REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Emineat Brooklyn Divine's Sune day Sermon. SaMect: “The Coliseum of Rome.” Text: “I am ready to preaci the gospe! #0 vou that are at Rome wiss." Romans ik, 15 Rome! What a city it was when Paul visited it! What a city ic is now! The place whera Virgil sapg and Horace satirized, and ‘Terence laughel and Catilive conspired, and Ovid dramatized ani Nero fiddled, and Ves asian prosscutad and Sulla jus and Decius and Caligula and Julian and Hadriad and Constantine and Augustus reigned, and Paul the Apostle preached the gospel. I am not much of a draftsman, but I have in my memorandun book a sketch which I made in the winter of 1830, when I went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome and walked uo the very strest he walked up to see somewhat how the city must have looked to him ax he came in on the gospel errand proposed in the tex: Palaces on either side of the strest through which the little missionary advanced, Piled up wickedness, Enthroned sc ursadness, Templed cruelties, Altars to sham deities. Glorified delusions, Pillared, dome, turreted abominations. Wickedness of all sorts at a high premium and righteous- ness 90% per cent. off. And now he passes by the foundations of a building which is to be almost uoparalleled for vastness, You ean see by the walls which have begun to rise, that here is to be something enough stupendous to astound the centuries it is the Colisasum startad Of the theatre at Ephesus where Paul fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh's palaca at Memphis and of other great buildings, the ruins of which. have seen, it has been my privilege to address you, but a member of my family asked me recently why I had not spoken to you of the Coliseum at Rome, imuoressive. Perhaps while in Rome the law of contrast wrought upon me. I had visited the Mam- ertine dungeon where Paul was incarcera- ted. of the dungeon through been let down, and it was twenty-three inches by twenty-six, The ceiling ar its highest point was seven feet trom the floor, but at the sides of the room the csiling was five feet seven inches, The room at the widest was fifteen foet. There was a seat of rock 2! feet high. There was a shelf four fert hign, The only furniture wasa spider's web suspended from the roof, wach [ saw by the torchlight I carried. There was the subterranecus passage from the dungeon to the Roman forum, so that the prisouer could be taken directly from prison to trial, The dungeon was built out of volcanic stone from the Albano Mouataine Op, it was a dismal and terrific place. You never saw coal hole so dark or so forbidden. Tae place was to me a nervous shock, forl re- member that was the best thing that the world would afford th* mest illustrious pe ing, except one, that I ever saw, and that from that place Paul went out to die. From that spot I visited tue Coliseam-—one of the most astounding miracles of architecture that the world ever saw. fadeel, 1 saw it morning. noon and night for it threwa spell on me from waich I could not break AWAY. Althouzh now a vast ruin, the Coliseum is 50 well preserved that we can stand in the center and recall all that it once was, tis in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblomg. It is at its greatest length GIS fest. After it hal furnished sats for 87,000 people it had room for 15,000 moras to staud, so that 100,000 pec- ple could sit and stand tramsfixet by its scenes of courage and martyrdom and bro- tality and horror Instead of our modern tickets of admis. gion, they entered by ivory check, anda check dug up near Rome within a few years was marked “Section 6, Lowest Tier, No. 18.” You understand that she building was not constructed for an andieacs to be addressed by human voice, aithouzh I tested it with some friends and could be heard across it, but it was made only for seeing and was circular, aad at any point allowal fyll view of the spectacie. fhe arena in the centre in olden times was strewn with pounded stone or saad, 50 as not to ba too slippery with buman blood, for if | it sere Loo slippery it would spoil the fun The sand flashed here and there with sparkles of siiver and gold, and Nero added cinnabar and Caligula added chryascolla, The sides of the areas wera compose] of smooth marble eleven [eet high, sO tbat th wild beasts of the arens could not climb us into the audience. On the top of thess sides of stuooth marble was a miotal rafling, bav- ing wooden roflers, which easily revolvad, #0 that if a panther should leap high enough to scale the wall and with his paw touch any one of those rollers it would revolve and drop him back again iuto the arsna Bac: of this marble wall surrouading the arena was a level platform of stooe, adorned with statues of gods and golesass aod the artistic afizies of monarchs and conquerars. Here were movable seats for the emperor and the imoerial swine and swinesses with which he surrounded himseif. Before the place whers the emperor sat the gladiators would walk immediately after entering the arena, crying: ‘Hall, Cesar! Thoseabout to die salute thee.” The diff erent ranks of spectators wera di. vided by partitions studded with mosaics of emerald ans beryl and ruby and diamond, Great masts of wool arose from all sides: of the