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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Piilijrrt: “Pompeii anfl It, Uexsons.”
Text : “Thou haul rnmle of a defended city
a ruin." —lsaiah xxv., 2.
A flush nn tha sky greeted ns as wo
Josi th.- rUI train at Napl-s, Italy. What was
the strange illumination? It was that wrath
of many centuries—Vosuvins. Giant son ot
an earthquake. Intoxicated rnonntain o)
Italy. Father of many consternations. A
volcano, burning so long, and yet to keep on
burning until, perhaps, it may be the very
torch that wtJI kindle the last conflagration
and set all the world on fire. It eclipaee in
violence of behavior Cotopaxi and /Etna and
fstromboll and Krakatoa. Awful mystery.
Funeral pyre of dead cities. Everlasting
paroxysm of mountains. It seems like a
chimney of hell. It roars with fiery remin
iscence of what it has done and with threats
of worse things that It may yet do. I would
not live In one of the villages at its base for a
present of all Italy.
On a day in December, 1631, it threw up
ashes that floated away hundreds and hun
dreds of miles and drooped in Constantino
ple, and in Ihn Adriatic on the
Apennines, as well as trampling out at its
own foot the lives of IM.OOO people. Geo
logists have tried to fathom its mysteries,but
the heat consumed the iron instruments and
drove back the scorched nnd blistered ex
plorers fror.i the '-inde.-y and crumbling
[.rink. It seems like the asylum of maniac
elements.
At one time far back its top had been a
fortress, where Hpartacus fought and was
surrounded and would have beau destroyed
bad it not been for the grapevines whieh
clothed the mountainside from top to base,
and laying hold of them he climbed hand
under hand to safety In the valley. But sot
centurl s it has kept its furnace burning as
w saw it thet night on our arrival in Novem
ber of IMU.
O ■■. e the next day we started do see
•ome of the work wrought by that frenzied
mountain. “All out for Pompeii!” was the
cry of the conductor. And now we stand by
the corpse of that dead city. As wo entered
the iflifo aud pass,. 1 between the walls I took
off rny bat, as one naturally does in the pres
ence <d seine imposing obsequies. That city
had been at one time a capital of beauty and
pomp. The homo of grand architecture, ex
quisite painting, enchanting sculpture, unre
strained carousal and rant assemblage. A
high wall twenty feet thick, three-fourths of
It still visible, encircled the city. Os those
walls, at a distance of only 100 yards from
each other, towers rose for armed men who
watched the city. The streets ran at right
angles and from wall to wall, only one street
excepted.
lu the days of the city's prosperity its
towers glittered in the sun ; eight strong
gate.. Tor ingress tnd egress; Onto of the
Beashore, Onto of Herculaneum, Onto of
Vesuvius being pr rhaps the most important.
Yonder stood the Temple of Jupiter, hoisted
at an imposing elcvatl m, and with Its six
Corinthian columns of immense girth, which
Mood like carv 1 icebergs shimmering In the
light. There stands the Temple of the
Twelve finds. Yonder see the Temple of
Hereulus and the Temple of Mercury, with
altars of marble and bas-relief, wonderful
enough to astound,all succeeding ages of an,
and the Temple Os .F.seulaplus, brilliant with
sculpture nnd gorgeous with painting.
Yonder are the theatres, partly cut Into
surrounding hills, and gloriiled with pic
tured walls, nnd entered under arches of im
posing masonry, and with rooms, for capti
vated ami npplnudatory audiences seated or
Standing in vast semi-circle. Yonder are tho
costly nnd immense putili baths of tho city,
with more than ihn modern ingenuities of
( arlsi el. Notice the warmth of those an
cient tepldarlums, with hoveling radiance
of roof, and the vapor of those cnldnriums,
with decorated alcoves, and the cold dash of
their frigidarhuns, with floors of mosaic and
ceuings of all skilfully intermingled hues,
and walls upholstered with all tho colors of
the - fling sun, and sofason which to recline
for slumber alter the plunge.
Y> inter ure the barracks of tho celebrated
gladiators. Yonder is tho summer homo of
balitist, the lleman historian and Senator,
the architecture as elaborate us his charac
ter w«-corrupt. There is the residence of
the i>< t Fans it, with a compressed Louvre
and Luxembourg within Ids wulls. There is
the hotneof Lucretius, with vases and antiqui
ties enough te turn the head of a virtuoso.
