rl © — i ST ‘REV. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN~ DAY SERMON. | tion of the city, Subject: “Pompeil and Its Lessons.” | Text: * Thou hast made of a defensed city | aruin,'' Isaiah xxv, 2 A flash on the night sky greeted us as we left the rail train at Naples, Italy, What was the strange illumination? It was that wrath of many centuries Vesuvius, an earthquake. Intoxicated mountain Italy, Father of many consternations, A voleano, burning so long, and yet to keep on burning until, perhaps, it may be the very torch that will kindle the last conflagration and set all the world on fire, violence of behavior Cotopaxi and Etna and Stromboli and Krakatoa. Awful mystery, Funeral pyre of dead cities, i A paroxysm of mountains, It seems like a chimney of hell, It roars with flery remin- iscence of what it has done and with threats of worse things that it may yet do. I would not lve in one of the villages at its base fora present of all Italy, On a day in December, 1631, it threw up ashes that floated away hundreds and hun- dreds of miles and dropped in Constantino- ple, and in the Adriatic sea, and on the Apennines, as well as trampling out at its own foot the lives of 15,000 people. Geo- logists have tried to fathom its mysteries, but the heat consumed the iron instruments and drove back the scorched and biistered ex- lorers from the oindery and crumbling rink. It seems like the asylum of maniac slements, At one time far back its top had heen a fortress, where Spartacus fought and was surrounded and would have been destroyed had it not been for the grapevines which elothed the mountainside from top. to base, and laying hold of them he climbed hand under hand to safety in the valley. Bat for oenturies it has kept its furnace burning as we saw it that night on our arrival in Novem ber of 1888, Of course the next day we started to seo some of the work wrought by that fremzied mountain. “All out for Pompeii |” was the ory of the conductor, And now we stand by the corpse of that dead city, As we entered the gate and passed between the walls I took off my hat, as ons naturally does (n the pres ence of & imposing obsequies, That city had been at one time a capital of beauty and pomp. The home of grand architecture, ex quisite painting, enchanting sculpture, strained carousal and rapt assembl three-f oa city 100 yards | ywers rose for armed men wi sity. The at right from wall to w stroet of other, t , watched the angles and exoer gates fo Reashore, Vesuvius being perhaps the Yonder st at an imposis corinthian t important, d the Templo ipiter, hoisted g elevation, and with its six lumns of immense girth, which stood lke carved jeebergs shimmering in the light, There stands the Temple of the Twelve Gods. Yonder see the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Mercury, with altars of marble and bas-relief, wonderfu enough to astound all succeeding ages of art and the Temple of Esculaplias, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous with painting Yonder are the theatres, partly cut surrounding hills, and glorified with tured walls, and entered under arches of im- sing masonry, and with rooms, for eapti- vated and applaudatory audiences seated or standing in vast semi-c Yonder are the costly and immense public baths of the elty with more than the modern lngenuities Carlsbad. Notice the warmth of those an- clent tepidariams, with hovering radiance of roof, and the vapor of those caldariums with decorated alcoves, and the o dash of their frigidariums, with floors of mosaic sad eeilings of all skilfully intermingled hues and walls upholstered with all the colors ng sun, and so” on which to reo ber after the phuage jer are the barracks of ors. Yonder is the summer home of the Roman historian and Senator architecture as elaborate as his charae ter was cormpt. There is the residence « tha poet Pansa, wit wom pressed Louvre and i axembourg within his walle, There is the home of Lucretius, with vases and satiqui- ties enough to turn the head of a virtuoso Yonder see the Forum, at the highest place inthe city. It is entered by two triumphal arches bounded threo sides Ly dorie Yonder, in the me of Arrius terraced residence dom, gardens, fountained, ’ X naded, the cellar of that vilia filed with bot. ties of rarest wine, a few drops of were found 1800 years afterward, A streets of the city are men of women of beauty for irele, of ’ ine the celebrated ’ ihtirts of the city, ia the - Diomesd, the mayor of th onaire st ut whieh ong the ¥ and ned Into bronze that many centuries had no power to bedim. Bat tle scenes oa walls In colors which all time cannot