The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-27
TIE RIVER NILE.
A stream That Was Evor Twisted
IN Gods Sunshine.
,,ibl,raI Allusion to the Crystal Cradle OF
uoscs-Sermon by Rev. 4. DeWitt
Talmage, -. ID.


Saw in Egypt and Greece Confrma
,ory of the Scriptures" His text was
Ezekiel, xxx. o: 1.-THE River Is Mine
and Have Made It."
Ahai This is the river Nile A brown,
or yellow. or silver cord on which are
hung more jewels of thrilling interest
than on any river that ever twisted in
the sunshine. 1t ripples through the
Rock of Ezekiel, and flashes in the
Books of Deuteronomy, and Isaiah,
and Zachariah, and Nahum, and on its
hanks stood the mighties of many
ages. 1t was the crystal cradle of
Moses, and on its banks Mary the ref
ngec. carried the infant Jesus. To find
the birthplace of this river was the fas-
cination and defeat of expeditions with.
out number Not many years ago Bay
ard Taylor, our great American traveller
wrote: Since Columbus first looked
upon San Salvador, the earth has but
one emotion of triumph left for her dis
posal, and that she reserves for him
bho shall first drink from the fount-
ans of the White Nile under the snow
fields of Kilimanjaro But the dis
covery of the sources of the Nile by
most people was considered an impossi-
bility. The maiarias, the wild beasts,
the savagcs, the unclim bable sleeps,
the vast distances stopped all the ex.
petitions for ages. An intelligent ma
tive said 20 Sir Samuel w. Baker and
wife as they were on their way to accom-
plish that in which others had failed:
"Give up the mad scheme of the Nile
source. flow would it bc possible for
lady young and delicate To endure what
would kill the strongest man. Give it
up." But the work went on until
Spoke and Grant and Baker found the
two lakes which are the source of what
was called the White Nile and bap-
tiZed these two lakes with the names
Of Victoria and Albert These two
lakes, filled by great rain-falls and by
accumulated SHOWS from the mount.
aims pour their waters laden with
agricultural wealth such as blesses no
other river, on down over the cataracts,
on between frowning mountains, on
between cities living and cities dead,
on for 4, 600 miles and through n CONT.
nent
But the White Nile would do little for
Egypt if this were all 1t would keep
It's banks and Egypt would remain
desert. But from Abyssinia there comes
What is called the Blue Nile, which,
though dry or nearly dry half the year,
under tremendous rains about the mid |
die of June rises TO great momentum,
and this Blue Nile, which dashes with |
Sudden influx into the White Nile, |
which in consequence rises thirty feet,
and their combined waters inundate
Egypt with rich soil which drops on
all the fields and gardens as it is con-
Quoted by bitches and sluiccs and canals
every.whither. The greatest damage
that ever came to Egypt came by the dry
ing up of the River Nile, and the greatest
blessing by its healthful and abundant
Tow. The famine in Joseph's time
came from the lack of sufficient mum
dalton from the Nile. Not enough Nile
is drought. Too much Nile is frcshet
and plague.
The rivers of the earth are the mothers
of its prosperity. If by some convulsion
Of nature the Mississippi should be talk
en- from North America, or the ANA
zon from South America or the Danube
from Europe, or the Yenesei from Asia
what hemisphere calamity! Still
there are other rivers that could fer
tilize and save these countries. Our
own continent is gulched, is ribboned,
is glorifed by innumerable water
courses But Egypt has only one great
river, and they are harncssed to draw
all the properties of realms and acre
ase semi-infinite. What happens to the
Nile, happens to Egypt The nilome-
Der was to me very suggestive as we
vent up and down it's damp stone steps
and saw the pillar marked with notches
rlling just how high or low are the
Waters of the Nile.
When the Nile Is rising four criers
every morning run through the city an
nouncing how many feet the river has
risen-ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet,
wenty-four feet--and when the right
height OF water is reached the gates of
me canals are flung open and the liquid
ana refreshing benediction is pro-
nounced on all the land
AS we start where the Nile cmptics
INTO the Mediterranean sea we behold
awonderful fulfillment of prophecy,
me Nile in very ancient times used to
nave seven mouths AS the great river
approached the sea it entered the sea
Nseyen different places. Isaiah proph-
.sled; The Lord shall utterly destroy
.ae tongue of the Egyptian sea and
snail smitc it in the seven streams
me TACT is they are all destroyed but
'"o' and llerodotus said these two re-
manning are artificial. Up the Nile we
onall 90. nnri of tn. wnv hX EpYnlinn