PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1880
A Complaint.
be. Babylon to-day is only known in victory over the "grave by anything
history, its relict corroborating with never in conquest with the grave.
“ Tabitha ” sends the Indiana Far­
It seems to us that it is folly to
By correct data it ia known that
the fearful denunciations of heaven.
mer
this very interesting bill of par­
sixty thorfsamf of. our people, in the
That proud monarch wielding supreme admit a resurrection of the dead at all
ticulars.
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States and Territories/ die annually
rule over the nations in his day was a and have it predicated of anything but
“
Aunt
Patience
says
in
your
paper.
fit type of the “ man of sjn,” the “ son the body of man ; that to deny the
from drunkenness. These victims are
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resurrectiori
of
the
body
is
to
deny
quoting
from
some
one,
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A
woman
equal to, if not above the average of
of perdition,” of whom the apostle
Babylon.
our people in intellect and -social
spake, “ who oposeth and exalteth the resurrection in full. Since there may love her husband devotedly, may
standing. Each one has a history,
himself above all that is called God, is no promise of a resurrection of any­ sacrifice fortune, friends, family, coun­
The
empire
of
Babylon
is
considered
that if recorded, would harrow up sad
or that is worshipped ; so that he as thing that does nob die, and to deny try, for him ; but melancholy fact, if
the
first
great
monarchy
of
which
any
God, sitteth in the temple of God, the resurrection is to plainly deny the she fails to make home comfortable,
recollections in the minds of his or her
record
is
found
in
the
annals
of
-the
surviving frienSs. 4f the history of
showing himself that he is God, * * declarations and promises of out his heart will inpvitably^escape her.’ '
world.
It
appears
to
have
been
the whole number were written, com­
whose coming is after the working of Savior and his embassadors; and if That must have been written for an
founded
a
short
time
alter
the
flood,
piled and published, what a history
Satan with all power and signs and we throw aside this, as Dr. Curry Indian squaw, and hot for us farmers’
and,
acording
-to
the
astronomical
would that be ' The time was when
lying womlers, and with all unright­ does, there is nothing left but to deny wives ! How can I make our home
tables
sent
by
Alexander
to
Aristotle,
Christ’s resurrection, and have no hope comfortable, when there is not a cloeet
eitch one of these took his or her first
eousness, in them that perish.
about
2234
years
n.
c.
Of
this
first
in the house, and only seven eight­
dram ; and there was a time also when
This “ man of sin,” whom the for the future at all.
Babylon
'there
is
but
little
except
penny
nails in the wall to hang our
he or she took the- last one. What
apostle says, “ the Lord shall consume ■ If the body in which Christ was
what
is
related
in
the
Sacred
Scrip-
clothes
on, and there is not a blind on
with the spirit of his moutl^ftd shaily sgen for forty days after his resurrec­
were the j^lurejnents, temptations and
ture.
the
windows
to keep out the hot sun­
inducements to take the first dram I
destroy with the brightness of his tion rs not the same that entered*
The
city
of
Babylon,
the
capital
of
i
shine,
and
there
is no cistern for soft>
each one know. Every one of- these
coming,”, is considered by the- Pro­ heaven, will some- of our modern di­
the
ancient
kingdom
of
Babylon,
was
i
water,
and
the
big
kettle that I made
once had parents, and most of them
testant world the Pope of Rome. vines tell us what became of that
founded
by
the
first
descendants
of
“
-broke
water
’
in
is
cracked, and the-
had brotbeis and sisters; and many
Head of Mystic Babylon. Babylon, I body and what it was^that did go into '
Noah,
some
2234
years
H.
and
in
a
i
piimp
leaks
and
has
to be primed
confusion, heaven ? Men of good brain but only
of them had wiyes and children. Per­
etymologically, means
manner rebuilt about 1200 years, be- j
every
..time
I
want
a
little
water, and
haps none ot them aied'without caus­
which had its start in the confound- ordinary scholarship do not so easily
fore
Christ
by
the
queen
of
Assyria.
ing grief to their surviving friends.
ing of the tongues of the builders of detect the mistakes (?) of Jesus and there is a hole in the garden fence and
. When the good and the noble ones of j It was by Nebuchadnezar brought the .Tower of BabcL from which this the apostles, or perceive the hidden the hogs got in, and destroyed my
earth pass away, their memories are ’ to such a • degree* of splendor ami name is derived.