Venders',! the Forum, at tho highest place
luthc ity. It is entered by two triumphal
nr i" s. It Is bounded ou throe sides by
dorie columns.
Vendor, in the suburbs of the city, is the
home of Arrius Dio.r od, tho mayor of the
s’ll'tircs, terraced rc-idence of hillionairo
dom, gardens, fountuined, statued, oolon
n led, tii - cellar of that villa filled with bot
tb ,of l ' 1 wine, a few drops ot whieh
were found tsOu years afterward. Along the
streets of th ' city ale men of might and
women of beauty termed into bronze that
many centuries had no power to bodlm. Bat
tle s 'tics on walls in colors which all time .
cannot efface. Great oity of Pompeii! So
Setioca and Tacitus and Cicero pronounood
it.
Stand with me on its walls this evening of
August J;i. A 1). 79. Sec tho throngs pass
ing up aud down in Tyrian purple and gir
dle* ot arubi pie, and necks oMhuined with
pro muss:,me-, proud offleiarm imposing
toga mooting the slave carrying trays a-clink
with goblets aud a-smoke with delicacies
from paddock and sea, and moralist musing
over lhe degradation of the times passes tho
pr, 'Ulgiite doing his best to make them worse.
Mark to tho clatter and rataplan of tho hoofs
on tho streets paved with blocks of basalt,
hoc tlic ventured and flowered grounds slop
ing into the most beautiful bay of all the
earth - the bay of Naples.
Listen to the rumbling chariots, carrying
convivial occupants to halls of mirth and
masquerade aud carousal. Hoar the loud
dash of fountains amid the sculptured water
nymphs. Notice the weird,solemn farroach
iug hum and din an I roar of a city at the
close ot a summer day. Let Pompeii sleep
well to-night, tor it Is the last night of peace
ful slumber before she falls Into the deep
slumber of many long centuries. The morn
iuu ot the 21th of August. A. 1). 79. has ar
rived, and tile days roll on, audit is l o’clock
in tho afternoon. “la>ok'" I say to you,
standing on this wall, as the sister of Pliny
said to him, the Homan essayist and naval
commander, on the day of which I speak, at
she pointed him in tho direction iu which 1
point you.
There is a peculiar cloud on the sky ; s
spotted cloud, now white, now black. It it
Vesuvius in awful and unjonraUoled erumjen
Now the smoke and (Ire and steam ofthal
black monster throat rise and spread, as, by
my gesture, I uow describe it. It rises, a
groat column of fiery, darkness, higher ami
higher, and then spreads ont like the
branches of a tree, with midnights enter
wrapp-sl ill Hs foliage, wider aud wider.
N>w the sun go-« out. and showers ot
pumice stone an t water from furnaces more
' t.:i:in seven thins heated, and ashes iu aval
an ,o alter avalanche, blinding and scalding
i a J suffocating, descend north, south, east
and west, burying deeper and deeper in
p i noth sepulcher, such as never before
or «ineo was opened, Stabile, Herculaneum
!c l Pompeii. Ashes ankle deep, girdle
ti vp, chin drop, ashes overhead.
Out of the houses aud temples and thea
i ins and into the streets aud down to th«
j b xv*h lied many of the iranttc. but others, it
i n It suffocated ot the ashes, were .-cal'i'vl tc
death by the healed deluge. And then cam*
heavier destrueifon in rock* after ronks,
crushing in homes and temples and theatres.
N.> wonder the scare eo- 1 from the beai'h at
tia'ugh tn terror, until much ot the shipping
«r, wr>v sed, au.t no wonder that when thej
hdisl I‘Uuy the elder trom the sailcloth os
w : ahe was resting, under the agitations oi
w at he had s--<-u. be suddenly expired
P'or t hr e day- the entombment proceeded,
Tium the clouds lifted, and the cursing«
that AuoLvon ol mountains fubelvjod.. Fo.
1700 years that city of Pdmpei! lay burlod
and without anythin to show its place of
doom. But after 1700 years of obliteration
a workman’s spade, digging a well, strikes
some antiquities whieh l»ad to the exhuma
tion of the city. Now walk with me through
some of the streets and into some of tht
houses and amid the ruins of basilica am)
temple and amphitheatre.
