Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-26

in reverence to sacred places. Chill
dren carried astride the mothers shoul
der as in Hagar's time Women with
profuSion of jewelry as when Rebeccf
was atiianced Lentils sheilcd iat0 the
pottage, as when ESau sold his birth
right to get such a dish The same
habits of sautation II when Joseph anC
his brethren fell on each others nechs
Courts of law held under big trees as
in olden times. People making bricks
without straw, compelled by circum
stances to use stubble instead of straw
Flying over or standing Oh the banks
as in Scripture days, are fiamingoes, Os
preys, eagles, pelicans herons, cuckoOs
and bullfinches On all sides of this
river sepulcherS Villages of sepulchers.
Cities of sepulc;lars Nations of sepul
cheers. And ome is tempted to call it an
empire of tomOs, ! never saw sIlc.l |;
place as Egypt is for graves. And now
we understand the complaining sarcasm
of the Isr;teIitea when they were o! t.le
way from Eyypt to Canaan. "Becausc
there are no graves in Egypt hast ton
Down the river bank co:ac the buiTal
and the cattle or kline To drink. and II
was the asc2S, Jrs of these cattle t. t
inspired Phar;loh's dream Of the lean
kline and the fat kline.
Here we diselnbarl Il little while for
Memphis, off from the Nile to tile right.
Memphis founded by the first king OF
Egypt and for Il long while the capital.
A city of marble and gold. Home of
the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles in cir
cumference Vast cOlonnades through
which imposing professions marched.
Here stood the Temple of the Sun, it
self in brilliancy Il sun shOne OH by an
other sun. Thebes in power over a
thousand one hundred years. or nearly
ten times as long as the United States
have existed. Here is q reculnbent
statue seventy-tive feet long. Bronzed
gateways. A metropolis called the
haven of the blest" Here Joseph was
prime minister Here Pharaoh received
Jacob. All possible splendors were
built up into this royal city, Hosea,
Ezekiel, jeremiah and Isaiah speak of
it as something wonderful.
Never did | visit a city with such ex-
allied anticipations and never did my
anticipatiOns drop so flat. Not pillar
Not a wall is unbroken Not
a fountain losses in the sun. Evem the
ruins have been ruined and all that
are chips of marble, small
pieces of fractured sculpture and splin-
tered human bones. Here and there a
letter of some elaborate inscription, u
toe or ear of statue that once stood
in niche Of palace wall. Ezekiel proph-
esied its blotting out, and the prophecy
has been fulfilled.
Ride on, | said to our party, land
don't wait for Inc" And rs | stood
there alone the city of Memphis in the
glory of past centuries returned. And
| heard the rush Of her cIariots, and
the dash of her fountains, and the con
VITALITY of her palaces, and saw the
drunken mobiles roll on the floors OF mo-
sale, while i'll startling contrast amid
all the royalties of the place saw Pha
raoh look up into the face of aged. rus
tic Jacob, the shepherd, saying, "Iow
old art thou?"
THE CITY OF NO.
But back To the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes, in Scripture
called the City of No. Hundred gated
Thebes. \ quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit. Four great
two of them Karnac and
Luxor, once mountains of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solicited
in stone Statue of Rameses II, eight
hundred and eighty-seven tons in
weight and seventy-fve feet high but
now fallen and scattered Walls
abloom with the battlefields of cen
turtles
The surrounding hills of rock hol-
lowed into sepulchers on tie wall of
which are chiseled in picture and hier-
Oglyphics the confirmation of Bible
story in regard to the treatment of the
Israelites in Egypt, SO that rs explora-
tons go on with the work the walls of
the sepulchers become commentaries
Of the Bible, the Scriptures originally
written upon parchment here cut into
everlasting stone Thebes mighty and
dominant five hundred years. Then
she went down in fuliillmcnt OF EEakiel's
concerning the City Of No,
which was another name for Thebes:
II will execute Judgment in No. | will
cut off the multitudes of No" Jere-
niah also prophesied, THUS saith the
Lord, l will punish the multitudes
IF No"
This city of Thebes and all the other
lead cities of Egypt iterate and reiter-
lte the veracity of the Scriptures, tell
ng the same story which Moses and
he prophets told. Have you noticed
low God kept back these archaeological
of the Bible until our
lime, when the air is full Of unbelief
lbOut the truthfulness of the dear old
book? He waited until the printing
,ress had been set up in its perfected
hape, and the submarine cable was
aid, and the world was intelligent
nough to appreciate the testimony,
md then he resurrected the dead cities
If the earth and commands item, say
ng: open your long sealed lips anil
peak! Memphis and Thebes, is the
Bible trueg" "TrueT respond Mem
ibis and Thebes Babylon i; the
,ook of Daniel true?" True" re
ponds Babylon Ruins Of Palestine
md Syria, is the New Testament
rue?" True" respond The ruins all
he way from JOppa to the Dead sea,
md from Jerusalem to Damascus
What mercy that this estmony OF
he dead cities should come al q time
When the Bible is especially assailed.
And this work will 60 on until the We
acity and divinity of the Scriptures
will be as certain to all sensible men
nd women rs that two and two Ila.1e
our as that an iSOsceles Triangle is one |
which has two of its sides equal, aus
hat the diameter of circle is.a line
rawn through the center a:!l ter
minated by the circumference as Ger
ain as any mathematical demonstra-
ion.
Never did | feel more encouraged /
han when after preaching a sermon on
vdences of the truth Of the Bible |
rawn from oriental lands y ttistin-
uiShed senator of the United States. |