Milford chronicle., 1891-11-13
GOODHY 10 EGYPT.

! GOodby, Egypt This sermon finds Us
/ on the steamer Minerva in the Grecian
archipelago, the islands Of the New Testa
ment, and islands Paulniau and Johan.
nian in their "reminiscences. What Brad
shaw's directory is 90 travellers in Europe
and what the railroad guide is to travellers
in America, the Book of the Acts in the
Bible is to voyagers in the Grecan, or, as
shall call it, the Gospel archipelago The
Bible geography of that region is accurate
Without a shadow of mistake. We are
sailing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in tho opposite diIec-
tion to that which Paul voyaged. He was
sailing southwark and we northward
With him it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes,
Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and it is
Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus There Is
no book in the world so accurate as the
Divine Book.
Ny text says that Paul left Cyprus on the
left; we, going in an opposite direction,
have it on the right. On our ship Minerva
were only two or three passengers besides
our party, so we had plenty of room to
walk the deck, and oh, what night was
Christmas night of 1889 in that Grecan
archipelago of light above, islands
of beauty beneathl It is n royal family Of
islands, this Grecian archipelago - the
crown of the worlds scenery set with sap
phire and emerald and topaz and chryso-
prasus, and ablaze with glory that seems
let down QUO of celestial landscapes. God
evidently made up his mind that just here
he would demonstrate the utmost that can
be done with islands for the Identification
of earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during the
night, and in the morning the ship WAS as
quiet as this floor, when we hastened up
to the deck and found that we had anchored
off the island of Cyprus. In boat which
the natives rowed standing up, as is the
custom, instead of sitting down, as when
we row, we were soon landed on the streets
where Paul and BarnAbas walked and
preached, Yea, when at Antioch, Paul
and Barnabas got into light-as ministers
did, and sometimes do, for they
all have imperfectiOns enough TO anchor
them to this world till their work is done,
/ sHy-When, because of that bitter con-
Paul and Barnabas parted, Bar
nabas came back here TO Cyprus, which
was his birthplace Island, wonderful for
historyl It has been the prize sometimes !
won by Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by |
The Saracens, by the Crusaders and last of |
all, not by sword but by pen, and that the |
pen Of the keenest diplomatist of the cen /
-ury, Lord Beaconsfeld, who, under q |
lease which was as good as a purchase, set |
Cyprus among the jewels Of Niotpriais |
lrOwn.
We went out into the excavations from /
which Di Cesnola has enriched our Ameri- /
IAN museums with antiquities, and with |
40 better weapon than our foot we stirred |
70,
bottle in which some inourner shed his
ears thousands of years ago, and lamp
which before Christ was born lighted the
eet OF some poor pilgrim on his way.
That island Of Cyprus has enough to set
IN antiquarian wild The most of its glory
5 the glory Of the past. and the typhoid
evcrs that sweep its coast, and the clouds
If locusts that often blaeken its skies
though two hundred Thousand dollars
yere expended hy the British enipire In
,ne year for the extirpation of these nox-
Gus insects, yet failing to do the work.,
al the frequent change ul governmental
masters hinder prosperity
cYPRUs WILL YET COME TO GOD.
But when the islands OF the sea como to
iod Cyprus will come with them, and the
griculural and commercial opulence
which adorned 1t in ages past viii be
clipsed By the agricultural and CONNER
ial and religious triumphs OF the ages to
ONE. Why is the world So stHpid that it
=anot see that patiQna arc prospered in
emporai things Ia proportion as they are
rospered in religious thingsi Godliness is
not only for individuals, but for
ations. Questions Of tariff, questions Of
liver billAquestions Of republic or mon
rchy Aa &aot 50 much "a DO with ma
Ions ~ welfare as questions Of re-
gion. sFprns 20 1nrist, give Eng