Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-09
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DR. TALmhGz PReAcHEs A SERMON
ON THE GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.


neyings In the Old worId-His visit to
the GTecian Islands.
BROOKLYN. Nov. S-An overflowing
congregation at the Brooklyn Taber
nacle this morning attested the Interest
the religious public is taking in the
series of sermons DIR. Talmage is preach
ing on what he saw confirInatOry o.
the Scriptures during his tour from
the Pyramids to the Acropolis. This
mornings sermon, the fourth of the
series. was on the islands of the Greek
archipelago The doctor took two
texts: Acts xxi, 3. ''When we had dis
covered Cyprus we left it on the left
hand" and Revelation !, 3, Il. John.
was in tlIe isle that is called Patinos.
Goodby. Egypt Although interest
ing and Instructive beyond any coun
try In all the world, excepting the Holy
Land, Egypt was to lie somewhat de
pressing. 1t was post mortem exami
nation OF cities that died four thousand
years ago. The mumnies, or wrapped
up bodies of the dead, were prepared
with reference to the Resurrection day.
the Egyptians departing this life want
ing their bodies TO be kept in as good
condition as possible so that they would
be presentable when they were called
again to occupy them. But If when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds
his body looking as saw his mummy
in the museum at Boulac, his soul will
become an unwilling tenant. The
Sphinx also was to me a stern mon
strosity, statue carved out of rock of
red granite sixty-two feet high and
about one hundred and forty three feet
long, and having the head of man
and the body of lion.
We sat down in the sand of the
African desert to study it, With
cold smile it has looked down upon
thousands of years of earthly history
Egyptian civilization, Grecian civiliza.
ton, Roman civilization; upon the rise
and fall of thrones innumerable; the
victory and defeat of the armies of
centuries. IL took three thousand
years to make one wrinkle on its red
cheek. 1t is dreadful in its stolidity. |
Its eyes have never wept a tear. Its
cold ears have not listened to the |
groans of the Egyptian nation, the
burden of which l tried to weigh last |
Sabbath. Its heart is stone. 1t cared
not for Pliny when he measured it in !
the first century. 1t will care nothing |
for the man who looks into its imper- |
turbable countenance in the last cen !
tury.
EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life. The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great Doctor Lansing, are sound
ing a resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires There will be some
other Joseph at Memphis There will
be some other Moses on the banks of
the Nile. There will be some other
Hypatia 10 teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead of a destroying
angel TO slay the frstborn of Egypt,
the angel of the New Testament will l
shake everlasting life from his wings
over a nation born in day.
When, soon after my arrival In Egypt, c
took part in the solemn and tender q
'bsequies of missionary from our own S
and, dying there far away from the l
epulchers Of her fathers, and saw
lround her the dusky and weeping con-
yregation of those whom she had come
% save, said to myself: Here is self
sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is
heroism immortal. Here is a queen
unto God forever. Here is something
grander than the pyramids. Here is
that which thrills the heavens. Here
Is a specimen of that which will yet
save the world.
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds
us on the steamer Minerva in the Gre
clan archipelago. the islands of the
New Testament, and islands Paulinian
and Johannian in their reminiscence.
What Bradshaw's directory is 10 travel
ers In Europe, and what the railroad
guide Is To travellers In America, the
Book Of the Acts in the Bible is TO voy-
ayers in the Greoian, or as | shall call
1t, the Gospel archipelago. The Bible
geography of that region is accurate
without a shadow of mistake. We are
sailing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in the opposite
direction 10 that which Paul voyaged.
Hewas sailing southwark aud we north
ward. With him II was Ephesus,
Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus With us II is
reversed, and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos.
Ephesus. There is no book In the
world so accurate as the Divine Book.
Ny text says that Paul left Cyprus
ON the left, We, going In the opposite
have 1t on the right. On our
ship Minerva We're only two or three
passengers besides our party, so we had
plenty of room 20 walk the deck, and
Oh, what night was Christmas night
Df 1889 In that Gnecian archipelago
Stands of light above, islands OF beauty
Ii is a royal family Of islands,
his Grecian aTchipelago-the crown Of
he worlds scenery set with sapphire
md emerald aud topaz aud chrysopra-
Ius, and ablaze with glory that seems
ct down out OF celestial landscapes.
}od evidently made up his mind that
,ist here he would demonstrate the
almost that can be done with islands
or the Identification Of earthly seen
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