Sharp County record., 1891-11-12
SAILING Up THE ETLE2
Further Combinations oT the Truth
Of the Scriptures
The Influence NJ fh~ wIvhtv River rnr
Good 0r EvH Tuon Egvpt-"hs
Etours ~ The Dead Past Tell ~
Darartaf Greatness.

The following Discourse. the sAr0nd
Of his 'eries on "What saw Foo Egypt
and Greece Canarmstorv of the Scrip
.uresn was delivered by Rev IT. Dewitt
Iaimage iu the brooklyn tabernacle
IRON the text.
The river mine and have made IT.
Ezryfrl rvre
a1ai This is the river Vile A
brown or Yellow. 1r silver. cord ON
which arA hung more Jewels Of thrill
inP interest than on anv river that ever
twisted I'm the sUushine I5 ~rpples
through the Book of Ezekiel and
flashes through the R0oir of Deuter0no-
my. and Isaiah and Zechariah and
Nahum aud on FITS banks stood the
mightiest of mauv ages It was the
crystal cradle of Moses. and on it's
bank Mary the rafugae carried the
infant jesus To fnd The birthplace
Of this river was the fascination and
defeat ~ expeditions without number.
Not manv years ago, Bavard TAYLOR
our great american traveller wrote:
Since Columbus first looked uDOn San
Salvador the earth has but one o;as-
.ion of triumph left for her bestowai.
and that she reserves for him who
shall first drink from the fountains of
the White Nile under The snow fields
Of Xilimauiaro But the diseove-- of
the sources Of the Nile by most people
was considered an impossibiitv. The
malarias the wild beasts. the savages.
the unciimhahle sleeps, the vast dis
Jances stopped all the expeditions for
lFes An intelligent native said 70 Sir
Samuel W. Baker and wife as thew
were on their wav 10 accomplish that
in which others had failed. Give No
the mad scheme Of the Nile source.
How would it be possible for lady
young and delicate 70 endure what
would kill the strongest mani Give IT
M - But the yv0rly went on until
Spelre and Grant and RalSer found the
Two lakes which are the source Of what
was called the White Nile. and bap-
tlzed these two lakes with the names of
Victoria and Albert
Aswe start where the Nile empties
into The Mediterranean sea we behold
wonderful fuldllmeut Of prophecy.
The Nile. In very. ancient times. used TO
have seven months. AS the GREAT river
approached the sea 10 entered the sea at
seven different places Isaiah Drophe-
sled: The Lord shall utterly DESTROY
the tongue Of the Egyptian sea and
shall smite it in the seven streams
The fact Is thev are ali DESTROYED but
two and Herodotus said these two re-
naming are artificial Tn the Nile we
shall go part of the wav by Egyptian
rail rain and then by boat. and we
shall understand why the Bible gives
uch promineuce 70 this river. which is
the LARGEST river Of all the earth. with
one exception But before we board
the train we must take look at Alex
audria. 10 was founded by Alexander
the Great and was once the New York.
the Paris, the London Of the world.
Temples palaces fountains gardens
Dillared and etfiorpscent with al arch
itectural and Edeuic grandeur and
sweetness Apollos The eloquent
whom in New Testament times some
people .lied 20 make rival TO
Paul lived here Here Mark The an
lhor 0f The secnd book ~ the New Tes-
lament expired under Nero's ansth-
ema From here The shin sailed
chat left Paul and the crew struggling
in the breakers ~ Melita pOmpev's
pillar is here. about one hundred feet
high. It's base surrounded by SO much
dlth and soualor Z was glad 20 ascane
into nm air that was hreathahlc This
lower was built in honor OF Diocletiar
for snarinp the reheilious citizens AZ
ter having declared that he would
make the blood run to bis horse's
knees. and his horse fell with him into
the blood and his knees redeemed Rthe
tyrant took II Tor granted that 10 was a
SIGN he should stop the massacre and
hence this commemorative pillar t0.his
mercv. This is the city 20 which Omar
came "a after building one thousand and
four huudred mosques and lestreving
four Thousand Temples md .hirtv-Hve
thousand villages and castles vet rid
ING in on camel with r sac'y NJ corn
"a apaIf of Npq and IA ,pNNrar, rtafa su
chat he had kept for himself and the
diet 20 which he lad limited
himself for most ~ the lime
was bread and water Was there ever
in any other man q sommingliug ot ele-
meuts 80 stWnge so weird. so genar.
ous so CRUEL 80 MIGHTY, so weak so
religions so fanatica,9 .n this rifv
was The greatest female actprer the
world eversaw- Hypatia Bot the les
son ot virtue that sEe faught was OBJ
noVions and 50 hey drnoged her
through lbe streets md scraned her
flesh from her bones with sharn ovqiar
shells and Then burned The f.agmeuts
~ The inassacred body. And here
dwell CLEOPATRA pronounced fo boo tho
bcauty N 100 lime although. 10 her
pictures are correct have seen a f1or.
sand women loo rooklvn more lt.
,roct,ve and she was 1s bsd os she was
said 'o 1e handsome Queen con.
0ucreas 1nd poke seven .,rguroes
although t would have Nrcu Hs,ter '1r