efface, Great city of Pompei! So Seneca avd Tacitus and Clioero pronounced it Stand with me on its walls this evening of August 23. A. D. 7%. See the throngs ing up and down in Tyrian purple and gir dies of arabesque, and necks enchained with precious stones, proud official in imposing toga meeting the slave earrying trays a-clink with goblets and asmoke with delicacies from paddock and sea, and moralist musing over the degradation of the times passes the Eo tigate doing his best to make them worse ark to the clatter and rataplan of the hools on the streots paved with blocks of basalt See the verdured and flowerad grounds slop ing into the most beautiful bay of all the earth the bay of Naples, Listen to the rumbling chariots, earrying convivial occupants to halls of mirth and masquerade and carousal, Hear the loud dash of fountains amid the sculptured water nymphs, Notices the weird, solemn farreach ing bum and din and roar of a city at the close of a summer day. Let Pompei sleep well to-night, for it i= the last night of peace. ful slumber before she falls into the deep slumber of many loug centuries, The morn. ing of the 24th of August, A. D, 79, has ar rived, and the days roll on, and it is 1 o'clock in the afternoon. “Look!” 1 say to you, standing on this wall, as the sister of Pliny said to him, the Roman essayist and naval commander, on the day of which I speak, as she pointed him in the direction in which I point you. There is a peculiar cloud on the sky a spotted sloud, now white, now black. Its esuvias in awful and unparalleled sraption, Now the smoke and fire and steam of that binek monster throat rise and spread, ss, by my gesture, I now deseribe it, It rises, column of flery, darkness, higher and igher, and then spreads out ike the branches of a tree, with midnights enter. wrapped in (ts follage, wider and wider, Now the sun goes out, and showers of Jumide stone and water trom furnaces mors seven times heated, and ashes in aval anche after avalanche, blinding and sealding and suffocating, descend porth, south, east and west, burying deeper and deeper in mammoth sepulcher, such sy never before or since was opened, Stabim, Herculaneum and Pompedi, doop, chin deep, ashes overhead, Out of the houses sud temples and thea. pans | sorrow and awe. 1700 years that eity of Pompeii lay buried and without anything to show its place of doom. Bat after 1700 years of obliteration a workman's spade, digglog a well, strikes { some antiquities which lead to the exhuma- | Now walk with me through | {| some of the streets and into some of the | | houses and amid the ruins of basilica and | temple and amphitheatre, From the moment the guide met us at the gate on entering Pompeii that day in No- | vember, 1880, until he left us at the gate on | | our departure, the emotion I felt was inde- | and | | them have mighty sarcophagus snd hiero- | seribable for elevation and solemnity Come and seo the petri- { fled bodies of the dead found in the city, nad Giant son of | of | It eclipses in | Ashes ankle deep, girdle | tres and into the streets and down to the | beach fled many of the frantie, but others, If not suffocated of the ashes, wers soalded to | And then came | No wo the son receded though in terror, until much of the i the beach ax | now in the museums of Italy, About 450 of those embalmed by that eruption have been recovered, Mother and child, noble and serf, morchant and beggar, are presentable and natural after 1700 years of burial. That woman waa found aluteahing har adornments when the storm of ashes and fire began, and for 1700 years she continued to elutoh them, There at the soldiers’ barracks are sixty- | four skeletons of brave men, who faithfully Everlasting | stood guard at thelr post when the tempest of einders began, and after 1700 years were still found standing guard, There is the form of gentle womanhood impressed upon the hardened ashes, Pass along, and here we seo the deep ruts Jn the basaltic pave- ments worn there by the wheels of the chari- ots of the first century, There, over the doorways and in the porticoes, are works of art immortalizing the debauchery of a city, which, notwithstanding all its splendors, was n vestibule of perdition. Those gutters ran with the blood of the gladiators, who were prisefighters of those ancient times, and it was sword parryiong sword, until, with one skilful and stout plunge of the sharp edge, the mauled and gashed combatant reeled over dead, to be carried out amid the huzsas of enraptured spectators, We staid among those suggestive soenes after the hour that visitors are usually allowed there and staid until there was not a