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ARTICLE LVI.
I T A L Y.
(3). From Naples, via Capua, to
Rome, "The Eternal City."
On Wednesday morning, May 4,
we take final leave of "the Grosser
Kuofuerst," get into carriages at
the wharf at 8 a. m. ancj drive to
the station in Naples, whence we
take first-class cars to Rome. Re
fore leaving Naples, it may be said
that here, especially in the Great
Gallery Umberto I (an immense
cruciform arcade), is the best
place to buy gloves and corals,and j
if one is inclined, also mosaics, I
statuary, and splendid pictures of
Vesuvius, and other interesting!
points in the vicinity.
Neither must we forget that, as
Dr. Wm. E. Rarton says, "A'ound
this Ray cluster more objects ot
interest and beauty than can be !
shown by any bay on earth. On
these slopes Caesar and Caligula
and Nero and Hadrian and Pom-
pey had their villas, and drank of
the wines of the hillsides, and
looked out over this beautiful land
and sea. On yonder hill lived
Virgil. There he wrote his Aeneid
and his Georgies, and there was
his tomb; for though he died away
from here, the Emperor Augustus,
who was with him, respected his
dying wish, and brought his body
here to be buried at Posilipo,above
the bay. On yonder little island
of Nisida, Cicero held his last con
ference with Rrutus after the mur
der of Caesar.”
Furthermore, we want to say
that it looked as though the ends \
of the earth were gathering at |
Naples to emigrate to America, j
ship-load after ship-load containing j
thousands of emigrants leaving |
even while we were here. If we
wondered at the number of these
people sailing for foreign shores,
as we viewed them at the docks,
our wonder greatly increased as we
passed over the distance of about
162 miles from Naples to Rome; as
lovely, wooded, cultivated,and roll
ing a country, and with as great
fertile plains as we ever saw, a
beautiful land, with here and there
square towers on the levels and
fortresses on the heights, and long
lines of the remains of massive
Roman aqueducts. Why leave
such a delightsome country? As
Bro. Studley puts it: "We passed !
through the greenest, sweetest, ,
neatest orchards, vineyards thatj
we have seen on the cruise. Why
should the Italians leave such a;
land as this, a combination of fairy- j
land and Eden, to come to Ameri- j
ca, live in twenty-four tenement!
rookeries, and shovel out the
glacial gravel of New England for
new electric lines of travel? There 1
can be but one economic answer: It 1
is taxation. Standing armies and i
costly navies and exactiug capital
ism are an analysis of the curse
that is on the land of Italy. The
Campagna, that level district
about Rome, once supported an
immense population; now it is
largely deserted and malarial. The
land of the Agro-R.omano section
is said to belong one-half to ec
clesiastical corporations, one-third
to nobility, and barely the remain
ing one-sixth to small proprietors.
The Italian peasant cannot carry
a fort, a warship, and several pal
aces on his head, e^en if his feet
do stand on land which is or may
be as fertile as any on earth.”
It is a common tiling to speak
disparagingly of the Italians going
to America; this a grave mistake.
While in Italy we heard several
leaders who were thoroughly con
versant with affairs throughout the
oountry say, many if not most of
these people were from among the
most substantial in the land, and
indeed constituted the very back
bone of Italy. It is becoming a
problem how to keep the people
from leaving their fatherland; and
this is all the more aggravated as
the outgoing tide increases.
We arrived in Rome about 2 p.
m., after seeing Maria Capua and
Capua and many other places of
interest along the way that we
cannot pause even to mention.
The very efficient and affable
manager of our party to and in
1 Rome was Mr. Goldthwaite, one of
I the best informed and most agree
able men in the service of Mr.
