Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-11-05
a GREAT PYRAMID.
That Structure, Which With Others Of
Its Kind, Stands in Egypt on the
Deserts Border.
It Is for a Sign to Mankind and
Teaches Lesson That Ill
Should Learn.

was delighted by an exquisite render
ing, by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne, on
the new organ, of Denier's Second Son
alta in G.. DR.. Talmage's sermon was
the first Of a series he intends preach
ing on his Eastern tour, entitled
"From the Pyramids to the Acropo-
lis, or What Isawin Egypt and Greece
Confrmatory of the Scriptures" His
text was Isaiah xix: 10, 20: Gin that
day shall there be an altar to the
Lord in the midst of theland of Egypt
and a pillar at the border thereof to
the Lord. And it shall be for sign
and for awitness."
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyr-
amid in Egypt. The text speaks OF q
pillar in Egypt, and this is the great
est pillar ever lifted; and the text says
it is to be at the border of the land,
and this pyramid is at the border of
the land; and the text says it shall be
for a witness, and the object of this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid
witnesses. This sermon is the first of
q course of sermons entitled, "From
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or
What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Con-
trmatory OF the Scriptures.
We had on a morning of December,
1889, landed in Africa. Amid the
bowling boat-men at Alexandria we
had come ashore and taken the rail
train for Cairo, Egypt, along the
banks of the most thoroughly harness
sed river in all the world-the Nile
We had, at even-tide entered the city
of Cairo, the city where Christ dwelt
while staying in Egypt during the
Herodic persecution. 1t was our
first night IN Egypt. No destroying
angel sweeping through as once, but
all the stars were out, and the skies
were filled with angels of beauty and
angels of light, and the air was balmy
as an American June. The next
morning we were early awake and at
the window, looking upon palm trees
in full glory OF LEAKAGE, and upon gar
dens OF fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
canopied by bleak skies and the last
leaf of the forest has gone down in the
equinotials.
But how can I describe
THE THRILL OF EXPECTATION,
Tor today we are to see what all the
the world has seen or wants to see
the Pyramids. We are mounted for
an hour and a half's ride. We pass
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and
carpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts
from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Per-
STA, from Turkey, and through streets
where we meet people OF all colors and
all CARDS, carts loaded with garden
productions, priests in gowns. women
IN black wells, Bedouins in long and
seemingly superhuous apparel, Janis
saries in jacket OF embroidered gold
out and on toward the great Pyra-
mid, for though there are SO pyramids
still standing, the pyramid of Gizeh is
the monarch of pyramids. We meet
camels grunting under their load, and
see buffaloes on either side, browsing
In pasture fields. The road we travel
is for part OF the way under clumps OF
acacia, and by long rows Of sycamore
and tamerisk, but after while it is
path of rock and sand, and we find we
have reached the margin of the desert,
the great Sahara desert, and we cry
out to the dragoman as we see q huge
pile of rock looming in sight, "Drago-
man, what is that?' His answer is
1.-THE Pyramid" and then it seemed
as if we were living century every
minute. Our thoughts and emotions
were too rapid and intense for utter.
ance, and we ride in silence until we
come to thefoot OF the Pyramid spok-
en- of in the text, the oldest structure
in all the earth, 1000 years old at
least. Here it is. We stand under
the shadow of the structure that shuts
out all the earth and all the sky and
we look up and strain our vision to
appreciate the distant top and are
overwhelmed while we cry
THE PYRAMID! THE PYRAMID"
I had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the Pyra-
mid. One of my chief objects in going
to Egypt was not only to see the base
OF that granite wonder, but to stand
on the top of it. Yet the nearer
came to this eternity in stone the
more my determination was shaken.
Its altitude to me was simply appal-
ing A great height has always been
to me most disagreeable sensation.
As we dismounted at the base of the
Pyramid I said. "Others may 90 upit,
but notI. Twill satisfy myself with
view from the base. The ascent of it
would be to me foolhardy under
taking" But after had given up all
idea of ascending, found my daugh-
ter was determined to go, and l could
not let her 60 with strangers, and /
changed my mind and we started with
guides. It cannot be done without
CHEESE helpers. Two or three times
foolhardy men have attempted it
Alone, but their bodies came tumbling
down unacceptable and lifeless.
Zach person in our party had two or
three guides or helpers. One of them
unrolled his turban and tied it around
my waist and he held the other end of
the turban as matter of safety.
Many Of the blocks of stone are four
or 1--WE feet high and beyond any ordi-
nary human stride unless assisted.
BuE. two Arabs to pull and two Arabs