The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-10-13


history came upon Pompeii not to im-
prove its future condition, for it was
completely oblitera ed and will never be
rebuilt So Sodorn ana Gomarah were
filed with such tu-pitude that they
were not only turned under, but have
for thousands of years been kept under.
/ The two greatest cemeteries are the
/ cemetery in which the sunken 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 them: Here lies Babylon, once
/ called 1.-The hammer of the whole
earth" Dead and buried under piles
| of bitumen and broken pottery and
vitrified brick And l hear a wolf
| howl and reptile hiss as am reading
this epitaph: Isaiah xiii II. THE wild
beast of the desert shall be there and
! their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures"
The next tomb kneel before in this
cemetery of cities is Nineveh. Her
winged lions are down and the slabs OF
ala baster have crumb led, and the sculp-
ture that represented her battles is as
completely scattered as the dust of the
heroes who fought them. Perhaps l
put my knee into the dust Of her Sar-
danapalus as l stoop to read her cpl
taph: Zephaniah ii. IA. Now is Nine
veh desolation and dry like wilder
ness, and fiocks lie down in the midst
of her: all the beasts Of the nations
both the cormorant and the bittern.
lodge in the upper lintels of it The
next entombed city / pass has a
monument Of fifty PROSTATE col
umns of gray and red granite.
and it is Tyre. The next sep
ulcher of great capital is covered
with scattered columns. and dcfaced
sphinxes, and the sands of the desert,
and it is Thebes. As / pass on | find
the resting place OF Mycena, city of
which Homer sang. and Corinth. which
rejected Paul, and depended upon her
fortress Acrocorinthus. which now lies
dismantled on the hill. and l move on
in this cemetery of cities. and | 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
Sta bia. and Pompeii Some of them
have mighty sarcophagus and hero
glyphic ntablature, but they are dead
and buried never to rise.
But the cemetery of dead cities is not
vet filed and if the present cities OF
the world forget God, and with their
. indecencies shock the heavens, let
them know that the God who, on the
oath of August. 80, dropped on city of
Italy a superincum brance that Staid
there seventeen centuries, is still alive
and hates sin now as much as He did
then. and has at His command all the
, armament of destruction with which He
whelmed 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 ma
ture now suppressed, or held in check,
, which, easier than child in nursery
, knocks down row of block houses,
could PROSTATE city, or engulf con-
{ tinent deeper than Pompeii was en-
, quilted. Our hope is in the mercy Of
: the Lord continued to our American
, cities 1t amazes me that this city,
which has the quietest Sabbaths on
the continent and the best order and
the highest tone OF morals of any city
that know of. is now having brought
into as near neighborhood as Coney
island carnivals of pugilism as de-
basing as any of the gladiatorial
contests of Pompeii What pre-
. cious crew that ''Coney island Ath-
. letic club is, under whose auspices
these orgies are enacted. What de-
: graduation to the adjective athletic"
which ordinarily suggests health and
muscle developed for useful purpose.
Instead of calling it an athletic club
they might better style it The Ruff
fan club for Smashing the Human Wis
are" Vile men are turning that Coney
island, which is one of the finest wa
tering places on all the Atlantic coast,
into place for the offscouring of the
earth to congregate.
Warned by the doom of other cities
that have persisted for their rutfianism.
or their cruelty or their idolatry or
. their dissoluteness, let all our Ameri-
can cities lead the right way. Our
only dependence is on God and Chris
: tan influence. Politics will do moth
, ing but make things worse. American
politics will become a reformatory
power on the same day that pandemo-
, MUM becomes church. But there are,
, am glad to say, benign and salutary
: and gracious influences organ
, lied in all our cities which will
vet take them for God and
. Righteousness. Let US ply the gospel
. machinery to its utmost speed and
power. City evangelization is the
, thought Give US pictures of churches,
of schools. of reformatory associations,
of asylums of mercy. Show that the
! day is coming when a great tidal wave
of salvation will roll over all our cities
Show how Pompeii buried will become
, Pompeii resurrected. Demonstrate
the fact that there are millions
; of good men and women who
will give themselves no rest day
; nor night until cities that are now Of the
type of the buried cities of Italy shall
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