The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-11-06
FALLING STAR
One q he First Magnitude That Beams
! u for Ell Or Good.

n 3 q : - e ~ z. x v a
= Fades u the Dawn Or ~ ini.ies : fife,,
G!osczsome Are rAiisd iFornS6eS.
Dr. Taimage's study In All ro&anV1 y
- Applied e kserx pay Eife.
Dr. Ialmnge chose for his te,rt sun.
day Rev. vii: 1o-l1: There ~, I rreaa
star from Heaven, burning & K were i
lamp, and II fen upon the third psrt a
: the rivers and upon the Fountain .,
waters and the name OF the star /,
called Wormwoods
Many cpmnaen tators like Patrick and
Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry
ana Albert Barnes, agree IN saying
lnat the star Norwood, mentioned Ii,
Revelation, was Attila, king 81 tie
Huns. He was so called because he
was brilliant as a star, and, Ike worm.
wood, he embittered everything he
touched. We have studied The Star 81
Bethlehem and the Morning STIR a
the Revelation and the Star sof Peace,
but my present subject calls us 10
gaze at the star wormwsood, and my
theme might be called Brilliant Bitter
ness. $ 81 81 = 8,
more extraordinary character his
tory does not furnish than this man
thus referred TO, Attila, the king Of the
Huns. One day q wounded heifer came
iimping along through the fields, and
the herdsman followed its bloody track
on the grass to see where the heller
was wounded, and went on back fur
ther and further until he came to q
sword fast In the earth, the point down.
ward, as though II had dropped from
the heavens, and against the edge Of
this sword the heller had been cut.
The herdsman pulled up that sword
and presented II TO Attila Attiia said
that sword must have dropped from
the heavens from the grasp Of the god
Mars, and its being given TO him meant
that Attila should conquer and govern
the whole earth. Other mighty mon
have been delighted at being called
liberatcrs or the merciful OF the good,
but Attila called himself, and de.
manded that others call him the scourre
of God. < Z !
At the head Of 7oo, 900 troops mounted
on Cappadocian horses, he swept every
thing from the Adriatic to, the Black
sea. He put his iron heel ON Mace
idonia and Greece and Thrace. He
made Milan and sPavia and Padua and
Verona beg for mercy, which he be-
slowed not. The Byzantine castles,
to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auc-
tion massive silver tables and vases Of
solid gold. A city captured by him,
the inhabitants were brought out and
put into three classes; the first class,
those who could bear arms, who must
Immediately enlist under Attila or. be
.butchered; the second class, the beau
ltiful women, whowere made captives
to the Huns: the third class, the aged
men and women, who were robbed of
everything and let go back to the city.
to pay q heavy tax.
1t was common saying that the
grass never grew again where the hoof
of Attila's horse had trod. His armies
'reddened the waters of the Seine and
Moselle and the Rhine with carnage,
and fought on the Cath lonian plains
the hercest battle since the world
stood 500, 900 dead left on the field! On
and on. until all those who could not
oppose him with arms lay prostratc on
their flces in prayer, and cloud Of
dust seen in the distancen bishop cried:
ssItis the aid Of Godi' and an the pecple'
took up the cry, ut is the aid OF Godi'''
As the cloud Of dust was blown aside
the banners Of reinforcing armies
marched IN toshelp against Attila, the
'scourge of God The most unimportant
occurrences he used as q supernatural
resource, and after three months Of
failure to capture the city OF; Aqui1eia,
and his army had given up the Siege,
the flight of . stork and her Young
from the tower Of the city was taken
by him as . sign that he was to, capture
the city and his army, inspired by the
same occurrence, resumed the seige
and took the walls at a point from
which the stork had emerged. So
brilliant was the conqueror In attire
that his enemies could not look at him,
but shaded their eyes or turned their
heads.
Slain on the evening OF his marriage
by his bride, Ildico, who was hired for
the assassination, his followers be.
walled him not with tears, but with
blood, cutting themselves with knives
and lances. He was put into three cof-
fins-the first Of iron. the second of sill
yer and the third Of gold, He was
buried by night, and into his grave
were poured the most valuable coin
and precious stones, amounting to the
wealth of q kingdom. The grave dig.
gers and all those who assisted at the