Orange County observer., 1891-11-07

rucan who employed them, had be no. hid t
In another part Of the pyramid as Elucn sill |
yer and gold as would pay th.ln for their /
work at ordinary rates Of wages AMI in /
duced them there to dig till they 70 their /
surprise came upon adequate compensation. |
| wonder not tnat this mountain OF lime |
stone ard rad granite has bean tae .a,c;ne-
ton Of scholars. of scientist o. intelligent. t
Christians in ali ages. SIR joan Hersche., |
the astronomer, SAID he thought i had as
Economical significance I ne VS.. men who
accompanied Napoleoas ermvf into Egypt
went into profound stuiy Of toe pyramid |
In loo5 Professor S!nvth AMI his wife liEai
IN the empty toubs Near tv fha rvrocli
tnat they ui.sn, Ds 81 C34-.a4JLst a. pJs- !
elbte ctt5s - the pyramid waica thew wer.
tsestlgatiax. The pyraDl1, bUit more
than four tho isand years ago being CON
pc eeoMetricaI figure, wise meu have CON
ca Cd Il must have been dlv.nelv con
structed. Men came through thousands Of
years to fine architecture, to mus G. 10 paint
ing but this was perfect ar TIE word ; start,
and God must have d}rectAi i
All astronomer. geo -uesrac aa- a1.I scien-
t.ste gay thatif Ta. scientifically end rarae-
na.iC2u, CONSTRUCTED before SCI 4nce ani
mathematics were born From tce inscri.l-
tons on the pyrault: from II. proportions,
from the points Q: the COMPASS recognized
N its structure from tie direction IN which
It's tunnels run, from the relative position OF
the blocks that compose II, scientists Chrl-
tians and infAalS fnya demonstrated thai
Lue o-lng wnc pianued luls pyramid mus
hove Known the worlds sDcericlty ana that
its motion was rotary. and how many miles
It was in dlamater and circumference. and
how many tons the world weighs anl knew.
at what point IN the heavens cartaln stars
would appear at certain periods ot time
Nat in the four thousand years since the
putting up OF that pyramid mas a >ngie fac
IN astronomy or mathematics been found ID
contradict the wisdom q that structure,
ret they had not az the age when the
pyramid was started an astron'ner OF an at
chitect or mathematician worth nentlol-
ing. WhO then planned the Pyramid " ho
superintended its erections VINO fron, its first
foundation stone to its capstoIe erected
everythingf Itmust have been Col. Isaiah
wac right when he said III my tex, "a pl,
lar shall be At the border OF tie land OF
Egypt and it shall be toI q sign and VII
less. The pyramid is Cots frst Bible.
Hundreds. II not thousands. oi vta"S bafore
the first line Of the Book If Genesis was
written, the lesson cf the pyGa,G 4 was writ
Ten.
ell, OF what is this Cvc.op,an masonry a
sign aud a witness, Anon. other -tiling.--
OF the prolongetion OF human wore. com.
t pared with the b-evity OF .iuma: life LII
/ ali the tou" thousand years this pyramid has
| only lost eighteen feet in width. on side of
IT'S square at the base changet only from
seven hundred and sxty-four feet TO seven
! hundred and forty SIX feet and the most of
tbiI eighteen feet taken Oft by ar .hit4cts to
iGrn'sd stone tor building III the city of
cairo 1he men Who constructed tna pyr&-
ma worked a. 1t oAly few Years, AMI then
j put down the troWei an the c1,npa,> ~ant
the square. and lowered the derrick which
hed l:fted the ponderous weights: bu- forty
centuries has their wori. stoo I, a.nli It wilt u
| goOd 1Or tOrtv centuries more
All Egvpt has been shaken bv te.riI Il..
