Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-10-28

Mary. The storms OF forty centuries
have drenched Il, bombarded Il skad-
owed It flashed upon il, but there Il
stands ready 70 take another forty CEN
turtles OF atmospheric attack II the
world should continue to exist The
Oldest buildings of the earth arc rniors
70 this great senior of the centuries-
Herodotus says that for ten years prep
arations were being made for the Guild
ing of this pyramid. II has 81, III. 600
cubic feet of masonry. One hundred
thousand workmen at one time toiled
in it's erection. To bring the stones
from the quarries n causeway sixty feet
wide was built The top stones were
lifted by machinery such rs the world
knows nothing of to-day. It is 746 feet
each side of tho square base. The
structure is $50 feet high. higher than
the Cathedrals of Cologne. Strasburg.
Rouen. ST. Peter and St Paul. No
surprise to me that il was put mt the
head of the Seven Wonders of the
world. IL has n subtcrraneous room of
red granite called the kings cham
ber.' and another room called the
Queens chamber" and the probable.
ity is that there are other rooms yet
unexplored. The evident design OF the
architect was TO make these rooms rs
inaccessible as possible. After all the
work of exploration and all the digging
and blasting, IL you would enter these
subterrancous rooms YOU must go
through passage only three feet
eleven inches high and less than four
feet wide. a sarcophagus of red gram
lite stands down under this mountain OF
masonry. The sarcophagus could not
have been carried in after the pyramids
were built 1t must have been put
there before the structure was reared.
Probably in that sarcophagus once lay
wooden coffin containing dead king.
but time has destroyed the coffin and
| destroyed the last vcstige of human
remains For three thousand years this
sepulchral room was unopened and
would have been until to-day, probably
unopened, had not N superstitious inn
preston got abroad that the heart OF
the pyramid was filed with silver and
gold and diamonds, and under AL Ma
noun, an excavating party went to
work and having bored and blasted
through n hundred feet of rock they
found no opening ahead. and were
about to give up the attempt when the
workmen heard stone roll down into
seemingly hollow place. and encour-
aged by that they resumed their work
and came into the underground rooms.
The disappointment of the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty of all
silver and gold and precious stones was
so great that they would have assassin
sted AL Mamoun. who employed them.
had he not hid in another part of the
pyramid rs much silver and gold as
would pay them for their work ut ordia-
airy rate of wages. and induced them
there TO dig till they, to their surprise,
came upon adequate compensation.
/ wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination OF scholars, of scientists, of
| intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Herschel the astronomer said he
thought 1t had astronomical signifi-
canoe. The wise men who accompanied
Napoleon's army into Egypt went into
profound study of the pyramid. In
1865 Prof. Smyth and his wife lived in
the empty tombs near 10y the pyramid
that they might be as continuously rs
possible close to the pyramid which
they were Investigating. The pyramid,
built more than 1000 years ago being
complete geometrical figure. wise men
have concluded IL must have been di
vinely constructed. Men came through
thousands of years to fine architecture,
to music, to painting; but this
was perfect at the worlds start, and
God must have directed IT, All astrono-
mers and geometricians and scientists
say that 1t was scientifically and mathe-
matically constructed before science
i and ~ Mt at
inscriptions on tie pyramid, from it's
proportions, from the points of the
compass recognized in its structure.
from the directions in which its tunnels
run. from the relative position of the
blocks that compose il, scientists, Chris
tians and infidels have demonstrated
that the being who planned this pyra-
mid must have known the world
sphcricity, and that its motion was ro-
tary, and how many miles il was in di-
ameter and circumference. and how
many tons the world weighs, and knew
at what point in the heavens certain
stars would appear at certain periods OF
| time.
| Not in the 1900 years since the put
ting up of that pyramid has n single
! fact IN astronomy or mathematics been
! found to contradict the wisdom of that
structure Yet they had not at the age
when the pyramid was started an as
tronomer or an architect or mathe-
matician worth mentioning. Who.
then, planned the pyramid? Who SUI
pcrintended its erection? Who, from
its first foundation stone to its cap.
stone. erected every thingP 1t must
have been God. Isaiah was right when
he said in my text "a pillar shall be
at the border of the land of Egypt and
it shall be for a sign and witness. y
The pyramid is Gods first Bible Hun.
dreds, il not thousands, OF years before
the first line of the Book of Genesis
was written, the lesson of the pyramid
was written.
Well. of what is this cyclopean ma.
sorry sign and n witness? Among
other things. OF the prolongsasn of hu.
man work compared with the brevity
of human life. In all the 1000 We ars
this pyramid has only lost eighteen
feet in width. one side OF its squares nj
the base changed only from 7G4 feet "a
74G feet, and the most of that eighteen
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