Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-19
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GREAT PYRAMID OF CIzEH

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GREAT PYRAMID OF GlzEH.
DIR. TaImage Begins "a Series % :'-.rIs,"ns
Entitled, FRAN, th" :',r,u.i,,~ {" the
AcropoIgs." Enfore:., f: ana IIlu~tra ting
the Truths Of .-.-ri .,iurr.
BROOKLYN. Oct IS Tho v;st con
yregation at the Broo.,lyn Tabernacle
This morning was delighted by an ex
ruisite rendering by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne. ON the new organ, of
Denier's second sonata in & Dr.
TalIun-c's sermon YVES the 4 of a
series he intends preaching ca his east
ern tour. entitled, From the Pyramids
to the Acropois OF What | Saw in
Egypt and Greece Con..r.aat0ry Of the
Scriptures" III text was isaiah Nix. -,
20: In tot day shall there lie al altar
to the Lord in the midst Of til" ltnd OF
Egypt and Il pj!Iara t:le border thereof
to the Lord And it shall be for 4 sign
and fcr witness
Isaiah no doubt here refers TO the
great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyr;-
mid of Egypt The text speaks of a
pillar in Egypt, and this is the great
est pillar ever lifted; and the ten; S;lT5
it is to be at the border of the IA!.,..
and this pyramid is ut the border OF
the land; and the text says it sail be
for a witness. and the object of this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid
witnesses This sermon IS the fist OF
a course of sermons entitled Prom
the Pyramids to the AcrOpolis, OF
What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Con
firmatory of the Scriptures.
We had. on a morning Of December
1889, landed in Africa Amid the I.0,vI
ing boatmen 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 at
eventide, entered the city of Cairo, the
city where Christ dwelt while staying
in Egypt during the Herodic persecu-
ton. 1t was our first night in / =. pit
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
i'm full glory of LEAKAGE, and upon gar
dens Of fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
canOpied by bleak skies and the last
leaf of the forest has gone down with
the equinOctials
But how can describe the thrill of
expectation, for today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
to see-the pyramids. We are mount
ed for an hour and Il half's ride We
pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs
and carpets and curious fabrics Of all
sorts from Smyrna from Algiera, from
Persia, from Turkey, and through
streets, where we meet people of all
coIors and all CARDS, carts loaded with
garden productions, priests in gowns,
women in black wells, Bedouins in long
and seemingly superiHous apparel,
Janissaries in jackets of embroidered
gold-out and on toward the great
pyramid; for though there are sixty
nine pyramids still standing, the pyra-
mid at Gizeh is the monarch OF pyr;l-
mids. We meet calnels gruuting 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
e
but after awhile it is Il 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 q huge pile of
rock looming in sight. 'Dragoman. what
is that?'' His answer is. The pyra-
mid. and then it seemed as if we were
living a century every minute Our
thoughts and emotions were too rapid
and intense for utterance, and we ride
ON in silence until we come to the foot
Of the pyramid spoken OF in the text,
he oldest structure in all the earth.
Jour thousand years old ut least. Here
t is We stand under the shadow Of Il
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. THE pyramid The pyr,nidr'
''AFRAID OF THAT WHICH IS HIGH"
| had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the pyra-
mid. One of my chief objects in going
to Egypt was not only to see the
base of that granite wonder, but TO
stand on the top of it. Yet the nearer
| came to this eternity III stone the
more my determination was shaken
Its altitude to me was simply appalling.
A great height has always been to me &
most disagreeable sensation. As we
at the base of the pyramid
said: "Others may go up it, but
not l. l will satisfy myself with a
view from the base. The ascent of it
would be to me a foolhardy undertake
ing"
But after had given up ali idea Of
l found my daughter was de
termined to go, and | could not let her
20 with strangers, and | changed NV
mind, and we started with guides It
cannot be done without these helpers
Two or three times fOolhardy men have
it alone, but their bodies
came tumbling down unrecognizable
and lifeless. Each person in our party
had two or three guides or helpers One
Of them unrolIed his turban and tied it
around my waist, and he held the other
end of the turban as matter of safety.
Many of the blocks of stone are four or
five feet high and beyond any ordinary
human stride unless assisted. But, two
Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push,
found myself rapidly ascending from
height to height, and on to attitudes
errilfc and at last at the tip top we
ound ourselves on level space of
lbOut thirty feet square.
Through the clearest atmosphere we
ooked off upon the desert and off |
lpon the winding Nile, and off upon
he Sphinx with its features Of ever
asting stone, and yonder upon the
ninarets of Cairo glittering in the sun,
md yonder upon Memphis in ruins,
md off upon the wreck of empires and |