Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-29

blond, and the SILVER turns 10 IDe koiu-
/ en-. 1t covers thirteen acres Of ground
What an antiquity It was at least two
Thousand years old when the baby Christ
+ was carried within sight of il by his fugi-
+ tive parents, Joseph aud Mary. The storms
of forty centuries have drenched it. bonn
barded il, Swallowed it. flashed upon IT.,
but there il stands, really 70 take another
forty centuries Of atmospheric attack If
! the world should continue 10 exist. The
oldest buildings Of the earth are Juniors
TO this great senior OF the centuries.
! HeroAotus says thar for ten years prepa.
rations were being made for the building
VI this pyramid. Il has risity-two mil
/ lion one hundred and eleven Thousand
rubic feet OF masonry One hundred thou
land workmen at one time toiled IN its
erection. To bring the stone from the
guarries causeway sixty feet wide was
built. The top stones were lifted by ma
chinery such as the world knows nothing
of today. 1t is seven hundred and forty
six feet each side Of the square base. The
structure is four hundred and fifty feet
high; higher than the eathedrals OF Co
logne, Strasburg, Rouen, ST. Peters and
st. Paul's. No surprise TO me that IL WAS
put at the head OF the seven wonders OF
the world. It has subterraneous room
of red granite called the liking chamber, y
and another room called the queens
chamber, and the probability is that there
are other rooms yet UNEMPLOYED.
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, If you
would enter these subterraneous rooms.
you must go through passage only three
feet eleven inches high and less than four
feet wide. A sarcophagus OF red granite
stands down under this ouItain OF ma
sorry. The sarcophagus could not have
been carried in after the pyramid was
built. 1t must have been put there before
the structure was reared. Probably Ia
that sarcophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing dead king. but time has de-
stroyed the coffin and destroyed the last
vestige of human remains.
For three Thousand years this sepulchral
room was unopened, and would have been
until today probably unopened had not a
superstitious impression got abroad that
the heart OF the pyramid was filed with
silver and gold and diamonds. and under
Al Mamoun an excavating party went TO
work, and having bored and blasted
through hundred feet OF rock, they found
no opening ahead. and were about 10 give
up the attempt when the workmen heard
a stone roll down into a seemingly hollow
place, and encouraged by that they re
sumed their work and came into the under
ground 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 assassinated Al Ma
monu, 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 at ordinary rates Of wages and in
duced them there TO dig till they TO their
surprise came upon adequate compensa-
ton.
WAS THE DESIGN GODS owS.
| wonder not that this mountain OF lime.
stone and red granite has been the fascina.
tion Of scholars, Of scientists, of intelligent
Christians In all ages. Sir John Herschel.
the astronomer. said he thought it had as
Economical significance. The wise men
who accompanied Napoleon's army into
Egypt went into profound stndy Of the
pyramid In 1865 Professor Smyth and his
wife lived In the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as continuous
~ as possible close 20 the pyramid which
they were investigating The pyramid.
built more than four thousand years ago,
being complete geometrieal figure, wise
men have concluded it must have been
diyinely constructed. Man came through
thousands Of years 10 fine architecture, 10
music, TO painting. but this was perfect at
the worlds start, and God must have
directed it,
All astronomers and geometrieians and
scientists say that it was scientifically and
mechanically constructed before science
and mathematics were born. From the
inscriptions on the pyramid. from IFS pro
portions, from the points of the compass
recognized in It's structure, from the diree-
ton in which its tunnels run, from the
relative position of the blocks that com
pose it. scientists, Christians and infidels
have demonstrated that the being who
planned this pyramid must have known
the sphericity. and that its motion
was rotary, and how many miles ii was in
diameter 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 four Thousand years since the
putting mp Of that pyramid has a 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 astron-
omer OF an architect or 2 mathematician
worth mentioning Who then planned
the pyramidY Who superintendent its
erectionp Who from its first foundation
stone TO its capstone erected everything
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 aud
it shall be for = sign and witness. The
pyramid is Gods first Bible. Hundreds,
If 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 masonry
q sign and witnesss Among other things
of the prOlongation of human work com
pared with the brevity Of human life. In |
all the four Thousand years this pyramid |
has only lost eighteen feet in width; one |
side OF its square at the base changed only |
from seven hundred and sixty-four feet to /
seven hundred and forty-six feet. aud the
most of that eighteen feet taken off by 1