The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-06
UP THE NILE.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Dis.
courses on His Late journey.
Journeying Up the NTe-The Great River
and Its Observation-Disclosures of
Prophecy-Historic Scenes Described
Truth OF the Scriptures.

In continuation OF his series OF SER
mons at Brooklyn upon his late Journey
to the Holy Land, Rev. T. De- Witt
Talmage in his second discourse took his
text from Ezekiel xxx. o, The river
Is mine and l have made it" He said:
Aha! This is the river Nile. A
brown, or yellow, or silver on which
are hung more Jewels of thrilling in.
terest than on any river that has ever
twisted in the sunshine. 1t ripples
through the book of Ezekiel and flashes
in h books Of Deuteronomy, and
Isaiah, and Iachariah, and Nahum.
and on its banks stood the mighties Of
many ages IL was the crystal cradle
OF Moses, and on its banks, Mary, the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To
lind the birthplace of this river was
the fascination and defeat of expedi-
tions without mum Der. Not many years
ago Bayard Taylor, our great American
traveller, wrote: 'Since Columbus first
looked upon San Salvador, the earth has
but one emotion of triumph left for her
bestnwal and that she reserves for him
who shall first drink from the fountains
of the White Nile under the snow fields
OF ~kilimanjaro." But tho discovery of
the sources of the Nile by most people
was considered an impossibility. The
malarias, the wild beasts, the unclimb-
able sleeps, the vast distances, stopped
all the expeditions for ages.
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 Town over the cataracts for 1900
miles and through a continent. But
the White Nile would do little for
Egypt if this were all. 1t would keep
its banks and Egypt would remain a
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 mo-
mentum, and the Blue Nile daShes with
sudden influx into the White Nile,
which in consequences rises thirty feet,
and their combined waters inundate
Egypt with a rich soil which drops on
all the fields and gardens as it is con-
Quoted by bitches and ~sluices, and
canals every whittier.
The greatest damage that ever anne
10 Egypt came by the drying up Of the
river Nile, and the greatest blessing
10y its healthful and abundant flow.
The famine in ~Joscph's time came from
the lack of sufficient ~inundation from
the Nile. Not enough Nile Is drought,
too much Nile is freshet and plague.
What happens to the Nile happens
% Egypt. The nilomctcr was 10 me
very Suggestive AZ we went mp aud
down its stone steps N saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters of the Nile
When the Nile is rising, four crier:
every morning run through the city an
~nouncing how many fcct the river has
risen-ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet
twenty-four feet-and when the right
height of water is reached the gates OF
the canals are flung open and the liquid
and refreshing bcnediction Is pro
nounced on all the land.
As we start where the Nile cmptics
into the Mediterranean sea we behadt
a wonderful fulfiliment 9EnroDhccy.
The Nile in v~erSssrrcicnt times used to
x ave seven mouths. As the great river
approachcd the sea it entered the sea
mt the seven different places. Isaiah
n~rophesied: The Lord shall utterly
destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea
and shall smite IL in seven y
The fact is they are all destroyed hut
two, and Herodotus said these two re-
manning are artificial. Up the Nile we
shall go. part of the way 10y Egyptian
rail train and then by boat, and we
shall understand why the Bible gives
such prominence Ia this river which Is
the largest river of all the earth, with
one exception. But before we board
the train we must take "A look ut Alex
andria. Ii was founded by Alexander
the Great, and was once the New York,
the Paris, the London of the world.
Temples, palaces. fountains, gardens.
pillared and efiorescent with all
architectural and Elenic grandeur and
sweetness Apollos, the eloquent,
whom in New Testament times some
people tried to make a rival 10 Paul.
lived here. Here Mark. the author of
the second book of tine New Testament
expired under Nero's anathcma From
= al. hin e,,f.l fhnt laft panl md
the crew struggling in the breakers of
Melita- Pompey's pillar is here.
This tower was built in honor of
piocletiau for spariug the rcbcllious
citizens. After having declared that
he would make the blood run IA his
horses knees and his horse fell with
him into the blood and his knees red
dencd. the tyrant took il for granted
that il was n sign he should stop the
massacre and hence this commemora-
tive pillar to his mercy. This is the city
10 which Omar came after building
|. 100 and destroying 1000
temples and *. 900 villages and castles.
vet riding IN on n camel with q sack
Of corn. a sack of figs and a wooden
plate, all that he had kept for himself.
and the diet to which he had limited
himself for most Of the time was bread
and water. Was there ever in any
other man a commingling of elements
so strange. SO weird, so generous. so
cruel, SO mighty. SO weak, SO religious,
SO fanatical?
In this city was the. greatest female
lecturer the world ever saw-Hypatia.
But the lessons of virtue hat she
taught were obnoxious and so they
dr. he. through the streets and
scraped he flesh from her bones with
sharp oyster shells and then burned
the fragment of the massacred body.
And here dwelt Cleopatra. pronounced
70 be the beauty Of all time-although
II her pictures are correct | have seen
n thousand women in Brooklyn more
at,ractive-and she was as bad as she
WAS said to be handsome.
But Alexandria, fascinating FOR this
or that thing, according 10 he taste OF
the visitor, was to me most entertain
ing because il had been the site of the
greatest library the world ever saw,
considering the fact that h art OF
.-- IA ~. Naan ipranfa6 Seven