The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-04

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the Scriptures in the Testimony of the
Cities aud Rivers and Place. OF Long
Ago
BROOKLYN, Oct. 25.-The render
ng of the First Senata il D Minor, By
Guilmant, On Tie great organ of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning, by
Professor Il enrg Eyre Browne, the Or
zanlst, held Il e vast congregation spell
bound with profound emotion. Dr.. Tai
mage preached on Sailing Up the Nile, "
The second sermon Of the series entitled
From the Pyrar,.es 10 the Acropolls;
,r, What I Saw u Egypt and Greece
Confirmation; Of tie Scriptures" His
text was Ezekiel xxx, 9, The River
Is Mine anG l Have Made It.
Aha! This is Tue River Nile. \ brown
)r yellow or silver cord on which are
hung more jewels of thrilling interest
than on any river that was ever twisted
the sunshine. 1t r;lples through the
nook of Ezekiel, and flashes in the books
ii Deutercnsnly and Isaiah and Zecharla
lid Nshnua, ard on is banks stood the
ni9htieS OF a:anN ages. II was she
,rvstal cradle 0: Moses, and on lis banks
Marry tie .e:usee. carried the infant
Itsus. To ;inG The birthplace OF this
river vas tie fascination and defeat OF
expeditions without number.
Not many years ago BaYar6 Taylor,
,ur great American traveller, wrote.
Since Columbus first looked upon San
-alvador. the earth has but one ONO
ION oftriuEph left for her bestowal, and
ha: she reserves for him who shall first
rink from the fountains of the White
Me under tie snow fields of K,llma-
Mare" But the discovery Of the
;Curces 2f the Nile by most people was
Considered an tmpossibiity. The ma
,aria., tie wild beasts, the savages, the
uucl;mbeble sleeps. the vast distances,
stopped all the expeditions for ages.
But the White Nile would do little
or Egypt il this were all. It would
seep IT'S banks and Egypt would remain
a desert. But from Abyssinia there
comes what IS called the Blue Nile,
which, though dry or nearly dry hall
the year, under Tremendous rains about
lie middle Of June rises to great mo-
mentum. and this Blue Nile dashes with
sudden i,.tluX into the White Nile, which
N consequence rises thirty feet and
:heir combined waters inuudate Egypt
with rich soil which drops on all the
lelds and gardens as it is conducted by
iitches and sluices and canals every
Shither.
The greatest damage that ever came
to Egypt came BY the drying up Of the
River Nile, and the greatest blessing by
its healthful and abundant flow. The
famine IN Joseph's time came from the
lack Of sufficient inundatlon from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drought; too
much Nile IS ireshet and plague. The
rivers OF the earth are the mothers ofits
prosperity. If by some convuls,on of
natare the Mississippi should be taken
from North America, or the Amazon
from South America. or the Danube
from Europe, or the Yenisei from Asia
what hemisphere calamity! Still,
there are other rivers, that could tertil-
ize and save these countries.
What happens to the Nile, happens to
Egypt. The Nilometer was to me very
suggestive as We went Mp and down its
damp stone steps and saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters of the Nile.
When the Nile is rising four crIers every
morning run through the city announc'
ing how many feet the river has risen
ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet, twen-
ty-sour feet-and when the right height
OF water is reached the gates Of the ca
nal, are fiurg open and the liquid and
refreshing benedction is pronounced on
all the land.
As We start where the Nile empties
into tie Mediterranean sea, re behold a
wonderful iulillment of prophecy. The
Nile in very ancient times used to have
seven mouths. As the great. river ap-
preached the sea it entered The sea at
seven different places. Isaiah.prophest-
ed, The Lord shall utterly destroy the
tongue OF the Egyptian see and shall
smite 1t in the seven streams" The
tact is they are all DESTROYED but two,
and Herodotus said these two remain
ing are artificial. Up the Nile we shall
60; part Of the way by Egyptian rail
train and then by beat, and we shall IN
derstand why The Bible gives, such prom
inence to this river, which is the largest
river Of all the earth with one exception.
But before We board the train wemust
take look at Alexandria. 1t was
founded by Alexander tire Great, aad
was once the New York. the Paris, the
LonGou Of the word. Temples, palG-
ces, iouu.ains, gardens, piilared and e.
horescen5 with ali architectural and
Edeuic grandeur and sweetness. Apol-
los, the eloquent whom N New fiesta
nent times some people tried to make a
rival 10 Paul. lived here. Here Mark,
the author Of the second book, of the
New Testament. expired uEder ,Nero's
anathena. From here the ship sailed
that left Paul and the crew struggling in
the breakers Of Melita. But Aie.czan-
Ger, fascinating for this or that thing.
according 70 The t. ste Of the visitor. was
10 me most entertaining because it had
been the site Of the greatest library that
the world ever saw, considering the fact
that the art Of printing had not been fu-
vented. Seven hundred thousand v 81.
umes and all the work Of a slow pep.
But down it all went under tie torch IF
besiesers Built again and destroyen d
again. Built again, but the Arabs came
J -. ~.
four thousand baths Of the city were
healed with those volumes, the fuel last+
ing six months, and were ever fixes kin
died at such fearful cost.
Only one book has been able to with
stand the bombardment, and that has
gene through without smell OF fire on It's
lids. No sword or spear or musket !or
its defense. An unarmed New Testa-
ment. An unsrmed Old Testament.
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