rules of interpretation that suggest truck ? Don’t tell me my husband
enshrined in our hearts and we love ' magnificence as rendered it one of1 This “ mystbry Babylon,” of which these ideas herald forth by the ean’t afford to furnish better ! Hasn’t ---
to dwell upon tbeir many virtues, and the wonders of tbe world.
ancient Babylon was a type, is spoken scholastic divinity of these late days. he got a new barn, and painted it red ;
the example they left behind them to i Babylon was enclosed by a wall of as “ drunken with the blood of the If these Drs. are correct, unfortunately , and a new reaper, and don’t he ride
| 50 feet high ami .87 feet, i n t hi ck'.- saints and the- mart yrs—of—J<saus.”r- -for the great m ass of mankind, the2 whenhe rakes hay ; and didn't he pay
us. They have let-t tens of thousand's <-3
On each of its four sides “ This woman which -thou sawest,” consolations of the Gospel are so ob­ I a nice little sum for a chilled plow the
of volumes of good books of their i ness.
I
compilations to-us. But the poor de­ ' were 25 brazen gates. The streets of said the angel to John, " is. that great, scure that around the cold damp other day? I guess I chilled him
the
city
(there
being
50)
were
fifteen
luded ones, who filled the drunkaid’s
city which reigneth over the kings of graves there is little or nothing to when I showed him my' bread-pan
graves, left no pleasant memories, no miles long and 150 feet broad. The the earth.” “ How much she hath stay their hopes and bind up tlqyr with a hole in it, stopped up with an
side of the glorified herself and lived deliciously, hearts. Even Paul’s desire to attain old rag! 1 am tired of this ‘railing
bright examples to us.
i | city was built upon either
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Manhood, wealth, character, social river Euphrates, and was always sup- so much torment and sorrow give her, to the resurrection of the dead will ouF' at us women all the time, as if
. comforts, health and religious prin- piled with provisions for 20 years, for' she saith in her heart, I sit a never be, realized. The Lord will we didn’t do the best wé, can. If my
ciples were.all sacrificed at the shrine , Here feigned the proudest monarch of queen, and am no widow and shall see never come fro n heaven to change our husband would sell that Golddust colt
of Bacchus. Their sun set in dark- ; the earth who had robbed every no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues vile body and fashion it like unto his that he paid 850 for before it was ten >
ness, and no ray of hope dawned upon kingdom and had decorated Babylon I come in one day, death and mourn­ glorious body. Evidently no man can days old, and put blinds on our house r -
them as they passed through the with p/ftth ipdescribable. Enriched ing and famine, and she shall be agree with Jesus and the apostles on and paint ’em green, and make me a
lopely portals of death. If any of with ibe:W|tejls pf the East, and exult­ utterly burned with fire ; for strong ' the one hand and the doctors on the pantry and a sink and a cistern, and
their obituaries were written in truth, ing' in the day of her prosperity she is the Lord that judgeth her.’’ “ And ! other. With U3 the claims of the throw away that old Resor stove that
- a mournful tale was told. The world seemed born- to command the world. , a mighty angel took up a stone like a former are superior to the latter, and hasn’t a whole lid to it, and make-tha.
is very charitable to its own Many She said in her heart, “ I am the j i great mill-stone, and. cast it into the the doctors must notexpect those who house only half as comfortable for me
of them are said to die by the visita­ -queen of nations, and my reign is sea, saying, Thus, with violence, shall count the promise of our Lord greatj as the stable is for the colt, my heart -
tion of God' It is true that they forever. I am; and,there is none that great city Babylon be thrown and precious* to throw them aside for would sing for joy: and Mr. Editor,
reap what they sow. But did they else beside me. My destiny shall sur­ down, and shall be found no more.” ! the wisdom of man • for.it is better to I want you to put it in yous paper,
not sow to the flesh I And the crop vive'coeval with those stars in which “ And after these ■ things I heard a trust the Lord who said, " All that are ami say that wo farmers' wives are
which they harvested was a double the observance of tbe heavens have I ! great'voice of much people in heaven, ] in the graves shall hear his voice and shamefully misused by our husbands’
death. If the earth could forever read the records of my perpetual , ; saying; salvation and glory and i shall come’forth,” <fcc.
neglect of necessaries and conveniences
Her proud monarch i honor and power, unto the Lord our
close tup'.n thett victims of strong duiation.”
