Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-24
FALLING STAR.
One OF the First Magnitude That Beams
for Evil or Good.
st Fades I'm the Dawn OF Twinkle. = Life.
Ciose-Some Are Called wormwood-
Dr. Tnimage's Study In Astronomy
A. Applied to Every Day Life.

aAy Rev. viii: 1o-1i: "There fell a great
star from Heaven, burning as it were a
lamp, and 1T fell upon the third part of
me rivers and upon the fountains OF
waters; and the name of the star is
sailed Norwood"
Many commentators, like Patrick and
Lowth. Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry
ana Albert Barnes, agree in saying
tnat the star Norwood, mentioned in
Revelation, was Attila, king of the
Huns He was so called because he
was brilliant as star, and, like worm
wood, he embittered everything he
touched. We have studied the Star of
befhfehem and the Morning Star of
the Revelation and the Star OF Peace.
but my present subject calls us TO
gaze at the star Norwood, and my
theme might be called Brilliant Bitter
ness.
more extraordinary character his
tory does not furnish than this man
thus referred to, Attila, the king of the
Huns One day wounded heifer came
imping along through the fields, and
the herdsman followed its bloody track
on the grass to see where the heifer
was wounded, and went on back fur
ther and further until he came TO n
sword fast in the earth, the point down
ward, as though it had dropped from
the heavens, and against the edge of
this sword the heifer had been cut.
The herdsman pulled up that sword
and presented ii to Attila Attila 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 men
have been delighted at being called
hberators or the mcrciful or the good.
but Attila called himself, and de-
manded that others call him the scourge
of God.
At the head of 700, 900 troops mounted
on Cappadocian horses he swept every
thing from the Adriatic to the Black
sea. He put his iron heel on Mace
donia and Greece and Thrace. He
made Milan and Pavia and Padua and
Verona beg for mercy, which he be-
slowed not. The byzantine castles
to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auc-
ton massive silver tables and vases of
solid gold. 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
tiful women, who were 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 heavy tax.
B 1t was a common saving that the
grass never grew again where the hoof
OF Attila's horse had trod. His armies
Redeemed the waters of the Seine and
Moselle and the Rhine with carnaue. .
ana fought on the Catalonian plains
The fercesJ battle since the world
Stood-3o0, 900 dead left on the field, On
and on, until all those who could not
oppose him with arms lay PROSTATE on
their faces in prayer, and a cloud of
dust seen in the distance a bishop cried:
1T Is the aid of God!n and all the DeopIs.
took up the cry, 1T is the aid of Godr' .
As the cloud of dust was blown aside
the banners of reinforcing armies
marched in to help against Attila, the
scourge of God The most unimportant
occurrences he used as a supernatural
resource, and after three months of
failure to capture the city of Aquileia,
and his army had given up the siege,
the flight of a 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 seigc
and took the walls at Il point from
which the stork had emerged. So
brilliant was the couaucror in attire
that his enemies could not look at him.
but shaded their eyes or turned their
heads.
Slain
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 a kingdom The grave dig
gers and all those who assisted at the
burial were 1naSsacred. so that IL would
never be known where so much wealth
was entombed. The Roman con-
quered the Roman empire. lie wa,
right in calling himself acourge. but
instead Of being the scourgc Of God he
was the scourge OF hell Because Of
his brilli1nce and bitterness the com
mentatOrs were right IN believing him
70 be the star Norwood As the
regions he devastated were parts most
opulent with fountains and streams
and rivers. you see how graphic is this
reference i'm Revelation. There fell a
grea- star from Heaven, burning as IL
were lamp. and it fell upon the third
part Of the rivers and upon the fouu-
tains Of waters. and the name Of the
star is called NORWOOD"
Have you ever thought how MANY
emb-ttered lives there arc all about ue.
misanthropic. morbid acrid, saturninc2
The European plant from which worm.
wood is extracted artcmisia absiu-
thium, is perennial plant. and all the
year round it i- ready 60 cxudc ifs oil
And IN many human lives there Is a
perennial distiIlatio1 Of acrid cxpcri-
ences Yea. there arc some whose
whole wort I- to shed a baIcfuI inHu-
ence on others There arc httfIas OF
the home or Alf.as Of the social circle
or AttIa4 nf The church or AfiIas ~
the state. .HI ar.-fhIrd Of the waters
% all thc world, 10 not tvo-thir5s fEo
water. are poisoned by Che falling 1f
the star Norwood Do "a. no., commit.