Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-26
SAILING UP THE NILE.
SECOND SERMON IN Or. TALMAGE'S
SERIES ON HIS TRAVELS.

The Text fro.., Ezekiel xxx. Q. ''Th'
River is Mine, and Have Made tt
\ Sermon That May Bc Read "n,l Pom
dered to Publication.
BROOKLYN, ct. 25.-TEe render
ing of the First Sonata in d Minor, b!
Guilmant, on tie great organ Of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning. By
Professor Henry Eyre Browne, the or
ganist, held the vast congregation
speilbound wiz profound emotion
Dr. Talmage preached on Sailing VI
the Nile" the second sermon of the
series. entitled From The Pyramids tc
the Acropolis: or What Saw i'll Egypt
and Greece ConGrmatory of the Scrip
lures" His text was Ezekiel xxx, 8,
The river IS mine and lave made It.
Aha This is the River Nile, \
brown CT yellow or silver ;lTi on
which are hung more Jewels G.. thrill
ing interest than on Any river tat was
ever twisted in the sunshine ItripG.es
through the book of Ezekiel, and flashes
in the books of Deuteronomy and
Isaiah and Zechariah and Nahum. and
on its banks stood the mig}.ties of
many ages. It was the crystal cradle
of Moses, and on its banks Mary, the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To
find the birthplace of this river was the
fascination and defeat OF expeditions
without number
Not many years ago Bayard Taylor,
our great American traveller, wrote,
"Since Columbus first looked upon San
Salvador the earth has but one emo
ton of triumph left for her bestowal,
and that she reserves for him who shall
first drink from the fountains Of the
White Nile under the snow fields OF
Kilima-Njaro." But the discovery of
the sources of the Nile by most people
was considered an impossibiIity The
malarias, the wild beasts, the sava9es,
the unclimbable sleeps, the vast dis
tances. stopped all the expeditions for
ages.
An intelligent native said to Sir San
uel W. Baker and wife as they were on
their way to accomplish that III which
others had failed: Give up the mad
scheme OF the Nile source. How would
it be possible for lady young and del
icate to endure what would kill the
strongest man? Give it up" But the
work went on until Sake and Grant
and Baker found the two lakes which
are the source of what was called the
lakes with the names of Victoria and
Albert.
These two lakes, filled by great rain
sails and by accumulated SHOWS from
the mountains, pour their waters laden
with agricultural wealth such as blesses
no other river, on down over the cat;-
racts, on between fr3Wning u1s.;intai.:-
on between cities living and c...eS dead.
on for four thousand miles and through
a continent. But the White Nile would
do little for Egypt if this were all! 1t
would keep its banks and Egypt would
remain n desert.
But from Abyssinia there comes what
is called the Blue Nile. Which,. though
dry or nearly dry half the year, under
tremendous rains about the middle Of
June rises to great momentum. and
this Blue Nile dashes with sudden in
fluX into the White Nile, which in con
sequence rises thirty feet, and their
combined waters inundate Egypt With
a rich soil which drops on all the fields
and gardens as it is conducted by
bitches and sluices and canals every
whittier.
The greatest damage that ever came
to Egypt came by the drying up of the
River Nile and the greatest bic sin by
its heaithful and abundant -, : he
famine in Joseph's time came from the
lack of sufficient inumdation from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drouth. too
much Nile is freshet and plagu>. The
rivers of the earth are the mothers of
its prosperity. If by some CONFUSION
Of nature the Mississippi should be
taken from North America. or the Am
azon from South America, or the Dan
ube from Europe, or the Yenisei from
.sia-what hemisphere calamity! Sill
there are other rivers that could fer
tiliZe and save these countries.
Our own continent is gulched, 81.
boned, is glorified by innumera5Ie
water courses. But Egypt has only o..e
great river, and that is harnessed to
draw all the properties Of realms
in acreage semi-infinite What hap
pens to the Nile happens to Egypt.
The NilOmeteT was to me very sugges-
tive as we went up and down its damp
stone steps and saw the pillar marked
with nOtches telling just how high or
low are the waters of the Nile When
the Nile is rising, four criers every
run through the city ;nnOunc-
ing how many feet the river has risen
ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet,
twenty-fOur feet-and when the right
height of water is reached the gates of
the canals are flung open and the liquid
and refreshing benedictiOn is pro-
nounced on all the land
A WONDERFUL FULFILLMkNT OF
PROPHECY.
As we start where the Nile eInptie5
into the Mediterranean sea we behold
4 wonderful fulfillment of prophecy.
The Nile in very ancient times used to
have seven mouths. As the great river
approached the sea it entered the sea
at seven different places. Isaiah proph-
esied, The Lord shall utterly destroy
-he tongue Of the Egyptian sea and
shall sInite it in the seven streams"
The fact is they are all destroyed but
TWO, and Herodotus said these two re-
are artificial Up the Nile we
shall go; part of the way by Egyptian
-ail train and then by boat. and we
shall understand why the Bible gives
such prominence to this river, which is
the largest river of ali the earth with
one exception.
But before we board the train we
must take a look at Alexandria 1t
was founded by Alexander the Great,
and was once the New York, the Paris,
the London of the world. Temples,
palaces, fountains, gardens, pillared
and effiOrescent with all architectural
and Edenic grandeur and sweetness.
Apollos, the eloquent, whom i'll New
Testament Times Soma DaODIa tried TO |