The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-27

coral and agate from Syria, with
wines from Helbon, with embroidereA
work from Ashur and Chilmad.
Where now the CLEAN of her towers,
where the roar of her chariots, where
the masts of her ships? Let the fisher
men who dry their nets where once
she stood, let the sea that rushes upon
the barrenness whore once she chal-
lenged the admiration of all nations,
let the barbarians who set their rude
tents where once her palaces glittered,
answer the question. She was q star,
but by her own sin turned 70 worm
wood and has fallen.
Hundred-gated Thebes-for all time
to be the study OF the antiquarian and
hieroglyphist; her stupendous ruins
spread over " miles; her sculptures
presenting in figures 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 stupendous
temples of her pride! Who can imagine
the greatness of Thebes 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 pro-
cessions in the wake of retarn-
ing conquerors? What dashed down
the visions of chariots and temples
and thrones? What hands pulled up
on the columns of her glory? What
ruthlessness defaced her sculptured
wall and broke oblisks and left her in
describe BILE temples great skeletons of
granite7 What spirit of destruction
spread the lair Of wild beasts in her
royal sepulchers, and taught the mis-.
cradle cottagers of to-day to build huts
in the courts Of her temples, and sent
desolation and ruin skulking behind
the obelisks and lodging
among the sarcophagi and lean
ing against the columns and stoop-
ing under the arches and weeping in
the waters which 60 mournfully by as
though they were carrying the tears
of all ages? Let the mummies break
their long silence and come up to
SILVER in the desolation, and point to
fallen gates and shattered statues
and defaced sculpture, responding:
"Thebes built not one temble to God.
Thebes hated righteousness and loved
sin. Thebes was star, but she turned
and has fallen"
Babylon, with her ESQ towers and her
brazen gates and her embattled walls,
the splendor of the earth gathered
within her palaces, her hanging gar
dens built by Nebuchadnezzar to please
his bride, Amytis, who had been
brought up in a mountainous country
and could not endure the fat country
round Babylon-these hanging gardens
built, terrace above terrace, till at the
height Of 400 feet there were woods
waving and fountains playing, the
the foliage, the glory look
ing as IL mountain were on the
wing. On the tiptop king walking
with his queen, among statues snowy
white, looking up at birds brought
from distant lands, and drinking out
IF tankards of solid gold or looking of
over rivers and lakes upon nations
subdued and tributary, crying: us
not this great Babylon which have
ouilt?"
What battering-ram smote the walls?
What plowshare upturned the gardens?
What army shattered the brazen gates?
What long, fierce blast of storm put
out this light which illumined the
world? What crash of discord drove
Town the music that poured from
palace window and garden grove
ind called the banqueters to their
.evel and the dancers to their feet:
walk upon the scene Of desolation
20 find answer and pick up pieces of
Ditumen and brick and broken pot.
terry, the remains of Babylon, and as
N the silence of the night hear the
'urging of that billow of desolation
which rolls over the scene, hear the
Wild waves saying: Babylon was a
star, but by sin she turned to worm.
wood and has fallen"
pray that our nation may not COPY
he crimes of the nations that have
persisted, and our cup Of worship turn
TO norwood, and like them we go
1own. I am by nature and by grace
IN optimist, and expect that this
country will continue to advance until
Christ shall came again. But be not
deceived! Our only safety is in
toward God and Justice
coward man. If we forget the
goodness Of the Lord to this land.
Ind break His Sabbaths, and i'm.
prove not by the dire disasters that
have again and again come to us as a
nation, and we learn saving lesson
,either from civil war nor raging
Epidemic, nor drought, nor mildew, nor
'courge Of locust and grasshopper, nor
cyclone, nor earthquake; if the political
which has poisoned the
'ountains of public virtue and beslimed
he high places of authority, making
rec government at times kissing and
by-word to all the earth; IL the drunk
'nness and RIGHTEOUSNESS that stag.
ger and blaspheme in the streets Of
our great cities as though they were
after the fame of Corinth
Ind Sodom are not repented of, we
will yet see the smoke of our nations
'uin; the pillars of our national and
'tate capitols will fall more disas- |