Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-31
JOURNEYING UP THE NILE.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage Discour-
seS on the Great Stream.
Influences OF the River On Egypt Described
ktAAt-Fulhilmen of the Prophecy of
IsalAh-Alcxanirla'a iiiatorlc.
Scsnes he Bibie saved
From NIL Halo
cnusts.

organ OF the Brooklyn tabernacle this
morning, by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne,
the organist. held the vast congrega-
ton spellbound with profound emotion.
DR.. Talmage preached on Sailing up
the Nile" the second sermon OF the
series, the second sermon OF the series,
entitled From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis, or What l saw in Egypt and
Greece, Coniirmatory Of the Scrip
lures" His text was Ezekiel xxx, 9,
'The river is mine and l have made
it."
Aha! This Is the river Nile. A
brown, or yellow, or silver cord on
which are hung more jewels OF thrill
ing interest than on any river that was
eyer twisted in the sunshine. II rip
pies through the book Of Ezekiel and
flashes in the books OF Deuteron omy
and Isaiah, and Zechariah, and Nahum,
and on its banks stood the mightiest OF
many ages. 1t was the crystal cradle
Of Moses, and on its banks, Mary, the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To
find the birthplace OF this river was the
fascination and defeat OF expeditions
without number. Not many years ago
Bayard Taylor, our great American
traveller, wrote: "Slnce Columbus
first looked upon San Salvador. the
earth has but one emotion OF triumph
left for her bestowal and that she re-
serves for him who shall first drink
from the fountains OF the White Nile
under the snow fields OF Kilimanjaro."
But the discovery OF the sources OF the
Nile by most people was considered an
impossi The malarias, the wild
beasts, the savages, the unclimbable
sleeps, the vast distances, stopped all
the expeditions for ages. An intelli-
gent native said to Sir Samuel w.
Baker and wife as they were on their
way to accomplish that in which others
had failed: "Give up the mad scheme
OF the Niles source. How would it be
possible for a lady, young and delicate.
to endure what would kill the strongest
man! Tive IL up.
But the work went on until Spoke.
and Grant, and Baker found the two
lakes which are the source OF what was
called the White Nile, and baptized
these two lakes with the names OF Vic
toria and Albert These two lakes
filed by great rainfalls and by accumu-
lated SHOWS from the mountains pour
their waters, laden with agricultural
wealth such as blesses no other river
on down over the cataracts, on between
frowning mountains, on between cities
living and cities dead, on for 4, 900 miles
and through continent. But the
White Nile would do little for Egypt IL
this were all. 1t would keep its banks
and Egypt would remain desert. But
from Abyssinia there comes what Is
called the Blue Nile, which, though
dry or nearly dry half the year, under
tremendous rains about the middle OF
June rises to great momentum, and this
Blue Nile dashes sudden influx into the
White Nile, which in consequence rises
thirty feet. and their combined waters
inunda:e Egypt with rich soil which
drops on all the fields and gardens as it
is conducted by bitches, and sluices,
and canals every whittier.
The greatest damage that ever came |
to Egypt came by the drying up OF the
river Nile, and the greatest blessing by
its healthful and abundant flow. The
famine in Joseph's time came from the
lack OF sufficient inurdation from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drought. too
much Nile is freshet and plague. The
rivers OF the earth are the mothers OF
Its prosperity. II by some CONFUSION
Of nature the Mississippi should be
taken from North America, or the Am
AEON for South America, or the Danube
from Europe, or the Yenesel from Asia,
what hemisphere calamity! Still
there are other rivers that could fertil-
ize and save countries. Our own conti- |
nent Is gulched, is ribboned, is glori-
fed by innumerable water courses.
But Egypt has only one great river,
and that Is harnessed to draw all the
properties OF realms in acreage semi |
infinite.
The pyramids in sight, the remains
OF cities that are now only name, the
villages thronged with population. |
Both banks crowded with historical |
Qeeub OI lOTbl VI clAtl CCubuNACos W. |
what O book the Bible is when you read |
on the Nile! AS we slowly move up
the majestic river l see on each bank
the wheels, the pumps, the buckets for
irrigation, and see q man with his foot |
on the treadle Of q wheel that fetches
I'D the water for o garden, and then for |
the first time understand that passage !
in Deuteronomy which says OF the Is
realities after they had got back from
Egypt: 1.-THE land whittier thou goest
In TO possess It Is not as the land OF
Egypt, from whence ye came out where
thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst
Il with thy FOOT Then understood |
how the land could be watered with the
foot. How do you suppose felt when
on the deck of that steamer on the Nile
I looked of upon the canals and bitches |
and sluices through which the fields
are irrigated by that river and then
read In IstliAh ''The burden OF Egypt:
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