Frank Clark. We make this
special mention of him, because he
I not only deserves it, but is a man
much above the average value to
1 he tourist. Under his direction
| on arrival at the Rome Station we
I took coupes for Rertolini’s Hotel
Splendid, where we remain as long
las in the city, and are not only
hospitably entertained but con
veniently located for sight-seeing
in every quarter,' The only fault
we Americans found was that we
could not put in some of the early
as well as the late hours of each
day to profit in seeing things of
note. Rut there are certain hours
in which to see Rome, and we saw
enough to satisfy the most fastidi
ous and careful during our stay.
The first afternoon in Rome Mr.
J. S. Carroll and the author after a
brief rest and refreshment pro
ceeded to take a good long stroll,
calling at the respective olifices of
' Cook and Son and of Clark’s
; Rankers for possible mail from the
home-folks. It was but a short
1 way off to the lovely Fincian Gar
dens, on a high eminence, whence
one of the finest views of Rome is
obtained. Annexed thereto is a
i museum open on certain days and
hours. Returning we dined at
6:15 p. m., afterwards going out
; and looking at some of trie pretty
1 displays in the store-windows,
especially on the street our hotel
j fronted upon. Just before start
ing out for the evening our man-
ager gave us an admirable lecture
upon Rome, emphasizing its de
velopment as lateral rather than
horizontal, denominating it the
careful collector and preserver of
ancient and modern art, and sig- ,
nalizing it as the spiritual utilizer ;
of the federal or territorial prin-1
ciple (which was notably absent \
from the state until 30 or 40 years
before under Victor Emmanuel II,.
called "the Father of the State," j
for whom the way had been paved j
1 by the noble General Garibaldi;,
i He also suggested as interesting ]
1 reading upon "Rom” Lord Ryron,
also Chas.Kingsley’s "The Roman
and the Teuton,” and “the City
State” (published by Macmillan),
| among other works, at our leisure,
as contributing to a better under-
| standing of the city which Virgil
! in his Aeneid (1:279; styles an
j “Imperium Sine Fine,” a kingdom
| without end. Rome has been
styled "the Eternal City,” not so
much because of her long continu
ance, (other cities out-classing her
in respect of age; as from her con
stant importance since the begin
ning of her history, no matter
what the power over her, (wheth
er kings or dictators or emperors
or popes or as the capital of an
United Italy ).
The next morning found a friend
and myself walking out after a 7
o'clock breakfast to the historic
"Yellow Tiber," a well-rock em
banked stream of decidedly yellow
water in the very heart of Rome,
and from thence around the l’al-
ace of Justice, then in course of
completion. At 9 o'clock our party
took carriages and drove through
the Piazza del Popolo with its
Egyptian Obelisk and twin
churches, opposite S. Maria del
Popolo on the haunted (?) burial-
place of Nero, and ascended to the
tavorite Roman park and pronie
nade on the Pincian Hill with its
statues and busts and trees and
fountains, and grand views, seeing
the Villa Borghese, and having
the 7 hills on which Rome was
built pointed out by our conductor
in detail.
Thence we drove to the Vatican,
visiting the Sistine Chapel with
Michael Angelo’s great wall-paint
ings—“Creation” and "the Last
Judgment,” and the rooms and
Loges of Raphael, the l’inacote-
que, the Museum of Sculpture
with its treasures. This took us
all the time until mid-day luncheon,
wien we returned to the hotel.
Here n.ail from home gladdened
us all. Among the things of in-
terest to the writer came an ap
pointment as a Commissioner from
the Southern Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly to the Pan-Presby
terian Council meeting in Liver
pool June 28 to July 6.
After lunch we again took car
riages with our pleasant guide, Mr.
Arthur Castelli, and went through
that great church edifice, St.
Peter’s, the largest and costliest
in the world (St. Paul’s in London
being the next in size;, with its
fine statuary ami mosaics, and
treasury, with notably grand
works of Michael Angelo, Bernina
and Canova. The size of St, Pet
er’s may be guaged from the fact
that at least 70,000 people can be
in the building comfortably at one
time, a veritable city for content.
