The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-10-14

Rcv. Judge A. n. LOngstreet.

the talents ana meTltS VI tHab geHte~
man, but lately he has disgraced his
position, both as minister Of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and President
Of State institution Of learning
The authorities Of the State Of Missis-
sippi, ought to look after this man.
The idea Of such d fanatic, being at
the head Of a State University, ~
| perfectly outrageous. We hope he
has not yet killed off all the American
Methodists in the South,
COMMON SENSE.
A TRIBUTE no WoMAN.--Ob, the
priceless value of the love Of true wo-
man, Gold cannot purchase gem SO
precious Titles and honors confer
upon the heart no such serene happi.
ness. In our darkest moments, when
disappointment and iDgratitude, with
corroding care, gather thick around,
and even gaunt Poverty nenaces With
his skeleton finger, it CLEANS around
the soul with an angels smile Times
cannot mar its brilliancy, distance
but strengthens its influence, bolts and
bars cannot limit its progress, it fol-
lows the prisoner into his dark cell,
and sweetens the homely morsel that
appeases his hunger: and in the
silence Of midnight, it plays around
his heart, and in his dreams he folds
to bis bosom the form of her who loves
on still, through the world has turned
coldly from him. The couch made
by the hand Of loved one, is soft to
the weary limbs of sick sufferer, and
the portion administrated by the same
hand, loses half its bitterness. The
pillow care fully adjusted by her brings
repose to the fevered brain, and her
words Of kind encouragement, revive
the sinking heart. Her heaven-ike
influence seems as if designed to cast
into forgetfulness mans remembrance
of the fall by building up in lis heart
another Eden, where perennial flowers
forever bloom, and crystal waters gush
from exhaustless fountains.
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The PYRAMIDS OF EGYrT.--Who
were the builders Of the pyramids, or
of what nation were Cheops, Chephre-
nes, and Mycerinus, Kings Of Egypt
to whom their construction has been
assigned The total opposition as to
form, between the pyramids. and tenn
pies knows to be Egyptian structures,
is so wide as to give assurance that
the pyramids were not the work Of
designers. Egyptian struc-
lures never rise to any great height,
never tend to point, but are low, com
pared with the massiveness Of their
,ulk, and flat and square, The pyra-
nids, on the contrary, like the barrow
ire all the reverse of the Egyptian
emples. There height is great in pro-
portion 10 their dimensions. and their
orm converges towards a lofty point.
The Egyptian temples are adorned
18th within and without with HERO
lypic paintings and sculptures---in the
yramids there are none. In some Of
be cells found in the lesser pyramids
few hieroglypics are to be seen, but
hey are on stones taken from some
Egyptian temples destroyed perhaps
y the advocates of a different creed
18th their figures in an inverted posi-
op, MS if in contempt and derision of
10 people that had written them. A
ide difference is also observable be-
veen the interments in the pyramids
rcperly Egyptian. This people al
avs deposit their dead in caves and
lbterranean catacombs; the builders
the pyramids buried their dead be-
W, but above the eartb,s surface
he builders Of the pyramids and Of
'e temples Of Egyptian architecture,
rmed their structures upon principles
,tire]y different the former made the
Used altar the model Of all their
ork-:-to the latter the altar was al
ost unknown. These mainfolds diff
renee prove most assaredly that the
ople who built the pyramids were of
liglous principles totally different
I'm the Egyptians.
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