The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-10-29

Gizoh and the Lessons 1t Teaches.
BROOKLYN, Oct. lS.-The vast con-
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delighted by an ex-
quislto rendering, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, of
Denier's second sonata in G. DR.. Tai
mage's sermon was the first Of q series
he intends preaching on his eastern tour,
entitled, "From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis. or What Saw in Egypt and
Greece ConlirmatOTy Of the Scriptures. -
His text was Isaiah xix, 10, 20: "In
that day shall there be an altar to the
Lord III the midst of the land of Eyypt,
and pillar ut tic border thereOftO the
Lord. And it shall be for sign and
for witness"
isaiah no doubt hare refers TO the
great pyramid at Gizch, the chief pyra-
mid of Egypt. The text speaks of a
pillar in Egypt, and this is the greatest
pillar ever llted; and the text says it is
to be at the border of the land, aud this
pyramid is at tl,e border of the land;
and the text says it shall bc !or a wit
ness, and the object OF this sermon is
to tell what this pyramid witnesses.
This scrmou is The first of course of
sermons entitled, 'From The Pyramids
to the AcropClis, or What | Saw in
Egypt and Greece Conlirmatory of the
Scriptures"
We had, on q morning of December,
1852, landed in Africa. Amid the howl.
ing hoatman at Alexandria We had come
ashore and taken the rail train tor Cairo,
Egypt, along tie banks of the most
thoroughly harnasscd river of all the
world-the river Nile. We had at even
tide entered the city of Cairo, the CITY
where Christ dwclL while staying IN
Egypt during the IIerodic persecution.
1t was our first night in Egypt. No des-
troying angel sweeping through as once,
but all the stars were out, and the skies
were filled with angels OF beauty and
angels Of light, and the air was baimy
as an American June. The next morn
ING we were early awake and at the VIM
dow, looking upon palm trees in full
glory Of leatage, and upon gardens OF
fruits and flowers at the very season
when our homes far away are canopied
by bleak skies and the last leaf of the
forest has gone down in the cQuinoctials.
But how ran describe the thrill OF
expectation, ior today we are TO see
what all the world has seen or wants to
see--the pyramids. We are mounted
FOR an hour and hali's ride. We pass
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and
carpets, and curious fabrics Of all sorts
from Smyrna, from Alglers, from Per-
sia, from Turkey. We meet camels
gruntlng under their loads, and see buff
faloes 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 tamcrisk, but az
ter awhile it IS path of rock and sand,
and we find we have reached the mar
gin Of the desert, The great Sahara des-
ert, and we cry out to the dragoman as
we see huge pile Of rock looming in
sight, ''Dragoman, what Is that" His
answer IS, The pyramid" and then it
seemed as if we were living n century
every minute. Our thoughts and emo
tons were too rapid and intence for ut
tcrance, and We ride on in silence until
we come to the foot of The pyramid
spoken of in the text, the oldest struc-
ture in all the earth, tour thousand years
old at least. Here it is. We stand I'M
der the shadow of a structure that shuts
out all the earth and all the sky, and we
look up and strain our vision to apprc.
ciatc the distant top, and are over
whelmed while we cry, 1.-THE pyramid!
The Pyramid"
Each person in our party had two or
three guides 0" helpers. One of them
unrolled his turban and tied it around
my waist and he held the other end of
the lban as matter OF safety. Many
OF the blocks Ct stone arc four or five
feet high and beyond any ordinary hu-
man stride unless assisted. But, two
Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, |
found mys' If rapidly ascending from
height to height. and on to attitudes ter.
rifle. and al last at the tptOp we found
ourselves or q level space Of about thir-
ty feet square. Through clcarest at
mospherc We clOoked off upon the desert,
and off upon the winding Nile, and oil
upon the Sphinx, with its features OF
Severlasting stone, and yondcr upon the
Mhirarets o. Cairo giittcring in the sun,
VApd yorfCler sipUrt Memphis in ruins, and
-. OIL upon the wreck OF empires and the
battlelields OF ages, a radius of view
enough to fiji the mind and shock the
nerves and OVerWhelm ones entire be.
ing. Alter looking around for awhile
and q Kodak had pictured the group, We
depended.
l said the dominant color of the
pyramid was gray, but IN certain light.
it seems to shake off the gray OF cen
turles and become blond, and the sill
yer turns to the golden. 1t covers Lhir
teen acres Of ground. What an anti
guilty! 1t was at least two thousanc
years old when the baby Christ was car.
ried within sight of it by his fugitive
parents, Joseph and Mary. The storms
Of forty centuries have drenched it, bonn.
barded it, shadowed it. flashed upon it
bat there it stands, ready to take another
forty centuries of atmospheric attack il
the world should continue to exist.
The oldest buildings of the earth are
juniors to this great sonior of the cen
turtles.
Herodotus says that for ten years
preparations were being made for the
building OF this pyramid. 1t has eighty.
two million one hundred and eleven
thousand cubic feet Of masonry. One
hundred thousand workmen at one time
toiled in its erection. TO bring the stone
from the quarries causeway sixty ieet