building, from which festoons of flywers were suspended, crossing ths building, or ia time of rain awaings of silk were suspended, the Coliseu u having no roof. The outside wall was iscrusted with marble and had four ranges, and the thres lower ranges had 80 eaxlumns eaca and arciss a'te’ arches and on each arch an exquisite status of a god or a hero. Into 18) feet of altitule scare l the Colis- eum. with whole sunrisss and sunssta of dazz'e- ment. After the audiencs had assemuied aromatic liquids oozsd from tubss distilled from pipes apd raioed gently on ths multi tudes and filled the air with cinth and helistrope and frankincense anl isan and myrrh and saffcou, so that La- can, the poet, says of it: . which Paul had Seal AL onee ten thonsand saflron enrrents flow And rin their odors on the crow Jd baiow, But whers was the t to coms from? Wel, 1 went into the callars opening off from thes arena, andl saw tas place were they kept the hyeunasan | lions and panthers sorts without food or water until mde flares ground rooms where the gladiators were a outside deman led shat they coma forth armed-—to murder or be mur lersl, All the arrangements were ocomplets, as enough of the cellars and galleria: still re- main to indicate, What fun they must have on an unarmed discinle of J seus Christ! At the dedications of this Coliseum 090 wild beasts and 10,000 immortal men were slain, so that bloo1 of men and beast was not a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake. Having been in taat way de ficated, bs not surprised when I tell you that E nperor Pro- bus on one threw into that arsas of thé Coliseum 100) 1000 boars and 1000 ostriches, What fun it must have been the the roar of wild beasts men while in the {idren of those down Hous paw wrung their hands and widowhood and orphanage, { while 100,000 people clapped their bands, and 100, i hat" wide as Rome and perdition | batants entered the arena, the one with sword and shield and the other with net and spear. The swordsman strikes at the man with the net and shear. He dodges the sword and then flings the net over the head of the swordsman and jerks him to the floor of the arena, and the man who flung the net puts his foot on the neck of the fallen swordsman, and spear in hani looks up to the galleries, as much as to say, **shall I let him up, or shall [ plunge this spear into his +| body until he is dead?” The audience had two signe, either of which they might give. If they waval their flage, it meant =pars the fallen contestant. If they turned their thumbs down, it meant slay him. ©Ocsasionally the audiences wonld wave their flags, and the fallen would be let up, but that was too tame sport for most oc- casions, and generally the thu nbs fron the galleries were turned down, and with that sign would be hewrd the recompanying shout of “Kill! Kil! Kill! Kuti” Yet it was far from bemzs a monotone of sport, for there was a change of programme in that wondrous Coliseum. Under a strange and powerful machinery, beyond anything of modern invention, the floor of the arena would begin to rock ind roll and then give away, and thers would appear a lake of bright water, and on its banks tress would spring up rastiing with foliage, and tigers appeared amoog the jungles, and armel men would come forth, ant there would be a tiger hunt. Toen on the lake in the Colis- eum armed ships would float, and thera would be a sea fight, What fun! What lots of fan! When pestilence came, in order to appease the go ig, in this Coliseu'n a sucri- { fice woula be made, and the people would | throng that great amphitheatre, shouting, { “I'he Christians to the wild begsts!” and | | there would bs a crackling of buna bones in the jaws of leonina ferocity. But all this was to be stopped. By the outraged sense of public decency? No, There is only cue thing that has ever stopped | cruelty and sin. and that is Caristianity, and {it was Christianity, whether you like its | form or not, that stoppsd this massacres of | centuries. One day while in the Colissum to me. Indeed thy most impressdva things on sarth are ruin. The four greatest struc. tures ever built ars in ruins. The Parthe. non in ruins, the tsmple of Diana in ruins, the temple of Jerusalem in ruins, ths Coli- soum in ruins, Indeed the earth itself will yot be a pile of ruins, the mountains in ruing, tho seas in rains, the cities in ruing the hemispheres in ruins Yea, further than that, all up and down the heavens are worlds burned un, woslds wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds’ abandonel, Worlds on worlds in raias! But Jam glad to say it is the same old heaven, and in all that world there is not one ruin and never will he a rain, Not one 0! ths pearly gites will ever become un- hingat, Not on» of the amethystine towers will ever fall. It one of the mansions will ever decay. "Nutone of the chariots will ever be unwheeled, Not one of the thrones will ever rock down. OH), make sure of heaven, for itis an everlasting heaven, Through Christ the Lord get ready for residence in the sternal palaces, Tae Inst evening before leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athensand E:yot and Pales- tine I went alone to the Coliseum. Taere was not a living soul in all the immense area. Even those accustomed to sell