The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-12
TAG Tabernacle PulDit.
DIR. TALNACiE breaches 4
SERMON OE THE COS
PEI ARCHIPELAGO.
Continuation 81 the Series OF
.tiscourScs Inspired hy the
Brooklyn Divine'& Jour
neyings In the odd
world.
Hts VISIT TO THE CRECIAN
ISLANDS.


BRooKLYy, Nov. e.-Aa overfiowiiAc
congregation at the Brooklyn Tnher-
nacle this morning affected tho interest
the religious public IL taking In the
series Of sermons DIR. Talmage Is preach
ing on what ha saw conGnnatory Of
the Scriptures during bis tour from
the Pyramids to the Acropol.s This
mornings sermon, the fourth Of the
series. was on the Islands Of the Greek
archipelago. The doctor took two
texts: Acts xxi, 3, when we had dts-
covered Cyprus we LETT It on the left
hand" and Revelation i, ., ~, John,
was in the isle that IL called patmos."
Goodby, Egypt! Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any conn
try in all the world, excepting the Holy
Land, Egypt was to me somewhat de-
pressing, It was o post mcrteln ezalui-
nation Of cities that died four thousand
years ago. The muHmies, or wrapped
up bodies Of the dead. were prepared
with reference TO the Resurrection dav.
the Egyptians departing this life want
ing their bodies to be keptsin rs good
condition as possible so that they would
be presentablc when they Were called
again to occupy them. But if when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds
his body looking rs ! saw bis mummy
in the museum at Boulac, his soul will
become On unwilling tenant. The
Sphinx also was to me stern mon
strosity, q statue carved out Of rock Of
red granite sixty-two feet high and
about one hundred and forty three feet
long, and having the head of man
and the body of a lion.
We sat down in the sand Of the
African desert to study it. With
cold smile it has looked down upon
thousands Of years of earthly history;
Egyptian civilization, Grecian civiliza-
ton, Roman civilization; upon the rise
and fall Of thrones innumerable; the
victory and defeat of the armies Of
centuries. 1t took three thousand
years 10 mako one wrinkle on its rel
cheek It is dreadful in It's stolidity.
Its eyes have never wept tear. It's
cold ears have not listened TO the
groans of the Egyptian nation, the
burden Of which [ tried to weigh last
Sabbath. It's heart is stone. It cared
not for Pliny when he measured it in
the first century It will care nothing
for the man who looks into its imper-
turbable countenance in the last cen
tury
EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
But Egypt viii yet come up to the
glow Of life The Bible promises it.
The missionaries Ike my friend, good
and great Doctor Lansing, are sound
ing n resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires. There will be some
other Joseph at Memphis. There will
be some OTHER Moses c1 the banks of
the Nile. There viii be some other
Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead Of destroying
angel to slay the hrstboTn of Egypt,
the angel Of the New Testament viii
shake everlasting life from bis wings
over nation born in q day.
When, soon after my arrival in Egypt,
I took part in the solemn and tender
obsequies of a missionary from our own
land, dying there far away from the
sepulchers of her fathers, and saw
around her the dusa<y and weeping con
gregation of those whom she had come
to save, 1 said to myself: Here is self
sacrifice of the noblest type Here i.
heroism immortal. Here is queen
unto God forever. Here is something
grander than the pyramids. Here Il
that which thrills the heavens. Here
is a specimen of that which will yet
save the world"
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds
US on the steamer Minerva in the Gre,
clan archipelago, the islands Of thc
New Testament, and islands PauiiniaE
and Johannian in their reminiseence,
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 III the Bible Is TO voy
ayers in the Grecian, or as | shall cal
, it, the Gospel archipelago. The Bib;
geography of that region Is accurate
without shadow Of mistake. We ar'
sailing this morning OF. the same water
, that Paul sailed, but In the opposite
: direction to that which Paul voyaged
He was sailing southwark and we north
2 ward With him it was Ephesus
5 Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it i
:. reversed, and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos
5 Eplesus. There is no book in tn
4 world so accurate as the Divine Book.
NY text says that Paul left Cypru
l on the left. We, going in the oppcaitt
| direction, have it on the right On on
ship Minerva were cnly two or thre
passengers besides our party, so we hat
plenty Of room to walk the deck, aIi'
f oh. what night was Christmas nigh
0 | of 1889 in that Greeian archipelago
/ islands of light above, islands Of beaut..
z beneath, It is. royal family OF islands
b this Grecian arctipelago-the crcwn C
: the worlds scenery set with sappiliT
t and emerald aad topaz and chrysopra
/ sus, and ablaze with a glory that seem
let down out of celestial landscape:
God evidently made up his mind tia
hast here he would demonstrate tn
), utmost that can be done with island
J. for the Identification Of earthly seer
!, cry.
Y THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
r The steamer had stopped during th
!. night and In the morning the ship wa
y as quiet as this floor, when we hastene
= M To the deck and found that we ha
: anchored OF the island of Cyprus