Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-19


its leaves take tic form of crown. If tn
emperor tree be planted by a rosebush,
grows little higher than the bush an
spreads out above it crown. If it I
planted by the side of another tree,
grows a little higher than that tree an
spreads above it a crown Would God thf
this religion of Christ, more wonderfI
emperor tree might oyershadow all you
hvesl Arc you lowly in ambition or eli
cumstance, putting over you its crown
Are you high in talent and position, put
ting over you its CROWN Oh, for more {
the saccharine in our lives and less of tn
wormwoodl
What Is true Of individuals is true of ma
tions God sets them Mp TO revolve as stars
] but they may fail wormwood
Tyre, the atmosphere Of the desert fra
grant with spices, coming in caravans t
! her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by tn
( keels of her laden merchantmen, her mar
kets rich with horses and camels iron
Togarmah, her bazaars filed with uphol
stery from Dednn, with emerald and cora
and agate from Syria, with wines fron
Helbon, with embroidered work from Ash
ur and Chilmad-where now the gleam o
her towers, where the roar of her chariots
where the masts of her ships? Let the fish
ernen who dry their nets where once shl
stood; let the sea that PUSHES upon the bar
renness where once she challenged the ad
miration Of all nations; let the barbariani
who set their rude tents where once hel
palaces glittered-answer the question
She was star, but by her own sin turned
to wornwOod and has fallen.
Hundred gated Thebes, for all time tC
no f,n ctrrf1tr fho and I,f,v.,
glyphist; her stupendous ruins spread ovel
% miles; her sculptures presenting in fig
ures of warrior and chariot the victories
with which the now forgotten kings OF
Egypt shook the nations; her obelisks and
columns; Carnac and Luxor, the stupen-
dous temples OF her pridcl Who can imag.
inc the greatness Of Thcbes in those days
when the hippodrome rang with her sports
and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines
and her avenues roared with the wheels of
professions in the wake of returning con-
querorS What dashed down the vision Of
chariots and temples and thrones? What
hands pulled upon the columns of her
glory? What ruthlessness defaced her sculp-
turcd wall and broke obelisks and left her
indescribable temples great skeletons of
grantee What spirit of destruction spread
cheers and taught the miserable cottagers
of today to build huts in the courts of her
temples and sent desolation and ruin
slzuliling behind the obelisks and lodging
among the sarcophagi and leaning against
the columns and STOPPING under the arch
es and weeping in the waters which, go
By as though they were carry
ing the tears of llagesg Let the munmies
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shiver in the desOlation and point to fall
EN- gates and shattered statues and defaced
sculpture, responding: "rhebes built not
one temple to God. Thebes hated right
and loved sin. Thebes was a star
but she turned to NORWOOD and has
fallen"
Fall of Babylon.
Babylon, with her $50 towers and her
brazen gates and her embattled walls, the
splend5r Of the earth gathered within her
palaces her hanging gardens built by Neb-
to please his BRIDE Amy
lis, who had been brought up in u noun
ainous country and could not endure the
lat country round BabylOn-these hang
ng gardens built, terrace above terrace,
ill at the height of 400 feet there were
woods wnving and fountains playing, the
,erdure, the foliage, the glory looking as
f mountain were On the wing. On the
iptOp Il king walking with his queen, /
imOng statues snowy white, looking up
It birds brought from distant lands, and 4
thinking out of tankards of solid gold or /
ooking OFF over rivers and lakes upon ma /
ions sabdued and tributary, crying, SIS /
lot this great Babylon which have built9"
WhAt battering ram slnote the wallsg /
What Ilowshare upturned the gardens? /
What army shattered the brazen gates? .
What long, fierce blast of storm put out 1
his light which illumined the world?
What crash of discOrd drove down the mu-
ic that poured from palace window and
arden grove and called the banqueters to
heir rcvcl and the dancers to their feet2
walk upon the scene of dcsOlation to find
n answer and Pick up pieces of bitumen
nd brick and broken pottery, the remains
Babylon, and as in the silence of the
light hear the sIlrging of that billow of
isolation which rolls over the scene, I
ear the wild waves saying: Babylon was
roud. Babylon was impure Babylon was
star but by sin she turned to worm
God and has fallen.
From the prosecutions of the pilgrim
ithers and the Huguenots in other lands
cd set upon these shores a nation. The
,uncil fires of the aborigines went out in
le greater light of a free government.
he sound of the warwhoop was exchanged
II the thousand wheels Of enterprise and
The mild winters, the fruitful
the healthful skies charmed
ON other lands race of hardy men who
we'd God and wanted to be free Before
ie woodlands AK forests fell and rose
gain into ships masts and churches pill
rs Cities IN the banks of lakes begin to I
val cities by the sch The Land qualles I
ith the rush of the rail car and the waters [
e churned white with the steamers I
heel Fabulous bushels of western wheat
Get on the way fabulous tons of eastern {
al Furs from the north pass on the {
rers fruits from the south. And trading !
the same market is Maine lumherman !
u SCUM carolina rice merchant and
10 farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And /
lrches and schools and asyluns scatter I
hit, and love, and mercy, and salvation {
on 60,OOO,0 600 of people.
Rock Of Safety. /
pray that our nation may not copy the I
mes of the nations that have persisted, G
1 our oupof blessing turn to NORWOOD, I
Il like them we go down. am by M {
re and by grace an Optlmlst, and l eX- :
It that this country will continue to ad- '
nee until Christ shall come again. But e
not deceived Our only safety is in /
hteousness toward God and justice to- /
I'd man. If we forget the goodness of 4
Lord to this land, and break his Sab j
lbs, and improve not by the dire disas- O
5 that have again and again come to us l.
"A nation, and we learn saving lesson a
ther from civil war nor raging epidemic s
, drought nor mildew nor scourge of To- Z
It and grasshopper nor cyclone nor earth
Ike; if the political corruption which 4
poisoned the fountains Of public virtue Z
l beslimcd the high places Of authori- t
making free government at times a n
sing ard byword in all the earth; if n
drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS that h
gger and blaspheme in the streets Of our :
at cities as though they were reaching s
or the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom are II
rePented of, we win yet see the smoke a
1ur nations ruin, the pillars Of our ma o
nal and state capitols will fall more dis
rously than when Samson pulled down 8
rOn and future historians Will record 4 ~