The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23

| minutes. we would ratner nave gwen
him dollar not to go, but this ascent
and descent In seven minutes he was
determined on and so by the watch In
seven minutes he went to the top and
was back again at the base. 1t was a
bloodcurdling spectacle.
said the dominant color OF the pyra.
mid was gray, but in certain lights il
seems to shake off the gray of centuries
and become a blond and the silver
turns to the golden. 1t covers thirteen
acres of ground. What an antiquity
1t was at least two thousand years old
when the baby Christ was carried with
In sight of it by his fugitive parents,
Joseph and Mary, The storms of forty
centuries have drenched it, bomibarded
1t, Swallowed it, flashed upon it, but
there it stands ready to take another
forty centuries of atmospheric attack II
the world should continue to exist.
The Oldest buildings of the earth are
juniors to this great senior of the cen.
turtles, ierodotus says that for ten
years preparations were being made
for the building of this pyramid 1t
has eighty-two million one hundred
and eleven thousand cubic feet of ma,
sorry. One hundred thousand work,
men at one time toiled in its erection,
To bring the stone from the quarries a
causeway sixty feet wide was built.
The top stones were lifted by machin.
cry such as the world knows nothing
of today. 1t is seven hundred and
forty-six feet each side of the square
base. The structure is four hundred
and fifty feet high, higher than the
cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg,
Rouen, st. Peters and st. Paul's.
No surprise to me that it was put at
the head of the Seven Wonders of the
World. 1t has subterraneous room of
red granite called the kings chamber, 81
and another room called the Queens
chamber" and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet UNEMPLOYED.
The evident design of the architect
was to make these rooms as inacces-
sible as possible After all the work OF
exploration and all the tA.,ging and
blasting, if you would enter these sub
terraneous rooms you must go through
a passage only three feet eleven inches
high and less than four feet wide.
THE GREAT KING TURNED TO DUST.
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. Probably in that
sarcophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing dead king, but time has
destroyed the coffin and destroyed the
last vestige of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepul-
chral room was unopened, and would
have been until today probably I'M
opened had not supersttious impress
sion got abroad that the heart of the
pyramid was filled with silver and gold
and diamonds, and under AL Mamoun
an excavating party went to work, and
having bored and blasted through a
hundred feet Of rock they found no
opening ahead, and were about to give
| up tile attempt when the workmen
| heard stone roll down into seeming
ly hollow place, and encouraged by
into the underground rooms.
| The disappointment of the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty of all
silver and gold and precious stones was
SO great that they would have assas-
sinated Al Mamoun, who employed
them, had he not hid in another part
of the pyramid as much silver and gold
as would pay them for their work at
ordinary rate of wages and induced
them there to dig till they, to their sur
prise. came upon adequate compensa-
ton.
wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, OF
intelligent Christians in all ages Sir
John Herschel the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical signif
canoe. The wise men who accompa-
MED Napoeons army into Egypt went
into profound study of the pyramid
In 1865, Professor Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tonbs near by the
pyramid that they might be as contin
uously as possible close to the pyramid,
which they were investigating.
The pyramid built more than fcu
Thousand years ago, being a complc;,.
geometrical figure, wise inen have cou
cluded it ivlst have been divincly c,n,
structed. Man came through ti.um
sands of years to fine architecture. =.
music, to painting, but this was p,.r..r;
at the worlds start. and God mu
have directed It. All astronomers and
geometricians and scientists say that it
was scientifically and mathematically
constructed before science and mathe-
MATES were born. From the inrcrip.
tons on the pyramid, from its proper
tons. from the points of the compass
recognized in its structure from the
direction in which its tunnels run, from
the relative position of the blocks that
compose it. scientists. Christians and in,
iidcls have demonstrated that the be-
ms who plan'ed this pyramid must
have known the worlds sphericity, and
that it's motion was rotatory, and how
many miles it was in diameter and cir
cumfcrrncr, and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at what point
in the heavens certain stars would APP
pear 1T certain periods of time.
Not in tine four thousand years since
the putting up of that pyramid has 3
single fact in astronomy or matlIe
MATES been found to contradict the
wisdom of that structure Yet they
had not ct the age when the pyramid
was started an astronomer or an archi-
tect or a mathematician worth men
tioniny. WHO, then, planned the pyra
midi Who superintended its erection
Who from its first foundation stone to
its capstone erected everything? Ii