Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-11-02
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES ON BRICKS
WITHOUT STRAW

DR.. TALMAeE breaches ON BRICKS
WITHOUT STRAW.
Though the Phar,oi,s of old Ea.:1 pt Have
Been Dead for Many Centuries, There
Are Stin Many Pharaolas WHO Are De
maas;ins I-ricI.s ysitl,uu. straw.
BROOKLYN. Nov. l. The Tabernacle
was t.ironged rs usual this morning
The vast edifice filed to its ut:aost
capacity with eager listeners shows low
;hl popular preacher retains his power
over the people Although he has been
preaching IN Brooklyn for more than
twei.t- four years, his audiences were
never 50 large as now. and although
tic largest Protestant church III Amer
ie:. has been built for him, there never
was a time when 50 many persons were
turned away for lack of room. The
yuisfcs- OF this mornings sermon was
''l.r. ~; N'.-.Iout Saw" = continual
ton Of the series ntle confirmation of
Holy Scripture which Dr. TaIlnage
found in his journey from tie Pyramids
to the AcropoIis His text was Isaiah
Nix. 1. The burden of Egypt"
What is all this excitement about in
the streets of Cairo, Egypt, this Decem-
bermorning in 1899? Stand back We
hear loud voices and see the crowds of
people retreating to the sides of the
street. The excitement of Others be-
comes our own excitement Footmen
hand and tasseled cap on head, and
their arms and feet are bare. Their
garb is black to the waist, except as
threaded with gold, and the rest is
white. They are clearing the way for
an official dignitary in Il chariot or car
rage. They are swift and sometimes
run thirty or forty miles at a stretch in
front of an equipage. Make way!
They are the feetest footed men on
earth but soon die, for the human
frame was not made for such endur-
ance.
| asked all around me who the man
in the carriage was, but no one seemed
to know Yet as 1 feH back with the
rest to the wall | said, This is the old
custom found all up and down the
Bible. fOotmen running before the rul-
ers, demanding Obeisance, as in Genesis
before JOsephs chariot the people were
Bow the knee" and as
! see the swift feet Of the men, fol
lowed by the swift feet of the horses,
|,
my mind, ''If thou hast run
with the footmen and they have wearied
thee, how canst thou contend with
horses"'
Now, my hearers, iii this course of
l am only serving you as foot
IMAM, and clearing the way for your
coming into the wonders of Egyptology,
a subject that 7 would have you study
far beyond anything that can be said
in the brevity Of pulpit utterance Two
hundred and eighty-nine times does the
Bible refer to Egypt and the Egyp-
tians. No wonder, for Egypt was the
mother of nations. Egypt, the mother
Of Greece; Greece, the mother of
Rome; Rome, the mother of England;
the mother of our own land.
According to that, Egypt is our great
On other Sabbaths [ left you study
ing what they must have been in their
glory; the Hypostyle hall of Karnac,
the architectural miracles at Luxor, the
COlonnade of Horemheb, the GENE
teries Of Memphis, the value of a king
dom in one monument, the Sphinx,
which with lips of stone speaks loud
enough to be heard across the centu-
ries, Heliopoiis and Zoan, the conun-
drum of psychologists. But all that
of palace and temple and
was the cause of an oppres-
sion high as heaven and deep as hell.
The weight of those blocks of stone,
heavier than any modern machinery
could lift, came down upon the He
Drew slaves and their blood mixed the
mortar for the trOwelS.
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