Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-29

! Lands = The Wonderful Pyramid of
Gizeh and the Lessons II Teaches.
BROOKLYN Oct. ls.-The vast congrega-
ton at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morn
ing was delighted by an exquisite render
ing, by Professor Henry Eyre Browne, on
the new organ, of Denier's second soaata
In g. DIR. Talmage's sermon was the first
of a series he intends preaching on his
eastern tour, entitled, From the Pyramids
to the Acropolis, or What | Saw in Egypt
and Greece Confirmatory of the Scrip
lures" His text was Isaiah xix, 10, 20:
In that day shall there be an altar TO the
Lord in the midst of the land OF Egypt,
and a pillar at the border thereof to the
Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a
witness"
Isaiah no dolfbt here refers to the great
pyramid at 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 TO be at the
border of the land, and this pyramid Is at
the border of the land; and the text says it
shall be for a witness, and the object of
this sermon is TO tell what this pyramid
witnesses This sermon is the first of a
course Of sermons entitled, From the
! W luC -tCiOIbOll7s w w ildh DIV
in Egypt and Greece Confrmatory of the
Scriptures"
We had. on morning OF December, 1899,
landed in Africa Amid the bowling boat
men at Alexandria we had come ashore
aud taken the rail train for Cairo, Egypt,
along the banks of the most thoroughly
harnessed river of all the world-the river
Nile. We had at eventide entered the city
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staying In Egypt during the Herodic per
secution. 1t was our first night In Egypt.
No destroying angel sweeping through as
once, but all the stars were out, and the
skies were filed with angels Of beauty and
angels of light, and the air WAS balmy AS
an American June The next morning we
were early awake and at the window, look
ing upon palm trees in full glory of leaf
age, and upon gardens of fruits and flow
ers at the very season when our homes far
away are canopied by bleak skies and the
last leaf Of the forest has gone down in the
equinoctials.
FIRST VIEW OF THE PYRAMID.
But how can | describe the thrill of ex-
pectation, for today we are TO see what all
the world has seen or wants to see-the
pyramids. We are mounted for an hour
aud halfs ride. We pass on amid ba-
zaars stuffed with rugs and carpets. aud
curious fabrics OF all sorts from Smyrna,
from Aglers, from Persia, from Turkey,
and through streets where we meet people
of all colors and all CARDS, carts loaaed
with garden productions, priests in gowns,
women In black wells, Bedouins in long
and seemingly supertluons apparel, Jams
sares in jacket of embroidered gold-out
and on toward the great pyramid, for
though there are sixty-nine pyramids still
standing, the pyramid at Gizeh is the mon
arch of pyramids. We meet camels grunt-
ing under their loads, and see buffaloes on
either 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 tamerisk, but after awhile
it is path of rock and sand, and we find
we have reached the margin OF the desert,
the great Sahara desert, aud we cry out 70
the draeornan as we see huge pile of rock
looming in sight, "Dragoman, what is
thatfn His answer Is, "rhe pyramid,
and then it seemed rs II we were living
century every minnie Our thoughts and
emotions were too rapid and intense for
utterance, and we ride on in silence until
we come to the foot Of the pyramid spoken
the earth, four Thousand years old at least.
Here it is. We stand under the shadow Of
structure that shuts out all the earth
and all the sky. and we look up and strain
our vision TO appreciate the distant top,
and are overwhelmed while we cry. The
Pyramid The pyramidP
had started that morning with the de
termination Of ascending the pyramid.
One of my chief objects in going to Egypt
was not only to see the base of that gra-
nitic wonder, but to stand on the top of it.
Yet the nearer came to this eternity in
stone the more my determination was
shaken Its altitude to me was simply
appalling. A great height has always
been to me most disagreeable sensation.
As we dismounted at the base of the pyra-
mid, said: "Others may 20 up it, but not
L. / will satisfy myself with view from
the blse The ascent of it would he to me
a foolhar,.y undertaking" But after 1
had given up all idea of ascending. found
my daughter was determined 10 20. 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 foolhardy men
have attempted it alone, but their bodies
came tumbling down. unacceptable and
lifeIess.
Each person in our party had two or
three guides or helpers One Of them I'M
rolled his turban and tied it around my
waist and he held the other end Of the tur-
ban as a matter OF safety. Many of the |
blocks Of stone are four or five feet high I
and beyond any ordinary human stride I'M |
less assisted But, two Arabs to pull and I
two Arabs to push, found myself rapidly 1
ascending from height to height, and ON TO I
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 off |
upon the Sphinx, with its features of ever
lasting stone, and yonder upon the min
arets of Cairo glittering in the sun. and
yonder upon Memphis in ruins, and on
upon the wreck of empires and the battle
fields of ages, a radius Of view enough 10
oil the mind and shock the nerves ana
lverwhelm ones entire being
A STARTLING ARRAY OF FIGURES.
After looking around for awhile, and