From the moment the guide met 113 at tht
gate on entering Pompeii that day in No
vember, 1« a ,9. until he left us at the gate 01
our departure, the emotion I felt was lnda
eeribaiiie for elevation and solemnity ans
sorrow and awe. Come and see the petri
fled bodies of the dead found In the city, ant
now in the museums of Italy. About 450 o
those embalmed by that eruption have, beet
recovered. Mother and child, noble an?
serf, merchant and beggar, are prosentabb
and natural after 1700 years of burial. Thai
womah was found clutching hpr adornmenti
when the storm of ashes and Are began, and
for 1700 years she continued to clutch them
There at tho soldiers' barracks are sixty
four skeletons of brave meD, who faithfully
stood guard at their post when the tempest
of cinders began, and after 1700 years weri
still found standing guard. There is thi
form of gentle womanhood impressed upoi
the hardened ashes. Pass along, and her*
wo see the deep ruts in tho basaltic pave
ments worn there by the wheels of the chari
ots of tho first century. There, over the
doorways and in the porticoes, are works of
art immortalizing the debauchery of a city,
whieh. notwithstanding all its splendors.was
a vestibule of perdition.
Those gutters ran with the blood of the
gladiators, who were prizefighters of those
ancient times, nnd it was sword parrying
sword, until, with one skilfrtl and stout
plunge of tho sharp edge, the mauled and
gashed combatant reeled over dead, to be
carried out amid tho huzzas of enraptured
spectators. We staid among those suggestive
scenes after the hour that visitors are usually
allowed there and staid until there was not a
footfall to be heai\i within all that city except
our own. Pp thi3 silent street and down that
silent street we wandered. Into that win
dowless androofless homo wo went and earns
out again onto tho pavements that, now for
saken, were once thronged wi£h life.
And can it be that all up and down these
solemn solitudes, hearts more than 1800
years ago aohed and rejoiced, and feet shuf
fled with the gait of old age or danced with
childish glee, and overtasked workmen car
ried their burdens, and drunkards staggered?
On that mosaic floor did glowing youth clasp
hands in marriage vow. and cross that
threshold did pallbearers carry the beloved
dead, and gay groups once mount those now
skeletons of staircases?
While I walked and contemplated the city
seemed suddenly to be thronged with all the
population that had ever inhabited it, and I
heard its laughter and groan and uncloan
liess and Infernal boast as it was on the 23d
of August, 79. And Vesuvius, from the mild
light with which it flushed the sky that sum
mer evening as I stood in disentombed Pom
peii, seemed suddenly again to heave and
flame and rook with the lava and darkness
and desolation nnd woo with whieh more
than eighteen centuries ago it submerged
Pompeii, as with the liturgy of fire and storm
the mountain proclaimed at the burial,
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
My friends, I cannot tell what practical
suggestion comes to vour mind from this
walk through uncovered Pompeii, hut the
first thought that absorbs mo is that, while
art and culture are important, they cannot
save tho morals or tho life of a great town.
Much of the painting and sculpture of Pom
peii was so exquisite that, while some is kept
on the walls where it was first penciled, to be
admired by those who go there, whole wagon
loads and whole rooms full of it have been
transferred to tho Museo Borbonioo at Na
ples, to bo admired by the centuries.
Those Pompeiian artists mixed such dura
bility of colors that, though their paintings
were buried in ashes and soorira for 1700
years, and since they were uncovered many
of them have remained there exposed to tho
rains and winds unit winters and summers
130 years, tho color is as fresh and vivid and
true as though yesterday it had passed from
the easel. Which of our modern paintings
could stand all that? Aud yet many of the
specimens of Pompeiian art show that tho
city was sunk to such a depth of abomination
that there whs nothing deeper. Sculptured
and petrified and embalmed abomination.
There was a siato of public mornls worse
than belongs to any city now standing under
the sun.
Yet how many think that all that is neces
sary is to cultivate the mind and advance the
knowledge and improve the arts. Have you
tho impression that eloquence will do the
elovating work? Why, Pompeii had Cicero
half of every year for its citizen. Have you
the Idea th.it literature is ail that is noees-
Biirv to keep a city right? Why, Sallust, with
a pen that wns the boast of Roman litera
ture, hud a mansion in that doomed city. Do
you think that sculpture and art are quite
sufficient for the production of good morals?