curios at the four entrances of the building had gone away. The placy was so overwhelm- inzly silent I could hear my own heart beat with the emotions aroused by the placa and hour. I pscwl the arena. I walked down into the dens whera the hyenas were once kept. I ascended to the place where the I climbad up on the galleries from whict thr mighty throags of peoole had gazsd in enchantment, To break the silence 1 shoutei, and that seemed {Gc awaken the echoes, echo upon And those awakensd echoes ssemel to address me, saving: ‘Men die, but their work lives on. Gaudentiuy, the architect who planned this structure; the 60,000 en- slaved Jews nrougat by Titus from Jeras alom, and who tolled on these walls ths gladiators who fought in thissrens, the em-~ perors ani empresses who had piace on yon- der platform, the m liions who during cen- i a Homan victory was being cslehrated, ant | 100,000 enraptured spectators were looking down upon two gladiators in the arena stab | bing and slicing each other to death, an Asiatic monk of the name of Telemachus | was So overcoms by the cruzity that he leaped from the gallery into ths arena and iran in between the two swordsmm and ushed first one back and then the other | Es and broke up the contest Of course the audience was affronted at! baving their soort stoppsd, and they hurled | stones at the head of Telemachus until he | fell dead in the arena, Bat when ths day was passed, and the passions of the people | bad cooled off, they deplorad the martyrdom | of the brave and Christian Telemachus, and | as a result of the overioas cr-usity the i human sacrifices of the Colissun were for - ever abolished . i What a good thing, savy wou, that sush crueitios have cmssd, My friends the same | spirit of rummous amesaments and of mora! sacrifice is abroal in the worid to-day, al- though it takes other shane, Last summer in our southwest thers occarrsl a scens of pugilism on which all Christendom looked down, for | saw the papers on the other side of the Atlantic Ucean giving whole columns of it. Willi some ons tell me in what respect that brutality of last summer was suserior to the brutality of a Roman Coliseum? In some respects it wis worse Ly 0 much as the Nineteenth Century pretends to be more merciful and more decsut than the Fifth Century. I'bat pugilism is winning admiration in this country is positively proved by the fact | thut years ago such collision was reported in a balf doz om lines of newspaper, if rsporisd at all, an i now it takes the waole side of a newspaper to tell what transpired between the first blood drawn by obe loafer and the throwing up of the spoage by the other loafer, and it is not the nawspeps’'s lault, for the newspaner: give only what the peo- ple want, and when newspapers pu’ carrion on your table it is becans® you prefer car. | rion. The same spirit of bratality is seon to-day in many an ecclemastical court when a min. iscer is put on trial, Lok at the coanten- ances of the prosecuting minister: and not in all cases, but in many cases, you will find notaing but diabolism inspires them Taey let out on one po I minisiear Lo cangsl ge fend nimself the lion of ecclesiasticiam and the tiger of bigotry, and ths wild boar of | jealousy. and it they can get the offending | minister fl «ft on his back some ond puts his feet on the neck, of the overthrown gospel. izar and looks up, spear in hand to se whether the galleries and ecclesiastics would have nim let up or slain. And, lo! many of the thumbs are down 5 fu the worldly realaus look at ths bruta’i. ties of the praidential election eight vears azo. Read the diegrapiies of Dasisli Wei stor an 1 Alexander H, Stephens and Horace (Grewloy ani Charles Sumner and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lyvmar ani James G biaiae, and if the story of defamation and calumay and scanlalizition and diatribe an i scarrility and lampron aad billiagsgat, and damnable perfidy bo accarately re- cor lad, tell me in what raspects our political arans and th) howling ani blaspheming galleries that agiio aad again look down upon it are biter than the Roman Colis. enn. | When I read a few days ago that the Sa. | preme Court of the United HNtates had ap- propriately adjourned to pay henoirsto the two last distinguishel mesa wentionsd, ant American jouraslism North, South, Est | ani West went into lamentations over thair | departure and sid all complimentary | things in regard to tham, I asked: “When | Was it | when during their life it gave them male. | diction or no # sincs their desth when be | stowing upon them bsatification?” The 8 vmne soirit of erusity that you ds plore in the Boman Coliseum is seen in the the downfall of good men, and in the divores | of tho whos marital life was thought ac- | cordant, and in the abscoading of a bank cashisr. Oa, my friends, the world wants more of the spirit of “Loa: him up” and less | | hundreds of men in the prissas of Amsrica wao ought to be discharged, becaus) they | wera the victims of circumstances or have | suifersd enough. | There arein all professions aad occupa. | tions men wno are dominserel over by i others, and whoss life is a struzgle with monirous opposition, aad circamstanos nava their heel upsn the throdbing and | yroken hears. For Gol's sake, lst them fun! Away