Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-19


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20 naGs these reozss as inaccessible as
pessisis. Af7er al EAs WORK OF exploration
sEd al the digging asd blasting. II you
would eater these sabgeTrareoas rooms.
yoa nust 60 throagh 4 passage only three
fest slsvsn isehes high and less than fogr
feet wide. A sarcopaagas Of red granite
stands down undsr this mountain OF ma
sony. The ssrcOphagus could not have
been carried In after the pyramid was
bailt. Il mRss have been pat there before
the STRUCTURE WAS reared Probably in
tAas ssrcophs aqua oSDe lay wooden cotia
containing dead flag. but sane has de
stroyed the ec!Iln and destroyed the lat
vestige OF human rsmaiaA-
Fer three thousand years this sepulchral
room was unopened. and would have been
until today probably unopened had not q
superssitious Impression got abroad that
the heart Of the pyramid WAS filed with
silver aad gold and diamonds, and under
Al Mameun an excsyating party went 10
work, and having bored and blasted
through hundred feet OF rock, they found
no opening ahead, and were about to give
I'D the attempt when ths workmen heard
a stone rcq down into . seemingly hollow
place. and encouraged by that they re-
sumed their work and came into the under
ground rooms.
The disappointment Of the workmen In
finding the sarrsp nAgus empty Of all silver
and gold and precious stones was so great
that they wenid have Assassinated Al Ma
noun, who employed them. had he not had
In another ssrs Of the pyramid as much
silver and gold a. would pay them for their
work a. ord,nssy rates Of wages and in
duced them there to dig till they to their
surprise came upon adequate compensa-
ton.
WAS TIE DESIGN GODS owNf
Iwcnder not that this mountain of lime
stone and red grants has been the fascina-
tioa OF scholars, Of scientists, of intelligent
Christians ia all Ages. Sir John Herschel.
the astronomer, said he thought it had as
Economical -ignifcanos. The wise men
who npanied Napoleon's army into
Egypt went into profound study Of the
pyramid Ia 1855 Professor Smyth and his
wife lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be rs continuous
ly az possible cless to the pyramid which
they were Investigating. The pyramid,
built moro than four thousand years ago,
being a complete gcometrical figure, wise
men have concluded 1t must have been
divinely 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 aud gcomctricians and
scientists say that it was scientifically and
mathematically constructed before science
and mathematics were born. From tho
inscriptions on rho pyramid. from its pro-
portions, from the points Of the compass
recognized Ia its structure, from the direc-
ton in which its tunnels run, from the
relative position of the blocks that COM
pose 1t. scientists, Christians and infidels
have demonstrated that the being who
planned this pyramid must have known
the worlds sphericity, and that its motion
was rotary, 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.
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 ago
when ths pyramid was started IN astron-
omer or an architect or a mathematician
worth mentioning. Who then planned
the pyrami69 Who superintendent its
erectiont Wac from its first foundation
stone to it's capstore erected everything!
IL must have been God. Isaiah was right
when he said in my text, "a pillar shall
be at the border Of the land OF Egypt and
it shall be for sign and a witness." The
pyramid Is Gods first Bible. Hundreds,
IL rot thousands, of years before the first
line OF tho Book of Genesis was written,
the lesson OF the pyramid was written.
Well. Of what is this Cyclopean masonry
sign and witness, Among other things
OF the prolonsstion Of human work COM
pared with the b-.vity Of human life. In
all the four thousand years this pyramid
has only lost eighteen feet in width; one
siIe OF It's sfusre at the base changed only
from seven hundred and sixty four feet to
seven hundred and forty-six feet. and the
most Of that sightsen feet taken of by
architects tn furnish stone for building
In the city OF Cairo. The men who con-
stsuctsd the pyraIs.id worked at IL only .
few years, and then put down the trowel,
and tho compass, and the square, and low
cred tho derrick which had lifted the pom
derous weights, but forty centuries has
their work stood, and it will be good foe
forty centuries mora.
All Exyp. has bccn shaken by terrible
earthquakes and elites have been pros
tratel or swallowed. bat that pyramid
has deied all volcanic paroxysms IL has
looked upon some of the greatest battles
evss fought since the world stood. Where
srs the men Who constructed ~ Thsis
bodies gone To dust and even the drse
scattered Even tbs sarcopLasus In which
she Kings mummy nsy Rave slspt IA empty.
MINIS WORK SURVIVES THgN.
80 men die tat their work lives on. We
are all building pyramids net To last four
sAousand years. but fsfty thousand. forty
niliioa. forty triuicn. forty qusjriilioe,
forty qainaiiion, For q While ~ Weld
tho s<owsi. CT poapd 9Th tho hammer. or
n.seare VITA the yard ssick, or write with
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