Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-18
SCRIPTURES CONFIRMED.
Ugypt and the Nile Abandoned for
Other Climes-
me Waters Over which st. Paul Sailed
Sermon by Rev. r. Dewitt Taimage. DID.

me waters over which sc. Paul Sailed
Sermon by Rev. +. Dewitt Taimage. DID.
DIR. Talmage took two texts: Acts.
XXI, 8, when we had discovered
Cyprus we left il on the left hand;" and,
Revelation, l., o. IT. John. was
In the isle that Is called Patmos"
Good-by Egypt! Although interest
Ing and instructive beyond any country
In tho world. except the Holy Land.
Egypt was to me somewhat depressing.
It was n post-mortem examination of
cities that died 1000 years ago The
mummies, or wrapped-up bodies of the
dead. were prepared with reference to
the resurrection day. the Egyptians
departing this life wanting their bodies
to be kept in rs good condition as possi-
BILE SO that they would be presentable
when they were called again to occupy
them. But IL when Pharoah comes to
resurrection he finds his body looking
as saw his mummy in the museum at
Boulac his soul will become an unwill-
ing tenant
The Sphinx also was TO me stern
monstrosity, n statue carved out of rock
of red granite, sixty two feet high and
of a man and the body of lion. We sat
down in the sand OF the African desert
TO study it With n cold smile IL has
looked down upon thousands of years
of earthly history-Egyptian civiliza-
ton, Grecian civilization, Roman civili-
zation; upon the rise and fall of thrones
innumerable; the victory and defeat of
the armies of centuries 1t took 5000
IL. u n
check. II is dreadful in its stolidity.
Its eyes have never wept tear. Its
cold ears have not listened to the groans
of the Egyptian nation, the burden of
which i tried to weigh last Sabbath.
It's heart is stone. 1t cared not for
Pliny when he measured it in the first
century. 1t will care nothing for the
nan who looks INTO its imperturbable
countenance in the last century.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life. The Bible promises it
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great DIR. Lansing, are sounding
resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires. There will be some
other Joseph ut Memphis. There will
be some other Moses on the Nile. There
will be some other Hypatia to teach
good morals to. the degraded. Instead
OF n destroying angel tol slay the
first-born of Egypt, the angel of the
New Testament will shake everlasting
life from his wings over n nation born
in day. When, soon after my arrival
In Egypt, took part in the solemn and
tender obsequies of n missionary from
our own land, dying there far away
from the sepulchers of her fathers, and
saw around her the dusky and weeping
congregation of those whom she had
come TO save. l said to myself: Here
Is self-sacrifce of the noblest type.
Hero is heroism immortal: Here is a
queen unto God forever. Here is some
thing grander than the pyramids. Here
is that which thrills the heavens Here
Is n specimen of that which will vet
save the world
| Goodbye, Egypt! This sermon finds
us on the steamer Minerva in the
Grecian Archipelago, the islands of the
New Testament and islands Paulinian
and Johanian in their "reminiscences
What Bradshaw's directory is to travel
ers in Europe. and what the railroad
guide is to travellers in America, the
Book OF the Acts in the Bible is to
voyagers in the Grecian, or as / shall
call it, the Gospel Archipelago The
Bible geography of that region is acur-
ate without shadow of mistake We
are sailing this morning on the same
waters that Paul sailed. but in the OBJ
posite direction to that which Paul vow
aged. He was sailing southwark and
we northward. With him it was: Ephe-
sus. Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us IL
is reversed and it is: Cyprus, Rhodes,
Coos, Ephesus
There is no book in the world so ac
curate as the Divine Book. NV text
says that Paul left Cyprus on the left;
we, going in the opposite direction
have it on the right On our ship Mi
nerva were only two or three passen
gers beside our party. so we had plenty
of room to walk the deck. and oh, what
anight was Christmas night of 1880 in
that Grecian archipelago-islands Of
light above, islands OF beauty beneath
1t is royal family of islands this Gre
clan archipelago; the crown of the
worlds scenery set with sapphire ant
emerald and topaz and chrys prasus
and ahlaze with glory that seems lei
down out of celestial landscapes. Goo
evidently made up his mind that JUS
here he would demonstrate the utmost
that en- be done with islands for tn.
Identification of earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during tn,
night, and in the morning the ship wa.
as quiet as this floor. when we hasteneC
mp to the deck and found that we hac
anchored off the island Cyprus In
boat, which the natives rowed standing
up, as Is the custom, instead OF SITTING
down as when we row. we were soor
landed on the street where Paul anC
Barnabas walked and preached Yea
when at Antioch Paul and Barnabas 90
into 6ght-as ministers sometimei
did, and sometimes do, for they all hav,
impcrfections enough TO anchor then
20 this world till their work is done
when because OF that bitter contro
versy Paul and Barnabas parted. Bar
na6as came hack here 20 Cyprus. which
was his birthplace Island wonderful
for historyl II has been the prize some
times won by Persia, by Greece. b.
Egypt by the Saracens. by the Cru
taders, and laat of all, not by sword bu
by pen, and that the pen OF the keenes
diplomaust of the century, Lord Bea