Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-29
TABERNACLE PULPIT
DR.. TALMAcE'S SECOND SERMON ON
HIS OLD WORLD JOURNEYS.


Cities and Rivers and Places of Long
Ago.
BROOKLYN, Oct. nj.-'rhc rendering of
the First Sonata in ID Minor, by Guilmant,
On the great organ OF the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle this morning, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, the organist, held the vast
congregation spellbound with profound
emotion. DIR. Talmage preached on Sail
ing Up the Nile" the second sermon of the
series entitled From tha Pyramids to the
Acropolis; or, What l Saw in Egypt and
Greece Conhrmatory of the Scriptures"
His text was Ezekiel xxx, 9, 1.-The River
is Mine and Have Made It."
Aha! 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 was ever twisted in the sun
shine. 1t ripples through the book of Eze-
kiel, and flashes in the books of Deuteron-
omy and Isaiah and Zecharia and Ma
hum, and on its banks stood the mighties
of many ages. 1t was the crystal cradle of
Moses, and on its banks Mary, the refugee,
carried the infant Jesus. To find the birth
place Of this river was the fascination and
defeat of expeditions without number
Not many years ago Bayard Taylor, our
great American traveller wrote, "Since
AOluinDuS nrSU looked upon San salvador,
the earth has but one emotion of triumph
left for her bestowa, and that she reserves
for him who shall first drink from the
fountains of the White Nile under the snow
fields of Kiima-N jaro." But the discovery
of the sources of the Nile lay most people
was considered an impossibility. The ma
larias, the wild beasts, the savages the I'M
clmbable sleeps, the vast distances,
stopped all the expeditions for ages.
An intelligent native said to Sir Samuel
W. Baker and wife as they were on their
way to accomplish that in which others
had failed; Give up the mad scheme of
the Nile source How would it he possible
for IA lady young and delicate to endure
what would kill the strongest MANI Give
it up But the work went on until Spoke
and Grant ard Baker found the two lakes
which are tine source of what was called
the White Nile, aud baptized these two
lakes with the names of Victoria and Al
bert. These two lakes, filled by great rain
falls and by accumulated SHOWS from the
mountains, pour their waters, laden with
agricultural wealth such as blesses no OF her
river on down over the cataracts, on be-
tween frOWninG mountains, on between
cities living and cities dead, on for four
thousand miles and through a contine
But the White Nile would do little for
Egypt if this were all 1t would keep its
banks and Egypt would remain desert
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mouths: AS tne great river approached
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places. Isalah propheslec, The LORD shall