. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . ersweeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hill. Fare-well kiss flung back. EiDg the bell and let the curtain the second: The marriage altar. Full organ. Brightlights. Long white veil trailing through the aisle. Prayerand congratulation, and exclamation of How well shelooks! Act the third: A woman waiting for staggering garments stuck into the broken window pane. Marksof hardship on the face. The biting of the nails of bloodlessfingers. Neglect and cruelty and despair. Ring
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . ersweeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hill. Fare-well kiss flung back. EiDg the bell and let the curtain the second: The marriage altar. Full organ. Brightlights. Long white veil trailing through the aisle. Prayerand congratulation, and exclamation of How well shelooks! Act the third: A woman waiting for staggering garments stuck into the broken window pane. Marksof hardship on the face. The biting of the nails of bloodlessfingers. Neglect and cruelty and despair. Ring the belland let the curtain drop. Act the fourth: Three graves in adark place—grave of the child that died for lack of medicine,grave of the wife that died of a broken heart, grave of theman that died of dissipation. Oh! what a blasted heath 76 DARK DEEDS. with three graves! Plenty of weeds, but no flowers. Kingthe bell and let the curtain drop. Act the fifth: A destroyedsouls eternity. No light; no music; no hope; anguish coil-ing its serpents around the heart; blackness of darkness for-. THE MARRIAGE ALTAR. ever. But I can not look any longer. Woe! woe! I closerny eyes to this last act of the tragedy. Quick! quick! ringthe bell and let the curtain drop. Eejoice, 0 young man, inthy youth, and let thy heart rejoice in the days of thy youth,but know thou that for all these tbings God will bring youinto judgment. There is a way that seemeth right to aman, but the end thereof is death. CHAPTER IV. THE BABYLONIAN FEAST. Feasting has been known in all ages. It was one of themost exciting times in English history when Queen Elizabethvisited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth Castle. The momentof her arrival was considered so important that all the clocksof the castle Avere stopped, so that the hands might point tothat one moment as being the most significant of all. Shewas greeted at the gate with floating islands, and torches,and the thunder of cannon, and fireworks that set the nightab
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