footfall to be heard within all that elty except our own. Up this silent street and down that silent street we wandered, Into that win dowiess and roofless home we went and oe out again nents that, now snken, were wi with life sud down these onto the VOars ng with the gait of childish glee, and « pied their burdens, On that mosale fi \ hands in marriage vo threshold did palibearers carry dead, and gay groups ones mo skeletons of stalroasos While I walked Ivertasked and whi ne I st Hght with sudd rock with desolation and eightosn ! f he Iturgy yastain proclaim 10 ashes, dust to friends, I cannot suggestion comes to your walk through uncoverad first thought that absorbs art and culture are important, save the morals or the life of Much of the painting and sex pelt Was 80 exquisite that wi on the walls where it was frst pen admired by those who go there, whe loads and whole rooms full of it have transferred to the Museo Borbonico at ples, to be admired by the centuries Those Pompelian artists mixed sach « bility of colors that, though their paint buried in ashes and scorim for they cas groat ure of fs some is kept dled, to be le wagon } Na wore years, and since they were ur of them have remained there exposed to the rains and winds and winters and summons 130 yours, the color is as fresh and vivid and true as though yesterday it nad passed from the sasel, Which of our modern paintings sould stand all And yet of the specimens of Pompelian art the ity was sunk to such a depth o that thors was nothing dee and petrified and ned a There was a state of public n than belongs 10 any city now standing under the sun Yet how many think that all tha! 8 neoes many show f abomir Seal yninatl als w that or emia sary is to cultivate the mind and advance the | e the arts, Have will do the had Ci knowledge and impro ion that Wt vear for its el anne iy, Pompedl the idea that literature Keep a ity right 3 that was the boast had a man think that a ; Mateont in for t} wrreatt . : sit peti, or the wing» and the colonnades an of Diomed By all means have & and D exhibitic and galleries the genius of all the centuries can bank it ip in snowy sculpture, and all brie-a brace, and all pure art, but » religion of Jesus Christ oan ke a moral In proportion as churches and Bi bles and Christian printing presses and re vivals religion abound is a oity ire and clean. What has Buddhism or Confucianism or Mohammedanism done in all the bun dreds of years of their progress for the ele. vation of society Atsoiutely nothing Peking and Madras and Cairo are Just what they wore ages ago, except as Christi anity has modified their condition What i= the difference between our Brooklyn and their Pompeii? No difference, except that which Christianity bas wrought, Favor all good art, but take best care of your churches, and your Bablath schools, and your Bibles, and your family aitars Yea, soe in our walk though uncovered Pompeii what sin will do for a city, We ought to be slow to assign the judgment of God. Citles are sometimes afflicted just as good people are afflicted, and the sarthquake, and the cyclone, and the epidemic are no sign in many cases that God is angry with a ety, but the distress is sent for some good and kind purpose, whether we understand it or not, The law that applies to Individ uals may apply to Christian cities as well, “All things work together for good to those that love God.” But the greatest calamity of history came upon Pompell not to improve its future con dition, for it was completely obliterated and will never be rebuilt, It was 80 bad that it neoded to be buried 1700 yours before even fts ruins were fit to be uncovered, Bo Bodom and Gomorrah were filled with such turpi tude that they were not only turned under but have for thousands of years been kept under. The two greatest cemeteries are the cemetery in which the sunken ships are bur. ted all the way between Fire Island and Fastnet Lighthouse, and the other cometery is the cemetery of desd sities, I get down on my knees and read the apitapheology of a long lias of them, Hers i*8 in the Te i Partheno arches of this house hools and Dusssidort! rn ne whers ani! ’ lies Babylon, once onlled “the hammer of | Dead end buried under | the whols earth.” pilex of bitumen and broken pottery sad vitrefied brick, And I hwar & wolf how! and a reptilu hiss ae I am reading this epitaph | (Isalah xii, 21), “The wild beast of the desert shall be there, and thelr house shall | be full of doleful erentures.” The next tomb 1 kneel before in this sem. etory of olities is Nineveh, Her winged lions | are down, and the slabs of alabaster have | srumbled, and the