Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-26
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DIR. TALMAGE'S SECOND SERMON ON
HIS OLD WORLD JOURNEYS.

ClLles ana Rivers and Places OF Long
Ago.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 25.-The rendering Of
the First Sonata in ID Minor, by Guilmant
on the great organ of the Brooklyn Taber
nacle this morning, by Professor SIIenry
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 the Pyramids to the
Acropolis; or, What / Saw in Egypt and
Greece Confirmatory OF the Scriptures. "
His text was Ezekiel xxx, 8, "The River
Is Mine and Have Made It,"
Anal 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 nipples through the book of Eze-
kiel, and flashes in the books of Deuteron-
Omy and Isaiah and Iecharia 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
Columbus first looked upon San Salvador,
the earth has but one emotion of triumph
left for her bestowal, and that she reserves
for him who shall first drink from the
fountains Of the White Nile under the snow
fields of Kilima-Njaro." But the discovery
of the sources Of the Nile by most people
was considered an impossibiIity. The ma
larias, the wild beasts, the savages, the un.
climbable 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 be possible
for lady young and delicate to endure
what would kill the strongest man? Give
1t 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 baptized these two
lakes with the names of Victoria and
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 other
river, on down over the cataracts, on be-
tween frownng mountains, on between
cities living and cities dead, on for four
thousand miles and through a continent.
But the White Nile would do little for
Egypt if this were all 1t would keep its
banks and Egypt would remain a 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 middle of June rises to
ant, nd
dashes with sudden influx into the White
Nile, which in consequence rises thirty
feet and their combined waters inundate
Egypt with a rich soil which drops on all
the fields and gardens as it is conducted
by bitches and sluices and canals every
whittier
The greatest damage that ever came to
Egypt came by the drying up of the River
Nile, and the great EST blessing by its
healthful and abundant flow. The famine
in Joseph's time came from the lack of suf-
ficient inundatiOn from the Nile. Not
enough Nile is drought; too much Nile is
freshet and plague, The rivers of the earth
are the mothers of it's prosperity. If by
some CONFUSION of nature the Mississippi
should be taken from North America, or
the Amazon from South America, or the
Danube from Europe, or the Eenisei from
Asia-what hemisphere calamity Still,
there are other rivers that could fertilize
and save these countries
Our own continent is gulched, is rib
boned, is glorihed by innumerable water
courses. But Egypt has only one great
river, and that is harnessed to draw all
the properties Of realms in acreage semi
infinite. What happens to the Nile, hap
pens to Egypt. The Nilometer was to me
very suggestive as we went up aud down
its damp stone steps and saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters of the Nile.
When the Nile is rising four criers every
morning run through the city announc-
ing how many feet the river has risen
ten feet fifteen feet, twenty feet, twenty
four feet--and when the right height of
water is reached the gates of the canals
are flung open and the liquid and refresh
ing benedction is pronounced on all the
land.
ITS SEVEN MOUTHS CHANGED.
Az we start where the Nile empties into
the Mediterranean sea, we behold n Won
derful fulhlment of prophecy. The Nile
in very ancient times used to have seven
mouths AS the great river approached
the sea it entered the sea at seven different
places. Isaiah prophesied, "The Lord shall
utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea and shall smite it in the seven streams"
The fact is they are all destroyed but two,
and Herodotus said these two remaining
are artificial. Up the Nile we shall 20;
part of the way by Egyptian rail train and
then by boat, aud we shall understand
why the Bible gives such prominence to
this river, which is the largest river of all
the earth with one exception
But before we board the train we must
take look at Alexandria. twas founded
by Alexander the Great, and was once the
New York, the Paris, the London of the
world Temples, palaces, fountains, gar
dens, pillared and eillorescent with all
architectural aud Edenic grandeur and
sweetness Apollos, the eloquent, whom
in New Testament times some people tried
to make "A rival to Paul, lived here.
Here Mark, the author of the second book
of the New Testament, expired under
Nero's anathema From here the ship
sailed that left Paul and the crew strug-
Cling In the breakers of Melita. Pompey's
pillar is here, about one hundred feet high,
it's base surrounded by so much filth and
HQudlOr / WIS kldt " N'N"l'N INV "'' w.
that was breathable, This tower was built
In honor of Diocletian for sparing the re-
bellious citizens.
After having declared that he would
make the blood run TO his horses knees,
and his horse fell with him into the blood
and his knees Redeemed the tyrant took it
for granted that was a sign he should stop
the massacre and hence this commemora-
tive pillar TO his mercy. This is the city to
which Omar came after building fourteen
hundred mosques and destroying four
thousand temples and thirty-dve thousand
villages and castles, yet riding in on a
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