The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-22
Build For Eternity
lContinued from First. Pag !

Ing who planned tIs pyramid Hnust
have known tho worlds splIericity, and
that It's motion was rotatory, and how
many miles It was In diameter and cir
cumference, and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at what point
In the heavens certain stars would ap-
pear at certain periods Of time.
Not In the four thousand years since
the putting up of that pyramid has a
single fact in astronomy or mathe |
mates been found to contradict the
wisdom of that structure. Yet they |
had not at the age when the pyramid |
was started All astronomer or an archi- |
tect or n mathematician worth men
tioning. Who, then, planned the pyrar !
midi Who superintended its erectioni
Who from its first foundation stone to
its capstone erected everythingi 1t
must have been God. Isaiah was right
when he said in my text, "A pillar shall
be at the border of the land of Egypt
and 1t shall be for a sign and a wit,
ness" The pyramid Is Gods first
bible. Hundreds, If not thousands OF
years before the first line of the Book
of Genesis was written, the lesson Of
the pyramid was written.
THE SIGN AND SYMBOL OF ETERNITY.
Well, of what Is this Cyclopean ma,
sonry sign and a witness? Among
other things, of the prolongation OF
human work compared with the brew
ity Of human life. In all the four
thousand years this pyramid has only
lost eighteen feet in width, one side of
its square at the base changed only from
seven hundred and sixty four feet to
seven hundred and forty-six feet, and
the most of that eighteen feet taken
off by architects to furnish stone for
building in the city OF Cairo.
The men who constructed the pyra-
mid worked at it only few years and
then put down the trowel, and the com.
pass, and the square and lowered the
derrick which had lifted the ponderous
weights; but forty centuries has theiI
work stood, and it will be good fol
forty centuries more. All Egypt has
been shaken by terrible earthquakes
and cities have been Frustrated O,
swallowed, bat that pyramid has defied
all volcanic paroxysms. 1t has looked
upon some of the greatest battles ever
fought since the world stood. Where
are the men who constructed it2 Their
bodies gone to dust and even the dust
scattered. Even the sarcophagus In
which the kings mummy may have
slept is empty.
80 men die, but their work lives on.
We are all building pyramids, not to
last four thousand years, but forty
thousand, forty million, forty trillion,
forty quadrillion, forty quintillion. For
awhile we WELD the trowel, or pound
with the hammer, or measure with the
yardstick, or write with the pen, or
experiment with the scientific battery,
or plan with the brain, and for awhile
the foot walks and the eye sees, and
the ear hears, and the tongue speaks
All the good words or bad words we
speak are spread out into one layer for
pyramid. All the kind deeds or ma
into another layer. All the Christian
or n-Christian example we set is spread
out In another layer. All the indirect
influences of our lives are spread out
In another layer. Then the time soor
comes when we put down the nipple
ment of toll and pass away, but the
pyramid stands.
The Twentieth century will not rocE
it down, nor the Thirtieth century, no
the One Hundredth century. TIL,
earthquake that rocks this world t,
pieces will not stop our influence TO
good or evil You modestly say, "Tha
10 true in regard to the great worker
for good or evil, and of gigantic gen
fuses, Miltonian or Talleyrandian, bu
not of me, for I live and work on
small scale" My nearer, remembe
that those who built the pyramids wer
common workmen. Not one of then
could lift one of those great stones
It took a dozen Of them to lift on
stone, and others just welded a trowe
clicking it on the hard edge, or smooth
AAk tAlO DCGWC0l tIlc
One hundred thousand men toiled 81
those sublime elevations.
If one of those granite blocks that
Just touch with my feet on this Decem
Der morning in 1889, as the two Arab
pull Inc and the two other Arabs pus
me, could speak out and tell it's history
1t would say: ''The place of my natiy
ity was down In the great stone QUAR-
of Mokattam or Asswan. Then the
began to bore at my sides, and then
drive down great iron wedges, crushin
against me till the whole quarry quake
and thundered Then was pried on
with crowbars and levers, scores {
men putting their weight on the level
age. Then chains were put aroun
me, and / was hoisted with wheels tina
groaned under the weight, and man
workmen had their hands on til
cranks and turned until the muscles O
their arms stood out In ridges, and tn
sweat rolled from their dusky for,
beads
Then was drawn by long teams
oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yolz
Then was put on an inclined plar
and hauled upward, and how man
iron tools, and how many human arm
and how many beasts of burden wei
employed to get me to this place I
one can tell Then had to be mea
ured and squared and compassed an
fitted In before was left here to 4
my silent work of thousands Of years
God only knows how many hands wer
busted In getting me from my geologica
cradle In the quarry to this enthrone
ment of innumerable ages.
~ AWFUL RESULTS OF LITTLE SINS.
Ny hearers, that is the autobiogra
ply of one block of the pyramid
Cheops didn't build the pyramid
Some boss mason In the worlds tw
light didn't build the pyramid. On
hundred thousand men built it, ali
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