about our houses; an^. do you put a
Yours in hope,
drink, and their memories be blotted while tlourishifig in his palace, could i , God, for true and righteous are his
head line to the piece, saying some­
S. H. H edrix .
out from eafth, and there was no say, " Is not this great Babylon that 1 judgments; for he halh judged the
Fairfield, low», A tig, IS, Iasi).__________ thing about a colt or horse or cow,
. hereafter, still their lives would be an hâve built for- the house of the king- ; gn at "whore, -which did corrupt the
and then they wilt read It, for it't* 1—
Death of a Poet’s Wife.
abortion. And this mortality is going dom, by the might of my power.” '
only the stock pieces that they read
earth with her fornication, and hath |
But the God of heaven said, " Is Î avenged the blood of his servants at
on all the time, in our country, and
Mrs. John G. Saxe, the wife of the in your paper.”
yet what indifference there is amongst this the man that made the earth ; ' her hand. And, again they said, i poet, died of bronchitis on August
The editor of the Furmer did as re-'
our people about it! Perhaps two, tremble, that shook 'the kingdoms ? | Alleluia. Ahd ber smoke rose up
quested,
and obiigingly headed the ar­
1st, at her residence, No. 28 First
millions of our people died directly I that made the world as a wilderness ! forever and ever.”
ticle
“
A
Kicking Cow,’’ so that Hoos-
place, Brooklyn, and was buried on
and indirectly from the late civil war and destroyed cities ? *’ • * •
T. M. M organ . : the following Tuesday afternoon. The • si6r husbands would read it.— Sei.
in the four years of its continuance. | thou shalt not be joined to them in !
j funeral services, which occurred at
The wailings of woe went up from j burial, because thou hast destroyed ■ The Wisdom of Modern Divinity. -.lie house, wi-re attended by near
J ohn Biunvx’s Sox.—Owen Brown^
grief stricken hearts all over the I the land and slaffi the peopled “ 1 ;
one
of the.sons of old John Brown, is
Andinow we are told of another relatives of the family, only. Mr.
country. The memories of those who will rise up against them saith the
now
the sole inhabitant of Gibra'tar.
divine who has made the wonderful Saxe, who has himself'been long an
died in their country’s cause are yet | Lord of hosts, I will cut off from
the
beautiful
home that the wealth of
diseovery that tpere is no resurrection invalid, was not able to leave his bed­
sacred with their friends, and yearly Babylon the name and remnant, the
Jay
Cooke
reared
years ago on one of
of the dead. The sensation occasioned room. The death of- his wife has
do we meet to strew Howers oVerJheir I son and the nephew. It shall become
the
islands
of
Lake
Erie. This son
by the declaration of Bro. J. S. Lamar, . filled his friends with serious appre-
graves and to recount their virtues a heap of ruins, a dwelling-place for
^as
one
of
the
guard
left by Brown
; hensions for him. Mr. Saxe, in several
dragons, an astonishment and a hissing had- scarcely died away in the mist
and patriotism.
over
the
guns
in
the
little
school house
of his works,- has drawn his best
But of the class of our fellow . without an inhabitant.” Is. xiv. 4- and gloom of the clouds of speculation
on
the
Blue
Ridge
when
he
captured
woman, botli as a loveliness of person
citizens, who have filled the drunk­ “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, theory till Dr. Curry, of the M. E. and beauty of moral character, so Harper’s Ferry. The son, on hearing
ard’s graves, we bear a sad recollec­ | the beauty of the Chaldees excellency church, comes to the front, saying,
plainly after his wife that friends of his father's capture, made his way
tion. The enemy that destroyed them shall be as when God overthrew " Our Loid’s resurrection was in no
always recognized the portraits. In through the mouiftains of Maryland
is yet amongst us, and is doing his SodomandGommorah.itshall never be sense a pledge ojj fathom of the pro­
1873 Mr. Saxe dedicated to his wife and Pennsylvania to a safe retreat in
work. His work of destruction is not inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in mised resurrection of all men; nor
his edition of poems, published by Northern Qhio. A correspondent who-
confined to geographical lines. While from generation to generation ; neither was that body in which Christ was
recently visited Owen Brown says he
Osgood <k Co., in this paragraph :
a strange apathy, a strange lethargy shall the Arabian pitch bis tent there, seen for forty days after his resurrec­
asked
bis guests into his “ den,” as he
To my best friend (a diamond edi­
and deadness of feeling seem to [>er- nor the shepherds make their folds tion the same that had gone into
called
his place of living. It was a
tion of a woman) I inscribe this dia­
vade the.minda.cif most of our people, there. But wild beasts of the. desert heaven.”
small,
square room, ^here he lived
“ How say some among you there mond edition of the poems of her hus­
yet there are many good men and shall lurk in its ruins ; the houses
and
cooked.
