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ahead, and were about to give up the at
tempt when the workmen heard stone
roll down INTO seemingly hollow place.
and encouraged by that they resumed
their work and came into the under
ground rooms.
The disappolnt nent Of the workmer
In fiadlng the sarcophagus empty of all
silver aud gold and precious stones was
80 great that they would have assas-
slnated AL MamOun, who employed
them, had he not hid in another part ol
the pyramid as much silver and gold
as would pay them for their work at
ordinary ates of wages and induced them
there to dig till they to their surprise
came upon adequate compensation.
1 wonder not that this mountain OF
limestone and red granite has been the
fa cination of scholars, OF scientists, OF
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sin
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical significance.
The wise men who accompanied Napo.
Icons arIIy into Egypt went into pro-
found 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 posi-.
BILE close to the pyramid which they were
investigating. Tho pyramid, built more
than four thousand years ago, being a
complete geometrical figure, wise men
have concluded it must have been div.
inely constructed. Man came through
thousands OF years to fine architecture,
to music, to painting, but this was per-
feet at the worlds start, aud God must
have directed it,
| All astronomers and ccometricisns
and scientists say that it was scientltical-
ly and mathematically constructed be-
tore science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the points of
tie compass recognized in its structure,
from the direction in which its tun els
run, from the relative position of the
blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris.
tians and intidels have demonstrated
that the being who planned this pyramid
must have known the worlds sphericity,
and that its motion was rotary, and how
many miles il was in diameter and cir
cumtercnce, and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at whaU point
in the heavens certain stars would APP
peac at certain periods OF time.
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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 an astronomer or an arclli-
| tect or mathematician worth mem
tiOning. Who then planned the pyra-
mid? Who superintended it's erection
| Who from its first foundation stone to
its capstone erected everythingp 1t
must have been God. Isaiah was right
when he said in my text, GA pillar shall
be at the border of the land OF Egypt
and it shall be for sign and a witness"
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
sonry sign and a witness? Among
| other things-of the prolongation of
human work compared with the breyity
of human life.
so 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 quadrillioD, forty quintillion.
For a while we WELD the Lrowel, or
pound with the hammer, or measure
with the yard stick, or write with the
battery, or plan with the brain, and for
a while 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 a pyramid. All the kind
deeds or malevolent deeds we do are
spread out into another layer. All the
Christian or un-Chrlstian 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 soon comes when we put down the
implement of toll and pass away, but
| the pyramid stands.
If one Of those granite blocks that
just touch with my feet on this Decem-
Der morning in 1889 as the two Arabs
pull me and the two other Arabs push
me, could speak out aud tell its history
1t would say: "The place of my nativ-
lty was down in the great stone quarry
| OF Mokattan or AsSwan. Then they
btgan to bore at my sides, and then to
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
against Inc till the whole quarry quaked
and thundered. Then / was pried out
with crowbars and levers, scores of men
putting their weight on the leverage
Then chains were put around me and
was hoisted with wheels that groaned
under the weight, and many wOrkmen
had their hands on the cranks and
turned until the muscles on their arms
stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled
| from their dusky toreheads.
Then | was drawn by long teams Of
oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke after yoke.
lhen WAS put Oh an inclined plane
and hauled upward and how many
| iron tools, and how many human arms,
and how many beasts Of burden were
employed to get me to this place no one
can tell. Then | had to be measured
and squared and compassed and fitted
| in before | WAS lett here to do my silent
| work of thousands of years. God only
knows how many hands were busted in
getting me from my geological cradle
III the quarry to this enthrOnement of
innumerahle ages" My hearers, that
IS the autobiography of ons block of
the pyramid. CheOps didn't build the
pyramid. Some boss mason in the
worlds twilight didn't build the pyra-
mid. One hundred thousand men built
it and perhaps from first to last two
| hundred thousand men.
SO with the pyramids now rising
| pyramids Of evil or pyramids Of good.
| The pyramid of drunkenness, rising
ever since the time when Noah got
drunk ON wine, although there was at
| his time such superabundance of
water All the saloonists of the ages
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