Connecticut western news., 1897-01-21

Pileser. On the edge of bronzed step and on burned brick has been found the name of NebuchadnG-zar. Henry Raw lipson and Oppert and Hincks and Pal estine exploration societies and Asyriolo- gists and Psychologists have rolled an other Bible up from the depths of the earth, and 10, it corresponds exactly with our Bible, the rock Bible just like the printed Bible, inscriptions on cylin- ders and brickwork cut $500 years be- fore Christ testifying to the truth of what we read l.S97 years after Christ
 The Tower of Babel.
 The story of the tower of Babel has been confirmed by the fact that recently at Babel an oblong pile of brick no feet high evidences the remains of a fallen tower. In the inspired book of Ezra we read of the great and noble Asnapper, a name that meant nothing especial until recently in pried up Egyptian sculpture we have the story there told of him as a great hunter as we'll as great warrior. What I say now is news to those prejudiced against the Bible. They are so far behind she times that they know not that the old book is being proved trueub by the prying eye of the antiquarian and the ringing hammer of the archeologist and the plunging crowbar of the geologist No more is infidelity characterized by its blasphemy than by its ignorance. but oh, what high mountain of prejudice against the Bible, against Christianity, against churches, against all evangeliz- ing enterprises-a mountain that casts it's long black shadows over this con- tinent and over all continents Geog- raphers tell us that Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Oh, mol The mountain of prejudice against Christianity is higher than the highest crags that dare the lightnings of heaven. Before our Zerubbabel, can it ever be- come plain?
 Another mountain of hindrance is that of positive and outspoken inn morals There is the mountain of ine- briacy. It is piled high with kegs and demijohns and decanters and hogsheads, on which sit the victims of that traffic whose one business is to rob earth and heaven of the most generous and large hearted and splendid of the human race. If their business was to take only the mean and stingy and contemptible and useless, we would not say much against the work, for there are tens of thousands of men and women who are nuisance to the world. and their obliteration from human society would be an ad- vantage to all that is good. The re moval of these moral deficits would not arouse in us much of a protest. But in- sobriety takes the best.
 The mountain of inebriacy stands in the way of the kingdom of God, and hundreds of thousands of men, but for that hindrance, would step right into the ranks of the Lords host and march heavenward, each one taking Q regi- ment with him. The mountain of ine- briacy is not an ordinary mountain, but it is armed It is line of fortresses continually blazing away its destructive forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns and cities, their volleys of death poured down upon the homes and churches Under this power more than 100, 900 men and women are in this country every year imprisoned, and an army of GOO, 900 drunkards almost shake the earth with their staggering tread. It causes in this country 800 murders and 400 suicides year.
 Inebriacy on the Sea
 This mountain of inebriacy has not only assaulted the land, but bombarded the shipping of the sea. and some of the most appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic and Pacific coasts have been the result. What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle. on the way from Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 100 human lives? A drunken sea captain. What blew up the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi and sent l50 to horrible death? A drunken crew. What drove on the breakers a steamer making its way from Now York to Charleston and sent whole families, on the way home from summer watering places. to the merciless depths of the sear A drunken sea captain. Gather up from the depths of the river and lakes and oceans the bones of those ship wrecked by intoxicated captains and crews, and you could build out of them temple of horrors. all the pillars and altars and floors and ceilings fashioned of human skulls Is it possible that such a mountain of inebriacy can ever be made plain?
 Wonder also is the mountain of crime, with its strata of fraud and malpractice and malfeasance and black mail and burglary and piracy and embezzlemeut and libertinism and theft, all its heights manned with the desperadoes, the cutthroats. the pick pockets, the thimble triggers, the plum derers, the marauders, the pillagers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the bandits, the tricksters, the forgers, the thugs, the garrcte-s, the fire fiends, the dyna- miters, the shoplifters. the kleptomani- acs, the pyromaniacs. the dipsomaniacs, Sheppards, the Robert Macaires and the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes of the world! Am I not right in calling them, when piled up together, noun tain? But we cannot bring ourselves to appreciate great heights except by com parison. You think of Mount Washing ton as high, especially those of you who ascended as of old, on muleback, or more recently by rail train, to the Tip top House. Oh, mol That is not high, for it is only about 5000 feet, whereas, rising on this western hemisphere are Chimborazo, BLOOD feet high, and Mount Bahama, 23, GOO feet high; and Mount Sarota, 24. 500 feet high. But that is not the highest mountain on the western hemisphere. The highest noun tain is the mountain of crime, and is il possible that this mountain, before our Zerubbabel, can ever be made plain7
 The Mountain of War.
 There is also the mountain of war, the most volcanic of all mountains-the Vesuvius which, not content, like the Vesuvius of Italy, with whelming two cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, has covered with its fiery scoria thousand: of cities and would like to whelm all the cities of both hemispheres Give c. ,.tora.ao :,