Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-23

Sa .u "as gray, but in certain H. p.ia =.
and r $50 10 shake off the gray Of centnria ~
oceome blonde and tho si,von t...l 'es
o W ..ie golden. 1t covers thirtaan .arns
o. I 1a" What an antiquity, r. "S mes
h hs ,easv Two thousand years old whon th as
MY onrlst was carried in SIGHT ~ - ' ,'''
M hs 'usleive parents, Joseph and M ~ ny
d ine storms of forty centnr;o. Ia Ln, v.
u uas, it, bombarded it. shadowo d" "
n"slleu upon 1T, but there it stands ro.d ~,
w Jake another forty centuries a ,i" ~
n 1nospherlc attack if the world shon,d
continue to exist. snouiu
~; Inc oldest buildings of the Garth ouo
juniors to this great senior of tha vi are
RES Herodotus says that for ton e CIV "
preparations were being made fo so th .
gu, of this pyramid, II h ,ol 90 .l'e
ill,ooo cubic feet of masonry - om ,as ,, 90,
uted thousand workmen at ono 4;mo
FROM FROM th ~ i's erection. 10 bring the stone
wide w.s I'a a res a causcway sixty feet
I l;sto,, was wa built. The top stones were
l. iae.u oy machlney such as the world
o nnu" 3; nothing of to-day. 1t is TAG feet
,,'. sue OF the square base. The struc-
e s"tI ~ 41o 1eet high, higher than the
I pnmo' Az OF Cologne, Strasburg,
''o' 1 GUC1 duu 81. PaQl'S
+ho ~ surprise to me that it was put at
VI W. 'e1o OF the Seven Wonders of the
wy m9ilu. IL has subtcrraneous room of
leu granite called the "king's chamber. -
aLu ahother room called the queens
t ,,al Der and the probability is tina t
t 1Mere are other rooms yet unexplored.
nc evident design of the architect was
w make these rooms as inaccessible as
possible. After all the work of explora-
.loh ana all the digging and blasting, if
YOU would enter these subterraneors
rooms you must go through a passage
only three feet eleven inches high and
less than four feet WIDE
"A sarcophagus of red granite stands
uo"n under this mountain of masonry.
ne sarcophagus could not have been
carried In after the pyramid was built
~ must nave been put there after the
structure was reared. Probably in that
sacrophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing dead king, but time has de-
stroyed the coffin and DESTROYED the last
Vestige of human remains.
For three thousand years this scpul-
chral room was unopened, and would
nave beenl until to-day probably un-
opened had not a superstitious impress
sion got abroad that the heart of the
pyramid was filled with silver and gold
and diamonds, and under AL Mamoun
an eXcavating party went to work, and
having bored and blasted through a
hundred feet of rock they found no
opening ahead, and were about to give
up the attempt when the workmen heard
Il stone roll down into seemingly hol-
place, and encouraged by that they re-
Sumcd their work and came into the UNI
derground rooms
The disappointment of the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty of all
silver and gold and precious stones was
SO great that they would have assassi-
mated AL Mamoun, who employed them,
had he not hid in another part of the
pyramid as much silver and gold as
would pay them for their work at Or
binary rate of wages aud induced them
there to dig till they, to their surprise,
came upon adequate compensation.
l wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages Sir
John HerSchel, the astronomer said he
thought it had astronomical signitl-
canoe. The wise men who accompanied
Napolcon's army into Egypt went into
profound study of the pyramid. In 1865,
Professor Smyth and his wife lived in
the empty tombs near by the pyramid
that they might be as continuously as
possible close to the pyramid, which they
were investigating.
The pyramid built more than 1900
years ago, being {; complete geometrical
figure, wise men have concluded it must
have been divinely constructed. Men
came through thousands of years to fine
architecture, to music, to painting, but
this was perfect at the worlds start and
God must have directed it, All astron-
omcrs and gcometrcians and scientists
say that it was scientifically and mathe-
matically constructed before science and
mathematics were born. From the in
scriptionS on the pyramid, from its pro-
portions. from the points OF the COM
pass recognized in its structure, from the
direction in which its tunnels run. from
the relative position of the blocks that
compose it, scientists, Christians and in
lidcls have demonstrated that the being
who planned this pyramid must have
known the worlds sphericity, and that
it's motion was rotary, and how many
miles it was in diameter and circumfer-
ence, and how many tons the world
weighs, and knew at what point in the
heaven certain stars would appear at
certain periods of time.
Not in the 1000 years since the put
ting up of that pyramid has single fact
been found in astronomy or mathematics
to contradict the wisdom Of that struc-
ture Yet they had not at the age when
| the pyramid was started an astronomer,
or an architect or q mathematician
worth mentioning. Who, then, planned
the pyramid? Who superintendent its
| erection? VINO from its first foundation
stone to it's capstone erected everything:
1t must have been God. Isaiah was right
when he said in my text, "a piller shall
| be at the border of the land of Egypt
and it shall be for sign and witness y
| The pyramid is Gods first Bible. Hun
dreds. if not thousands of years before
! the first line of the Book OF Genesis was
| written, the lesson of the pyramid was
| written.
Well, of what is this Cyclopean ma
sorry sign and a witness! Among
other things, of the prolongation OF
human work compared with the brevity
of human life In all the 1000 years
this pyramid has only lost eighteen feet
in width. one side of its square at the
base changed only from 764 feet to 746