The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-28

ahead, and were about to give up The az
tenn Ut when the workmen heard 4 store
roll down INTO q seemingly hollow place.
and encouraged By that they resumed
their work and came into the under
ground rooms.
The dlsappont uent Of the worknen
in iisGing the sarcophagus empty 0! al
silver and gold and precious stones Was
SO great that they would have asSas-
s!nated Al M&mouG. who employed
theH, naG lie not hid in another part OF
the pyramid as much silver and gold
as woula pay them for their work at
ordinary rates OF wages and induced them
there TO dig TIL they to their surprise
came upon adequate compensation.
| wonder not that this mountain OF
limestone and red granite has been the
ia cination Of scholars, o. scientists, o!
intelligent Christians IN all ages. Sr
John uersc,iel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical significance.
The wise men who accompanied Napo-
Icons ar1Iy into Egypt went into pro-
found study Of the pyramid. In 1868
Professor Smyth and his wife lived IN the
empty toinbs near by the pyramid that
they might he as continuously as possl-
Die close TO the pyramid which they were
investigating. The pyramid, built more
than four thousand years ago, being a
compete geometrical fgu7e, wise men
have concluded il mus. have been div.
inely constructed. Man came through
thousands OF years TO fine architecture,
10 music, TO painting, b0t this was per-
feet al the worlds start, and God must
have directed it.
All astronomers and geometricisns
aud scientists cay that it was sc!entlhcal-
" and mathematicallY constructed be-
tore science ard mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the points OF
the compass recognized in It's structure,
from the direction in which its tun els
ruD, from the relative position Of the
blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris
tians and iutide?s nave demonstrated
that the being who planned this pyramid
must have known tie worlds sphericity,
and that it's motion was rotary, aad 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-
matlcs 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 archi-
tect or a mathematician worth men
tiouing. Who then planned the pyra-
mid? Who superintended its erection:
Who from it's irst foundation stone to
its capstone erected everything? It
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 it shall be for sign and 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 witness? Among
other things-of the proIongation OF
humaR work compared with the breYlty
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 trilllon,
forty quadrillion, forty Quintillion.
For while we WELD the trowel, or
pound with the hammer, or measure
with the yard stick, or write with the
pen, OF experiment. with the scientific
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. AL the good words or bad
words we speak are spread out into one
layer for 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 ont 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.
# one OF those granite blocks that l
jus. 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 tel! its history
it would say: The place Of my nativ-
itv was down in the great stone quarry
Of Mokattan or Asswan. Then they
began to bore at my sides, and then to
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
against me I'll: the whole quarry quaked
and thundered. Then | was pried out
with crow bars and levers, scores Of men
putting their weight on the leverage
Then chains were put around me and l
WAS holsted with wheels that groaned
under the weight, ard many workmen
had their hands OF the c1anks and
turned until the muscles OF their arms
stood out IN ridges. and the sweat rolled
from their duS!,y !oreheads.
Then [ was drawn BY long teams Of
oXei, yoke after YOKE, yoke after yoke.
Then | WAS put Oh an inclined plane
and hauled upward and how many
iron tools, and now ClaIy human arms,
and how many beasts cf burden We're
employed to get ne t. this place no one
can tell. Then / had to be measured
and squared and compassed and fitted
IL before was lett here to do my silent
work Of thousands OF years. God only
Knows how many hands were busted III
getting me from my geological cradle
IN the quarry TO this enthronement Of
innumerahle ages Ny hearers, that
is the autobiography Of one 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
1t and perhaps from first to last two
hundred thousand men.
so with the pyramids now rising
pyramids CT evil or pyramids OF good.
The pyramid Of drunkenness, rising
ever since the time when Noah got
drunk on wine, although there was at
bis time such 4 SuverabUndance of