Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-09
A DEAD CITY.
A LESSON PROM TBE PAST FOR THE PRS
ENT
A'gnsnty Taught By the Great Brooklyn Divine
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BROOKLYN, October Sin his ser
mon az the Brooklyn Tabernacle. this
morning, Rev. Or. Talmage presented
an arousing theme Of the living cities
or to-day drawn from the tomb Of q
dead city Of the past. The opening
hymn, led by cornet and organ. was
joined In by the voices OF the multi
tude:
Arm Of the Lord, awake, awake,
Put on Thy strength, the nations shake.
The subject was: "Pompeii n its
Lessons" The text, Isaiah 25:2, Thou
hast made Of adefenced city q ruin"
A fash on the night sky greeted US
90 we left the rail train at Naples, Italy.
What was the strange illumination? IL
was that wrath OF many centuries
Nesuvius. Giant son Of an earthquake.
Intoxicated mountain OF Italy. Father
OF many cO~nsternations. A volcano,
burning 50 long, aud yet 20 keep on
burning until, perhaps, it may be the
very torch that will kindle the last con-
hagration and set an the world on FIRE.
lt eclipses To violence Of behavior CO.
topaz and Ktna and StrOmb0ll and
krakatoa. Awful mystery. Funeral
pyre OF dead cities. Everlasting par
oxysm OF mountains. II seems like q
chimney Of hell. IL rOars with ferv
Renaissance Of what 10 has done, and
with threats OF worse things that 10 may
yet do. / would not live in one Of the
villages az It's base FOR a present Of all
Italy. On q day 10 December, 1881, It
threw up ashes that loated away hun
dreds and hundreds OF miles, aud drop
ped ia ConstantinOple ana in the Adri-
attic Sea and
on THE APENNINEs
as we'll as trampling out at its own foot
the lives Of eighteen thousand people.
Biologists have tried 90 fathOm It's mys-
teries, but the heat consumed the iron
instruments and drove back the scorch-
cd and blistered explorers from the cin-
derry and c%rumbllng brink. II seems
like the asylum Of maniac elements. At
one time far back its top had been a
fortress, where Spartacus fought and
was surrounded, and would have been
destroyed had II not been for the grape
vines which clothed the mountain side
from top 70 base, and laying hold Of
them he climbed hand under hand to
safety Ia the valley. But for centuries
IL has kept It's furnace burning as we
saw 10 that night on our arrival In Nov
ember OF 1859.
OF course the next day we started TO
see some OF the work wrought by that
frenzled mountain. "All out for Pom
peiil' 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 of
my hat, as one naturally does in the
presence OF some imposing obseQuies.
That city had been az q time a capi-
tai Of beauty and pomp, the home Of
grand architecture, exquisite painting,
enhancing sculpture, exquisite paint
ing, enhancing sculpture, unrestrained
c~arousal. and rapt assemblage. A high
wall, twenty feet thich, three-fourths
Of it still VISIBLE, encircled the city.
On those walls at q distance OF only one
hundred yards from each other, towers
rose for armed men who watched the
-ttv The IS ran at right angle les
vail, only one street
days OF the citY's
GERS glittered Ia the