Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-09
THE GAZETTE: IN WORTH TEXAS MONDAY OCTOBER 1893.

ed just as good people are afflicted. and thu
earthquake. and tile cycionc. and Ac cpl.
demic are no sign In many cases that God
is angry with a city. but tho distress s. sent
for some good and kind purpose, whether
we understand II or not. The law that APP
plies to individuals may apply TO Christian
cities as we'll, "Allthings work together for
good to those that love God"
LIKE sopoN AND ooMoRRAn
But tho greatest calamity of history cana
upon Pompcii. not TO improve It's future
condition, for It was completely oblitcratei
and will never be rebuilt. 1t was so bad
that Il needed to be buried 100 years be.
fore even Its ruins were nc TO be uncovered,
So Sodom and Gomorrah were filed with
such turpitude that they were not only
turned under, but have for thousands OF
years been kept under. The two grcalesS
cemeteries. arc the cemetery in which tho
sunken ships arc buried all the way be
tween Fire island md Fastnet lighthouse,
and the other cemetery Is the cemetery OF
dead cities.
get down on my knees and read the
epitApheology Of a long line OF them; Hero
lies Babylon, once called The hammer OF
the whole EARTH" dead and buried under
piles OF bitumen and broken pottery and
vitrefied bricks And / hear a wolf howl
and reptile hiss AZ l am reading this cpl
taph isaiah xiii, 81, "The wild beast Of tho
desert shall be there and their houses shall
be full Of doleful cteaturesn
The next tomb l,neel before ia this Gem.
ctery OF cities Is Nineveh. Her winged
lions are down, and the slabs OF nlahastcr
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 | put my knee into the
dust Of her Sardanapalus as l stoop to read
her epitaph (zephaniah II, 10; Now 50
Nineveh n desolstion and dry like will
derness, and focks lie down In the niidss
Of her. All the beasts Of tho nations, both
the cormorant and the bittcrn, lodge In tho
upper lintels OF it," And while read 10
hear nm owl hoot and hyona laugh. The
next entombed city pass has monument
OF 90 PROSTATE COLUMNS OF gray aud rcd
granite, and 1t is Tyre.
The next sepulohcr Of great capital ~
covered with scattered columns and de
faced sphinxes and the sands OF the desert,
and IL is Thebes. As | pass on find tho
resting place Of Mycene, city Of which
Homer sang, and Curinth, 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 Sards and
Smyrna and Persepolis and Memphis and
Baalbek and Carthage, and here are the
cities OF the Plain and Heroulaneum and
Stabia and pompeii. Some Of thom have
mighty sarcophagus and hieroglyphio en-.
tablaturo, but they arc dead and buried.
never to rise,
THR CEMETERY NOT YET FILLED.
But the cemetery OF dead cities Is not yet
filled, and II the present cities OF the world
forget God and with their indeeonciua
shock the heavens, lot them know that
God, who on the cath Of August, ~,
dropped on a city OF Italy Il superlncum
brnnce that staid there II centuries, is still
alive and hates sin now as much MS he did
then, and has at his command all the arm
ament Of destruction withwhich he whelm.
cd their iniquitous predecessors. II was
only few summers ugo that Brooklyn
and New York felt an earthquake tbrob
that sent the people atIrighted into the
streets, and that suggested that there are
forces Of nature now suppressed or held In
check which, easier thnn child in a nur-
sery knocks, down row Of block houses,
could prostratea city or engulf continent
deeper than Pompeii was cngulfod.
Our hope Ia in the mercy OF the Lord con
me that this city, which has the quietest
SAbbaths on the continent, and the best or
der, and the highest tone OF morals OF amy
city that know OF, "a now having brought
into as near neighborhood as C0Bey Island
carnivnls OF pugilism as debasing as any Of
the glAdiatorial contests Of Pompcii. What
a precious crew that "Coney Island Athletic
club Is, under whose auspices these orgies
are enacted What Il degradation TO tho
adjective athletic which ordinarily sug-
gests health and muscle developed Tor use
full purposel Instead of calling II an ath-
letic club they might better style II 1.-THE
Rufllan Club For Smashing the Human
Visage."
Vile men are turning that Conoy Island.
which is one Of the fnest watering plnccs
on all the Atlantic coast, into q place for
the ofiscouring Of the earth 10 congrcgate,
the low horse Jockeys and gamblers, and the
puRilists, and the piolipockotran and the bloats
regurgitated from the depths Of the worst
wards OF these cities. They invite delegates
from universal loaferdom to come 20 their
carnival OF knuckles, But do not believe
that the pugilism contracted for and adycr-
tised for next December will take place IN
our neighborhood
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going
one hlep loO lhTs 1bu ulAY uhift tnt mop
Of barrel down 40 hard that II breaks.
will not believe that the International prize
fight will take place on Long Island or in
the state Of New York until Isec che rowdy
rabble rolling drunk of the cars at Flat
bush avenue and with faces banged md
cut and bleeding from theimhruting scene
Against this infraotion OF the laws OF the
state Of New York lift solemn protest
The curse of Almighty God will rest npon
any community that contents 10 such MI
outrage. Does any one think II cannot be
stopped and that the constabulary would be
overbornei Then let Governor Flower send
down there q regiment Of state militia, and
they will clean out the nuisance in one
hour.
AMERICAN POLITICS.
Warned by the doom Of other cities that
have persisted for their iufiianIsm, or their
cruelty, or their idolRtry, or their dissolute
ness, let all our American cities lead the
right way. Our only dependence Is on God
and Christian influences. Politics will do
nothing but make thinga worse. Send poll
ties TO moralize and save city. and you
send smallpox to heal leprosy or car
cass to relieve the air Of malodor. For