Christian herald and signs of our times . urely to make a sketchof; a condition of things surely to challenge thepity and the help of every brave heart, andstrong, clear head in this wondrous new land ofours. The great city lies trembling, panting, quiver-ing in her wild, white heat of intoxication, ex-citement, madness—drunken and devilish pur-suits of power, pleasure, and gold. It is the old story of the destruction of onewhom the gods love. Never grew a city sogreat, so suddenly great. And her glory, hergreatness, her sudden power and splendor havemade her mad. She is drunk ; not drunk en-t
Christian herald and signs of our times . urely to make a sketchof; a condition of things surely to challenge thepity and the help of every brave heart, andstrong, clear head in this wondrous new land ofours. The great city lies trembling, panting, quiver-ing in her wild, white heat of intoxication, ex-citement, madness—drunken and devilish pur-suits of power, pleasure, and gold. It is the old story of the destruction of onewhom the gods love. Never grew a city sogreat, so suddenly great. And her glory, hergreatness, her sudden power and splendor havemade her mad. She is drunk ; not drunk en-tirely with drink, but she is drunk with richesand with the love of pleasure. Altogether, sheis madly, desperately drunk. * From The Destruction of Gotham, by Joaquia Miller, alurid description of the goal to which a city must be tending,which is made up of two classes widely separated in social condi-tion. Pp. 214 ; Price, $i ; Published by Funk & Wagnalls^Dey St., New York. 476 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. July Miss Journaux, the Jersey Castaway—Her Forty Hours Drift and Rescue. And where will it end ? Where have suchthings always ended ? Nay, do not turn backtoo hastily into history for the thousand ex-amples there. You remember Paris ? hertwenty-five years of glory, recklessness, irrelig-ion, ill-gotten riches ? and then the conflagra-tion ! In conversation with Gambetta soon after themurder of the bishops, the battles in the grave-yards, where Parisians, slain by Parisians, layas thick on top of the ground as under it, thegreat dictator told me that the new Paris hadbeen built in madness, and so was burned inmadness. Belleville, he cried, with energy, shouldnever have been left out there to herself !Champs Elysees should never have been per-mitted to exist apart from the people ! The twoshould have been mixed up together, so that thepoor could have shared the cares of the rich,and the rich the cares of the poor. No ; the people will not go out of th
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