Then correct your delusion by examining
the statues in tho Temple of Mercury at Pom
peii. or tho winged figures of its Parthenon,
nnd the colonnades and arches of this house
of Diomcd.
By all means have schools and Dusseldorl
and' Dore exhibitions and galleries where
the genius oi all the centuries can bank it
self up tn snowy sculpture, and all bric-a
brac, nn i all pure art, but nothing save the
religion of Jesus Christ can make a city
moral. In proportion as churches ami Bi
bles aud Christian printing presses and re
vivals of religion abound is a oity pureand
cl-stii. What has Buddhism or Confucianism
or Mohammedanism done in all the hun
dreds of years of their progress for the ele
vation of society? Absolutely nothing.
Peking and Madras and Cairo are just
what they were ages ago. exeept as Christi
anity has modified their condition. What is
the difference between our Brooklyn and
their Pompeii? No difference, except'that
which Christianity has wrought. Favor all
good art, but take best care of your
churches, and your Sabbath schools, and
your Bibles, aud your family altars.
Yen. see in our walk through uncovered
Pompeii what sin will do for a oity. We
ought to be stow to assign the judgment of
Hod. Cities are sometimes ainicted just as
good people are afflicted, and the earthquake,
and the cyclone, aud the epidemic are no
sign in many eases that Hod is angry with a
oitv, hut the distress is sent for some good
and kin 1 purpose, whether we understand
it or not. The law that applies to individ
uals may apply to Christian dries as welt,
“Ail things work together for good to those
that love God."
But the greatest calamity of history came
upon Pompeii not to improve its future con
dition. for 11 was completely obliterated and
will never be rebuilt. It was so bad that
it neededto be buried 1700 years before even
its ruins were fit to bo uncovered. So Sodom
j 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
oemef"rv in which the sunken ships are bur
ied all the wav between Fire Isiand nnd
Fastnet Lighthouse, and the other cemetery
is the cemetery ot dead cities.
I get down on my kneea and read the
epitapheology of a long line of them. Here
j IPs Babylon, once called “the hammer of
I the whole earth.” Dead and buried undet
i (-lies ot bitumen and brokeu pottery and
vitrerte 1 brick And I hear a wolf howl and
a reptile hiss as l am res ling this epitaph
Is: nth xili. 21). “The wild beast of un
de- rt shall be there, and their house shall
be full of doleful creatures.”
The next tomb l kn- 1 before in this com
et ry of cities is Nineveh. Her Winged lionl
arc dowu. and the slabs of alabaster have
crumbled, and the sculpture that represented
her battles is as i-omplctely scattered as the
dust of the heroes who fought them. Per
haps I put mv knee into the dust of her Sat>
vun.spiuus as 1 stoop to read her epitaph
i y.ephaniah li.. 14.) “Now is Nineveh desola
tion and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie
down in the midst of her ; ail the beasts ol
:.. Vi s. .-.a the cormorant and the bit-
I i-Tu, brlgt ut »e upp-r lintels ot tt.” And
w.itle I road it l hear an owl hoot and a
I hyena iauga.
rail granite, and It 's Tyre. Tito nest «u»-
pulener of a great capital is covered with
Mattered columns and defaced sphinxes and
the rands of the desert, and it is Thehes. As
T pass on I And the resting place of Myeente,
s city of which Homes sang, and Corinth,
which rejected Paul and depended upon her
fortress, Acrocorinthus, which now lios dis
r.antled on the hill, and I move on in this
•emetery of cities, and I find the tombs of
Sardis and Smyrna and Persepolis and
Memphis and Baalbek and Carthage, and
here are the cities of the plain and Hercu
laneum and Stabia and Pompeii. Some of
them have mighty sarcophagus and hiero
glyphic entablature, but they are dead and
juried never to rise.
But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet
filled, and if the present cities of the world
forget God and with their indecencies shock
the heavens let them know that the God who
on the 24th of August, 79, dropped on a city
of Italy a superincumbrance that staid there
seventeen centuries is still alive and hates
sin now as much as He did then and has at
His command all the armament of destruc
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 suggestedthat there areforces
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 coptinent deeper
than Pompeii was engulfed. Our hope fs in
the mercy of the Lord continued to our
American cities.
