Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-18

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that literature is all that is necessary
TO keep a city right2 Why. Sallust,
with a pen that was the boast of Roman
I literature. had mansion in that doom
ed city. Do you think that sculpture
and art are quite sufficient for the pro
duction OF good morals? Then, correct
your delusions by examining the stat-
ues in the Temple of Mercury ut Pom
peii. or the winged figures of its Par
thenon' and the colonnades and arches
of this house of Doomed BY all means
have schools and Dusseldorf and
Dore exhibitions, and galleries
where the genius of all ths
centuries can bank itself up in
snowy sculpture. and oil bric-a-brac.
all pure art, but nothing save the re.
Z ligion of Jesus Christ can mako city
moral In proportion as churches and
! Bibles and Christian printing presses
and revivals Of religion abound is city
clean and pure. What has buddhism.
/ or Confucinnism or Mohammcdanism
done in all the hundreds of years OF
their progress for the elevation of so
Z ciety? Absolutely nothing. Pcloin and
Madras and Cairo are Just what they
were ages ago. except as Christianity
has modified their condition What Is
l the difference between our Brooklyn
and their Pompeii? No difference, ex-
cept that which Christianity has
wrought Favor all good art, but take
best care OF your churches and your
/ Saba th-schoois and your Bibles and
I your family affairs
/ Yea, see in our walk to-day through
uncovered Pompeii what sin will do for
a city. We ought 10 be slow TO assign
I the judgments OF God. Cities are some
times afflicted just as good people arc
afflicted, and the earthquake and the
cyclone and the epidemic are no sign
/ in many eases that God is angry with
city. and the distress is sent for some
good and kind purpose. whether we un-
derstand II or not. The law that APP
plies 20 individuals may apply 10 Chris.
/ tian cities as WELL "All things work
d together for good 10 those that love
Cod" Dut the greatest calamity OF
history came upon Pompeii not to i'm.
provo. Us future condition. for 10 was
completely obiitcra I'D and will never be
rebuilt IL was so bad that Il needed TO
( be buried 100 years before even
its ruins were fit 20 be uncov.
I cred So Sodom sand Gomorrah
We're filed with such turps.
tudc that theywere not only turned un.
der, but have for thousands of years
been kept under
The two greatest cemeteries are the
cemetery in which the sun ken ships are
buried all the way between Fire Island
and Fastnet lighthouse and the other
cemetery is the cemetery of dead cities.
l get down on my knees and read the
epitapheology of long line of theml
| Here lies Babylon, once called ''the
hammer of the whole earth" Dead
and buried under the piles of bitumen
and broken pottery and vitrefied brick
And hear wolf howl and reptile
hiss as am reading this epitaphi
Isaiah xiii, 81, 'I'he wild beast OF the
desert shall be there and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures"
The next tomb lyneel before in this
cemetery of cities is Ninevch Her
winged lions are down and the slabs of
alabaster have crumblcd, and the sculp.
ture that represented her battles is AS
completely scattered as the dust of the
heroes who fought them Perhaps /
put ny knee into the dust of her Sar-
danapalus as | stood TO read her cpl
taph: Iephaniah, il, 10: Now is Mn.
even a desolation and dry like n wilder.
ness; aQd floclSs lie down in the midst
of her; all the beasts OF the nations.
both the cormorant and the bittecn.
lodge in the upper lintels OF it, And
while / read il j hearst an owl boot.
and hyena laugh. The next entombed
city j pass has monument of fiftv
PROSTATE columns of gray aDd red gran.
lite and il is Tyre. The next sepulcher Of
great capital is covered with scattered
columns and defaccd sphinxes and the
sands of the desert, and IL is Thebes
As pass on ] find the resting place of
Mycene, city OF which Homer sang.
and corinth. which rejected Paul ana
depended upon her fortress Acrocoriu.
thus, which now lies dismantlcd on the
hill and | move on in this cemetery Of
cities. and find the tombs OF Sardis
and Smyrna. and Persepolis, and Men,
phis, and Baalbek, and Carthage. and
here arc the Cities OF the Plain. and
iIerculaneum and Stabia. and Pom.
peii Some OF them have mighty sar.
cophngus and hieroglyphic entablaturc
but they are dead and buried. never "a
rise
Bat the cemetery OF dead cities rs not
yet filed. and il the present cities OF
the world forgot God, and with their
indeceneies shock the Heavens. let
them know that the God who, on the
9th Of August 20. dropped on CITY
Of Italy superincumbrance that staid
there seventeen centuries. is stin alive
and hates sin now "a much as he aid
then, and has at his command all the
armament Of destruction with which
he overwhelmed their iniquitious pre-.
decessors 10 was only few summers
ago that brooklyn and New York felt
an earthquake throb that sent the peo-
pie atfrighted into the streets. and that
suggested that there are forces a.
nature now suppressed or held n
check which. easier shnn "a ehflf
in nursery knocks down row O.
block houses. could prastrute d cit,
or eugulf @ continents deeper thar
Pompeh was ongulfen Our hone
is in the mercy OF The L.rrl continued Il
our American cities e amazes IN,
that this city, which has the quiet
esq Saobnths ON the continent AND
tho best order and the highosi
tone OF morals Of any city thas
] know Of is now havina brought
into as near neighborhool as Ccuev
Island carnivals of 1ugilism as dobaa.
ing as any of the Fiadiatorial contests