Milford chronicle., 1901-05-31

II Is not the Egypt Of today that we go
to see, but the Egypt of many centuries
ago. Her spirit has departed. Her
doom was sealed. The Lord weighed her
spirit.
Now cross over the Dardanelles or
Hellespont and see Grecian civilization
put in the royal balances. Surely that is
an imperishable spirit. A land that pro-
duced Pindar and a Homer in poetry, a
Sophocles and an A1schylus in tragedy, q
Herodotus and Thucydides in history, a
Socrates and Plato in philosophy, Stra-
DO in geography, a Hippocrates in medi-
cine, a Xenophon in literature, a Plu-
tareh in biography, a Miltiades and an
Alexander in battle and could build
temple of Diana at Ephesus and the
acro-Corinthus at Corinth and could
crown the Acropolis with a Parthenon-
surely such a land, with more genius COM
pressed in small space than in any Of tho
nations Of all the ages, will stand forever
triumphant among surrounding nations
No. Her pride Of heroics, her pride of
literature, her pride Of architecture, must
be brought down lower and lower, and
humiliation must follow humiliation until
in the latter part Of the nineteenth centu-
~ she is compelled to submit to the out
RACES Of a sultan whose hands are red
with the blood Of $4,000 Armenians. Had
Athens prayerfully listened to PauPs ser.
mon on Mars hill and adopted his pre-
cepts of brotherhood and divine worship
she would have stood in her old power
today, and all Greece would have stood
with her, and that civilization so long
dead under the carved pillars of her
shrines and under the marble of her pen
telican mountains would have been. per-
haps for all Asia and for much of Eu-
rope, a living civilization. But for her
arrogance she was cast out and cast
down. The Lord weighed her spirit.
Wander along the banks of the Tiber,
and you come to another civilization
which is put in the royal balances-the
Roman civilization. Its capital was the
mistress Of the world Surely here is
something that will last as long as the
earth continues to swing in it's orbit.
Here Caesar reigned and Trajan and Ii
tus and Constantine brought home their
victorious armies. Here stood glittering
in the sun the Coliseum, combining in its
architecture the best Doric. Ionic and
Corinthian. $1,000 spectators gazing upon
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That is Michael Angelo on a scaffold
penciling the facade Of a palace. Hear!
That is the voice of Marcus Tullius Cic
erO in the defense of Archias. Now lis
ten to the laughter Of Terence in immor-
tai comedy. What rich aroma It is
waited from the gardens of Sallust. Be
hold the splPndor of the Augustan age!
Hear the rustling of the historical pages
of Livy and the odes Of Horace and Vir-
gips "A1neid." Behold her system of
laws, which have been the foundation Of
good laws all the world overl But the
empire was plunged into extravaganza
and dissoluteness. and it takes the four
great volumes of Gibbon to describe her
decadence. The Goths. the Huns. the
Tartars, Tamerlane. Attila and Alaric
helped in the demolition. We 20 there
now to see her ruins. Coliseum in ruins.
Forum in ruins. Caesars palace in ruins
Baths of Titus in ruins. Appian way in
ruins. Catacombs in ruins. Temple Of
Neptune in ruins. Mausoleum Of Ha-
drian in ruins. Roman civilization in
ruins. Its spirit was an impure spirit,
an all conquering spirit, and 1.-THE Lord
weigheth the spirits"
The weighing Of Nations.