Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-22

Judge and jury and district attorney
and sheriff to look at in the courthouse;
blessed are the mereiful, for they shall
obtain mercy"
And SO the ruins of that colosseum
preached to me. Indeed. the most i'm
pressive things on earth are ruins
The four greatest structures ever built
are in ruins The parthenon In
ruins The temple OF Diana in
ruins The colosseum in ruins In
deed. the earth itself will yet be pile
of ruins. the mountains in ruins, the
cities in ruins, the hemispheres in ruins
Yea, further than that. all up and
down the heavens are worlds burned
up, worlds wrecked. worlds extinct,
worlds abandoned. Worlds on worlds
in ruinsi But i am glad TO say il is tho
same old Heaven. and in all that world
there In not one ruin and never will DO
ruin Not one OF the pcarly gates
will eN~~ become unhinged- Not one
of the afr-s-hystine tows~s will ever
fall Not Or of the mansions will ever
decay. Not one of the charists win
ever be unwheeled. Not one OF tho
thrones will ever rock down oh, make
sure of Heaven, for IL - an everlasting
Heaven Through Christ The Lord,
get ready for residence in the eternal
palaces.
The last evening before leaving Rome
for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt
and Palestine, went alone TO tho
colosseum There was not n living
soul in all the immense area Even
those accustomed to sell curios at the
four entrances OF the building had gone
away. The place was so Overwhelming.
ly silent. 1 could hear my own heart
beat with the emotions aroused by the
place and hour. paced the arena
walked down into the dens where
the hyenas were once kept, 1 as.
| cended to the place where the
emperor used 10 sit / climbed up on
the galleries from which the mighty
throngs of people had gazed In en-
chantment. To break the silence
shouted, and that seemed 70 awaken
the echoes-echo upon echo. And those
awakened echoes seemed TO address me,
saying: Men die, but their work
lives on. Gaudentius, the architect
who planned this structure. the CO. 900
enslaved Jews brought by Titus from
Jerusalem and who toiled on these
walls, the gladiators who fought in this
arena, the emperors and expresses who
had place on yonder platform. the mil
lions who during centuries sat and rose
in these galleries, have passed away,
but enough of theocolosseum stands to
tell the story OF cruelty and pomp and
power.
Five hundred years OF bloodshed."
Then, as / stood there, there came TO
me another burst of echoes, which
seemed throbbing with the prayers and
,aI 81 l.
expired in that arena, and they seemed
TO say: How much it cost to serve
God in ages past, and how thankful
modern centuries ought to be that the
persecution which Redeemed the sands
of this amphitheater have been abol-
iShed." And then questioned the
echoes, saying: Where is Emperor Ii
tus who sat here?' The answer
came: Gone TO Judgment" Where
is Emperor Trajan who sat here?"
Gone TO Judgment" Where is EN-
peror MnNiminus who sat here?" Cons
to Judgment" Where are all the
multitudes that clapped and shouted
and waved flags TO let the vanquished
up, or to have them slain, put thumbs
DOWN" Gone to Judgment" 1 in.
quired: "All?' And they answered.
above the ruins, and il was full OF
clouds scurrying swiftly past, and those
clouds seemed as though they had faces,
and some of the faces smiled and some of
them frowned, and they seemed to have
wings, and some of the wings were moon.
gilt and the others thunder-charQed.
and the voices of those clouds over
powered the echoes beneath. Behold.
a. oil
shall see Him" And as l stood looking
up along the walls of the colosseum,
they rose higher and higher higher
and higher, until the amphitheater
seemed 10 be filed with all the natiopa
OF the past and all the nations of the
present and all the nations of the fu-
ture, those who went down into the
paws of wild beasts, and those who sat
waving flags to let mp the CONQUERED.
and those who held thumbs down
to command their assassination, and
small and great, and emperor and
slave, and pastor and people,
and righteous and wicked, the am
phitheater seeming 10 rise TO infinite
heights on all sides OF mo, and in the
center Of that amphitheatcr, instead of
the arena of combatants, a great throne
stood, rising higher and higher, higher
and higher and on IL sat She Christ for
whom the martyrs died and against
whom the Diocletians plotted their per-
secutions, and waving one hand toward
the piled up splendors 10 the right of
him, he cried: Come ye blessed" and
waving the other hand toward the
piled-up glooms on the lefs OF him, ne
cried: Depart, We cursed And so the
colosseum Of Rome that etsninQ of 1889
seemed enlarged into the smphitheater
Of the Last Judgment and passed from
under the arch OF that mighty structure,
mighty even in its ruins, praying TO
Almighty God, through Jesus Christ,
for mercy In that day for which all 9TH
er days were made, and that as ex-
pected mercy from God might exer-
else mercy toward Others. end have
more and more Of the spirit OF LET
him up aud less OF the spirit OF
Thumbs down" We may not all be
able 10 fra sum ia higher mathemnt.
les, but .here is q sum In the FIRST rule
Of Gospel arithmetic which We all may
do IL IL a sum Ia simple addition:
"Add 90 your faith virtue, and % vir.
tue knowledge, and 20 knowledge tenn
perance, and % temperance patience,
and 70 patience Rodliness, and 20 godli-