His bedroom was over­
band, J. G. S. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sep­
women in our land who are fully shall be full-^gf doleful creatures; is no resurrection of tho dead. ?” “ But’
head,
and
that,
with a cellar kitchen
tember 1, 1873.
roused up to the enormity of the sin there shall the owls dwell and satyrs now is Christ risen from the dead and
beneath,
gave
him all the room he
The following sonnet was written
of intemperance. They are concen­ dance. And the wild beast of the become the first fruits of them that
by the poet to his wife on her birth­ needed. The main room was filled
trating their efforts and organizing to island shall cry in their desolate slept.” 1 Cor. xv. 12, 20.
with a little of everything. ' A gun
day :
The first fruits of them that slept is
overthrow the power of the rum domes, and dragons in their pleasant
What— years? I never could haveguessedit stood in one corner and a fishing-
fiend. Some of them are called fana­ palaces. I will make it a possession equal to the first fruits of the dead.
By any token writ upon your brow,
tackle in another. .A table was
tics, enthusiasts, and they excite in for the bittern and pools of water; The resurrection of the dead is a pro­
Or other test of time—had you not now, covered with books, papers, a lamp,
. the minds of many,-feelings of scorn.. : and 4 will sweep it with the besom of minent theme in the teaching of Just to surprise me, foolishly confessed it. dishes, Bewing material, by which his
If foreign enemies were amongst us destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.” Christ and the apostles. Both obser­ Well, oh your word, of course I must re­ mending was done without outside
vation and Scripture declare that the
in our midst, destroying our people’s Is. xiii. 19. ,
ceive it ;
help, and a dozen and one little con­
Concerning
her
king
it
was
said,
body of man dies. It is the body that
Although (to say the truth) it is indeed,
lives and property, at the rates of the
As proselytes sometimes ecoept a creed, trivances that need not be described.
whisky makers and sellers, what an " How art thou fallen from heaven, O dies that is laid in the grave.- Neither
While
in their hearts they really don’t be­ A cook-stove, a few chairs, a model of
excitement, would we witness ! What Lucifer, son of the morning .’ how art observation nor Scripture teach that
a boat and a few articles of clothing
lieve it!
mortal resistance would there be; thou cut off from the earth, tbou who the spirit dies; not one of these
completed
the furnishing of the room,
While all aiound is changed, no change
., and the Strong arm of the civil and didst subdue the nations 1 For thou modem divines who deny the resur­
and
rounded
the usual idea of a
appears,
military power would be invoked to hast said in thine heart, 1 will exalt rection admit that the spirit of man
My darling Sophie, to these eyes of bachelor’s apartments.
This semi­
my throne above the stars of God, I dies or rests in the grave’ or that it
mine,
drive them from our midst.
hermit life seems to suit Owen. His
In aught of thee that I have deemed di­
But this domestic foe is not only will be like the Most High, yet thou is mortal or corruptible. It is there­
brother, Captain John Brown, lives an ’
vine,
art
brought
down
to
the
mansions'
of
fore
useless
to
speak
of
a
resurrection
Allowed to-deal out death and des­
To mark the numlnr of the vanished years a farm in Put-in-Bay' Island, and is.
traction of all that i« woith living for, the dead, and to the sides of the pit.” from the dead of any thing that does The kindly years that on that faoe of thine, fairly prosperous— Bulletin.
Modern travelers describe the ruins not die, or of this corruption being
but the law making power licenses
Have spent their life, and “ dying mako no
of
Babylon in every particular as the raised in incorruption, of natural body
sign I
rm its this monster traffic
The busiest of living agents are
—Bulletin.
us. The magna charts of our Lord God said by the prophet it should ^tb*d a spiritual body, and of a
certain dead men's thoughts.
What a History.
liberties guarantees to j^ch one of us
“ life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.” Are not these greatly
abridged by the legal traffic of strong
drinks amongst us ? -
D avid N ewsome .
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