sealpture that represented | her battios is as completely seattorsd as the | dust of the heroes who fonght them, Per. haps 1 dana (Zep tion and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie oui ee i | COrMmorhe » in the upper lintels of It." And read it 1 boar an owl hoot and a 1 has 4 monn. ne of gray And us as I ot to road her | the room is, perhaps, Jattiealar t my k to the dust of hor Sar. | ut my knee into 2 pu i | other day the dog noticed that the tab It, 14) Xow is Nineveh desole- | red granite, and it 1s Tyre, the sands of the desurt, and it is Thebes, As I pass on I find the resting place of Mycenm, a city of which Homer sang, and Corinth, | which rejected Paul and depended upon her | fortress, Aorocorinthus, which now les dis | mantled on the hill, and I move on in this | cemetery of cities, and I find the tombs of | Persepolis and | we, and | here aro the cities of the plain and Hereu- | Sardis and Memphis Bmyrna and und Baslbek and Carth laneum and Stabila and Pompell., Bome of glyphie entablature, but they are dead and | buried never to rise, But the cemetery of dead cities is not yot filled, and if the present cities of the world | forget God and with thelr indecencles shock the heavens let them know that the God who | on the Mth of Avene 70 dArannad on a cite of Italy & superincumbrance that staid there | seventeen centuries is still alive and hates sin now ns much as He did then and bas at His tion with which He whelmed their iniquitous predecessors, It was only a few summers ago that Brook. lyn and New York felt an earthquake throb | that sent the people affrighted into the streets and that suggested that there are foros of nature now suppressed or held in check, which easier than a child in a nursery knocks down a row of block houses could prostrate a city or engulf a continent deeper than Pompell was engulfed. Our hope is in the mercy of the Lord continued to our American aities, It amazes me that this oity, which has the quietest Sabbaths on the continent and the best order and the highest tone of morals of any city that I know of, Is now having brought into as near neighborhood as Coney Island carnivals of pugilism as debasing as any of the gladiatorial interests of Pompeil, What a precious crew that Coney Island Ath. lotic Club is, yer send down there a regiment ate militia, and they wil out the nuisance in Warned by the verishod Cea ous hour doom of other cities that r thelr raflaniam, or their sruelty, or thelr idolatry, or their dissol jot all our Ameriosn cities load the right way. Our only « sis on God and Chiristrian influsnoe 5 do noth. but Send politios to ral and you send aroass 10 re what politios elght weeks © have | i. La make things wor ww. For i to the American senate American politics will become a reforms tory power on the same day that pandemoni- um becomes a church But there are, | am and salutary and gra reanisged In all our cities i vet take them for God and right. nachinery CEY evan benign glad to say fous influences gelinati are reli farts 1 heart and g the stalistios profiigacion , and is tion redeet from yawn from Go ancing mom, wiamation to<lay that cowards of his lot early from Mount so up the ranks Lift the g | stand Forward this Armaged- don that wow opening and let the word run all slong the line Brooklyn tor God t All our cities for God! Amerion for God! The world for God! The most of us here gathered, though born in the country, will die in town Shall our last walk through stroets where sobriety and good order dominate, or grogshops stench the alr? Shall our lant look be upon city halls where justios reigns, or demagogues plot for the stuffing of ballot boxes? Bhail we sit for the last time in some shurch where God ls worshiped with the ontrite heart, or where cold formalism goes through unmeaning genuflexions? God savg the cities | Righteousness is life ; iniquity is death, Remember picturesque, terraced, templad, sculptured, boastful, God defying snd entombed Pompeii’ - I —— Heating by Electricity. In some of the hotels in the West a system of heat regultion which is cer- tainly novel is earried out. For in- stance, a gnest occupying Room 1066 asks for heat, ted to a peculiar person, the typewriter of the hotel generally. switchboard and connection out depart Ea into her is given electrically with that room, allowing | The occupant of | heat to pass into it. A hot-blooded person wishes merely to keep from freezing; another wants a high temperature. wish, for a thermostat with a pointer is on the wall, and the room will keep itself automatioally as desired. 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