Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
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DIR. TALMAGE BREACHES 4 SERMON ON THE GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.

| neyings in the old World-His Visit to | the Grecian Islands.
 1 BROOKLYN, Nov. S.-An overflowing congregation at the Brooklyn Taber- Lacle this morning attested the interest the religious public is taking in the series of sermons Dr. Talmage is preach l ing on what he saw confirlnatory of 1 the Scriptures during his tour from the Pyramids to the Acropolis This mornings sermon, the fourth of the series was on the islands of the Greek archipelago. The doctor took two texts: Acts xxi, 3, When we had dis covered Cyprus we left it on the left hand;" and Revelation i, 9, 'I, John, was in the isle that is called Patmos"
 Goodby, Egypt! Although interest ing and instructive beyond any coun- try in all tlle world, excepting the Holy Land, Egpyt was to me somewhat de- pressing. It was d post mortem exami- nation of cities that died four thousand years ago. The mumlnies, or wrapped up bodies of the dead, were prepared with reference to the Resurrection day, the Egyptians departing this life want ing their bodies to be kept in as good condition as possible so that they would be prcsentable when they were called again to occupy them. But if when l Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds his body looking as saw his mummy 1 in the museum at Boulac, his soul will become an unwilling tenant. The Sphinx also was to me stern mon | strosity, a statue carved out of rock of red granite sixty-two feet high and about one hundred and forty three feet long. and having the head of 8 man and the body of a lion.
 We sat down in the sand of the African desert to study it. With cold smile it has looked down upon thousands of years of earthly history Egyptian civilization, Grecian civiliza- tion, Roman civilizations upon the rise and fall of thrones innulnerable; the victory and defeat of the armies of centuries It took three thousand years to make one wrinkle on it's red cheek. It is dreadful in it's stolidity. Its eyes have never wept tear Its cold ears have not listened to the groans of the Egyptian nation, the burden of which 1 tried to weigh last Sabbath. Its heart is stone. It cared not for Pliny when he measured it in the first century. It will care nothing for the man who looks into it's inper-. turbable countenance in the last cen tury.
 EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
 But Egypt will yet come up te the glow of life. The Bible promises it. The missionaries like my friend, good and great Doctor Lansing, are sound ing resurrection trumpet above those slain empires There will be some other Joseph at Memphis. There will be some other Moses on the banks of the Nile There will be some other Hypatia to teach good morals to the degraded. Instead of 8 destroying angel to slay the firstborn of Egypt, the angel of the New Testament will shake everlasting life from his wings over a nation born in day.
 When, soon after my arrival in Egypt, took part in the solemn and tender Dbsequies of missionary from our own land, dying there far away from the sepulchers of her fathers, and saw around her the dusky and weeping con yregation of those whom she had come to save, l sail to myself: "Here is self sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is heroism immortal. Here is a queen ulto God forever. Here is something grander than the pyramids Here is that which thrills the heavens Here is a specimen of that which will yet save the world"
 Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds us on the steamer Minerva in the Gre cian archipelago, the. islands of the New Testament, and islands Paulinian ana Johannian in their reminiscence. What Bradsfsw's directory is to travel SITS in Europe, and what the railroad guide is to travellers in America, the Book of the Acts in the Bible is to voy- agers in the Grecian, or as I 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 the opposite direction to that which Paul voyaged. tIc was sailing southward and we north ward With him it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is reversed. and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephcsus. There is no book in the world so accurate as the Divine Book.
 My text says that Paul left Cyprus on the left. We, going in the 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 a night was Christmas night of 1889 in that Grecian archipelago islands of light above, islands of beauty beneath! It is royal family of islands, this Grecan archipelago-the crown of the worlds scenery set with sapphire and emerald and topaz and chrysopra sus, and ablaze with a glory that seems let down out of celestial landscapes. God evidently made up his mind that tust here he would demonstrate the utmost that can be done with islands for the Identification of earthly seen cry.
 THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
 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 g boat, which the natives rowed stand Ing up as is the custom, instead of sit , ting down as when we row, we were l.,,1,,l ctr yvbnwn pa 11