News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-11-12
News and Citizen
MORRISVILLE and HYDE PARK,
Thursday. November IL. 1891.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
DIR. TALMAGE BREACHES A SERMON
ON THE GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.

the Grecian Islands.
BROOKLYN, Nov. S.-An overlooking
congregation at the Brooklyn Taber-
facle this morning attested the interest
The religious public is taking in the
series of sermons DR. Talmage is preach
ing on what he saw confrmatOry of
the Scriptures during his tour from
the Pyramids to the Acropolis. 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 dis
covered Cyprus we left it on the left
hand;" and Revelation i, 9, Il, John,
was in the isle that is called Patmos."
Goodby, Egypt Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any coun-
try in all the world, excepting the Holy
Land, Egypt was to me somewhat de-
pressing. 1t was q post mortem exami-
nation of cities that died four thousand
years ago. The mumnies, or wrapped
I'D bodies of the dead, were prepared
with reference to the Resurrection day,
the Egyptians departing this life want
ing their bodies to be kept in as good
condition as possible so that they would
be presentable when they were called
again to occupy them. But if when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds
his body looking as | saw his mummy
in the museum at Boulac, his soul will
become an unwilling tenant. The
Sphinx also was to me a stern mon
strosity, a 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 lion.
We sat down in the sand of the
African desert to study it. With a
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 to make one wrinkle on its red
cheek. It is dreadful in its stolidity
Its eyes have never wept a tear. Its
cold ears have not listened to the
groans of the Egyptian nation, the
burden of which | tried to weigh last
Sabbath Its heart is stone. 1t cared
not for pIiny when he measured it in
the first century. 1t will care nothing
for the man who looks into its inper-
turbable countenance in the last cen
fury.
EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great Doctor Lansing, are sound
ing a resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires There will be some
other Joseph at Memphis. There will
be some other Moses on the banks of
the Nile. There will be some other
Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead of a destroying
angel to Stay the firstborn of Egypt,
the angel of the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings
over nation born in a day.
When, soon after my arrival in Egypt,
/ took part in the solemn and tender
obsequies of missionary from our own
land. dying there far away from the
sepulchers of her fathers, and saw
around her the duszy and weeping con-
gregation of those whom she had come
to save, l said to myself: Here is self
sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is
heroism immortal. Here is queen
unto God forever. Here is something
grander than the pyramids. Here is
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 the
New Testament, and islands Paulinian
and Johannian in their Renaissance.
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 voy-
ayers in the Grecian, or as l shall call
it, the Gospel archipelago. The Bible
geography of that region is accurate
without shadow of mistake. We are
sailing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in the opposite
direction to that which Paul voyaged
He was sailing southwark and we north
ward Vita him it was Ephesus,
Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is
reversed, and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos
Ephesus. There is no book in the
world so accurate as, the Divine Book
Ny text says that Paul left Cyprus
on the left. We, going in the opposite
direction, have it on the right. On our
ship Minerva were only two or three
passengers besides our party, so we had
plenty of room to walk the deck, and
OH what night was Christmas night
of 1889 in that Grecian archipelago
islands of light above, -islandsof beauty
beneath! 1t is a royal family of islands,
this Grecian archipelago-the crown of
the worlds scenery set with sapphire
and emerald and topaz and chrysopra-
sus, and abIaze with glory that seems
let down out of celestial landscapes.
sttod evidently made up his mind that
f1st here he would demonstrate the
utmost that can be done with islands
for the Identification of earthly seen
cry.
THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
The steamer had stopped during the
night and in the morning the ship was
las quiet as this floor, when we FASTENED
Iup to the deck and found that we had
anchored off the island of Cyprus. In
h boat, which the natives rowed stand
Ing up as is the custom, instead of sit
ting down as when we row, we were
soon landed on the streets where Paul
and Barnabas walked and preached
Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Bar
nabas got into a fight-as ministers
sometimes did, and sometimes do, for
they all have imperfections enough
to anchor them to this world till their
work is done, / say-when because of
that bitter controversy Paul and Bar
rabas parted, Barnabas came back
here to Cyprus which was his birth
place. Island wonderful for history
1t has been the prize sometimes won
by Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by the
G2racens, by the Crusaders and last of
!, not by sword, but by pen, and that
I ie pen Of the keenest diplomatisto of the
injury, Lord Beaconsfield, who, under
a lease which was as good as a pur-
Chase, set Cyprus among the Jewels of
VictOria's crown.
we went out into the excavations
from which Di Cesnola has enriched
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