The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-10-10
TALMAGE'S ERMoN
PRE- sCurD ~ rurROOKLY TAB
ERNACLE LII PO"DA'
The Subject OF His Scion was ""ip0''
md ,+sr, i Interesting Dis
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morning. Rev. DFFalmaSe presented an
arousing theme o fhe living cues OF 'oo's
drawn from the bmb OF IL dead city Oh
the past The ohing hymn led by cornef
and oroan WIS lined by the voices of the
multitude:
Arm of eLord. awake, awake!
Put on thy Fength, the nations shake.
The suhiecfkas: ''Pompeii and its Les
sons" The At: Isiah %: > Thou hast
made of a fensed city ii ruin"
A flash OF the night sky greeted us as
We left the ill train at Naples, Italy. What
WAS the stinge illumination? 1t was that
wrath of Eny centurics-Nesuvius. Giant
son of aljearthquake. Intoxicated noun
tain of lilly Father of many consterna-
tons AEocano burning so long. and yet
to keep on burning until, perhaps, it may
be the cry torch that will kindle the last
confiagation and set all the world on fire.
1t ecligses i'll violence of behavior Cotopaxi
and 4setna and Stromboi and krakatoa
AwfL mystery. Funeral pyre of dead
cites Everlasting paroXysm of mountains
III seems Ike Il chimney of hell. 1t roare;
VITA fiery "reminiscences of what it has
Done. and with threats of worse things
that il may yet do. | would not live in
one Of the villages at its base for IL present
OF all Italy. On Il day in December 1851,
u threw up asher that il0atod away hun
dr"dS and hundreds of miles, and dropped
IN ConStdntinope and i'll the Adriatic sea
and on the ApcnnineS, as we'll as tramplng
our at It's own foot the lives of eighteen
Thousand people" biologists have tried to
fathom its mysteries. but the heat consumed
Inc IRON Instruments ana drove back the
scorched and bliSterri explorers from the
CludCry and CrUmbiin- brink Ii seems, like
the asylum of maniac elements. At one
time FAR back it>i top had been fortress
where SpartacuS fought ami was surround
ed, and would have been destroyed had it
moi been for the grape vines which clothed
She mountain side from top to base. and
laying hold of them he climbed hand under
hand to safety in the valley. But for cen
turit~ il has kept It's furnace burning as
We saw it that night on our arrival Iii
November Of 1889.
OF course the ncxt day started to
see some of the work wrought by that
frcnZicd mountain. "All out for Pom.
pcii.' was the cry of the conductor.
And now VT stand by the corpse OF THAI
dead ,-ity. rs entered the %at" and
passed between the walls. | took off my
hat, rs one naturally does III the presence
Of some imposing obSequics. That city
had been II one time 4 capital Of beauty
end pomp. the home of grand archltec-
turc, exquisite pointing. enchanting sculp-
tur". unrestraned carouSal, and rapt as
semnla2r. ! high wall. twenty feet thick
tllreefourths Of it still visible, encircied
the city. On those walls ut Il distance
OF only one hundred yards from each
other towers rose for armed men
who watched the city. The streets ram
al right angles and from wall To wall,
only one street excepted In the days Of
the cityS prosperity, lis towers @littercd
III the sun; eight strong gates for ingrCSS
and c-ress; gate of the sea shore, gate
"t Hercuianeun. gate of NeSuyiuS being
perhaps the most Important Ionder
stood the temple of Jupiter, hoisted at an
imposing elevation, and with its six
CorlnthIan columns of immense grih,
which stood like carved icebergs SHIN
merng in the light. There stands the
temple Of the Twelve Gods. Wonder
see The temple of Hercules. and the
temple of Mercury. with affairs of marble
and baS-rellet, wonderful enough to as
found all succeeding ages of art. and the
Simple of AeScuiapius. brilliant with
sculpture ana gorgeous with painting.
1ondcr are the thcaters, partly cut into
surrounding hills ana gorihcd with pie
tured wallis and entered under arches of
imposing masonry and with rooms for
cdpiiyatcd and explanatory audiences,
seated or Standing. III vast Sein-circie.
Aondcr are the costly and immense pub
liz baths of the city, with more than the
modern iHEcnultics of Carlsbad. Notice
the Warmth of those ancient tepidariums
with lowering radiance of roof. and the
Vapor of those cadarlums with decorated
alcorvS and the cold dash of their frgd-
arums with floors of mosaic, and cell
Iuy~ Of ali Skituly intcrminglrd hues
ami walls upholstered with all the cu.ors
OF the setting sun, and sofas on which to
Fe2liuc for SIumbnr after the plunre.
Gonder are the barracks of the rcIe6ra-
tel rlatl1fnr~ Tnudef. is the sltI,rnni.
home of SuIlHSt thr Roman historian
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