The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-18
AT THE TABERNACLE.
OR. TALMAGE DlscouRsE5 ON POM
PEN AND ITS LESSONS.

Brooklyn tabernacle this morning Rev. DR..
falmage presented an arotlsng theme of
the living cities of today drawn from the
tomb of a dead city of the past. The open
ing hymn, led by cornet and Organ was
joined 10y the voices of the multitude
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake,
Put ON thy strength, the nations shake.
The subject was "Pompeii aud Its Les
sons the text, Isaiah XIV, =, "Thou hast
made of n defended city ruin"
A flash on the night sky greeted us rs we
left the rail train at Naples, Italy. What
was tie strange Illumination 1t was that
wrath Of many centuries--Nrsuvius. Giant
son OF an earthquake. Intoxicated mountain
of italy. Father of many considerations
A volcano burning SO long and yet to keep
on burning until perhaps it may he the very
torch that will kindle the last couiiagra-
ton and set all the world on fire. 1t eclipses
in violence of behavior Cotopaxi and Ktna
and Stromboli and krakatoa. Awful mys-
terry Funeral pyre of dead cities. Ever
lasting paroXysm of mountains 1t seems
like a chimney of hell. 1t roars with fiery
"reminiscences of what it has done and with
threats Of worse things that it may yet do.
! would not live in one of the villages at its
base for n present of all Italy.
On day in December, 1851, it threw up
ashes that floated away hundreds and hun
dreds of miles, and dropped in CONSTANT
nOple, and in the Adriatic sea, and on the
Apenniues, as well as trampling out at it's
own foot the lives of $1,000 people. Geolo-
gists have tried to fathom it's mysteries,
but the heat consumed the iron instru-
ments and drove back the scorched and
bistered explorers from the cindery and
crumbling brink. 1t seems like the asylum
of maniac elements.
At one time, far back, its top had been
fortress, where Spartacus fought and was
surrounded. and would have been destroyed
had it not been for the grape vines which
clothed the mountain side from top to base,
and laying hold of them he climbed hand
under hand to safety in the valley. But
for centuries it has kept its furnace burn
ing as we saw it that night on our arrival
In November of 1889.
THE DEAD CITY.
OF course the next day we started to see
some of the work wrought by that frenzed
mountain. "All ou5 for Pompeii!' was
the cry of the conductor. And now we
stand by the corpse of that dead city. As
we entered the gate and passed between
the walls | took off my hat, as one nat
urally does in the presence of some impos
ing obsequies That city had been at one
time capital of beauty and pomp, the
home of grand architecture, exquisite
painting, enchanting sculpture, unrestrain'
ed carOusal and rapt assemblage. a high
wall, 20 feet thick, three-quarters of it still
visible, encircled the city On those walls at
distance of only 100 yards from each other
towers rose Tor armed men who watched
the city. The streets ran at right angles
aud from wall to wall, only one street eX-
Cepted.
In the days of the city's prosperity its
towers glittered in the sun. Eight strong
gates for ingress and egress-Gate of the
Seashore, Gate of Herculaneum, Gate of
Nesuvius being perhaps the most impor-
tant. Eonder stood the temple of Jupiter,
hoisted at an imposing elevation, and with
its six corinthian columns of immense
girth, which stood like carved icebergs
shimmering III the light. There stands the
Temple of the Twelve Gods. Wonder see til,
Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Mer
curry, with affairs of marble and bas-relief
wonderful enough to astound all succeed
ing ages of art, and the Temple of HIscula
plus, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous
with painting.
Yonder are the theaters, partly cut int
surrounding hills and gloritied with pic
tured walls and entered under arches o
imposing masonry, and with rooms 70
captvated and applaudatory audiences
seated or standing, i'll vast semicircle. GOn
der are the costly and immense public
baths of the CITY with more than the mod
dern inpenuities of Carlsbad Notice tn,
warmth of those ancient tepdariums witt
lowering radiance of roof and the vapur o
tLos. caldarhlns with Decorated alcoyas
aud the cold dash of their CriOidariums witt
Aoors nf mosaic and caiIinys of oil sliIlfrI
Iy interr,in,,Iad Lues md ryoIIa nnbnisto,.
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sofas ON which to recline for slnmher afte
the nlunue
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gladiators Wonder il the Summer hon,
If SnIlnet tho Roman historian and soma
TOR tLa architectI,ra nc eIabnrota as hi
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anLnrhs ,arracad rasidanoa of hiIIion,;n,
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nadad the caIIar of that villa 6Iled vii
hnttlaS Of rarost ,,;,,a a fo,, d,o,s of ,,Iio
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