Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-12

earthquaks, and the cyclone, and the epi-
demic are no sign In many cases that God
Il angry with city. but the distress Il sent
for some good and kind purpose, whether
We understand IL or not. The law that ap-
plies TO individuals may apply to Christian
cities as well, 'All things work together for
good TO those that love God"
LIKE soDoM AND GoNoRRAH.
But the greatest calamity Of history cams
upon Pompsii, not 20 improve its future
condition, for IL was completely obllterRted
and will never be rebuilt. Il was so bad
that IL needed to be buried LOO years be-
fore even lis ruins were fit 70 be uncovered.
So Sodom and Gomorrah were hlled with
such turpituds 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 cemetsry is the cemetery Of
dead cities.
get down on my knees and read the
epitapheology of long line of them: Here
lies Babylon, once called "The hammer Of
the whole earth." dead and buried under
piles Of bitumen and broken pottery and
vitrefed bricks. And 1 hear wolf howl
and a reptile hiss as ! am reading this cpl
taph isaiah Kill, 21), "The wild beast Of the
desert shall be there and their houses shall
be full Of doleful creatures"
The next tomb kneel before In this cem-
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 as the dust Of the heroes who fought
them. Perhaps I put my knee into the
dust Of her Sardanapalus as stoop to read
her epitaph (Zephaniah Il, ~: "Now Is
Nineveh q desolation and dry like will
derness, and focks 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 it I
hear an owl hoot 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 I pass on ! find the
resting place of Mycen@, 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
Stabia and Pompeii. Some of them have
mighty sarcophagus and hieroglyphic en-
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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, 70,
dropped on city of Italy superincum-
brance that staid there IL centuries, is still
alive and hates sin now as much as he did
then, and has at his command all the arm
ament of destruction withwhich he whelm-
ed their iniquitous predecessors. 1t was
only a few summers ago that Brooklyn
and New York felt an earthquake throb
that sent the people affrighted into the
streets, and that suggested that there are
forces of nature now suppressed or held in
check which, easier than child in a nur-
sery knocks, down row of block houses,
could prostrate city or engulf 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 as any of
the gladiatorial contests Of Pompeii. What
precious crew that ''Coney Island Athletic
club" is under whose auspices these orgies
are enactedl What a degradation to the
adjective athletic" which ordinarily sug-
gests health and muscle developed for use
full purposei Instead of calling it an ath-
letic club they might better style 1t "The
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 for
the offscouring of the earth to congregate,
the low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the
pugilists, and the pickpockets,a and the bloats
regurgitated from the depths of the worst
wards of these cities. They invite delegates
from universal loaferdom to come to their
carnival OF knuekaes. But DO not believe
that the pugilism contracted for and adver-
used for next december WliFtake place IN
cur neighoornood.
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one step zoo Iar. fou may drive tne hoop
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