Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-26

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all Ezekiel, jeremiah and Isaiah speak
en- It as something wonderful
on Never did visit city with such e
be alted anticipations and never did u
nd anticipations drop so fiat. Not pi.l
us stands Not wall is unbroken. N,
ed a fountain tosses in the sun. Even q
ruins have been ruined, and all tn;
in remains are chips of marble, sma
~ pieces of fractured sculpture and spill
~ tered human bones. Here and there
I'd letter of some elaborate inscription,
n toe or ear of a statue that once stoo
J. in niche of palace wall Ezekiel propf
le esied its blotting out, and the prophec
d has been fulfilled.
b: ride on, | said to our party IAN
It don't wait for me-" And as | stoo
T. there alone the city of Memphis in tn
II glory of past centuries returned. An,
/ | heard the rush of her chariots, ant
o the dash of her fountains, and the con
n VITALITY of her palaces, and saw tn,
drunken mobiles roll on the floors of mo
] sale, while in startling contrast amiC
. all the royalties of the place / saw Pha
e raoh look up into the face of aged, rus
! tic Jacob, the shepherd, saying, "Hov
I old art thou2"
THE CITY or NO.
But back to the Nile and on and up
: till you reach Thebes. in Scripture
called the City of No. Hundred gated
Thebes. a quadranguIar city four
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temples, two of them Karnac and
Luxor, once mountains of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidified
I'm stone. Statue of Rameses H. eight
hundred and eighty-seven tons in
weight and seventy-fve feet high but
now fallen and scattered. Walls
abloon with the battlefelds of cen
| turies
The surrounding hills of rock hol-
lowed into sepulchers on the wall of
which are chiseled in picture and hier-
oglyphics the confirmation of Bible
story in regard to the treatment of the
Israelites in Egypt, SO that as explora-
tions go on with the work the walls of
the sepulchers become commentaries
of the Bible, the Scriptures originally
written upon parchment here cut into
everlasting stone. Thebes mighty and
dominant five hundred years. Then
she went down in fulfillment of Ezekiel's |
prophecy concerning the City of No. |
which was another name for Thebes !
81 will execute judgment in No. l will
cut off the multitudes of No." Jere-
miah also prophesied "Thus saith the
Lord, l will punish the multitudes |
of No"
This city of Thebes and all the other
dead cities of Egypt iterate and reiter
ate the veracity of the Scriptures, tell
ing the same story which Moses and
the prophets told. Have you noticed |
how God kept back these archaeological
confirmations of the Bible until our
time, when the air is full of unbelief
about the truthfulness of the dear old
book2 He waited until the printing
press had been set up in its perfected
shape, and the submarine cable was
laid, and the world was intelligent
y. |
and then he resurrected the dead cities
of the earth and commands them, say
ing; open your long sealed lips and
speak! Memphis and Thebes, is the
Bible truef' "prue!" respond Mem
phis and Thebes. Babylon, Is the
book of Daniel true2" True" re-
spends Babylon. Ruins of Palestine
and Syria, is the New Testament
true" "True!" respond the ruins all
the way from Joppa to the Dead sea,
and from Jerusalem to Damascus.
What a mercy that this testimony of
the dead cities should come at time
when the Bible is especially assailed
And this work will go on until the We
racity and divinity of the Scriptures
will be as certain to all sensible men
and women rs that two and two make
four, as that an isosceles triangle is one
which has two of its sides equal, as
that the diameter of circle is a line
drawn through the center and ter
minated by the circumference as GER
tain as any mathematical demonstra-
tion.
Never did | feel more encouraged
than when after preaching sermon on
evidences of the truth of the Bible
drawn from oriental lands. A distin-
guished senator of the United States,
known and honored everywhere, but
now deceased, came up to the plat
form and said, II was brought up in
the faith of Christianity, but l got
specializing on all these subjects and
had given up my faith in the Bible, but
those facts and arguments archeolog-
ical take me back to my old faith in the
Bible, which my father and mother
taught me" The tears rolling down
his cheeks evinced the depth of his
emotion. When read of the senator's
death was comforted to think that
perhaps may have helped him little
in the struggle of his life, and perhaps
given him an easier pillow on which to
die
VALUABLE BOOK.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost came to bat.
tie for one book, copy of ''Eschylus.
Ptolemy, the Egyptian king, discovered |
that in the great library at Alexandria |
there was no copy of "Eschylus." The
Egyptian king sent up 10 Athens,
Greece, to borrow the book and make |
a conV Of ir Athans dan,andad a IA |