Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-25
fcopyrlght, Louis tIlopsch. 1891

copyright, Louis Klopsch 1921
WAsHNGToN May 21.-In these days of
moral awakening this pointed sermon by
Or Talmage on personal responsibility
fciore God will be read with deep and
SOLEMN interest; text, Daniel V, %, Thou
nrt weighed in the balances and art found
wanting
Babylon was the paradise Of architec-
lure. and driven out from thence the
ErandeSt buildings of modern times are
only the evidence of her fall The site
having been selected for the city, 1000,
900 men were employed in the rearing OF
her walls and the building of her works.
II was Al city 80 miles in circumference.
There was % trench all around the city,
from which the material for the building
of the city had been dggcd. There were
go gates on each side of the city. between
every two gates u tower OF defense spring
ing into the skies, from each gate on the
one side street running straight through
10 he corresponding gate on the other
tidc, So that there were % streets 10 miles
long. Through the city ran n branch of
The river EUphrates This river some
times overlooked its banks, and to keep it
from running the city a lake was construct
ed into which the surplus water of tho
river would run during the time of fresh
cts and the water was kept in this artiil-
uial lake until time Of drought, and then
thi, water would stream down over the
uity. At either end Of the bridge span
ming this Euphrates there was palace
TIE one palace a milo and half around,
The other palace + miles around.
The wife Of observation-disclosures haG been
born and brought up in the country and
su q mountainous region. and she could
no, hear this fiat district of Babylon and
20. TO pIease his wife. Nobuchadnezzar
built in the midst of the city mountain
coo feet high This mountain was built
out into terraces sunported on arches On
the ton Of these arches IL LAYER of fiat
Htores. on the top of that layer Of reeds
pnd bituncn. ON the top of that two layers
of bricks closely cementcd. on the top of
That heavy sheet of lead and on the top
If that tho soil placed--tho soil so deep
MINT a Lebanon cedar had room to anchor
Sts roots There were uumps worked by
mighty machinery fetching up the water
from the Euphrates to this hanging gar
den. as it was called. so that there were
fountains shouting into the sky. Standing
below and looking UP it must have seemed
as If the clouds We're in blossom or as
Ybouph the sky leaned on the shoulder of
IA c,aur. All This Ncbuchadnez2ar did to
please his wife We'll she ought to have
been pleased supposo she was pleased
II hat would noo please her, nothing
would There was in that city also the
ter,ule of Bleus. with towers-onc tower
the cirhth of a mile hiVh. in which there
was an observatory where astronomers
tolred TO the stars There was in that
teluule an image. lust ono Image. which
would cost what would be our 500, 600,
ocO
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