The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-23

underground rooms where the gladia-
! tors were aCcuSt Omed TO wait until the
clapping of the people outside demand
ed that they come forth armed-tO
murder or TO be murdered. All the ar
engagements were complete, as enough
OF the cellars and galleries still remain
to indicate. What fun they must have
had turning lions without food or drink
| for week upon an unarIned disciple
of Jesus Christ!
| At the dedication of this Coliseum
5000 wild beasts and 10000 immortal
men were slain, 80 that the blood of
iaen and beasts was not brook, but Il
river; not pool. but a lake Having
been in that way dedicated, be not sur
prlSed when | tell YOU that Emperor
l'rODns on one OCCASION threw into that
arena of the Coliseum Il thousand
| StagS, q thousand bOars and a thousand
| ostriches. What fun it must have
been-thc sound of tlumpets, the roar
of wild beasts and the grOans OF dying
men, while N the gallery the wives and
children Of those down under the lions
| paw wrung their hands and shrickpd
out IN widowhood and orphanagc,
while 100000 people clapped their
hands, and there was "lIa. ha." wide
as ltOme and deep as perdition.
The corpses Of that arena we're put
on cart or dragged by hook out
through what was called the Gate OF
Death. What an excitement it must
have been when two combatants e'
tered the arena, the one with swO
and shield and the other with net an
spear! The swOrdsman strikes AZ tn,
man with the net and spear lie lodges
the sword ana then filings the net over
the head of the SwOrdSman and jerks
n Nf hn np,.lf fl,D
man who flung the net puts his foot on
the neck of the fallen swordsman and
spear In hand, looks up to the galleries
as much as to say, "Shali let him uI
or shall | plunge this spear inte his
body until he Is dead?'
The audience had two sigr1, either
OF which they might give. If they
waved their flags. It, meant sp re the
fallen contestant. If they turned their
thumbs down, it meant slay him. DC.
casionally the audience would wave
their flags, and tie fallen would be let
up, but that was too tame sport for
most occasions, and generally the
thumbs from the galleries were turned
down, and with that sign would be
heard the accompanying shout of
"Nill! Kill! Kill! Kill"
Yet 1t was far from being mono,
tone of sport, for there was change
of programme III that wondrous Coli
, scum. Under a strange and powerful
machinery, be Jond anything of modern
Invention, the floor of the arena would
begin to rock End roll and then give
, away. and there would appear lake
or bright Wfter, and on its banks tr. u
; would spring up rustling with foliage
e and tigers appeared among the jun
n giles, and armed men would come forth
n and there would be a tiger hunt. The I
u on the lake in the Coliseum, armed
q ships would float, aud there would b
W sea fight. What fun What lots o
~ fun! When pestilence came, in orde
: to appease the gods, in this Coliseum
sacrifice would be made, ard the peo
III pie would thrOng that great Lphithe
DC ater, shouting. "The Christ IS to tn
wild beasts y and there would be
/. cracking of human bones in the Jaw
8. Of leonine ferocity.
c! But all this was to lie stopped. b
20 the outraged sense of public decency
+. NO. There Is only one thing that ha
NJ ever stopped cruelty and sin. and tha
70 8 Christianity, and it was Christianity
Il whether you like its form or not tina
- stopped this massacre of centuries
- One day while, in tie Coliseum, Il Ro
man victory was being celebrated, anC
', 100000 enraptnred spectators were
- ioohihS uoWH upon TWO RlaulalOrS II
IL the arena stabbing and slicing each
a other to death, an Asiatic monk Of the
It name of Telemachus was so overcome
Dy the cruelty that he leaped from the
. gallery into the arena and ran in be
, tween the two swordsmen and pushed
( first one back and then the other back
and broke up the contest
or course IN a audi.nc. y,o ,frrortod
at bavino thar ,:nnrt atnnmo1 ' ,h
4 hLrled sfonea ot the 'I' head of' 'tt% moio'y ory
chus until no ra,I IaoG !, VI tha nrana
But when the dnv wa" n,s.oG Iu nnI %'t't'e ,h o.
passions of tha na"ni, r't hoJ o",.1 .,i, ''T nn
/ they deplorod the hT mart vrdon, ''I" "r tho T,a
t brave and Christian Tejem,nhus and Nri
' as a result of the oWerdona crmeIty the tha
< human sacrilicas Of the Wo,ioon,, ,,"ro c'so
3 forever abolishod ''''''' "''>
what q nooI tl';,, .,,.-,
crnait ;as ba" s""' 1,ai,'h' S'y y"ti' tn"tS'ic.
s,ma snirit t'oF W. ; u,"Seu: wy lilelias' lne
nr morai p ~ vi '.I'ioS a'i'So"lel'ls ana
to dnv a,thonnE - - ,a az, o'n ~, Ihe Woti.'
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