Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-12
r THE TABERNACLE.
TALMAGE DlSCOURSES ON POM
PEI AND ITS LESSONS.

RBROoKtYN, Oct. Sin his sermon at the
'ooklyn tabernacle this morning Rev. Dr.
Image presented an arousing theme OF
e living cities of today drawn from the
NIB of a dead city of the past. The open.
< hymn, led by cornet and organ, was
ned by the voices Of the multitude:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake.
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
The subject was "Pompeii and It's Les.
ns;" the text, Isaiah XIV, ., Thou hast
lde of defended city ruin"
flash on the night sky greeted us as we
the rail train at Naples, Italy. What
BIS the strange illumination2 1t was that
'ath of many centuries-Nesuvius Giant
b ian earthquake. intoxicated mountain
Italy. Father Of many consternations
volcano burning so long and vet to keep
burning until perhaps it may be the very
Fch that will kindle the last confagra-
pm and set all the world on fire. 1t eclipses
violence Of behavior CotopaXi and AItna
d Stromboli and Krakatoa. Awful mys-
~. Funeral pyre of dead cities. Ever
sting paroxysm of mountains. 1t seems
Re a chimney of hell. 1t roars with fiery
miniscences of what it has done and with
'NhNN VI Npl-C NilhE0 'Al'th ~ may ytN wv
would not live in one of the villages at its
Sc for n present of all Italy.
IN day in December, 1851 it threw up
hes that noated away hundreds and hun
eds of miles, and dropped in CONSTANT
pie and in the Adriatic sea- and on the
)cnnines, rs well as trampling out at its
n foot the lives Of $1,000 people. Geolo-
its have tried to fathom its mysteries,
the heat consumed the iron instru-
uts and drove back the scorched and
stored explorers from the cindery and
mbling brink. 1t seems like the asylum
maniac elements.
st one time, far back, its top had been
ortress, where Spartacus fought and was
grounded, and would have been destroyed
h it not been for the grape vines which
pthcd the mountain side from top to base,
d laying hold of them he climbed hand
der hand to safety in the valley. But
centuries it has kept its furnace burn
as we saw it that night on our arrival
November Of 1889
THE DEAD CITY.
If course the next day we started to see
ne of the work wrought by that frenzied
Intain. "All out for Pompeii." was
cry Of the conductor. And now we
nd by the corpse of that dead city. As
entered the gate and passed between
walls | took off my hat, as one nat
Ally does in the presence of some impos-
Obsequies That city had been at one
lie capital of beauty and pomp, the
hne of grand architecture, exquisite
nting, enchanting sculpture, unrcStrain-
carousal and rapt assemblagc. \ high
II, 20 feet thick, three-qlarters of it still
Die, encircled the city. On those walls at
istancc Of only lGO yards from each other
Ecrs rose for armed men who watched
city. The streets ran ut right angles
from wall to wall, only one street eX-
pteJ
II The days Of the city's prosperity its
yrrs glittered in the sun Eight strong
e, for inare.s and cgress-Gate of the
shore, Gate Of Icrculaneum, Gate of
suvUs being perhaps the most impor.
t. Wonder stood the temple of Jupiter
stcd at an imposing elevation, and with
six corinthian columns of immense
III. which stood like carved iceberus
mmciiu% in the light. There stands the
apple &C he Twelve Gods. Wonder see the
upie Of Hercules and the Temple Of Mer.
y. with affairs of marble and has-re!icf.
ndcrful enough to aatound all succeed.
ages Of art, and the Temple of I,scula
s., brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous
Il painting.
onder are the theatcrS, partly cut into
rounding hills and glorifed with pic
ed rails and entered under arches Of
posing masonry, and with rooms for
!y"t"l AID applaUdatory audiences,
cd or standing, in vast scmicircle Yon-
are the costly and immense public
rs OF the city, with more than he mod
n ingenuitias OF Carlsbad. Notice the
rmth of those ancient tepidaYiums with
Ecrlh.; rad lance OF roof, and the vapor Of
So caidHrUns with decorated alcovc.,.
thccold dash of their frigidarums with
~ Of mosaic and ceilings of all skillful-
n'rmnlI@ed hues and walls upholster-
VT. all ~" cIlorS of the setting sun and
Is ON winch 20 rccliuo for slumbcr after
plunge.
onuer are the barracks of the celebrated
uatorS. Cnder is the summer home
Sallust, the I{oman historian and sena-
the architecture as elaborate us his
ractcr was corrupt, There is the resi-
&c OF the poet Pansa, with compressed
Nrc ana Luxembourg within his walls.
,rt * the home Of Iucretits, with vases
antiquities enough TO turn the head of
rrtuOao. Wonder see the Forum at the
hest place OF the city. 1t is entered by
triumphal arches. 1t is bounded on
&c SIDES by GOric columns.
und"r, in thc suburbs of the CITY. i tho
Re of Arrius Doomed, the mayor of the
urhs, terraCvd residence OF bllonGire-
b, gardens fountaned statucd, colon
ed, the cellar of that villa filled with
les OF rarest WING, IL few drops of which
found 500 years aftcrwnrd. Along
streets of th" city arc men of might and
men OF beauty formed INTO bronze that
centuries had no power to bedim.
He scenes on wall, in colors which all
cannot ellace. Great city Of Pompciil
@rhecn and Tacitus and Cicero pro
nee it.
WORD PICTURE.
and with ne on its walls this evening
AuE 81, A. ID. 70. See the throngs pass
up and down in tyrian purple and Cir
OF araheequc and neck unclaimed with
cloGs stones, proud official in imposing
meeting the slave carving travs
INK with gobIets and a-smol;e with
cacies from paddocl; and sea, and
rallst, muSinS over the degradation of
times, passes the prohigate. doinr his
10 make them worse Hank TO the