Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-16


or have suffered enough.
There are in all professions and occu,
pations men who are domineered over by
Others, and whose whole life is a struggle
with monstrous opposition, and circum-
stances have their heel upon the throb-
bing and broken hearts For Gods sake,
let them up! Away with the spirit of
Thumbs down" What the world wants
is f,c90 men like Telemachus to leap out
of the gallery into the arena, whether he
be a Roman Catholic monk, or Methodist
steward, or Presbyterian elder, and GO
in between the contestants. Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children Of God"
TRAIN THE CHILDREN RIGHT.
One-half the world is down and the
other half is up. and the half that is up
has Its heel on the half that is down. If
you, as boss workman, or as a contract
or, or as bishop, or as a tate or ma
tional official, or as pote. factor IL
social life. or in any way are " ..,'"ssing
any one, know that the same devil that
possessed the Roman Coliseum oppresses
you. The Diocletians are not all dead.
The cellars leading into the arena of
LIES struggle are not all emptied of their
tigers. The vivisection by young doctors
of dogs and cats and birds most of the
time adds nothing to human discovery,
but is only a continuation of Vespasian' 3
Coliseum.
The cruelties of the world generally be-
gin il nurseries, and in home circles. and
in day schools. The child that transfxes
a fly with pin, or the low feeling that
sets two dogs into combat. or that bullies
a weak or crippled playmate, or the in
difference that starves canary bird,
needs only to be developed in order to
make first class Nero or a full armed
Apollyon. 1t would be a good sentence
to be written on the top line of child's
book. and fit inscription to be en :
broidered in the armchair of the sitting
room, and an appropriate motto for
Judge and jury and district attorney and
sheriff to look at in the courthouse.
blessed are the merciful. for they shall
obtain mercy
And SO the ruins of that Coliseum
preach to me. Indeed the most impress
i've things on earth are ruins. The four
greatest structures ever built are in
ruins. The Parthenon in ruins. the tenn
pie of Diana in ruins. the temple OF
Jerusalem in ruins, the Coliseum in
ruins. Indeed the earth itself will Yet
be a pile ofruins. the mountains in ruins.
the seas in ruins, the cities in ruins. the
the hemispheres in ruins. Yea. further
than that, all up and down the heav
ems are worlds burned up. worlds
wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds aban-
doned. Worlds on worlds in ruins
But am glad to say it is the same old
heaven. and in all that world there is
not one ruin and never Will be ruin.
Not one of the pearly gates will ever be-
come unhinsed. Not one of the anne
thystine towers will ever fall. Not one
OF the mansions Will ever decay Not
one of the cEariots Will ever be I'M
wheeled. Not one of the thrones will
ever rock down. Oh. make sure Of heav-
en-. for it is an everlasting heaven.
Through Christ the Lord get ready for
residence in the eternal palaces.
NIGHT IN THE COLISEUM.
The last evening before leaving Rome
for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt and
Palestine went alone to the Coliseum.
There was not a living soul in all the i'm
mense area. Even those accustomed to
sell curios at the four entrances Of the
building had gone away The place was
SO Overwhelmingly silent l could hear
my own heart beat with the emotions
aroused by the place and hour paced
the arena walked down into the dens
where the hyenas We're once kept. ! as
cended to the placewhere the emperor
used 70 sit. climbed up on the galleries
from which the mighty throngs of peo-
pie had gazad in enchantment.
To break the silence l shouted. and
that seemed to awaken the echoes, echo
upon echo. And those awakened echoes
seemed TO address me, SAYING: Men die.
but their work lives on. Gaudentius, the
architect who planned this structure;
the 10000 ensiaved Jews brought by tt
tus from Jerusalem and who toiled on
these walls, the gladiators who fought
in this arena. the emperors and expresses
who had place on yondar platform. the
millions who during centuries sat and
rose in these galleries. have passed away,
but enough of the Coliseum stands to
tell the story of cruelty and pomp and
power-500 years Of bloodshed."
Then, as l stood there. there came to-
NE another burst of echoes. which seemed
with the prayers and songs
and 9roans of Christians who had ex-
pired in that arena, and they seemed to
say. Hon much it cost to serve God in
ages past, and hew thankful modern
centuries ought to be that the persecu
ton which REDEEMED the sands of this
have been abolished.
And then l questioned the echoes. say
ing, Where is Emperor Titus. who sat
here:" The answer came, Gone to
Where is Emperor Trajan,
who sat here" Gone to judgment"
Where is Emperor Maximinus who sat
hcre:" Gone to Judgment Where
are all the multitudes who clapped and
shouted and waved flags to let the van
pushed Up. or to have them slain put
thumbs down" The echoes answered,
Gone to Judgment" inquired. "-All:"
And they answered, all
And l looked up to the sky above the
ruins. and It was full Of clouds scurry-
ing swiftly past, and those clouds seemed
as though they had faces, and some Of
the faces smiled. and some of them
frowned. and they seemed to have
wings, and some of the wings were
and the others thunder charged,
and the voices of those clouds overpow-
.red the echoes beneath Behold, lie
cometh with clouds, and every eye shall
see him
THE LAST JUDGMENT.
And as stood looking up along the
walls of the Coliseum they rose higher
and higher, higher and higher. until the
seemed to be filled with all
.he nations Of the past, and;all the nations
If the present, and all the nations of the
future, those who went down under the
paws of wild beasts, and those who sat
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