Sharp County record., 1891-11-12

for one book. a c0Dv of LasSllvius
Ptniemv the Egyptian king, discovered
that in the great library at Alexandria
there was NO copy- of .E.sehvtus. The
Egyptian king sent ND 20 Athens
Greece. 20 borrow the 1hHiv and make
a COW Of IT, Athens demanded de-.
D0sit OF sf7. zoo as security The Egvp-
tian king received the book but res
fused n return that which he had hor-
r0ved and 50 forfeited the s17. 7ll. The
two nations rose iu contention c01CeT0-
iup thatone book beautiful and mighty
book iBdeedi But It'll book of horrors
the dominant idea that we are the
victims Of hereditary Influences from
which there is no esrape. and that fate
rules the world. and although the au-
thor does tell OF prometheus VINO WIS
crucItied on the rocks for sympathy for
mankind. a powerful suggestion of the
sacrifice OF Christ in later years, it is a
verv poor book e0mpsred with that
book which we hug 70 0ur hearts be-
cause IL contains our Ouivguide IN life.
our 0ntv comfort iu death. and our
ouiv hone for a biissfui immortality II
two nations could afford 70 struggle for
one copv of EEsehvius, how much more
can all nations afford 20 struggle for
tha uOssessiou and triumph of the Holy
ScriUtures2
But the dead cities strung along the
Nile not ouiv demoiish iuddeiitv. but
thunder down the aAsurdttv 8r the
modern doctrine of evolution which
saws the world started with nothing and
then rose, and human nature began
with nothing, sut evolved into sDleudid
manhood and vOmauhood of itself.
Nav; the sculpture of the world was
more wonderful in the davs of Memphis
and Thebes and arthaqe than in the
daVs OF Boston AZ New York. Those
blocks OF stone lghing three hundred
tons high M in ohe wall at karnae inn
ply msehinerv equal to. if not surpass-
ing, the machinery OF the nineteenth
century. How vas hat statue of
Rameses. weighing eight hundred and
eightp-sevpn tons. transported rom
the luar1es Two hundred miles
away and how was it lifted? Tell us,
modern machiuiSts. low were those
galleries of rock. still Standing 90
Z Thebes filled with paintings surpassed
bvuO artists pencil of the present dav7
: Tell rs. artists ot the nineteenth CEN
turv The dead cities of Egypt so tar
rs thev have left ennurh pillars or
statues or seuutchprs or temple ruins
: to tell the storv-afemphis. IigdoL
( Hieranolis. LOau. Thebes. Goshen.
I Carthare-ail Of theun developing
( downward instead OF upward. They
/ have evnluted trOm uagnIficenCe
/ into destruction. The Gospel Of
Jesus Christ IS the 1niv sia-
vator OF individual and social na-
tiOual character. Let all the living
cities know that DOmp and 0Dulencs
I and temporal prosperity are ma securitr.
4 Those ancient cities lacked nothing but
good morals DESTINATION and sin slew
I them, and unless destination and sin are
7 halted thev will some dav siav our mod
eru cities. and leave our palaces of mar-
chsudise and our galleries ot art ana
our city halls as fat in the dust "a we
found Memphis on the afternoon OF thar
Thanksgiving dav,
And if the cities go down. The nation
will 90 down. oh - YOU say. that is
impOsslble; we have stood so loug-yea.
over a hundred years as p nation
I Why, what Of that2 Nhebes stood five
hundred years: Memphis stood thou-
sand wears. God does not flrget that.
One dav with the Lord is as thousand
years and a thousand wears is as one
dav Rum and dehaucherv ana bad
politics are more rapidiv working the
destruction of our American cities than
sin of auv kind. and all Kinds worked
for the destruction OF the cities of
Africa, once so mighty and now so nr0s-
trate But their v0ds were idols. ana
could do nothing aycent for febase-
ment. Our God made the heavens aud
sent His SON TO redeem The nations
md our cities will not 60 down. and
our nation will not perish because the
Gospel is going To triumph. Forward
all schools and colleges and churches
Forward all reformatorv and mission
1rv organizations. Forward! all theI
luerces marshaleG 70 bless the world
Let our modern European and Amer
Ican cities listen 80 the voice 0f those
lncieut cities resurrected, aud by ham
mer and chisel and crowhar comneled
iO speak.
notice the voice of those ancient
cities Ia hoarse from the exposure 0t
forty centuries and they 1ccentuate
slowly with lips that were 1alsied for
lges but altogether those cities uInnu
the Nile intoue these words: Hear ms
'orwe are very old. ana 10 Is hard forus
10 speak We were wise long before
Athens learned her drst lesson. We
ailed our shins while vet Navigation
was unborn. These 1belisss thesp
pyramids lhese fallen ullars.. these
wrecked Temples. these aolossi OF black
granite these wrecked sarcnphagi under
heshrow ~ the hills. tell YOU ot whut
was iu grandeur, and nj what nm
coming down 10 he. We sinned and we
fell. our learning could not save us.
See those half obi lterated hiernplvphics
On Wonder wrlli. Durarchitecturr could
Hot aavn ug Soc the nntufad 9Dt,,r,,,,s