Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-11-26

THE BROOKLYN DJvfNE,s SUN
DAY SERMON.
snbiect.'The Island of Patmos J,

texts; when zoe had discouered I'm.
Prus we left 1t ON the lefthand. n-Acts vi
., anu u, John, tUos in the isle that is coJIeJ
ramos "--'Reveiation l., g. '''''''
Goodey, Egypt Although interests, -
a ano instructive beyond any country in ali
ss sS world, excepting the Holy Land Egvnt
, mas 70 me somewhat depressing 1t was q
ffo,,. .iortem examination of cities that died
~, .Un, thousand years ago. The mummies or
~aappeu up bodies of the dead vere nre.
pared with reference to the Resnrre,t IL
Ss',s 4, sne egyptians departing this life want.
ny ohelf bodies to be kept Il, ss GOOD oo,,d;
, son 81 possible SO that they would he nre.
49, o y. when they Were called again Ia 90
S~py them: snt If when Pharaoh comes to
h; he finds his body looking as
90 ms mummy in the museum Mt RonIso
al, ms soul will become an uuwijl;no to,.at
.ao ophlnx also was to me a STERN roonstras.
; 10y static carved out of rock of red o,an-
i , siAty Two fee6 high and abo,it ono ma,
AZ - utn iOrtysthree feet long, and having
''' WE neao OF man and the body of a lion
we SAT Gown in the sand of the African
lnaI1as 70 study IL. With cold smile it has
esarthly history, Egyptian civ1lisation
1rec'an civilization, Roman eiyilisqtion )
uPoh the rise and fall of Thrones j.,
Vulnerable; the victory and defeat Of tba
armies OF centuries. I6 took three thousa ;, \
feats 10 make one wrinkle on its red cheelr
- u,eaaiui IN ITS stoiidity Its ewes have
i 49, Sept rear. Its cold ears have not
10y 70 the groans of the EGYPTIAN M
Sson tne burden of which | tried To we'll
aaso Sabnath. Its heart is stone. It cared
n no. Aor my when he measured il in tba
AIso century. 1t will care nothing for The
.nan VINO looks into its impertubable com.
tenance Ia the last century
d IN IA III
,,sI u' siSSSyp5 VIII yet come UP to the glow of
a,s Inc Inc Bible promises it. The mission
Lansing, are sounding resnrseo+i -.
trumpet above those slain emnjras TIL
VIII De some other Joseph at Mennbis rLee
VIII pe some other Moses on the banLs - a.
ME; There will be some other Hvnat;. ' ~
teacn good morals to the degraded InstaaS
% ~ destroying angel to STAY the firstbnrn IF
49, Tue angel OF the New Testament will
nation born in day, When, soon sft az I'd
arrival IN Egypt, took part in the solan,y,
ai'u tehoef obsequles of missionary from
our own land, dying there far awav from tha
sepuichers OF her fathers and saw aronnd
nef the dusky and weeping Congregation ~
. mo she had come to save, l said to mvself.
ieie sen sacrifice of the noblest TYNE
.,,s. y neroism immortal. Here is queen
unto God forever Here is soma1hing
grander than the pyramids. Here i that
winch thrills the heavens. Here is q snaoi
men OF that which will vet save the rvorIS .
J Goodby. Egypt This sermon finds ne ~,
the steamer Minerva in the Greeian arch;.
peiago, the Islands of the New Testament
ana is!anus faullnian and Johannian in tha;r
i r. what Bradshaw's directory
Is TO travellers in Europe. and what tbs ra;II
road guide is TO travellers it Amer;co ~,
BOOB OF the Acts in the Bible is 10 yovaoars
III Tue Gfeciap, or, as shall call it. the Cos
PEI 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, hut in the
opposite direction to that which Paul vow.
aseu. ne was sailing southwark and we
northward With him it was Enhesns Cos
rhodes, Cyprus, With us it is reversed and
!! ~ IS = prus, rhodes, Coos, Ephesus. There
Is no oook IN the world SO accurate as the
Divine Book SO 'Ae
NY text says that Paul left Cyprus on the
,eit' we, going in an opposite direction have
IL on the ilght. On our ship Minerva were
only TWO or three passengers besides our
party, SO we had plenty of room to walk the
oeck, ana Oh, what night was Christmas
~ Oh 1871 m that Grecian archipelago
isianas OF light above, islands OF beauty be-
neatL It is royal family of islands, this
ofseiah archlpeiago---the crown of the
worlds scenery set with sapphire and emerald
anu topaz ana chrysoprasus and ahlaze with
glory that seems let down out of celestial
landscapes. God evidently made I'D His
. =, that Just here He would demonstrate
tt utmost that can be done with islands for
me identification of earthly scenery.
the steamer had stopped during the night
ana =, IN The morning the ship was as quiet as
TINS moor, when we fastened up to the deck
anu anu round that we had anchored off the
, .,srai OF Cyprus. In boat, which the ma
. rowed standing up, as is the custom.
instead of sitting down, as when we row we
were soon landed on the streets where PAM
ana farnanas walked and preached. Yea.
WHEN at Antioch, Paul and Barnabas got
into fight--as ministers sometimes ufa,
sometimes do, for they all have imperfec-
tions enough to anchor them to this world
till their work is done, say--when because
OF that bitter controversy, Paul and Barna-
bas parted, Barnabas came back here to
Cyprus, which was his birthplace Island,
wonderful for history 1t 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
century, Lord Beaeonsfield, who, under a
lease which was as good as a purchase, set
Cyprus among the jewels OF Victoria 5
crown
We went out into the excavations from
museums with antiquities and with no bet
ter weapon than our foot we stirred up the
ground deep enough TO get a tear bottle in
which some mourner shed his tears thou
sanos of years ago and lamp which before
Christ was born lighted the feet of some
poor pilgrim on his way. That island OF
Cyprus has enough to set an antiquarian
wild. The most of its glory is the glory OF
the past, and the typhoid fevers that swept
its coast, and the clouds of locusts that often
blacken its skies Though two hundred thou
sand dollars were expended by the British
empire in one year for the extlrpatlon or
these noxious insects, yet failing to do the
work., and the frequent change OF govern
inental masters hinder prosperity.
But when the islands of the sea come to
God, Cyprus will come with them, and the
agricultural and commerc al opuience whlcl
adorned it in ages past viii be eclipsed by
the agricultural and commercial and rellg-
ious triumphs Of the ages to come. why Is
the world so stupid that 1t cannot see tnat
nations are prospered in temporal things IN
proportion as they are prospered III religious
thingse Goodness is profitable not only for
individuals. hut for nations. Questions OF
tariff, questions OF silver bill, questions OF
republic or monarchy have not SO much tc
do with nations temporal welfare as ques
tions of religion. Give Cyprus TO Christ
give England to Christ. give America uI
Christ, give the world to Christ, and he WI
give them all a prosperity unlimited. why
Is Brooklyn one of the queen clt'es OF UNI
earthy Because it is the queen cihes o.