Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-10-29

In another part OF the pyramid as much sill
Yer and gold as would pay them for their
work at ordinary rates OF wages and in
duced them there TO dig till they to their
surprise came upon adequate compensation.
wonder not that this mountain of lime
stone and red granite has been the fascina-
ton Of scholars OF scientists. of inteliige Mt
Christians in all ages Sir John Herschel,
the astronomer said he thought it bad as.
Economical significance. The wise men who
accompanied Napoleon's army into Egypt
went into profound study Of the pyramid.
In 1865 Professor Snyth and his wife lived
in the empty tombs near by the pyramid
that they might be as continuously as pos
sble close to the pyramid which they vera
investigating. The pyramid, built mora
than four thousand years ago, being COM
pie geometrical figure, wise men have con.
cluaei IL must have been divinely con-
struetsd. Men came through thousands of
years to fine architecture to music. to paint
ing, but this was perfect at the worlds start
and God mus have directed it,
All astronomers, geonetricians and scien.
fists say that it was scientifically and mathe
matically constructed before science and
mathematics were born. From the inscrip-
tons 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, Chris.
tlans and infidels have demonstrated that
the being who planned this pyramid must
have known the worlds spnericity, and that
Its motion was rotary, and how many miles
it was in diamster 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.
Not in The four thousand years since the
putting up of that pyramid has single fact
in astronomy or mathematics been found to
contradict the wisdom of that structure
Yet they had not at the age when the
pyramid was started an astronmer or an ar
chitect or mathematician worth mention
ing. Who then planned. the pyramid? Who
Superintendent its erection? VINO from its first
foundation stone to its capstone erected
everythingP Unjust have been God. Isaiah
was right when he said in my text, IA pill
lar Shall be at the border OF the land of
Egypt and it shall be for sign and wit
ness" The pyramid is Gods first Bible
hundreds, if not Thousands, of years before
the first line of the Book of Genesis was
written, the lesson Of the pyramid was writ
ten.
Well, of what is this Cyclopean masonry a
sign and a witnesss Among other things
OF the pro]ongation of human work com.
pared with the brevity OF human life. In
all the four thousand years this pyramid has
oaly lost eighteen feet in width; one side of
It's square at the base changed only from
seven hundred and sixty-four feet to seven
hundred and forty-six feet. and the most of
that eighteen feet taken off by architects to
furnish stone for building in the city of
Cairo. The men who constructed the pyra-
mid worked at it only few years, and then
put down the trowel, and the compass, and
the square, and lowered the derrick which
had ffal ft.a \ I..L
centuries has their work stood, and it will bs
good for forty centuries more.
All Egypt has been shaken by terrible
earthquakes ana cities have been FRUSTRATED
or swallowed, but that pyramid mas de6ed all
volcanic paroxySms. 1t has looked upon
some OF the greatest battles ever fought
since the world stood. Where are the men
dust and even the dust scattered. Even the
sarcophagus in which the kings mummy
may have slept is empty.
So men die but their work lives on. We
are all building pyramids not to last four
thousand years, but forty thousand, forty
million, forty trillion, forty quadrillon,
forty quintiilion. For a while we WELD the
rrowsi, on pound with the hammer, or meas
ure with the yard stick or write with the
pen, or experiment. with the scientific bat
terry, or plan with the brain, and for while
the foot walks, and the eye sees, and the ear
hears and,the tongue speaks. All the good
words or bad words we speak are spread out
into one layer for pyramid. All the kind
deeds or malevolent deeds we do are spread
out into another layer. All the Christian of
I'M hristian exampbewe set is spread out in
another layer. Al the indirect influences Of
our lives are spread out in another layer.
Then the time soon comes when we put
down the implement OF toll and pass away,
but the pyramid stands.
The pyramid is sign and q witness that
big tombstones are not the best way OF
keeping ones self affectionately femem-
bered. This pyramid and the SIXTY mine
other pyramids still standing were built for
sepulchers all this great pile of granite and
limestone by which we stand to-day; to cover
the memory of dead king. 1t was the great
| Westminster abbey of the ancients. Some
say that Cheops was the king who built this
pyramid, but it is uncertain., Who wa
Cheops anyhow? All that the world knows
about him could be told in a few sentences
| the only thing certain is that ha was bad
and that he shut up the temples Of worship
and that he was hated Sd that the Egyptian!
| were glad when he was dead. ~
This pyramid OF rock seven Hundred ant
forty feet each side OF the square base ane
four hundred and fifty feet high WINS fo
him no respect II o bone Of his arm or foo
had been found in the sarcophagus beneatt
the pyramid, it would have excited no NOR
veneration than the skeleton of came
5hleaching on the Libyan desert; yea, len
vneration, for when l saw the carcass Of I
camel by the roadside on the way to Mem
phis, said to myself, Poor thing, ] wondel
Of what it died" We say nothing agains
the marble or the bronze of the metropolis
Let all the sculpture and horescence and ar
borescence can do for the places OF the dea'
be done, if means will allow it, But " ate
one is dead there is nothing left to remin
the world OF him but some pieces OF stone
there is but little left.
While there seems to be no practical us
for post norton consideration later thsn tn
time OF ones great-grandchildren yet no ON
wants to be forgotten as soon as the opsequ
are over. This pyramid. which Isaiah So
is a sign and a witness, demonstrates Una
neither limestone nor red granite are con
petent to keep one affectiondtely remem
bered; neither can bronze, neither ca
Parian marble; neither can Aberdee
granite do the work. But there Is something
out of which to build an everlasting mon
ulnent and that will keep one freshly *
memoereu Tour thousand years--yea, fol-
ever and ever 1t does not stand in marbl
yards. 1t Is not to be purchased at mourn
ing stores. Yet IT is to be found in ever
neighoorhood, plenty of it, inexhaustib1
Quantities OF it.. It is the greatest stuff i
the universe to build monuments out Of.
refer TO the memories of those to whom W
can do kindness, the memories Of thos
whose struggles we may alleviate, the mem
cries OF those whose souls we may save.
| A minister passing along the street ever
day looked up and smiled to a baby in th
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