The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-28

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treadle of wheel that fetches up the
water for garden, and then Tor the
first time understand that passage in
Deuteronomy which says Of the israeli
lies after they had got back from Egypt
1.-THE land whittier thon goest in to pos
sess Is not as the land of Egypt from
whence ye came out, where thou sowedst
thy seed and wateredst IT with thy FOOT
Then understood how the land could
be watered with the foot How do you
suppose / felt when on the deck
Of that steamer on the Nile
looked off upon the canals and
bitches and sluices through which the
fields are irrigated by that river, and
then read in Isaiah: "The burden OF
Egypt; the river shall be wasted and
dried up, and they shall turn the rivers
far away and the brooks OF defense
shall be emptied and dried up; and they
shall be broken in the purposes thereof,
all that make sluices and ponds for
FISH," That Thanksgiving morning on
the Nile found my text OF to-day.
Pharaoh in this chapter is compared to
the dragon or hippopotamus suggested |
by the crocodiles that used to line the |
banks of this river: Thus saith the |
Lord God: Behold am against thee
Pharoah, King Of Egypt, the great
dragon that lieth in the midst Of his
rivers, which hath said my riveris mine
own, and have made 1t for myself. But
will put hooks in thy jaws and will
cause the fish OF thy rivers and all the
fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy
scales, and the land Of Egypt shall be
desolate and waste; and they shall know
that am the Lord; because he hath said
the river is mine, and have made It,"
While sailing on this river or stop
| ping at one OF the villages, we see peo-
| pie on the banks who verify the Bible
description, for they are now as they
were in Bible times. Shoes are now
taken off in reverence to sacred places.
Children carried astridc the mothers
shoulders as in Hagar's time. Women
with profusion OF jewelry as when Re-
becca was affianced. Lentils shelled
into the pottage, as when Esau sold his
birthright to get such dish. The same
habits of salutation as when Joseph
and his brethren fell on each others
necks. Courts OF law held under big
trees as in olden times. People making
bricks without straw, compelled by cir
cumstances to use stubble instead OF
straw. Flying over or standing on the
banks as in Scripture days are flamin-
goes, ospreys, eagles, pclicans, herons,
.,uckoos, and bullfnches On all sides
Of this river sepulchers Villages OF
sepulchers Cities OF sepulchers- Ma
tions Of sepulchers And one is tempted
to call It an empire OF tombs- ] never
, saw such place as Egyptis for graves.
And now we understand the complain
ing sarcasm OF the Israelites when they
were on the way from Egypt to Canaan;
because there are no graves in Egypt
) hast thou taken us away to die in the
r wildernesss?" Down the river bank
come the buffalo and the cattle to drink.
, And it was the ancestors of these cattle
that inspired Pharaoh's dream Of the
1 lean kline and the fat kline. l~
n Here we disembark little while fol
9 Memphis, off from the Nile 20 the right
e Memphis, founded by the first king o.
n Egypt and for long while the capital
s A city Of marble and gold Home o.
the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles IN
G circumference. Vast colonnadest through
S which imposing professions marched
v Here stood the Temple Of the Sun, "
l. self in brilliancy sun shone on by an
J. other sun. Memphis In power over {
s thousand one hundred years, or nearly
J. ten times as long as the United State
II have existed. Here is arecumbent statu,
e seventy-6ve feet long. Bronzed gate
. ways. A metropolis called the ''haven o
% the blest." Here Joseph was prim
minister. Here Pharoah received ia
d cob. All possible splendors were bull
st up into the royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel
a jeremiah and Isaiah speak of II a
1t something wonderful. Never did visi
II city with such exalted anticipationt
e. and never did my anticipations drop s
ir fat Not pillar stands. Not wal
s. Is unbrolsen. Not fountain tosses |
,e the sun. Even the ruins have bee
Id ruined, and all that remains are chip
RI of marble, small pieces, Of fracture
n, sculpture and splintered huma
re bones Here and there lette
~ OF some elaborate Inscription,
es toe or ear OF a statue that once stoo
s. in niche Of palace wall. Ezekiel proph
Ie. sled it's blotting out and the prophec
ed has been fulfilled. "Ride on" said
ch our party, "and don't wait for me
III And as / stood there alone, the city
Memphis in the glory OF past centuri
he returned. And heard the rush Of b
all chariots aud the dash of her fountai
en- and the convivality OF her palaces Al
on saw the drunken uobies roll on q
be floors OF mosaic while in startling co
nd trast amid all the royalties of the pla
,us | saw Pharaoh look up into the face
led aged rustic Jacob, the shepherd, sayir
"How old art thou7"
In But back to the Milo and on and
lay till you reach Thebes, In Scriptu
ith called the City Of No. Hundred-gat
,ed Thebes A quadrangular city 70
he miles from limit TO limit -Four gre
sen temples, two OF them Karnac a
on, Luxor. once mountains Of exquis
red sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidif
'ut: in stone Statue Of Rameses H., eit
ere hundred and eighty-seven tons in weiG
hat and seventy-Ave feet high, but n
od fallen and scattered. : Walls ablo
on. with the battle-felds of centuri
her The surrounding hills Of rock b
han lowed into sepulchers, on the walls
and which ars chise ed in picture and HE
arc | ,iv,,l,ica the. confirmation of Bible A,