earthquakes anI cites have been PROSTATE
or rswailowed, but that pyramid has defial all
volcanic paroxysns. 1t has looked u0an
some OF the greatest battles evel fought
a:nce the world stood. Where are the men
who constructed it, The bottles gone /,
dust an even the dust scattered Sven th :
sarcophagus III which the kings !nun,uF
may have slept is empty
50 men die but their work lives Oh. We
are all building pyramids not tc last four
THOUSAND years. but forty thousand for:y
million, forty trllion, forty quad,ilon
forty quintihon. For d while We uieFd the
tro~e), OF pound with the hammer. meas
Lre with the yard sticll writ. with the
pen, or experiment with tee scieatitic bac
terry, or plan with the brain. az for a while
the loot walks, and the eye e-eS and tn eai
nears ani the tongue speaks Ali the good
words or bad words we speak are spread out
into one layer for i a pyramid. All tha kind
deeds or malevolent deeds We DO are spread
out into another layer. All the Cnristian or
uIistldu We S1tL Is 1dti out III
another layer All the indirect influences OF
our hives are spread ont IN another layer.
hen the time sooa comes When "e put
down the np!eiaent o. toll an1 pass away,
but the PYRAMID stant-.
The pyraml Is a slgu anu q witness tha<
blg tono>tones are not the best way O
,eeDing selt atfectIOnately rzinesn-
bered. This pyramid AMI the sixtEnine
pther pyramids still standing We're huit tos
>epu,chers, all this great pile of granite AM
limestone by which We stand to- lay. to cover
the memory Of g dead king 1t was the greal
Westminster abbey Of the ancients. Some
say that CheopS Was the king who built thlr
pvra,nid but il is uncertain. Nio wa.
Cheops anyhow All tnat the world know,
ahout hun could be toi't III a feN sentences
NJ only thing certain is that he was bad
aud that he shat up the temples Of worship
ami that he WAS hated 50 tha- The E.,YptiaI>
We're glad wi.ei. he was -t..
ihls pyranl o. roI, s-,zu LuniTat ellU
forty 1eet eac.l side OF the square base an,
1oul hundred and tittv feet high wins tOl
hun no respect II a Zone OF his arm or foo
had been found in the sarcophagus b"ueatt
the pyramid, it would have excited no NOR
venerstlcn than the skeleton OF came
tleacAla5 on the Ilbyan desert. yea, les
veneTatlon. for wnen | saw the carcass 81
camel bv the roadside toe Way to Mem
unis, said TO myself. Poor thing, | "ondel
~ VIVA. it died 2 We say nothing ayalns
Let all the scul pture and focescence aud ar
Uo.escencc can do for the places or the dea
lie done If means viii allow II Bat il ette
one is dead tnere IS nothing lett 10 He-n-n
the world of him but some pieces y. stoa'
ther<- IS but little LETT
" hlie there seams - Jc 20 !raciicai L =
tor uest ulurteul consideration later than tn
time OF one great --ranIc cnilarea.y We !, On
, wants to beforgUtten as soon a tne o0s- 'l}lle
! over. This pyramid when lsaisn say
, isa >lgl aud a witness. demonstrates taa
neither imestoll4 no. red granite are c,rl
pet -nl u kee3 one afectionatelT reLnei4.
berrd neither tan br0nIe, neither Gu
farIen marble neither can AOer-ea
granite do the Work. Bur there IS soneth-n
out of watch TO build an everlasting ntpa
ualeL. ana that WI! keeD ol-1 freshly Is
memberel four thousand year to-
ever and ever Il DOES ~. stand IN mar.
yar,is. II IS not u u t,l1rc..a<ei i, TI.11r,
inI stores. iet i ], = be :out.i- III ever
helglho.n"J1 p!-ntk -. K lnaxE.l>tlb.
quantities = II L Is til- create ,tutl
the univrrse 10 but.i .u,4lA.lt4oa- 9e
feiel 10 the Lneuorle. II. tlsS- I, nlto,;I y
, t4ll % kindness. t:ly ul-raa3Ys. II. ft.-.
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