The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-15

IN the galleries from which the
mighty throngs Of people had
yazed in enchantment. To break
the silence shouted and that
seemed to nwals the echoes, echo
apon echo And those awakened echoes
seemed to address me, saying: Men
die, but their work lives on. Gauden-
lius the architect who planned this
structure, the sixty thousand enslaved
Jews brought by Titus from Jerusalem,
and who toied on these walls, the glad
iators who fought in this arena, the
emperors and expresses who had place
On yonder platform, the millions who
during centuries. sat and rose in these
galleries have passed away, but enough
Of the Colosseum stands to tell the story
Of cruelty and pomp and power Five
hundred years OF bloodshed." Then, as
stood there, there came to me another
burst of echoes, which seemed throb-
bing with the prayers and songs and
groans Of Christians who had expired
in that arena, and they seemed to
say: "How much it cost to
serve God in ages past and how
thankful modern centuries ought
to be that the prosecutions which red
dened the sand of this amphitheater
have been abolished" And then Iques-
toned the echoes, saying; Where is
Emperor Titus who sat here?" The an
swer came: "Gone to judgment"
"Where is Emperor Trajan who sat
hereP" Gone to Judgment" Where
is Emperor Maximus who sat here%
GONE to Judgment" Where are all
the multitudes who clapped and shouted
and waved flags to let the vanquished
up, or, to have them slain, put thumbs
DOWN" The echoes answered: 'Gone
to Judgment" inquired: "All?'
And they answered.: "All" And l
looked up to the sky above the ruins,
and it was full of clouds scurrying
swiftly past, and those clouds seemed
as though they had faces, and some Of
the faces smiled and some Of them
frowned, and they seemed to
have wings, and some Of the
wings were moon-gilt and the
Others thunder-charged, and the
voices Of those clouds overpowered the
echoes beneath. Behold He cometh
with the clouds and every eye shall sec
Him" And as stood looking up along
the walls Of the Colosseum, they rose
higher and higher, higher and higher,
until the amphitheater seemed to be
filed with all the nations Of the past,
and all the nations Of the present and
all the nations of the future, those who
went down under the paws of wild
beasts, and those who sat waving flags
to let up the conquered, and those who
held thumbs down to command their
assassination, and small and great, and
emperor and slave and pastor and peo-
Pile, and righteous and wicked, the am
phitheater, seeming to rise to infinite
heights on all sides Of me, and in the
center Of that amphitheater, instead oi
the arena of combatants, agreat throne
stood, rising higher and higher, higher
and higher, and on it stood the Chris
for whom the martyrs died and against
whom the Diocletians plotted theii
prosecutions, and waving one hant
} toward the piled up splendors to th'
right of Him he cried, Come, y
blessed" and waving the other hant
toward the piled up glooms on the lef
, Of Him He cried, Depart ye cursed.
And so the Colosseum Of Rome tina
, evening Of 1889 seemed enlarged int
the amphitheater of the last judgment
and passed from under the arch o
that mighty structure mighty even in 1t
ruins, praying TO Almighty God, through
: Jesus Christ, for mercy in that day 70
which all other days were made, an
that as expected mercy from God
. l might exercise mercy toward Others
and have more and more Of the spiri
Of ''Let-him-up" and less and less G
the spirit Of "rhumbs-d own" We ma
} not all be able to do sum In highe
mathematics, but there is sum in tn
first rule OF gospel arithmetic which W
all may do. II is a sum in simple add
tion. add to your faith virtue, and =
: virtue knowledge, and to lnowledg
temperance, and TO temperance pa
tience, and to patience godliness, an
TO godliness brotherly kin dness, and
brotherly kindness charity"