The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1896-06-24

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.wormwood to olrsal YES and ons life
will be bitter and oureternity bitterer.
The gospel Of J es,is Christ Is tile on.
;ly sWeetening power that Is sujIfcient.g
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to God that This religion az Christ .
more wonderful emperor tree minht
overshadow all your lives / Are YOU
lowly in ambition or circumstances.
putting over YOU it's crown2 Arc Won
hightin talent and 5position m,tfino
over you its crown2 On, for more Of
the sacchatine in our lives and less Of
the wormwood 4 IS q * q. {, 1. s
What is true Of individuals is true
Of nations. God sets them up to re-,
volve as stars, but they may fall worm.
wood.
Tyre, the atmosphere Of the desert,
fragrant with spices, coming in cara
vans to her fairs; al seas cleft into
foam by the keels Of her laden mer-
chantmen, her markets rich with
horses and camels from Togarmah, her
bazaars filled with upholstery from
Dedan, with emerald and coral and
agate from Syria, with wines from
Helbon, with embroidered work from
Ashur and Chilmad- where now the
CLEAN Of her towers, whera the roar
of her chariots, where the lnasls Of
her shipsi Let the fishermen who
dry their nets where once she stood !.
let the sea that rushes upon the bar.
renness where once she challenged the
admiration Of all nations let the bar.
barians who set their rude tents where
once her palaces glittcred answer the
question. She was a star but by her
own sin turned 10 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 81 miles: her SCULPTURES
presenting in figures of warrior and
chariot the victories with which the
now forgotten kings of Epypt shool,
the nations; her obelisks and columns: !:
Carnac and Luxor, the stupendous
temples Of her pridei Who can imap-
inc the gaeatness OF Thebes in those
days when the hippodrome rang with
her sports and foreign rovaltv bowed
at her shrines and her avenues roared
with the wheels of professions in the
wake of returning conquerors2 What
dashed down the vision of chariots
| and temples and thrones? What
hands pulled upon the columns of her
glory9 What ruthlessness defaced her
sculptured wall and broke obelisks and
left her indescrihablo temples great
skeletons Of grantee What spirpit Of
destruction spread the lair Of wild
beasts in her royal sepulchers and
taught the miserable cottagers of to-
| day to build huts in tho courts of her
temples and sent desolation and ruin
skulking behind the obelisks and
lodging among the sarcophagi and
leaning against the columns and
STOPPING under the arches and weep
ing in the waters which go mournful-
~ by as though they were carrying
the tears of all ages? Let the mum
mics break their long silence and come
up to shiver IN tho desolation and
point to len gates and shattered
statutes and defaced sculpture, res
ponding. Thebes built not one tenn
pie to God. Thebes hated righteous
ness and loved sin. Thebes was a
star, but she turned TO worm wood and
has fallen.
Babylon, with her $50 towers and
hor brazen gates and her emballIed
walls, the splendor of the earth gath
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