The Dickinson press., 1891-11-07

AONelVy Oh and q scene
OF picturesque rags. For thousands
OF years this land has been under a
very damnation of taxes. Nothing
but Christian civilization will roll
back the influence which are spoil
ing the Egyptians" There are gar
dens and palaces, but they belong to
the rulers.
About here, under the valiant
Murad Bey the Mamelukes, who are
the finest horsemen in all the world,
came like ahurricaneuponN apoleon's
army, but they are beaten back by
the French in one OF the t~iercest
battles OF all time. Then the Name
lukes turned their horses heads the
other way, and in desperation backed
them against the French troops,
hoping the horses would kick the life
out OF the French reg iments. The
Mamelukes failing again, plunged
into this Nile and were drowned,
the French for days fishing out the
dead bodies of the Mamelukes to
get the valuables upon their bodies.
Napoleon. at the daring OF the Name
lukes, exclaimed: Gould lhave united
the Mameluke horse to the French in
fantry, would have reckoned myself
master OF the world"
This ride along the Nile is one OF the
most solemn and impressive rides OF
all my lifetime, and our emotions
deepen rs the curtains OF the might fall
upon all the surroundings. But we
shall not be satisfied until we can
take a ship and pass right out upon
these wondrous waters and between
the banks crowded with the story OF
empires.
According to the lead pencil mark
in my Bible it was Thanksgiving Day
morning Nov. 2S. 1889, that with my
family and friends we stepped aboard
the steamer on the Nile,
AS we slowly move up the majestic
river | see on each bank the wheels,
the pumps, the buckets for irrigation,
and see Il man with his foot on the
treadle OF a wheel that fetches up the
water for a garden, and then for the
first time | understand that passage
in Deuteronomy which says OF the Is
raelites after they got back from
Egypt: ''Ttle land whittier thou goest
in to possess it is not as the land of
Egypt, from whence We came out,
where thou sowedst thy seed and wa
teredst it with thy foot" Then | un-
derstood how the land could be wa
tered with the foot.
But back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebcs, in Scripture
called the city of No. Hundred gated
Thebes. A quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit. Four great
temples, two of them Karnac and
Luxor, onc mountains OF exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidi.
fed j n stone. Statue OF Rameses H.,
S75 tons in weight and rs feet high,
but now fallen and scattered. Walls
abloom with thebattleiields of centur-
les. The surrounding hills OF rock
followed into sepulchres on the wall
OF which are chiselled in pictures and
hleroglyphics the confirmation of
Bible story in regard to the treatment
OF the Israelites in Egypt SO that, as
explorations go on with the work the
walls OF these sepulchres become COM
mentaries OF the Bible, the Scriptures
originally written upon parchment
here cutinto CIV erlastingstone Thebes
mighty and dominant 500 years.
Then she Went down in fultillment of
Ezekiel's prophecy concerning the city
OF No, which was another name for
Thebes: al will execute Judgment on
No. / will cut off the m%ultitudes of
jeremiah also said, "Thus
saith the Lord, l will punish the null
of No." This city ofThebes and
the other dead cities OF Egypt
lterate and reiterate the veracity of
the Scriptures. telling the same story
Moses and the prophets have
told. Have you noticed how God
kept back these archaeological O n
frmations OF the Bible until our time,
when the air is full of unbelief about
the truthfulness OF the dear old book?
waited until the printing presshad
been set up i'll it's perfected shape,
and the submarine cable was laid
and the world was intelligent enough
to appreciate the testimony and then
he resurrected the dead cities OF the
earth, and commands them, saying:
"Open your long sealed lips and
Memphis and Thebes! Is the
Bible true?" "True!" responds Bah
ylon. "Ruins OF Palestine and Syrial
Is the New Testament, true?" "TrueW
respond the ruins all the way from
Joppa to the Dead Sea. and from
Jerusalem to Damascus. What a
mercy that this testimony of the
dead cities should come at q time
when the Bible is especially assailed.
And this work will go on until the
veracity and
DIVINITY OF THE SCRIPTURES
will be as certain to all sensible men
and women as that two and two
make four, as that anisosceles triangle
is one which has two OF its sides equal,
as that the diameter of q circle il a
line drawn through the center and
terminated by the circumference, as
certain as any mathematical demon
stration.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost came to
battle for one book, a copy of Eschy-
lus. .Ptolemy the Egyptian king dis
covered that in the great library at
Alexandria there was no copy OF
Eschylus. The Egyptian king sent
up to Athens, Greece, to borrow the
book and make a copy of it. Athens
demanded a deposit OF $17,7OO as
security. The Egyptian king received
the book, but refused to return that
which he had borrowed and so forfeit
ed the SIT, 700. The two nations rose
in contention concerning that one
book. Beautiful and mighty book in
deed! But it is a book o. horrors, the
dominant idea that we are the
victims of hereditary influences from
which there is nc escape, and thatfate
rules the world, and although the
author does tell OF Prometheus who
was crucified o%ntherocks of sympathy
for mankind, a powerful suggestion OF
the sacrifice OF Christ in late" years, it
is a very poor book compared with
that book which we hug to our hearts