with the spirit of “Ihumbs/ { down!’ kat the world wants is 1000 men {like Celemachus to leap out of the gallery | into the arena, whether he bs a Roman Catholie monk, or 8 Methodist stewarl, or Prasbyterian eller, and go in betwasa the contestants, “Blessed are the peacemakers, | tor they shall be called the childran of God!” Oas-haif of the world is down and the | other hall is up, anl the half that is us bas its heal on the ball that fe down. If you, as | #4 bows work nan, or as a contractor, or as a Hsnop, or as a Sats or Natioasl official or as a potent factor in gical life, of in auy way are oppressin any one, know that the same devil tant possesss | the oman Colisean op- | presses you. The Diocietians ars not all Ldesd, Uhe cellars leating into the arena of life's straggle are not ali emptied of toeir | tigers, os vivisction by young doctors of dogs and cats and birds most ol ths time adds nothing to human dwcovery, but is only a continuation of Vaspasian's Collis. Cin. The eruelties of the world generally bagin in nurseries, and in home circles, and in da schonie, ‘The child that transfixes a fly with a pin, or the low feeling that sets two dogs into combat, or that bullies 8 weak or crip. pled playmate, or the iniifference that starves a canary bir), neals only veloped in order to make a first ors full armed Apollyon. It would be 1 sentence to be written on the turies sat and ross in these galleries, have but enough of the Coliseum Then, as | stoo | there, tieracame to me another burst ol ecuoes, which seemed sngs and “How that areas, and they seamed to say, how thankful moderna centuries ought to be ths persecution which reddened the sands of this amp iitheater have been abol- And then I questioned the echoes, saying, Where is Emperor Titus, who sat here?’ The answer came, ions to judgment” “Where is Emperor Trajan, who sat here? “sone to judgment.” © “Whore is Maximi- pux who sat bere?’ ‘Gone to ju lgment.” “Whers are all the multitudes woo clapped and shouted and waved flags to jet the van to bave them slain put “Gone And they “ . i Aud I looked up to the sky above the and those clouds seemei as them frowned, and they sommned to have wings, and some of the wings were moongilt and others thumier charged, and the voices overpowered the beneath, “Behold He cometh with And ss [ stood looking un along the walls of the Coliseum they rose higher and higher, until the amphitaeatre the Nations of the past, and all the Nations of the present, aud all the Nations of the future, thos who went down under the paws of wild baste ani small slave, and paw tor and people, and righteous and wicked, amphitheatre serming © rise fo in- heights on all sides of me, and in the osnter of that amphitheatre, instead thrones higher Christ and to command their assassination, rising higher and higher, and higher, and oa it sat the for whom the martyrs died against whom the Diocletiaus plet ted their persecutions, aod waving one band toward the pled up splendors Ww the right of Him Hs criad, “Come, ve bless. od.” and waving the other band toward the piled un giocoms on the left of Him He cried, “Depart, ve cursed.’ And so the Coliseum of Rome that even nto the amphi theater of the last judgment, aad [ passed from under the arch of that mighty stroc tars, mighty even in itsruins, praviag to Almighty rod, throuzh Jesus Christ, for mercy in that day for which all other days were made, and that as | expected mercy from God I might exsroise inercy toward others and bave more and mora of tae spirit “Lat him up” and less of the spirit of “loumbs down!” We may not all be able to do a sum in vat thers ie a sam in the first role of gospel arithmetic which we itis a sum in simple addition: “Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue to knowles lgs temperance, and to temperanc: patisncr, ani to patience godliness, ani to godliness brotherly kiad- ness, and to brotherly kindness charity.” Petrifiel Snakes. Ouae of the most startling finds ever made in this section was unearthed at Rockvale, a small miming camp nine The Santa Fe Coal Company, which has large mining interests at that point, was excavating in the bottom of a gulch for the purpose of putting in a new track when a peculiar formation was run into. The workmen stopped tc examine, and on digging around the spot the strange thing was found to bea perfectly formed suake This find caused so much excitement that the excavation was continued, and at a little distance snother reptile was uncovered, and on being dug out was found to be tweaty-four feet in length and as thick through as & man's body and perfectly petrified. This find caused still greater excite ment, and all work was stopped to dig for snakes, Another one was roon struck and is not yet uncovered. were found at a depth of tree feet. De- tails are but meagre so far, but a large number of persons have visited the find, and say facts as stuted are true. No one can tell how maay of the petrified mon. sters will be found, but no doubt there is a nest of them. —Deaver News, nn — All Were Freaks, According to mail advices, love had a queer mating at New Diggiogs, Wis. the other day. The bridegroom stood six feet two inches, the bride three feet two and a half inches. 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