Not one Of tho
throncs win over rock down. Oh, make
sure OF heaven, Coz II IL an everlasting
hcavcnl Through Christ the Lord grJ
rcady for residence Ina the eternal palaces
The last evening before leaving Rome for
Bundisl and Athens and Egypt and palos
tine wont alone TO the Coliseum. There
| was not u living soul In an the immonsonrc
! Even thosu accustomed 10 soil curioB at tho
! four cntIancca OF the building had gono
awny Tho place VIVA so Overwhelmingly
| silent could hcnF my own heart boat with
tho emotions aroused by the place and hour
! paced tho urcna / walked down into tho
dona WHORE the hyouna were once kept
assembled TO the place whore the emperor
used TO slt. climbed up ON the galleries
from which the mighty thrunga of people
had gnzod IN onchnntmcnt
To brcak tho silence shouted, aud that
seemed 10 awaken the echoes echo upon
echo And those awakened echoes seemed
20 address me, saying, Men die, but their
work lives ON. Gaudcntiua, the architect
who planned this structure the OO,OOO ca.
shaved Jews brought by Titus from Jcrurn.
lem. aud who tuilcd ON these wnlls, tho
gludiators who fought In this arena, the
emporOrs and emprcssos who had place GA
yondcr platform, tho millions who during
centuries sat aud rose In those galleries,
have passed away hut enough OF the Coli
scum stands TO toll tho story Of cruelty
and pomp and power. Five hundred years
OF bloodshcd,"
Then, az 1 stood thorc, there came 20 me
another burst OF echoes, which seemed
thrbbng with the prayers and songs and
Rrunns of Christians who had expired ia
Tint arcnn, aud they seemed 10 way, How
much IL cost 70 servo God la ages past, an
how thankful modern centuries ought 70
bo That the persecution which redeemed thJ
g,nds OF this amphithentor have been abol
shed
THE MIGHTY oNEB ARE DusT.
And then / questioned the echoes, say
ing, Whore Is Emp0rur Titus, who sat
hercw The answer camc, Gone 60 judi,
mont" "Where Va Emperor Trnjin, VIII,
sat horow "GUno 60 Judgment "Whop
* Emperor MUlminus, who rat hcrov
Gone 20 judgment" where arr All IN,
multitudos who clapped and shouted aud
waved hnjp 10 let the yanquishcd up, or tt
have thom slain put thumbs DOWN.
Tho echoes answered, Gone 90 judgment
! inquired, amp Aud they answered
"AlL"
And looked up 90 the Sky above the ru
ms, and Il was full OF clouds souuyinp
swiftly pAHt, aud those clouds seemed a.
though thoy bad faces, and some at The
faces amiled and some OF thom frOwned
and they seemed 10 have wings, and some
Of the wing were inoongilt and The other
thunder chargcd, and the voices OF tho@
clouds Oyopoworud tho echoes beneath
Behold ho oometh with clouds, sud ever
eye shall SEQ rim"
Aud rs / stood lothing up along the wall
of tl,. Coliseum they rOso higher and high
or higher and higher, until the nmphlthe
ater seemed 90 be nled with an the nations
Of the past, nnd nll the nationa of the pres
emit, and an the nations Of the future -thos,
who went down under the paws OF wild
bcaits, aud those who sat waving dag
~ let up tho conquered, and those wh6
held thumbs down 20 command their 49,
passiuation, and small and great and
emperor aud slave, and pastor and PEG
pie and righteous and wicked the hm
phithCater e-emlng 10 nso 20 inilnit,
heights ON ul sides Of me, and In Che
center ~ that amphithepter Instead OF
tho arena OK combltauts, q great throp'
stood rising higher aud higher higher and
higher, and on &c wlt The Christ Tor whom
tho martyrs died and against whom Oh,
DiocCtlnua ploltld thcir prosecutions, and
waHng one hind toward the piled up splcn
doris 10 tie right a him hecricd, "COme, "
blessed. ana waving the other hand 10
ward tho piled up Rlooms on the left ofhiu
BIO cried, depart 50 cursed"
And so tho Coliseum Of Rome that even
ing Of 1879 seemed enlarged into the nmphl
theater Of tho last judgment and pasnel
from under the arch OF that mighty struo
ture, mighty oven ia la ruins, praying u
I AI,rff.ltf4r God fftrnrolh Taaua 0hriaf 10