Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-11-05

lures Of everlasting stone, and yonder
upon the minarets of Carlo glittering
in the sun, and yonder upon Memphis
in ruins, and off upon the wreck OF
empires and the battlefield of ages, a
radius Of veiw enough to fill the mind
and shock the nerves and overwhelm
ones entire being.
After looking around for while,
and a kodak had pictured the
group. we descended. The descent
was more trying than the ascent for
climbing you need not see the depths
beneath, but coming down it was i'm.
possible not to see the abysms below.
But two Arabs ahead to helpus down,
and two Arabs to hold us back we
were lowered, hand below hand, until
the ground was invitingly near, and
amid the jargon of the Arabs we were
safely landed. Then came one of the
most wonderful feats of daring and
agility. One of the Arabs solicited
dollar, saying he would run up and
down the pyramids in seven minutes.
We would rather have given him a
dollar not to go,but this ascent and
descent in seven minutes he was deter
mined on and so by the watch in seven
minutes he.went to the top and was
back again at the base. It was
bloodcurdling spectacle,
l said the dominant color of the
pyramid was gray but in certain lights
it seems to shake off the gray of cen
turtles and become blonde and the
silver turns to the golden. It covers.
43 acres of ground. What an antiq-
uity!s 1t was at least 1000 years old
~. WHEN THE BABY CHRIST
was carried within sight OF it by his
fugitive parents, Joseph and Mary.
The storms of 40 centuries have
drenched it, bombarded it, Swallowed
it, flashed upon it, but there it stands
ready to take another 40 centuries of
atmospheric attack if the world
should continue to exist. The oldest
buildings of the earth are juniors to
this great senior of the centuries.
Herodotus says that for 10 years
preparations were being made for the
building of this pyramid. 1t has 81
Ill, 900 cubic feet of masonry. One
hundred thousand workman at one
time toiled in it's erection. To
bring the stone from the quarrles
causeway 60 feet wide was built.
The top stones were lifted up by ma
chinery such as the world knows
nothing Of today. It is TAG feet each
side of the square base. The struc-
ture is $50 feet high, higher than the
cathedrals of Cologne, Stratsburg,
Rouen, St. Peters and St. Paul's. No
surpsise to me that it was put at the
head of the seven wonders CT the
world. 1t has a subterraneous room
of red granite called the "queen's
chamber" and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
The evident design OF the architect
was to make these room as inaccessi-
BILE as possible. After all the work of
exploration and all the digging and
blasting, if you would enter these SUBJ
terraneous 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 MOUNTAIN OF MASONRY.
The sarcophagus could not have
been carried in after the pyramid was
built. 1t must have been put there
before the structure was reared. Pro-
badly in that sarcophagus once lay a
wooden coffin containing dead king,
but time has destroyed the coffin and |
destroyed the last vestige of human
remains.
wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been
the fascination of scholars, OF scien-
fists, of intelligent Christians in all
ages. Sir John Herschel the astrono-
mer, said he thought it had as
Economical significance. The wise
men who accompanied Napoleon's
army into Egypt went into profound
study of the pyramid. In 1865 Prof.
Smyth and his wife lived in the empty
tombs near by the pyramid that they
might be as continuously as possible
close to the pyramid which they were
investigating. The pyramid, baltimore
than 4, 900 years ago, being a COM
plete geometrical figure, wise men have
concluded it must have been divinely
constructed. Man came through |
thousands of years to fine architect
ure. to music, to painting, but this
was perfect at the worlds start, and
God must have directed it. All as
tronomers and geometricians and
say that it was scientifically
and mathematically constructed be-
fore science and mathematics were
born. From the Inscriptions on the
from it's proportions, from
the points OF the compass recognized
in it's structure, from the direction in
which it's tunnels run, from the re-
lative position of the blocks that COM
pose it,
CHRISTIANS AND NF1DELs
have demonstrated that the being
who planned this pyramid must have
known the worlds spherlcity, and
that it's motion was rotatory, and
how many miles it 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 1000 years since
the putting up of that pyramid has a
single fact in astronomy or mathe-
matics been found to contradict the
wisdom of that structure. Yet they