Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-22

mid was gray, but IN certain lights 1t
! seems to shake off the gray Of centuries
and become blonde and the silver turns
to the golden. 1t covers thirteen acres
of ground. What an antiquity. 1t was
at least two thousand years old when the
| baby Christ was carried in sight of it by
| His fugitive parents, Joseph and Ma
! The storms of forty centuries b; ;
| drenchcd it, bombarded it, Swallowed II,
| flashed upon it, but there it stands ready
| to take another forty centuries Of at
| mospheric attack if the world should
! continue to exist.
! The oldest buildings Of the earth are
! juniors to this great senior of the centu-
| res. Herodotus says that for ten years
| preparations were being made for the
! building of this pyramid. 1t has 50, :
| Ill, 600 cubic feet of masonry. One hum
dred thousand workmen at one time
toiled in its erection. 70 bring the stone
from the Quarries causoway sixty feet
wide was built. The top stones were
| lifted by machinery such as the world
| knows nothing Of to-day. 1t is 40 feet
each side Of the square base. Thc struc-
ture is $50 feet high, higher than the
cathedrals Of Cologne, StraSburg,
ROuen, st. Peters and St. Paul's.
! No surprise to me that it was put at
| the head of the Seven Wonders OF the
| World. 1t has SubterraneOuS room OF
| red granite called the ''king'S chamber, !"
and another room called the queens
chamber" and the probability is tina t
there are other rooms yet uneXplOred.
| The evident design of the architect was
! to make these rooms as inaccessible as
possible. After all the work Of eXplOra-
ton and all the digging and blasting, if
! you would enter these subterraneOUS
rooms you must go through a passage
only three feet eleven inches high and
| less than four feet wide.
| A sarcophagus Of red granite stands
down under this mountain of masonry.
| The sarcOphagus could not have been
carried in after the pyramid was built.
| 1t must have been put there after the
structure was reared. Probably in that
SacrOphagus once lay wooden coffin
containing a dead king, but time has de-
stroyed the coffin and destroyed the last
veStge of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepul-
| chral room was unopened, and would
! have been, until to-day probably I'M
| opened had not q SuperStitiOuS impress
! sion got abroad that the heart OF the
| pyramid was filled with silver and gold
and diamonds, and under Al MamOun
an eXcaVating party went to work, and
| having bored and blasted through a
hundred feet Of rock they found no
opening ahead, and were about to give
up the attempt when the wOrkmen heard
q stone roll down into seemingly hOl-
! place, and encouraged by that they re-
| sumed their work and came into the UNI
| dcrgrOund rooms.
| The disappointment Of the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty Of all
! silver and gold and precious stones was
so great that they would have assassi-
mated Al Mamoun, who employed them,
| had he not hid in another part OF the
| pyramid as much silver and gold as
would pay them for their work at Or
binary rate of wages aud induced them
there to dig till they, to their surprise,
| came upon adequate compensation.
| wonder not that this mountain of
| limestone and red granite has been the
| fascination Of scholars, OF scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
| John Herschcl, the astronomer, said he
! thought it had astronomical signitl
canoe. The wise men who accompanied
Nap0leOn's army into Egypt went into
profound study of the pyramid. In 1865,
Professor Smyth and his wife lived in
the empty tombs near by the pyramid
that they might be as continuously as
possible close to the pyramid, which they
We're investigating.
The pyramid built more than 1000
years ago. being a complete geOmetrical
figure, wise men have concluded it must
have been diVinely constructed Men
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 aStron
omers and geometricians and scientists
say that it was scientifically and mathe-
matically constructed before science and
mathematics were born. From the in
ScriptOnS on the pyramid, from its pro-
portions, from the points OF the COM
pass recognized in its structure, from the
direction in which its tunnels run, from
the relative position of the blocks that
compose it, scientists Christians and in
tidelS 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 it was in diameter and circumfer-
ence, and how many tons the world
weighs, and knew at what point in the
heaven certain stars would appear at
certain periods OF time.
Not in the 4,OGO years since the put
ting up CT that pyramid has single fact
been found in astronomy or mathematics
to contradict the wisdom of that struc-
ture Yet they had not at the age when
the pyramid was started an astronomer,
or an architect or a mathematician
worth mentioning. Who, then, planned
the pyramid? Who superintendent its
Who from IFS first fOnn0afiOO
stone to it's capstone erected everything?
1t must have been God. Isaiah was right
be at the border of the land of Egypt
and it shall be for a sign and a Witness"
The pyramid is Gods first Bible. Hun
drods. if not thousands Of years before
the first line Of the Book of Genesis was
written, the lesson of the pyramid was