Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-19
THE PYRAMIDS
SslLL Be FOR A SIGN AND FER A Wit
NESS F0RSVER-
Rev Dr.. Talnags breaches the First Series Of
Sermons On What he saw C0DhrnaioTy
Of the Scriptures

6peeiag Telegram TO tas Register
RpooKry-Y. \. Y, October 1S.-The
Lost CONGREGATION st the Brooklyn Tab
evnaclp This morning was delighted by
an evouisite rendering by Prof.. Henry
Eyre Browne. on the new organ, OF
Denier's Second Sonata in u. DR.. Tai
7,qga's sermon was the first OF series
he intends preaching on his Eastern
torr entitled. "FrOm the Pyramids TO
the Acropolis, or what l saw in Egypt
ord Greece ConfrmatOrY Of the Script
,,ras 8, his text was Isaiah 1919, 20:
s.Iu that day shall there be an alIsr 10
Lord I'm the midst of the lana OF Egypt
and a pillarat the border thereon TO the
Lord. And it shall be for sign ana
isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid of Gizeh, the chief pyra-
hid of Egypt. The text speaks OF a
DiIlar I'm Egvpt, and this is the greatest
3ilar ever lifted: and the text says IL IS
10 be on rh,, border OF the land, and this
1,yramid is NJ the border of the land;
and the text saws it shall be for a wit
Tess and the object Of this sermon is
~ .eU what this pyramid witnesses.
This sermon is tho first Of a course OF
sermors entitled, "FrOm the Pyramids
10 the Acr0pOls, or what 1 Saw ID
Egypt and Greece Contrmatory OF the
Scriptures"
we had. on a morning In December,
1850 landed in Africa. Amid the howl
inc boaimen 40 Alexandria we had
come ashore and taken the rail-train for
Cairo. Egypt, along the banks OF the
most thoroughly harneSsed river or the
world,
TIE RIVER NILE.
We had, at eyen-tide, entered the
CITY of Cairo, the city where Christ
dwelt while staying in Egypt during
the HerOdic persecution. IL was our
first night in Egypt. No destroying
angels sweeping through as once, but
el the stars were out, and the skies
were filed with angels Of beauty and
sngeIs of light, and the air was balmy
esan American June. The next morn
ing we were early awake and at the
window. looking upon palm trees In
full glory OF LEAKAGE, and upon gardens
OF fruits and flowers 40 the very season
when our homes far away are canOpied
bv bleak skies and the last leaf OF the
forest has gone done in the equinOctials.
But how can describe the thrill of
expectation, for to-day we are 90 see
what all the world has seen or wants 10
see-the Pyramids. We are mounted
for an hour and a halls ride. We pass
ON amid bazaaGs stuffed with russ and
carpets. as we see q huge pile OF rock
looming in sight: "DrGgOman, what
is tbat?" His answer IS, 1.-The Pyra-
mid" and then 10 seemed rs If we were
living q century every minute, and we
cry: "The Pyramid. The Pyramid
/ had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the pyra-
mid. One OF my chief objects In going
10 Egypt was not only % see the base OF
that graniclC wonder, but 10 stand on
the top of 10. Yet the nearer came 70
this eternity i'm stone the more my de-
termination was shaken. It's altitude
20 me was simply appalling. A great
height has always been 20 me most
disagreeable sensation. As we dis
mounted at the base of the Pyramid, 1
said, Others may go up il, but not L.
j will satisfy myself with a view from
the base. The ascent of 70 would be 10
me a fOolhardy undertaking." But
after I had given up all idea OF ascend
ing, I found my daughter was determ-
ined 70 60, and could not let her go
with strangers, and L changed my mind
and we started with guides. At last at
the tiD top we found ourselves on level
space Of about thirty feet square.
AFTER LOOKING AROUND
for a while, and kodack had pictured
the group, we descended. The descent
was more trying than the ascent for
climbing you need not see the depths
beneath, but coming down it was i'm
possible not 90 see the abyss below,
but we were safely landed. Then came
one of the most wonderful feats of dar-
ing and agility. One of the Arabs So
licited a dollar, saying he would run up
and down the pyramids in seven min
uteS. We would rather have given him
"a dollar not 20 go, but this ascent and
descent in seven minutes he was deter
mined on and so by the watch in seven
minutes he went 20 the top and was
back again al the base. To was q blood
curdling spectacle.
10 covers thirteen acres of ground.
Tt was at least two thousand years old
when the baby Christ was carried with
in sight OF it by his fugitive parents,
Joseph and Mary. The storms of forty
centuries have Grenched it, but there
10 stands ready TO take another forty
centuries OF atmospheric attack II the
world should continue TO exist. 1t has
eighty-twO million one hundred and
eleven thousand cubic feet of masonry.
One hundred thousand 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.
The structure Is four hundred and fifty
feet high, higher than the cathedrals Of
Cologne, Srasburg, Rouen, st. Peters,
and ST. Paups.
No surprise TO me that 10 was put ct
the head of the Seven Wonders of the
World. To has a sUbterraneOuS room OF
red granite called the "King's cham
ber," and another room called the
Queens chamber" and the probabili-
~ IS that there are other rooms yet
uneXplOred. The evident design Of
the architect was to make these rooms
as inaccessible as possible. After all
the work Of exploration and all the
digging and blasting, if you would
enter these subterraneOuS rooms you
must 90 through a passage only three
feet eleven inches high and less than
four feet wide. A Sarcophagus Of red
granite stands down lRder this noun
tain of masonry.
So men die, but their work lives on.
We are all building pyramids not TO last
four thousand years, but forty thouS-
and, forty million, forty trillion, forty