The Brookhaven leader., 1891-10-29

silver TURNS TO the golden. Z; covers
thirteen acres of ground. What an an
tiquity! 1t was at least two thousand
years old when the baby Christ was
carried within sight of II by his fugitive
parents, Joseph and Mary. The storms
Of forty centuries have drenched it,
bombarded it, Swallowed it, flashed
upon it, but there it stands, ready to
take another forty centuries of atmosA
pheric attack If the world should con-
tinue to exist. The oldest buildings of
the earth are juniors to this great
senior of the centuries. IIerodotus says
that for ten years preparations were
being made for the building of the
pyramid. 1t has eighty-two million,
one hundred and one thousand cubic
feet of masonry. One hundred thou
sand .workmen at one time toiled in
its erection. TO bring the stone from
the quarries a causeway sixty
feet wide was built. The top stones
were lifted by machinery such as the
world knows nothing of to-day. 1t is
seven hundred and forty-six feet each
side of the square base. The structure
higher than the cathedrals of Cologne,
Strasburg, Rouen, st. Peters and st.
Paurs. No surprise to me that it was
put at the head of the Seven Wonders
of the World. 1t has a subterraneous
room of red granite called the Kings
chamber" and another room called the
Queens chamber" and the probability
is that there are other rooms yet unex-
plored. The evident design of the
architect was to make these rooms as
inaccessible as possible. After all the
work of exploration and all the dig
ging and blasting. if you would enter
these subterraneous rooms you must
go through a passage only three
feet eleven inch high and less than four
feet wide. A sarcophagus of red gran
lite stands down under this mountain of
masonry. This sarcophagus could not
have been carried in after the pyramid
was built. 1t must have been put there
before the structure was reared. Prob
ably in that sarcophagus once lay
wooden coffin containing dead king,
but time has destroyed the coffin and
destroyed the last vestige of human re-
mains. For three thousand years this
sepulchral room was unopened, and
would have been until to-day probably
unopened, had not superstitious inn
preston got abroad that the heart of
the pyramid was filed with sill
yer and gold and diamonds, and
under AL Mamoun, an excavating party
went TO work and having bored and
blasted through one hundred feet of
rock they found no opening ahead, and
were about to give up the attempt,
when the workmen heard n stone roll
down into a seemingly hollow place,
and encouraged by that they resumed
their work and came into the under
ground rooms. The disappointment of
the workmen in finding the sarcophagus
empty of all silver and gold and pre-
cious stones was SO great that they
would have assassinated AL MamOun,
who employed them, had he not hid in
another part of the pyramid as much
silver and gold as would pay them for
their work at ordinary rate of wages,
and induced them to dig till they, to
their surprise, came upon adequate
compensation.
| wonder not at this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
Holm uerschel, the astronomer, said he
thought that it had astronomical signifi
canoe. The wise men who occom-
panied Napoleon's army into Egypt
went into profound study of the pyra-
mid. In 1865. Prof. Smyth and his
wife lived in the empty tombs near by
the pyramid that they might be as con-
tinuously as possible close to the pyra-
mid which they were investigat-
ing. The pyramid built more than
four thousand years ago, be-
ing a complete geometrical figure,
wise men have concluded it must have
been divinely constructed. Men came
through thousands of years to fine
architecture, to music, to painting, but
this was perfect at the worlds start
and God must have directed it. All
astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say that it was
scientifically and automatically con-
structed before science and mathemat-
les were born. From the inscriptions
on the pyramid, from it's proportions,
from the points of the compass recog-
nized in its structure, from the direc-
ton in which it's tunnels run, from the
relative position of the blocks that com
pose it, scientists, Christians and inf
dels have demonstrated that the being
who planned this pyramid must have
known the worlds sphericity. and that
it's motion was rotatory, and how many
miles it was in diameter and circumfer-
ence, and how many tons the world
weighs, and knew at what point
in the heavens certain stars would
appear at certain periods of
time. Not in the four thousand
years since the putting up of
that pyramid has a single fact in as
tronomy or mathematics been found to
contradict the wisdom of that structure.
Yet they had not at the age when the
pyramid was started an astronomer or
an architect or a mathematician worth
mentioning. Who then planned the
pyramid? Who superintendent it's cree
ton? Who from it's first foundation
stone to its capstone erected every
thing? 1t must have been God. Isaiah
was right when he said in my text: "a
of Egypt and it shall be for sign and
a witness" The pyramid is Gods first
Bible. Hundreds if net thousands of
years before the first line of the Book
of Genesis was written, the lesson of