Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-19

ically constructed before science and
mathematics were born. From the In
scriptions on the pyramid, from Its
proportions, from the points OF the
compass recognized in its structure,
from the direction in which its tunnels
run. from the relative position OF the
blocks that compose it, scientists,
Christians and infdels have demon
strated that the being who planned this
Pyramid must have known the worlds
sDhericity, and that its motion was
rOtatOry, and how many miles 1t was IN
diameter and circumference, and how
many tons the world weighs, and knew
at what point in the heavens certain
stars would appear at certain periods
of time.
Yet they had not at the age when the
Pyramid was started an astronomer or
an architect or mathematician worth
mentioning. Who then planned the
Pyramid? Who superintendent its
erection? Who from It's first founda-
tion stone 10 its capstOne erected every
thing? II must have been God. Isaiah
was right when be said in my text "A
Pillar shall be at the border OF the
land Of Egypt, and il shall be for sign
and a witness" The Pyramid is Gods
first Bible. Hundreds, IL not thousands
OF years before the first line OF the
Book of Genesis was written, the lesson
of the Pyramid was written.
BUT THE PYRAMID STANDS.
My hearers, remember that those who
built the pyramids were common work
men. Not one Of them could lift one OF
those great stones. 1t took dozen OF
them to lift one stone and others just
welded a trowel clicking 1t on the hard
edge, or smoothing the mortar between
the layers. One hundred thousand men
toiled on those sublime elevations.
II one Of those gigantic blocks could
speak ont and tell its history 1t would
say: "The place Of my nativity was
down i'm the great stone quarry OF
Mokattam or AsSwan. Then they be-
gan 10 bore at my sides, and then TO
drive down great iron wedges, crushing
against me till the whole quarry Quaked
ana Numbered. Then l was piled out
with crOwbars and levers. Then chains
were put around me and / was hOiSted
with wheels and many wOrkmen turned
until the muscles on their arms stood
out in ridges. Then l was drawn by
long teams of oxen, yoke after yoke,
yoke after yoke. Then | was put on an
inclined plane and hauled upward, and
how many iron tools, and how many
human arms, and how many beasts OF
burden were employed TO get me TO this
place no one can tell.
God only knows how many hands were
busted in getting me from my geological
cradle in the quarry to this enthrone-
meut of innumerable ages" My hear
ers that is the autobiography Of one
block of the Pyramid. CheOps didn't
build the Pyramid. Some boss mason
in the worlds twilight didn't build the
Pyramid. One hundred thousand men
built it and perhaps from first to last
TWO hundred thousand men. So with
the pyramids now rising, pyramids OF
evil or pyramids Of good. The
PYRAMID OF DRUNKENNESS
rising ever since the time when Noah
got drunk on wine, although there was
at his time such a uperabundance of
water. All the saloOnists Of the ages
adding their layers Of ale casks and
wine pitchers and rum jugs until the
Pyramid overshadOwS the Great Sahara
Desert of deSolated homes, and broken
hearts, and destroyed eternities.
So with the pyramid of Righteousness.
Multitudes of hands are toiling on the
sleeps, hands infantlle, hands octogena-
rian. masculine hands, female hands,
strong hands, weak hands. Some clang-
ing trowel, some pulling rope, some
measuring the sides. Layers OF psalm
books on top of layers Of sermons.
Your business and mine is not to
build a pyramid but to be one of the
hundreds Of thousands who shall ring
trOwel.
I rejoice that all the thousands who
have been tOiling on the pyramid Of
righteOuSnOuS will at last be recognized
aud rewarded-the mother who brought
her children to Christ, the Sabbath
teacher who brought her class to the
knowledge of the truth, the unpretend-
ing man who saved q soul. Then the
trowel will be more hOnOred than the
SCeptre.
Further. carrying out the idea of
my text, the Pyramid is a sign and
witness that big tOmbStones are not the
best way Of keeping ones self atfec-
tionately remembered. This Pyramid
and the sixty-nine other pyramids still
standing were built for Sepulchres, all
this great pile Of granite and limestone
by which we stand to-day, to cover the
memory Of a mead king. 1t was the
great Westminster Abbey of the an
GENTS Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this Pyramid, but it is
uncertain.
WHO WAS CHEOPS,
anyhow? All that the world knows
about him could be told in few sent