It amazes me that this city, which has the
quietest Sabbaths on the continent and the
best order and the highest 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 Pompeii.
What a precious crew that Coney Island Ath
letic Club is, under whose auspices these
orgies are enacted ! What a degradation to
the adjeciive “athletic,” which ordinarily
suggests health and muscle developed for
useful purpose? Instead of calling it an
athletic club they might better style it “The
Ruffian For Smashing the Human
Visage.”
Vile men are turning that Coney Island,
which is one of the finest watering places on
all the Atlantic coast, into a place for the
offscouring of the earth to congregate, the
low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the
pugilists and the pickpockets, and the bloats
regurgitated from the depths of the worst
wards of these cities. They invite delegates
Irom universal loaferdom to come to their
carnival of knuckles. But Ido not believe
that the pugilism contracted for and adver
tised for next December will take place in
•ur neighborhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going one
step too far. You may drivo the hoop of a
barrel down so hard that it breaks. I will
not believe that the international prize fight
will take place on Long Island or in the State
of New York until I see the rowdy rabble
rolling drunk off the cars at Flatbush avenue
and with faces banged and cut and bleeding
from the imbruting scone. Against this in
fraction of the laws of the State of New York
I lift solemn protest. The curse of Almighty
God will rest upon any community that con
sents to such an outrage. Does any one
thick it cannot be stopped, and that the con
stabulary would be overborne? Then let
Governor Flower send down there a regiment
of State militia, and they will clean out the
nuisance in one hour.
Warned by the doom of other cities that
have perished for their ruffianism, or their
cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissolute
ness, let all our American cities lead the right
way. Our only dependence is on God and
Christrian influences. Politics will do noth
ing but make things worse. Send politics to
moralize and save a city, and you send
smallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to re
lieve the air of malodor. For what politics
will do I refer you to the eight weeks of
stultification enacted at Washington by our
American senate.
American politics will become a reforma
tory power on the same day that pandemoni
um becomes a church. But there are, lam
glad to say, benign and salutary and gra
cious influences organized in all our cities
which will yet take them for God and right
eousness. Let us ply the gospel machinery
to its utmost speed and power. City evan
gelization is the thought. Accustomed as
am religious pessimists to dwell upon statis
tics of evil and dolorous facts, we want some
one with sanctified heart and good digestion
to put in long line the statistics of natures
transformed, and profligacies balked, and •
pouls ransomed, and cities redeemed.
Give us pictures of churches, of schools,
of reformatory associations, of asylums of
mercy. Break in upon the “Misereres” of
complaint and despondency with “To
Deums” and “Jubilates of moral and re
ligious victory.” Show that the day is com
ing when a great tidal wave of salvation will
roll over all our cities. Show ,liow Pompeii
buried will become Pompeii resurrected.
Demonstrate the fact that there.aro millions
of good men and women who will give
themselves no rest day nor night until cities
that are now of the type of the buried cities
of Italy shall take typo from the Now
Jerusalem coming down from God out of
heaven. I hai tho advancing murn.
I make the same proclamation to-day that
Gideon made to the shivering cowards of his
army. “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let
him return and depart early from Mount
Gilead.” Close up the ranks. Lilt the gos
pel standard. Forward into this Armaged
don that is now opening and let the word
run all along the line: Brooklyn for God!
All our cities for God ! America 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 be through streets
where sobriety and good order dominate, or
grogshops stench the air? Shall our last
look be upon city halls where justice reigns,
or demagogues plot for the stuffing of ballot
boxes? Shall we sit for the last time in some
church where God is worshiped with the
contrite heart, or where cold formalism goes
through unmeaning genuflexions? God save
the cities ! Righteousness is life , iniquity is
death. Remember picturesque, terraced,
templed, sculptured, boastful, God defying
and entombed Pompeii !
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Ist Naples. Italy, compositors are paid as
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Several Pittsburg mills that were idle all
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Tax thousan d people are employed as tele
phone operators in this country.
It is estimated that since July 1 800,-
000 employes have lost their situations.
In Chicago, according to an exact count,
79,364 wage workers are out of employment.
Nearly 2,000.000 wageworkers are out of
employment in England since the coal strike
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A lakoe number of idle miners from the
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