The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-21
THE PYRAMIDS.
The Gospel Of the Colossal Strue-
lures
A. Read Iiy Dr. Talmage In EEypt-Th,
FINEST Monuments Over People
Who Amount to Nothing.

Eoypt and Greece Confrmatory of the
scriptures" Ills text was Isaiah xix:
10 20: "In that day shall there be an
altar 10 the Lord in the midst of the
land of Egypt and pillar at the border
thereof TO the Lord. And it shall be
for a sign and for witness"
Isaiah no doubt refers TO the great
pvramid ut Gizah, the chief pyramid of
Egypt. The text speaks of pillar in
Egypt, and this is the greatest pillar
ever lifted; and the text says it is to be
Mt the border of the land, and this pyr-
amid is mt the border of the land; and
the text says il shall be for witness
and the object of this sermon is to tell
what this pyramid witnesses.
We had on q morning of December,
1880. landed in Africa. Amid the howl
ING boatmcn at Alexandria we had
come ashore and taken the rail train
for Cairo, Egypt, along the banks of
the most thoroughly harnessed river of
all the world-the river Nile. We had,
Mt even-tidc, entered the city of Cairo,
the city where Christ dwelt while stay
ing in Egypt during the Ierodic perse-
cution. 1t was our first night in Egypt
No destroying angel sweeping through
as once, but all the stars were out and
the skies were filled with angels of
beauty and angels of light, and the air
was balmy as an American June. The
next morning we were early awake and
at the window, looking upon palm trees
in full glory Of LEAKAGE and upon gar
dcns of fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
cahupied by bleak skies and the last
leaf Of the forest has gone down in the
equinoctials
But how can describe the thrill of
expectation, for to-day we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
10 sce-the Pyramids. We are mounted
for an hour and half's ride. We pass
on amid bazars stuffed with rugs and
carpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts
from smyrna, from Algiers, from Per-
STA, from Turkey, and through streets
where we meet people of all colors and
all CARDS, carts loaded with garden pro-
auctions. priests in gowns, women in
black wells, Bcdouins in long and seem
ingly superfluous apparel, Janissaries
in Jacket of embroidered gold-out and
on toward the great pyramid; for
though there are sixty nine pyramids
still standing, the pyramid OF Gizah is
the monarch of pyramids. We meet
camcls grunting under their load, and
see buffaloes on either side, browsing in
pasture fields. The road we travel
is for part of the way under clumps of
acacia, and by long rows of sycamore
and tamarisl. but after awhile it is
path of rock and sand, and we find we
have reached the margin of the desert,
the great Sahara desert, and we cry out
to the dragoman as we see huge pile
of rock looming in sight: "Dragoman,
what is that?" His answer is The
pyramid" and then it seemed as II we
were living n century every minute
Our thoughts and emotions were too
rapid and intense for uttcrance, and we
ride on in silence until we come TO the
foot of the pyramid spoken of in the
text, the oldest structure in all the
earth, 4. 900 years Old at least Here 1T
is We stand under the shadow OF
structure that shuts out all the earth
and all the sky, and we look up and
strain our vision TO appreciate the dis
tant top, and are overwhelmed while
we cry 1.-THE pyramid! The Pyramid
had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the pyra-
mid. One of my chief objects in gong
TO Egypt was not only to sec the base
of that granatic wonder, but to stand
on the top of it. Yet the nearer came
to this eternity in stone, the more my
determination was shaken. Its altl-
tude TO me was simply appalling. A
great height has always been to me
most disagrecable sensation. AS we
dismounted at the base of the pyramid
said: Others may go up 1T, but not l.
will satisfy myself with a view from
the base. The ascent of it would be to
me foolhardy undertaking" But after
had given up all idea of ascending,
found my daughter was determined to &c
and could not let her go with strangers
and | changed my mind and we starteo
with guides IT can not be done WIN
out these helpers. Two or three times
foolhardy men have attempted 1t alone
but their bodies came tumbling dowr
unrecognizable and lifcless. Each person
in our party had two or three guides o.
4 helpers One of them unrolled his turbaI
and tied it around my waist and he hell
the other end of the turban as matte
OF safety Many of the blocks of ston'
are four or five feet high and beyon'
any ordinary human stride unless as
sisted, But two Arabs to pull ant
two Arabs to push, found myself rap
idly ascending from height to height
and on to attitudes terrific, and
at last on the tip top, we foun'
ourselves on a level space abou