Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22
SIGN AND WITNESS.
What Egypt and Greece Show
Confirming the Bible.
THE GOSPEL OF THE PYRAMIDS.
An Altar TO the Lord in the Midst Of the
Land of egypt.
Or. Taimase breaches the First of = So
Eies of Sermons His Visit to
the East-The Script
ures Borne Out
Special TO the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BRooKLYN, n. V, Oct. 1S-The vast con-
gregation at the Brooklyn tabernacle this
morning was delighted by an exquisite rem
Gering. by Professor Henry Eyre Browne,
on the new organ, of Denier's Second Son
ala in @. DIR. Talmage;s sermon was the
first OF series he intends preaching on his
Eastern tour, entitled, From the Pyramids
to the Acropolis, or what saw in Egypt and
Greece Conhrmatory OF the Scriptures" lis
text WAS Isaiah xix, 1920: In that day
sl.-ll there be IN altar 20 the Lord in the
midst of the land Of Egypt and q pillar at
the border thereof TO the Lord. And II
shall be for sign and for u witness"
Isaiah IL doubt here refers to the great
pyramid Of Gizeh, the chief pyramid of
Egypt The text speaks of pillar in
Egypt, and this is the greatest pillar ever
lifted and the text says it is 20 be at the
border of the land, and this pyramid is at
the border of the land; and the text gays il
shall De for witness, and the object OF this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid wit
nasses. This sermon is the first of a course
os sermons entitled, From the Pyramids
TO the Acropolis. o. what l saw in Egypt
and Greece confirmatory OF the Script
ureS."
We had on a morning of December, 1889,
landed in Africa. Amid the bowling boat
men AT Alexandria we had come ashore ana
taken Inc HGll-tCall luF AdiEb, EBS pt,
the banks of the most thoroughly har-
messed river Of all the worid-the river
Nile. We had, at eventide, entered the
city of Cairo, the city where Christ dwell
while staying in Egypt during the Herodic
persecution. 1t was our first night in
Egypt No destroying angel sweeping
through as once, buJ all the stars were
out and the skies We're filed with angels Of
beauty and angels of light and the air was
baml as an American June. The next
morning we were early awake and at the
windows looking upon palm trees il full
glory OF LEAKAGE. and upon gardens OF fruits
and Iowers AT Tue Dry season when our
homes far away are canopled by bleak
skies and the last leaf of the forest had
gone down in the equinoctlalS.
But how can describe the thrill OF K
pectation. for to-day we are to see what all
the world has seen or wants TO see-the
pyramids. We are mounted for an hour
and half's ride. We pass on amid Dazars
stuffed with rugs and carpets, and curious
fabrics of all sorts from Smyrna, from A.
g!erS, from Paris, from Turkey. and
through streets were we meet people of all
Colors and all CARDS. carts loaded with gar
den productions, priests III gowns, women
in black wells, Bodouins Ia long and SEEM
iugly SuperiiuouS apparel, Janissaries IN
jackets of embroidered gold-out ana on to-
ward the great pyramid; for though there
are siXty-nine pyramids still standing, the
pyramid at G;zeh is the monarch of pyra-
mlds. We meet camels grunting under
their load, and see buHaloeS on every side,
browsing in pasture fields. The road we
travel is for part of the way under clumps
of acacia. and by long rows of sycamore and
taInar.Sy. but after awhile 1t Is path of
rocks aud sand and we ind we have reached
the margin of the desert, the
GREAT SAHARA DESERT,
and we cry out 10 the dragoman as we sec
huge pile of rock looming il sight: Drag
oman, what is that!'' His answer is, THE
pyramid and then it seemed as if we
We're living century every minute. Our
thoughts and emotions were too rapid and
intense for utterance, and we r1de on IN
silence until we come to the foot Of the
pyramid spoken of in the text the oldest
structure in all the earth. 1000 years old at
least. Here IL is. We stand under The
shadow of u structure that shuts out all the
earth and all the sky, and we look up and
strain our vision to appreciate the distant
tJp, and are overwhelmed while we cry:
tine pyramid! che pyramid!'
had started that morning with the de-
termination of ascending the pyramid One
or my chief objects in going to Egypt was
not only TO see the base of that granite
wonder, but to stand on the top of it. Yet
the nearer came TO this eternity in stone
the more my determination was shaken.
It's altitude to me was simply appalling. y
great height has always been to ME most
Gisagraeable sensation. As we dismounted
al the base Of tie pyramid I said, ''Others
NAV 20 up it, but not !. will satisfy N.Y.
self with i view from the base. The
ascent of II would be 10 me foolhardy I'm
6ertaking." But after ] had given up all
idea Of ascending, found my daughter was
determined. TO go. and | could not let her go
with strangers. and | changed my mind and
we started with guides. 1t cannot be done
without these helpers. Two or three times
foGlhardy men have attempted IL alone, but
their bodies came tumbling down unrecog-
nizable ana life,e Each person in our
party lad Two OF three guides or helpers.
One of them unrolled his turban and
rcd II around my waist, and he held
tie other end Of the turban as q matter
o. safety Many of the blocks of stone
are four or hve feet high and beyond any
ordinary human stride unless assisted.
Eut, two Arabs 10 pull and two Arabs 10
push, / found myself rapidly ascending
from height TO height, and on TO
attitudes terrific. and at last At the tiptop
we found ourselves on level space of
about thirty feet square. Through clearest
atmosphere we looked off upon the desert,
and off upon the winding Nile, and of upon
he Sphinx with its features of everlasting
stone, and yonder upon the Ininarets OF
Cairo glittering in the SUI, and yonder
upon Memphis in ruins, and of upon the
wreck OF empires anu Tue DdiIle-ueIuS VI
ages i radius OF view enough TO fill the
mind and shock the nerves and oyerwheim
ones entire being.
After looking around for while, and q
kodak had pictured the group, we de-
scendei. The descent was more trying
ghan the ascent, for climbing you need not
see the depths beneath, but coming down
il was impossible not to see the abysms be-
low. But two Arabs ahead to help US
down, and two Arabs to hold Us back, we
were lowered, hand below hand, until the
ground was ilvitingly near, and amid the
Jargon Of the Arabs we were safely landed
Then came one of the most wonderful feats
Of daring and agility. One of the Arabs
solicited Il dollar, saying ne would run up
anu down the pyramids in seven minutes
We would rather have given him dollar
no, 10 go, bct his ascent and descent in
seven minutes he was determined on. and
so by the watch in seven minutes he went
to the top and was back again at the base
1t was I blood-curding spectacle
| said the dominant color of the pyramid
was gray, but III certain lights it seems to
shake off the gray of centuries and become
blonde, and the silver turns TO the golden.
1t covers thirteen acres of ground What
an antiquity 1t was at least two thousand
years old when the baby Christ was carried
within sight OF 1t by his fugitive parents,
Joseph and Mary. The storms of forty CEN