The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-26


and spoke seven languages, although
would nave been better for the woild II So
had not been able to speak any. Juhu
Csnsar conquered the world yet she con
uuered Julius Caesar. -. -
Rnt Alexandria, fascinating for THIS o.
that thing, according TO the TASTE % ,u'
vissror wss 70 me most entertaining De
casa Il had baen the site of the greatest
library that the world ever saw, consiuer-
,ng the fact that the art Of printing hau nov
baen invented. Seven hundred thousand
volumes and all the work OF SLOW pei
Put down it all went under the toGch u Ue-
sie1erS. Built again and destroyed aga u
Rrilr again, but the Arabs came aIou& ~.
its final demolition. and the 4,OUO batns u
the city were heated with those volumes,
the fuel lasting six mouths, and were eve.
fires kindled aC such fearful cost " hao
holocausts Of the worlds literature. W uIH
YnartTrdom of books9 How many Oh tn9nI
have gone down under the rage o! tne
nations. Only one book has been aDl6 10
withstand the bombardment ana taaV uas
gone through without smell oil hre On rs ~
lids. No sword or spear or muskeV IoE rs
defense. An unarTned New Testament. An
unarmed Cd Testament Yet l1VuIueIa-
BILE and triumphant There must De some,
.hiry snnsrn.tural about it. C0nqueror OF
~booksi Monarch of books. All the DOCKS
of all the ages in all the libraries ootshone
BY this one book which you and can carry
TO church in a pocket Something amid tue
ashes Of Alexandrian libraries
But all aboard the Egyptian rail train go
ing M the banks of the Nile Look out or
, the window and see these camels kneelng
for the imposition Of their load. And think
we might take from them lesson, and in
stead Of trying 70 stand upright il our own
strength, become conscious OF cur weakness
and need Of divine help before we take
upon Us the heavy duties Of the year or tle
week or the dav, and 50 kneel for the bur
den We meet PROFESSIONS of men and
beasts on The way from their days work,
but Mas, for the homes to which the poor
Inhabitants are going. For the most part
novels Of mud. But there is something in
the scene that thoroughly enlists US 1t is
the novelty OF wretchedness and q scene of
picturesque rags. For thousands Of years
this land has been under very damnation
OF taxes. Nothing but Christian civiliZa-
ton will roll back the influences which are
t'spoiling the Egyptians" There are gar
dens and palaces, but they belong 20 the
rulers.
About here, under the valiant Murad
Bey the Mamelukes, who are the finest
horssmen In all the world, came like hur-
ricane upon Napoleon's army, but they
were beaten back by the French in one of
abe feTcest battles of al time. Then the
Mamelukes turned their horses heads the
other way, and IN desperation backed them
against the Frencl troops, hoping the
horses would kick the lfs out of the French
regiments. TIE Mamelukes, failing again.
plunged into this Nile and we're drowned,
the French for days fishing out the dead
bodies of the Mamelukes 70 get the val
uables upon their bodies. Napoleon. at the
daring Of these Mamelukes, exclaimed:
Gould | haveInited the Mamsluxs horse
10 the French infantry. would have reck-
cned myself master of the world"
This ride along the Nile is one of the most
solemn and impressive rides of ali my life
time, and cur emotions deepen as the cur
tains Of the night fall upon all surround
angs. But we shall not be satisfied unit,
We can take ship and DasS right out upon
these woadrous waters and between the
hanks crowded with the story Of empires
According to the lead pencil mark in my
Bible it was Thanksgiving day morning,
Nov. y, 1889, that with my family and
friends we stepped aboard the steamer o.
ths Nile. the NOLAN medan call TO
prayers had been sounded by the priests Of
that region, the Muezzins, from the
four hundred mosques Of Cairo as
the cry went out: God Is great bear
witness that there is no God but God. l
bear witness that Mohammed is the apos-
tie OF God. Come TO prayers. Come 10
salvation. God is great. There Is no other
'f1ut God Prayers are better than sleep 4"
The sky and city and palm groves and river
shipping were bsthed in the light. Ii was
not much Of craft that we boarded. 1t
would not be hailed on any Of cur rivers
with any rapture of admiration. II FORT
unately had but little speed, for twice we
ran aground aid the sailors jumped into the
water and on their shoulders pushed her out.
But what yacht OF gayest sportsman, what
deck OF s~iftest ocean queen could give
such thrill of rapture as a sail on the Miller
The pyramids in sight, the remains of cit
5es that are now only name, the villages
fhronged with population. Both banks
crowded with historical deeds of forty or
sixty centuries. o, what a book the Bible
as when read on the NileI
As we slowly move up the majestic river
see on each bank the wheels, the pumps,
the buckles for irriSatio1, and see a man
with his foot on the treadle of a wheel that
4etches up the water for a garden, ana then
for the hrss time understand that passage
in Deuteronomy, which says of the Israelites
after they had got back from Egypt: 1.-THE
Hand whittier thou goest in to possess 10 is
not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye
came out, where thou 80 aedss thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot" Then under
stood 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 on upon the canals and bitches and
sluices through which the fields are irri-
gated 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 fsh." That
thanksgiving morning on the Nile found
any text of to-day. Pharaoh In this chapter
rs compared e. tue dragon or hippopotamus
suggested by the crocodiies that used to line
She banks of this river: THUS saith the
lord God: Behold am against thee Pha-
roah. KING Of Egypt, the great dragon that
1ieth N the midst Of his rivers which hath
said my river is mine own, and have made
IL for myself But | will put hooks In thy
Jaws aud l VIII cause the fish OF thy rivers
to stick unto thy scales, and will bring
thee 10 out of the midst of thy rivers, and
all the fish OF thy rivers shall stick unto thy
scales. and the land of Egypt shall be desc
late aud waste; aud they shall know that l
am the Lord; because he hath said the river
is Minis, and 1 have made it."
While sailing on this river or stopping al
one Of the Villages, we see people on the
banks who verify the Bible description for
they are now as they were in Bible lines.
Shoes are now taken off in reverence to sac
red places. Children carried astride tue
mothers shoulder as ia Hagar's time.
Women with profusion OF jewelry as when
Rebecca was effianced Lentils shelled into
she pottage, as when Esau sold bis birth.
right to get such a dish. The same habit Of