Beneath its lofty dome is the re
puted (?) tomb of St Peter, while,
in the nave above, beneath a ca
nopy is a statue in bronze seated
on a throne of white marble said
to represent him,and the extended
bronze right foot is a favorite kiss-
ing-spot for the faithful Roman
Catholic, rich and poor alike. The
main building of itself cost $5o,-
000,000; the construction of the
whole covering more than 176
years; and the annual repairing-
out lay being no less than 131,500.
“Rut,” as Dr. W. W. Moore notes,
“it cost the Romish Church far
more than money—it cost her the
loss of all the leading nations of
the world, which had been under
her dominion till that time. For
the expense of the vast structure,
with its ‘insolent opulence of
marbles,’ was so great that Julius
II. and Leo X. were obliged to 1
meet the enormous outlay by the
: sale of indulgence, and that, as is
well known, precipitated the Ref- 1
! ormation. So that Protestants
i may well feel a peculiar interest in
J this mighty cathedral.”
j Resides containing half of the
I bodies of Saints Peter and Paul
(the other halt of Peter being in
I the Church of St. John Lateran,
and that of Paul being in the
| splendid Basilica of “St.Paul with
out the walls”;, and ancient wood-
, en chair encrusted in ivory de
clared to be the Cathedra Petri or
episcopal throne of Peter and his
successors in office, the four huge
piers supporting the dome are em
ployed as shrines for the church's
four great relics (“the lance ot St.
Longinus, the soldier who pierced
the Saviour's side; a portion ot the
true cross; the napkin of St.
Veronica, containing the miracul
ous impression of our Lord s face;
and the head of the apostle An
drew”—let him believe who can!
We do not.) The next great thing
here exhibited, in the Chapel of
the Holy Column, is a pillar which
they claim was the very one
against which the Lord Jesus
leaned when praying and teaching
in the Temple at Jerusalem—im
agine it!
Thence we passed to the Roman
Forum or rather what remains of
it, “where Cataline delivered his
famous oration, where Caesar's re
mains were carried and Marc An
tony pronounced his eulogy upon
him, and where Virginia was killed
by her father." Here wete seen
the ruins of Caesar’s palace, the
Via Appia (just uncovered), the
Rostrum, Constantine’s Basilica,
the houses of the Vestal Virgins,
and the great arches of Septimius
Severus, Titus, and Constantine.
Just here we will pause awhile as
we look at the arch ot Titus
specialty.
Standing to the northwest of
the Colosseum, this Triumphal
Arch of Titus is at a point where
the Sacred Way leads to the
Forum, and commemorates the
destruction oi Jerusalem by Titus
in A. D. 70, and has delineations
upon it purporting to be of the
spoils from the Temple there, such
as “the Golden Candlestick’’ ( Ex.
25:31 40), "the two trumpets ot
silver” (Num. io:2), and ‘the
table of shew-bread" (Ex. 26:23-
30). It is with regard to the fig
ure of the Golden Candlestick es
pecially we wish to speak, or rath
er, let speak the distinguished Ex-
President of Davidson College,
No. Ca., Rev. J. R. Shearer, D. D.,
L. L. D., who had never written
out his view before the author
asked tor it, though taught in
class-work tn course. Says he:
"Yours is to hand asking my
views ot the Golden Candlestick.
They may not he worth much, for
they are not sustained by any au
thority that I can quote. It dis
appeared along with the Ark of
the Covenant and the Uritn and
Thummim about the time of the
Captivity. They were not carried
to Babylon, for every vessel and
piece of temple furniture carried
;iway was restored by Cyrus by
catalogue up to live thousand in
number. The Second Temple had
neither of these three, nor any
imitations Of them. Jewish tradi
tion says that, during the three
months of respite in the siege of
Jerusalem, Jeremiah and the High
Priest carried them out ot the
temple and hid them in a cave in
Judea. The picture of the Can
dlestick published in our Bible
Dictionaries and Cyclopaedias is
copied from a carving still seen on
Titus’ Triumphal Arch in Rome,
erected to celebrate his destruc
tion of Jerusalerrf and the temple.
