Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-18
P0lIPEII.
Cemetery of the Dead Cities of the
Past.
The Present Cities WIN share tho Fate of
Pompeii and Sineveh m They Forget
God aud shock Heaven with Inde-
cencies-Talmage's Sermon.

The Present cities WIN share the Fate of
Pompeii and Sineveh N They Forget
God aud shock Heaven with Inde-
cencies-TalmAge's Sermon.
In his sermon at the Brooklyn taber-
nacle Sunday morning Rev DR.. Tall
mage presented an arousing thome of
the living cities of the day drawn from
the tomb of n dead city of the past.
The opcning hymn, led by cornet and
organ was joined by the voices Of the
multitude:
Arm OF the Lord, awake. awake
Put on thy strenst1, tho nations shake.
a flash on the night sky greeted us
ps we left the rail train at Naples,
Italy. What was the strange illumin-
alton? II was that wrath OF the many
centuries-Vesuvius. Giant son OF an
earthquake intoxicated mountain of
Italy. Father of many considerations
a volcano, burning SO long, and yet to
keep on burning until, perhaps, it may
be the very torch that viii lSindle the
last >onflagration and set all the world
on ete II eclipscs in violence of be-
havior Cotopaxi and Etna and Strom-
boil and KralSaton- Awful mystery.
Funeral pyre of dead cities Everlast-
like chimney of hell. 1t roars with
fiery "Reminiscences of what il has done,
and with threats of worse things that
it may yet do. would not live in one
OF the villages at its base for present
OF all Italy. On day in December,
1881, IL threw up ashes that floated
away hundreds and hundreds of miles,
md dropped in Constautinoplc and in
the Adriatic sea. and on the Apprentices.
as well as trampling out at its own foot
tho lives OF $1,000 people. Biologists
have tried TO fathom its mysteries, but
the heat consumed the iron Instruments
and drove back the scorched and bis
! tering explorers from the cindery and
crumbling brink. II seems like the
asylum of manaic elements. At one
time far back, its top had been fort
ress where Spartacus fought and was
surrounded, and would have been de-
stroyed had it not been for grape vines
which clothed the mountain side from
top 10 base, and laying hold OF them he
| climbed hand under hand TO safety in
the valley. But for centuries il has
! kept its furnace burning as we saw it
Shat night on our arrival in November
1850
OF course the next day we started
TO see some of the work wrought by
| that frenzied mountain. "All out for
Pompii!' was the cry of the conductor
| And now we stand by the corpse of
that dead city. As we entered the gate
and passed between the walls, i took off
| my hat, as one naturally does in the
| presence of some imposing obscquies
| That city had been at one time a capt.
tai of beauty and pomp the home OF
| grand architecture, exquisite painting,
enchanting sculpture unrestrained ca
| rousal and rapt asscmblage. a high
wall, twenty feet shick, three-fourths
of 1t still visible, encircled the city On
| those walls at distance of only 100
; yards from each other. towers rose for
armed men who wRtched the CITY The
streets ran at right angles and from
! wall to wall, only ono street excepted. In
! tho days of the citys prosperity its
! tow ers glittcrcd in the sun; eight strong
| gates for ingress and egreSs; Gate Of
! the Sea Shore, Gate of IIerculaneun.
! Gate of Nesuvius being perhaps the
most important Yonder stood the
| Temple of Jupiter, hoistcd at an im-
! posing elevation. and with its six
! CoriEthian columns of immense rirth.
/ which stood like carved icebergs, SHIN
| mcring in the light. There stands tho
/ Temple of the Twelve Gods Yonder
see the Temple OF Hercules and the
Temple of Mercury, with affairs OF
marble and bas-reliefs, wonderful
enough TO astouish all succeeding ages
OF art, and the Temple OF .Esculapius,
brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous
with painting. Yonder are the theaters.
| partly cut into surrounding hills and
gloriiied with pictured walls and en-
tered under arches of imposing ma
sorry, and with rooms for captivated
and applaudatory audience, seated or
sta aiding. in vast semi-circle Yonder
are the costly and immense public baths
| OF The city. with more than the modern
/ ineenuities OF Carlsbad Notice the
warmth OF those ancient tepidariums
with lowering radiance of roof. and
/ the vapor Of those caldariums with dec
grated nlcovcs and the cold dash OF
their frigidariums. with floors OF mo-
sale and ceilings of all sisillfuIy inter
mingled hues, and walls upholstered
with all the colors OF the setting sun.
and sofas ON which to recline for slum-
her after the plunge.
Wonder are the barracks Of the ccle-
| bratcd gladiators Yonder is the sum
meI home Of Sallust, the Roman his
torian and senator, the architecture as
elaborate as his character was corrupt
There is the residence OF the poet
| Pansa, with a. compressed Louvre and
| Luxembourg within its wallis. There
/ is the homo of Lucrctius with vases
md antiquities enough 10 turn the head
Of virtuoso YonIer see the Forum
ut the highest place in the city. IL n
entered by two triumphal arches Il is
/ bounded ON three sides by Doric col
nmns Yonder in the suburbs 81 the
| city. is the home OF Arrius Diomcd. the
mayor OF tho suburbs, terraced resi-
dcucc OF billionairedom. gardens. four-
tanned, stained, colounaded, the cellar
Of that villa filed with bottles OF
rarest wine; q few drops Of which were
found 1900 years aftcrward. Along the
streets Of the city are men OF might and
women Of beauty formed into bronze
that many centuries had NO power 60
/ bedim. Battle scenes on walls iu coli
/ ors which all time can not efface
Great city Of PompeH, So Seneca and
/ Tacitus and Cicero pronounced &C.
stand with wc ON the ttnf1e tffa eve.