Milford chronicle., 1893-10-13
MILFORD DEL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER IL, I893.

such turpitude that they were not on
: turned under, but have for thousands
years been kept under The two create
cemeteries are the cemetery in which d
sunken ships are buried all the way [
; tween Fire island and Fastnet lighthous
and the other cemetery is the cemetery
dead cities.
get down on my knees and read tl
: epitapheology of long line of them: He
lies Babylon, once called "The hammer
the whole earth" dead and buried und
piles of bitumen and broken pottery an
vitrefied bricks. And / hear a wolf hoy
and reptile hiss as am reading this en-
taph isaiah xiii, 2i), 'The wild beast Of Il
desert shall be there and their houses sha
be full of doleful creatures"
The next tomb kneel De- fore in this cen
etery of cities is Ninereh Her winge
lions are down. and the slabs of alabastt
have crumbled, and the sculpture that rel
resented her battles is as completely seal
tered as the dust Of the heroes who Tough
them. Perhaps I put my knee into tn
I dust Of her Sardanapalus as / stoop TO rea
her epitaph (Zephaniah ii, 14); 'Now /
/ Nineveh a desolation and dry like a vii
| derness, and flocks lie down in the mids
of her All the beasts of the nations, botl
I the cormorant and the bittern, lodge in tn
| upper lintels Of it," And while l read it
hear an owl hoot and hyena laugh. Th
next entombed city pass has monunen
of 80 prostrate columns of gray and rec
granite, and it is Tyre
The next sepulcher of a great capital /.
covered with scattered columns and de
faced sphinNes and the sands of the desert
and it is Thebcs. As 1 pass on / find the
resting place of Mycen@, a city Of which
Homer sang, and Corinth which rejected
Paul and depended upon her fortress Ae-
rocorinthus, which now lies dismantled on
the hill, and / move on in this cemetery of
cities, and l 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-
tablature, but they are dead and buried,
never to rise
THE CEMETERY NOT YET FILLED.
But the cemetery Of dead cities isnot yet
filed, and if the present cities of the world
forget God aud with their indeeencies
shock the heavens, let them know that
God, who on the 9th Of August 20,
dropped on city Of Italy superincum-
brance that staid there II centuries, is still
alive and hates sin now as much as he did
then, and has at his command all the arm
ameut Of destruction withwhieh he whelm-
ed their iniquitous predecessors. 1t was
only 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 nur-
sery knocks, down a row Of block houses,
could PROSTATE a city or engulf a continent
deeper than Pompeii was engulfed.
Our hope is in the mercy of the Lord con-
-inued to our American cities. It amazes
ne that this city, which has the quietest
on the continent, and the best or
Ter, and the highest tone of morals of any
.ity that 1 know Of, is now having brought
nto as near neighborhood as Coney Island
ARRIVALS Of pugilism as debasing as any of
he gladiatorial contests of Pompeii. What
precious crew that "Coney Island Athletic
lubn is, under whose auspices these orgies |
re enactedl What degradation to the /
objective athletic" which ordinarily sug-
.ests health and muscle developed for use /
al purposel Instead Of calling it an ath- |
atic club they might better style it 'The /
iuflian Club For Smashing the Human 1
'isage."
Vile men are turning that Coney Island,
'hich is one of the finest watering places
n all the Atlantic coast, into a place for
be Offscouring of the earth to congregate.
he low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the
ugilists and the pickpockets,an the bloats
sgurgitated from the depths of the worst
ards of these cities. They invite delegates
ON universal lOaferdom to come to their
lrnival of knuckles. But do not believe
nat the pugilism contracted for and adver-
sed for next December will take place in
rneighbOrhOOd.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going [,
ne step too far. You may drive the hoop /
a barrel down so hard that it breaks III
i'll not believe that the international prize !
yht viii take place on Long Island or in /
Ie state of New York until see the rowdy q
bible rolling drunk of the cars at Flat 4
ash avenue and with faces banged and
10 and bleeding from theimbruting scene. q
gainst this infraction of the laws of the t
ate of New York l lift solemn protest. t
ne curse of Almighty God will rest upon o
" community that cons ents to such an t
trage. Does any one think it cannot be u
)pped and that the constabulary would be c
erborne? Then let Governor Flower send II
wn there q regiment Of state militia, anC b
ey will clean cut the nuisance in one h
ur. a.
Warned by the doom Of other cities that Il
We perished for their rufianism, or their Ii
Ielty, or their idolatry, or their dissolute-
IS, let all our American cities lead the IL
Int way, Our only dependence is on God h
Christian influences. Politics win do IL
thing but make things worse. Send poll sc
s to moralize and save a city, and you q
ID smallpox to heal leprosy or a car G
IS to relieve the air of malodor. For pl
at politics will do / refer you to the W
ht weeks of qualification enacted at st
lshington by our American senate dI
nlerican nolitics will become u rafnsn-a. te
y power on the same day that pandemo- pa
m becomes a church. But there are, l | in
glad to say, benign and salutary and til
ciOus influences organized in all our Gl
es which Will yet take them for God
righteousness. Let us ply the gospel
chinery to its utmost speed and power.
y evangelization is the thought Ac- ar
toned as are religious pessimists to tn
Eli upon statistics of evil and dOlorous th
Is, we want some one with sanctified lai
IT and good digestion to put in long at
profigaeies baked, and souls ransom wi
and cities redeemed. are
i've us pictures of churches, Of schools, SUI
associations, of asylums Of TO-,
rcy. Break in upon the "Aiisereres" of s.
Iplaint and dependency with ''Te set
ims'' and "Jubilatesn of moral and reli- ma
IS victory. Show that the day is coming cas-
N great tidal wave of salvation win roll to
rail- our cities Show how Pompeii buried nat
become Pompeii resurrecteds Demon to
te the fact that there are millions Of uni
d men and women who viii give them me
es no rest day nor night until cities that bee
now of the type Of the buried cities of per
y shall take type from the New Jerusa- ~
coming down from God out of heaven.
il the advancing morn. ,
make the same proclamation today that
con made to the shivering towards ofhis 70
y, NWhosoever is fearful and afraid,
i'm return and depart early from Mount PIE
ad. +" Close up the ranks Lift the y
iel standard. Forward into this Arma-
lon that is now opening and let the SUI
I RIM all alono tho lfup. Rroolrlvr for ~