It was the product of the artist,
and false, as was so often the case
in the self-laudation of conquering
heroes. No such thing was cap
tured in the temple—they seemed
to have used only swinging-lamps
in the temple. No Jew would
have undertaken to imitate the
Candlestick any more than he
would have undertaken to repro
duce the Urim.or the Ark, the
Mercy-Seat, and the Cherubims, 1
and the two Tables of the testi
mony. Then, again, the maker of
Titus’ Candlestick was not familiar;
with the description or the pattern 1
given to Moses in the Mount, after
which it was modelled
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its growth—a modified spiral.
These lateral branches formed the
usual head or cone of the tree in
skeleton rising to different heights.
There hung from each of the bran
dies knobs or burrs containing
ripe or maturing almonds droop
ing in a natural way and also fresh
buds or (lowers—you will remem
ber that Aaron’s rod showed simi
lar groupings. The central branch
was divided near tliU|top into lour
small branches, and each one of
the six laterals parted into three
small branches—22 in all.—On
each one of these 22 small branches
was set a bowl, or receiver tor a
lamp, having the shape of an al
mond hull, either the lower halt
(truncated; or else the more con
vex side of the hull (split from
point to base; pul on the stem
horizontally. These were distri
buted throughout the symmetrical
cone or head of the tree.
"Then seven lamps were set in
The only seven of these 22 bowls (possibly
point"of L correspondence is in its at random;. The conchoidal shape
having seven branches.lt is claim- of the almond-shaped bowls made
ed that there was a seven-branched each bowl a reflector for each one
candelabrum in the Herodian the lamps—254 reflections _of
fern pie, and that this wai repre- j light to the eye, whatever the po
sented on the arch; and Josephus sition. Then the numerous knobs
is quoted in confirmation;and that | and flowers greatly multiplied
there was a similar one put into'these reflations of light from
the Temple of Zerubabel, which their burnished sutfaces. A
was carried away by Ant.ochus! Christmas tree, in an otherwise
Epiphanes. This evidently had darkened room, with lights set al
branches for lamps. The one carv-1 through it, and numerous tinsel
ed on Titus' arch has sea-monsters ornaments for reflectors may sug-
and other pagan devices carved on gest, but nothing can equal the
the base-this evidently discredits beauty and the glory of the Can-
the whole thing. , ulestick-the most wonderful
“So much byway of introduce . , ,
tion. My theory of the shape of " eed not confound the
Moses’ Candlestick is this: It was 1 symbolism ot it with the symbol
an almond tree simply copied from of -the Seven Golden Candle-
nature with a few necessary modi-j ^cks o Revelations which rep-
fications. We know nothing of; rented ‘the Seven Churches of
the shape of the base. The tree Asia. Moses Candlestick sym-
hada central branch, or rather, bolised the ‘Seven Spirits of God
trunk that rose highest as in na- and His wonderful office-work o
ture It sent out six branches, I enlightening and searching and
three on one side and three on the watching. This seems to be the
other-not in the same plane but meaning of the name in Hebrew,
regularly according to the law of 1 ‘Shaked,’ as we see from Jer. •mi.
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It has been translated—‘assiduus
et deligens.’ The symbolism may
be traced in the purity of the white
flowers and the maturity of thft
fruit, and the beauty wrought by
tbe Spirit, as well as in his en
lightening and stare ling and dili
gent watchfulness. Whatever we
may ascribe to the Spirit in his of
ficial functions as perfecting the
work originating with the Father
and administered by ihe Son, we
may trace it all in this glorious
symbolism. And in doing so we
are not open 10 the charge of an
allegorising exegesis. Please par
don the length of this, for I have
never written it out before, and I
have been obliged to omit much
that might seem necessary to for
tify my conclusions.”
These views seem worthy of at
tention by a wider notice, and we
ar^ inclined to side with their able
exponent in their maintenance,
(To be couuuued.)