Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-26
UP THE NILE.
m 7,luasg FINDS INSPIRATION FOR A
SPLENDID SERMON
nThs River Is Nine and Ha7' Made Il Were the
Words Of The Textile Second Sermon
Of the Series Concerning Egypt
and ths HOly Land.



Droov1vV Ny. October 25.-The
~o-5oring Of the First Sonata in ID
Minor, by Guilmant, on the great organ
OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle THIS morn
ing. by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne, the
orranist. held the vast congregation
spell-boupd with profound emotion. DR..
T'olmage preached on Sailing Up the
Nile " the second sermon Of the series,
entitled .sFrom the Pyramids 10 the
AcroDolis: or, What I saw in Egypt and
Greece. Confirmatory Of the Scriptures. "
Ills text was Ezekiel xxx. 9: The river
s mine aud l have made u"
Hs! This is the river Nile. Drown,
or yellow, or silver cord on which are
hung more Jewels or thrilling Interest
than on any river that was ever twisted
I'm tbe sunshine. 1t rippleS through the
Book OF Ezekiel, and flashes in the
Rocks OF Deuteronomy, and Isaiah, and
Zecbariah, and Nahum, and on It's
hanks stood the mighties OF many ages.
Tt was the crystal cradle Of Moses, and
nm lis banks, Mary, the refugee, carried
the infant Jesus. To find the birth
nIsce OF this river was the fascination
and defeat Of expeditions without num-
Der. Not many years ago.
Bayard Taylor, our great amer
lean traveller, wrote: since
columbus first looked upon San
Salvador. the earth has but one emotion
of triumph left for her beStOwal, aud
that she reserves for him who shall tlrSt
drink from the fountains Of the White
Nile under the snow fields OF Kiliman-
faro" But the discovery Of the sources
of the Nile by most people was con-
sldered an impOsSibility. The malarlaS,
the wild beasts, the SavageS, the I'M
climbable sleeps, the vast distances,
stopped all the expeditions Tor ages.
An intelligent native said TO Sir Samuel
w. Baker and wife Gs they were on
their way to accomplish that in which
others had failed:
GIVE UP THE SCHEME
Of the Nile source. How would it be
possible for a lady young and delicate TO
endure what would kill the strongest
man? Give 10 up" But the work went
on until Spoke, and Grant, and Baker
found the two lakes which are the
source OF what was called the White
Nile, and baptised these two lakes with
the names Of Victoria and Albert.
These two lakes, filed by great rain
falls and by accumulated SHOWS from
the mountains pour their waters, laden
with agricultural wealth such as blesSes
no other river, on down over the catar-
acts, on between frowning mountains,
on between cities living and cities dead,
on for four thousand miles and through
continent. But the White Nile
would do little for Egypt If this were
all. 1t would keep It's banks and
Egypt would remain desert. But from
Abyssinia there comes what is called
the Blue Nile, which, though dry or
nearly dry half the year, under ire
mendOus rains about the middle OF June
rises to a great momentum, and this
Blue Nile dashes with sudden influx into
the White Nile, which In consequence
rises thirty feet, and their combined
waters inundate Egypt with a rich soil
which drops on all the fields and gar
dens as 10 is conducted by bitches, and
sluices, and canals every whittier. The
greatest damage that every came TO
Egypt came by the drying up OF the
river Nile, and the greatest blessing By
its healtful and abundant flow. The
famine In JOseph's time came from the
lack of sufficient inundation from the
Nile.
UP THE NILE WE co,
part Of the way by Egyptian rail train
and then by boat, and we shall under
stand why the Bible gives such promi-
nence To- this river, which is the largest
river OF all the earth, with one eScep-
ton. But before we board the train we
must take q look 40 Alexandria. IL was
founded by Alexander the Great and
was once the New York, the Paris, the
London Of the world. Temples, palaces,
fountains, gardens, pillsred and eftlores
cent with all architectural and EdeniC
grandeur and sweetness. ApollOs, the
eloquent, whom in New Testament
times some people tried TO make rival
70 Paul, lived here. Here Mark,
the author Of the second book Of
the New Testament expired under Ne
rO'S anathema. From here the ship
sailed that left Paul and the crew strug
Cling i'm the breakers of Nelita. Pom
gey'S Pillar is here, about one hundred
feet high, its base surrounded by SO
much 9th and SQualOr / was glad TO eS-
cape into an air that was breathable.
This tower was built in honor OF Do
Cietian for sparing the rebelliOuS citi-
ZeUS. After having declared that he
would make the blood run TO his horses
knees, and his horse fell with him into
the blood and his knees Redeemed, the
tyrant took IL for granted that was the
q sign he should stop the massacre, and
hence bis commemorative pillar to his
mercy. This is the city to which Omar
came after building fourteen hun
dred mosques, and destroying
four thousand temples and thirty-dye
thousand villages and castles, yet riding
IN on q camel with a sack Of corn, q
sack of figs and q wooden plate, all that
he had kept for himself, and the diet 10
which be had limited himself for most
OF the time was bread and water. Was
there ever many other man cOmming-
ling OF elements so strange, so weird, so
generous, so cruel, so mighty, so weak,
so religious, so fanatical? In this city
was the greatest female lecturer the
world ever saw-Hypatla. But the
lessons Of virtue that she taught were
obnoxious, and so they dragged her
through the streets and scraped her
flesh from her bones with sharp oyster
shells and then burned the fragment OF
the maSSacred body. And
HERE DWELT CLEOPATRA,
pronounced to be the beauty OF all time
although If her pictures are correct l
have seen thousand women In Brooklyn
more attractive-and she was as bad as
she was said TO be handsome. Queen
conQueress, and spoke seven languages,
although it would have been better for
the world II she had not been able
10 speak any. Julius Cesar conquered