Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-24
ACCoMAc e. Il, VA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER "a, 1891
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BUILD FOR ETERNITY.
SUBLIME LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE
GREAT PYRAMID OF elzeH.
Dr5Talmnge Begins Series Of Sermons
EaEltled, From the Pyramids to the
Aoropolls," Enforcing and illustrating
the Trutlis5of scripture.
iBRookLYN, Oct. 1s.--The vast con-
grsgation att the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delighted by an ex-
qlisito rendering, By Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, Of
Deniers second sonata lin Dr..
Talmage's sermon was the first sof a
seriesslhe intends preaching nahis east
ernst tour, entitled, From tile Pyramids
stoatho Acropolis, or What i Sawsin
Egypt and Greece Contirnatory of the
Sculptures Ills text was Isaial.xix, 10,
90: III TINT lay: shall I'll ereS be an altar
Lord E mi Of land Of.
e pin ar at u borde thereof.
-to2rhes Lord. And itahallsb for q sign
and forssas witness" IS,
lsaialr no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid at Gizell, the chief pyra-
mid of Egypt. Tie text speaks of a
pillar in Egypt, and tllis 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 ut 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
a'coursc of sermons entitled, From
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, OF
What Saw in Egypt and Greece Con-
frnatory of t:,e Scriptures.
We had on II morning of December,
1889, landed III Africa Amid the howl
ing boatmenatA Alexandria We had come
ashore and taken the rail train for
Cairo Egypt, along the banks of the
most thoroughly harnessed river of all
the world-the river Nile. We had: at
eventide. entered the city of Cairo, the
city where Christ dwelt while staying
in Egypt during the Herodic persecu
tion. 1t was our first night in Egypt
No destroying angel sweeping through
us once, but all the stars were out and
tile skies were filed with angels of
beauty and angels OF light, and the air
was balmy rs an American June. The
next morning we were early awake and
at the window looking upon palm trees
infull glory OF LEAKAGE, and upon gar
lens OF fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
canopcd By bleak skies and the last
leaf of the forest has gone down with
the equinoctials.
But low can describe the thrill of
expectation, for today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
to see-thc pyramids. We are mount
ed for All hour and q halfs ride We
pass on amid bazaars. stuffed with rugs
and carpets and curious fabrics of all
sorts from Smyrna, from Algiers, from
Persia, from Turkey, and through
streets, where we meet people of all
colors and I'll CARDS. carts loaded with
l g7srden productions priests in gowns,
women in black wells. Bcdouins in long
and seemingly superfluous apparel,
Janissares in jackets of embroidered
gold-out and ON toward the great
pyramids for though there are sixty
nine pyramids still standing, the pyra-
mid ut GizeIl is the monarch of pyrl-
nids. We meet canes grunting under
their load, and see bu1faloes 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 awhile it is a 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 tile
dragonan as we see n huge pile of
rock looming in sight, "Dragonan, what
is that?" His answer is, The pyra-
mid" and then it seemed as if we were
living Il century every minute. Our
thoughts and emotions were too rapid
and intense for utterance, and we ride
or in silence until we come to the foot
Of the pyramid spoken of in the text,
the Oldest structure in all the earth,
four thousand years old at least. Here
it is. We stand under the shadow Of Il
structure that shuts out all the earth
and all the sky, and we look up and
strain our vision to appreciate the dis
tant top, and are overwhelmed while
we cry, "The pyramid! The pyramid"
"AFRAID OF THAT WHICH IS HIGH"
had started that morning with tile
determination of ascending the pyra-
mid. One of my chief objects in going
to Egypt was not only to see tho
base of that granite wonder, but to
stand on the top of it. Yet the nearer
I came to this eternity in stone the
more my determination was shaken.
Its altitude to me was simply appalling.
A great height has always been to HE
most disagreeable sensation. AS we
disrnounted at the base of the pyramid
1 said: "Others may go up it, but
not l. l will satisfy myself with a
view from the base. The ascent of it
would be to me foolhardy undertake
ingn
But after had given up all idea of
ascending found my daughter was de
termined to go, and could not let her
go with strangers, and 1 changed my
mind, and we started with guides. 1t
cannot be done without these helpers.
Two or three times foolhardy men have
attempted it alone, but their bodies
came tumbling down uorecosnizable
and lifeless. Each person in our party
had two or three guides or helpers. One
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