News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22

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it, Swallowed it, flashed upon it, bu
there it stands ready to take anothe
forty centuries of atmospheric attack i
the world should continue to exist
The oldest buildings of the earth art
juniors to this great senior of the cen
turtles. Herodotus says that for tel
years preparations were being made
for the building of this pyramid. II
has eighty-two million one hundred
and eleven thousand cubic feet of ma
sonry. One hundred thousand work
men at one time toiled IN its erection
To bring the stone from the quarries 6
causeway sixty feet wide was built
The top stones were lifted by machin
cry such as the world knows nothing
of today 1t is seven hundred anC
forty-six feet each side of the square
base. The structure is four hundred
and fifty feet high, higher than the
cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg
Rouen, ST. Peters and ST. Paul's.
No surprise to me that it was put al
the head of the Seven Wonders of the
World. 1t has a subterraneous room OF
red granite called the kings chamber,
and another room called the Queens
chamber" and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet uneXplored.
The evident design of the architect
was to make these rooms as inacces
sible as possible After all the work OF
exploration and all the digging and
blasting, if you would enter these sub
terraneous rooms you must go through
a passage only three feet eleven inches
high and less than four feet wide.
THE GREAT KING TURNED TO DUST.
A sarcophagus of red granite stands
down under this mountain of masonry.
The sarcophagus could not have been
carried in after the pyramid was bat
1t must have been put there before the
structure was reared. Probably in that
sareophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing a dead king, but time has
destroyed the coffin and destroyed the
last vestige of human remains
For three thousand years this sepul-
| chral room was unopened, and would
have been until today probably I'M
| opened had not superStitiOus impress
sion got abroad that the heart of the
pyramid was filled with silver and gold
and diamonds, and under 4! MamOun
an excavating party went TO work, and
having bored and blasted through a
hundred feet of rock they found no
opening ahead, and were about to give
up the attempt when the workmen
heard a stone roll down into a seeming
ly hollow place, and encouraged by
that they resumed their work and came
into the underground 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 assas
sinated Al Mamoun, who employed
them, had he not hid in another part
of the pyramid as much silver and gold
as would pay them for their work at
ordinary rate of wages and induced
them there to dig till they, to their sur
prise, came upon adequate compensa-
ton.
| wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical signii
cance The wise men who accompa-
MED Napoleon's army into Egypt went
into profound study of the pyramid.
In 1865, Professor Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as cOntin-
uously as possible close to the pyramid,
which they were investigating.
The pyramid built more than four
thousand years ago, being complete
geometrical figure, wise men have con
cluded it must have been divinely con
structed Man came through thou
sands of years to fine architecture, to
music, to painting, but this was perfect
at the worlds start, and God must
have directed it. All astronomers and
geometricians and scientists say that it
was scientifically and automatically
constructed before science and mathe-
MATES were born From the inrcrip-
tons on the pyramid, from its proper
lions, from the points of the compass
recognized in its structure, from the
direction in which its tunnels run, from
the relative position of the blocks that
compose it, scientists, Christians and in
fdels have demonstrated that the be-
Ing who planned this pyramid must
have known the worlds sphericity, and
that its motion was rotatory, and how
many miles it was in diameter and cir
conference and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at what point
in the heavens certain stars would APP
pear at certain periods of time.
Not in the four thousand years since
the putting up of that pyramid has
single fact in astronomy or mathe
mates been found to contradict the
wisdom of that structure. Yet they
had not at the age when the pyramid
was started an astronomer or an archi-
tect or mathematician worth men
tioning. Who, then, planned the pyra-
mid? Who superintendent its erection2
Who from its first foundation stone to |
its capstone erected everything2 II |
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 |
and it shall be for a sign and a wit
ness" 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
THE SIGN AND SYMBOL OF ETERNITY.
Well, of what is this Cyclopean ma
sorry a sign and a witness? Among |
other things, of the prolongation of |
human work compared with the brew, |
ity 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, and
the most of that eighteen feet taken
off by architects to furnish stone for
building in the city of Cairo
The men who constructed the pyra-
mid worked at it only few years and
then put down the trowel, and the com
pass, and the square and lowered the
derrick which had lifted the ponderous
weights; but forty centuries has their
work stood, and it will be good for
forty centuries more All Egypt has
been shaken by terrible earthquakes
and cities have been Frustrated or
bat that pyramid has detied
all volcanic paroxysms. 1t has looked
upon some of the greatest battles ever
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