Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-19

0nfffie q mlus ~ sixty feet wide was
hniIL Ehe ton tones we're lifted by ma
flHuefg FI"I us tbs world knows nothing
ol GOD. i ss.yan hundred and forty
els f..G W.n a.drol the square base. The
Hrut.rr s fJas bumfed and fifty feet
high, b eIer thau the cathedrals Of Co
llHue, fiHsbGrg, iiOuen, ST. Peters and
$780, i'pu a N0 surplisa TO me chat it was
but It ll9 hAa1 Of the seven wonders Of
tue world. ib has g suJterrancOus room
nf red q ANTE called the kings cbambe ;"
and p1 ther room called the Queens
thHult s' Hnd tine probability is that there
hI. r.H., .Hl.s Ent unexpiJrcd
Tho cIdeut design Of the architect was
10 make these rooms Us inaccessible as
possible Aforall thewDrk Of exploration
and hil tis digging and blasting, if you
would uisf these snbterraneous rooms
sou must ego through passage only three
feet cl8cn Inches high and less than four
fees vide. a sgrcDpbagns Of red granite
sJAud3tOvn under This mountain Of ma.
sorry The sarcyphagu5 could not have
been Carried tn after the pyramid WIS
bu.ll 20 must have been put there before
the structure was reared Probably in
thgb smt0phagus once lay wooden coffin
contain w dead king, but time has de-
EtrJycd che coffin and destroyed the last
vcstge Of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepulchral
room was unopened, and would have been
until tiday probably unopened had not
supcrst lions impression got abroad that
the hert Of the pyramid was filled with
silver and gold and diamonds, and under
AL MaHlouu an excavating party went TO
work. and having bored and blasted
through n hundred feet Of rock, they found
no Oper ing ahead, and we're about to give
up the attempt when the workmen heard
o stone roll down into a seemingly hollow
plncc, ud encouraged by that they re-
sumed heir work and came into the under,
ground rooms
The disappointment Of the worl;men in
finding the sarcophggus empty of all silver
aud gold and precious stones was so great
that th ~ would have assassinated AL Ma
noun, Who employed them, had he not hid
Nv another part Of the pyramid as much
silver and gold as would pay them for their
work IT. ordinary rates of wages and in
ductd them there TO dig till they TO their
surpris! came upon adequate cOmpensa-
ton.
WAS TIE DESIGN GODS OWN?
IwOlder not that this mountain OF lime
stone a nd red granite has been the fascina
ton Of scholars, Of scientists, of intelligent
Chr7tims in all ages SirJohn IIerschel
the asst .ouOmer, said he thought IL had as
trouOu zeal significance. The wise men
who accompanied Napoleon's army into
Egypt went into profound study of the
pyramid. Ina leG5 Professor Smyth and his
wife lived iu the empty tombs near by the
pyram that they might be as continuous
lv us possible close to the pyramid which
they we're investigating The pyramid,
built ore than four thousand years ago,
being ! complete gcOmetrical figure, wise
men have concluded il must have been
diyiuel y constructed Man came through
thousands of years to fine architecture, to
music, to painting, but this was perfect at
the worlds start, and God must have
directed it.
All astronomers and geometricians and
scieuli b. say that IL was scientifically and
malhe uatic1lly constructed before science
and ~ athcma.ics were born. From the
iu-criI tious on the pyramid, from its pro
portions, from the points OF the compass
recogu uiod I'm its structure, from the drec-
tiuu il which its tunnels rum from the
relative position Of the blocks that com
pose 10 scientists, Christians and inidels
have demonstrated that the being who
planned this pyramid must have known
the worlds sphercity, and that its motion
was r0 airy, and how many miles it was in
diameter and circumference, and how
many gus the world weighs, and knew 1T
what yoint i'm the heavens certain stars
would appear at certain periods of time.
Not the four thousand years since the
putin up of that pyramid has a single
fact III astronomy or mathematics been
found to contradict the wisdom of that
Yet they had not at the age
when the pyramid was started an astron-
omcr { r an architect or a mathematician
worth mentioning Who then planned
the pyramid2 Who superinteuded its
crcctiCu2 Who from its first foundation
stone 10 80 capstOne erected everything?
IL mutt hayc been God. Isaiah was right
when ne said in my text "A pillar shall
ho ut tue border Of the land of Egypt and
IL shall be for sign and witness" The
pyrau I'd is Gods first Bible Hundreds,
il not thousands, of years before the first
line o the BOol, OF Genesis WIS written,
the lc. sop Of the pyramid was written.
Well. Of what is this Cycopean masonry
a sign and witness2 Among other things
OF the prolongation of human work com
pared with the breyty of human life. In
gil th1 -four thousand years this pyramid
has ully lost eighteen feet in width; one
side OF its square ut the base changed only
from spvcu hundred and siNty-four feet to
seven hundred and forty six feet, and the
most 1f that eighteen feet taken off by
architects 10 furnish stone for building
i'm tine city Of Cairo. The men who con
-trucrgd the pyramid worked at it only
few yurs, and then put down the trowel, |
and J.s comp IS, aud the square, and low.
cred the derrick which had lifted the pom
Heruut Ht'-Hf~, but forty centuries has
their WORK. stood, aud it will be good for
forty centuries WNrr.
All Egypt has been shaken by terrible
sarthIusEcs aud cities have been pros.
trtu. or swallowed, but that pyramid |
has q Eel ali volcanic paroNy-ms. 1t has
j1oa,i upon some Of the greatest battles !
ever Ought since the world stood. Where
lra the men whu.roustrurted it? Their |
halt,. grrr to dust aui even the dust
zyat. rcd Even the -arcophagGs IN which
thick u..- muumymuy have slept is empty.
AgHS's WORK SURVIVES THEM.
$50 meu uje lUt their work lives ON. We
area. building pyramids NOT TO last four
thou Land years. but forty thousand, forty
million, urty triIlion forty quadriIiou, |
forty gmaI.uuu. For awhile we WELD |
tine HNeI, cor pound Eith the hammer, or
wrv Hre with tbe yard stick, or write with
theI or experiment with the scientific
BATE rs. .r plan with the brain. and for a
Will Gle rot wallis, and the eye sees, and
sueCu aelrs aud the tongue ~peaks. All