Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-19
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tag was Delighted bY a <gaisike render
Ing. D. Professor H~nrS Eyre Browns, on
ina Few osxas. Ct Denler's s@eoad sonata
lac. Or. fslmsses sermoa vas tae arss
q . series hs sTlLsnds preaching On MS
eastern esus, eatsriet, From the Pyramids
% The Aerspeiis. or What l SAW Ia Exyps
ana Grescs coshruatoFY Of tho scrip
tasss" his text Was Isaiah xix, II. -:
In that d4y shall thers be an altar to tie
Lord in the midst OF tia land CT Esyps,
snd . pillar At the border thereof 10 ths
Lord And IL anal % fo- sasn ana for
wttn~s-"
Isaiah 40 dsubs here refers 10 the great
pyramid a. 6dzsh. the chief pyramid Of
Exyps. Tia text speaks of . pillar In
Egypt, and tsls Is the greatest pillar ever
llfssd, aad shetext says IL is 10 BE at the
border Of the land. and this pyramid Is ss
the border Of the land. and .Ae text sAJs IL
snail bs for a witness. and ths object Of
this sernoa Is 10 tell what this pyraIrid
witaessss. Tlis sermon 10 the first Of a
course OF sermons entitled. ''Frcm the
Pyrznies - the Acropelis. or What Saw
IA Egypt and Greece ConErmatory Of the
Scriptures.
We had. on . morning OF December. 1859.
landed Ia Africa Amid the bowling boat
men a. Alsxaadris We had come ashore
gnd taken the rail train for Cairo, Esyps.
along the hanks OF ths most thoroughly
harnesssd river Of all the world-the river
Nile. We had az svsatids entered the city
OF Cairo, tho city where Cnr.st dwslr W bile
staying In Egypt du=inx the Herodic per
sacation. IL was our drst night in Egypt.
No destroying angel sweeping through as
once. ous ali the stars were out, and the
skies were Gllsd with angels OF beauty and
angels OF light, sad the air was balEay ~
an American June. The next morning we
were early awake and ~ the window, look
Ing upon palm trees in fun glory OF leaf
aSe, and upon gardens OF fruits and flow
ers a. the very season whsn our homes FAR
away are canopied By bleak skies and tbs
last leSss OF the forest has gone down In the
sqGiaostials.
FIRST VIEW OF TIE PYRAMID.
Bat now can I describe the thrill OF ex-
pectasion. for today we are 10 see what all
the world has seen or wants TO sse-the
pyramids We are mounted for an hour
and halls ride. We pass on amid ba-
zaars stated with rugs and carpets, and
curious fabrics of all sorts from Snyrna,
from A,giers. from Persia, from Turkey,
and through streets where we meet people
Of AL colors and all garbs, carts loaded
with garden productions, priests in gowns,
women ia black wells. Bcdouins In long
and seemingly superfaous apparel, Janis
s.rses Ia jacket of embroidered gold-out
aud on toward the great pyramid, for
though there are sixty-nine pyramids still
Standing. the pyramid at Gizeh is the mon
arch OF pyramids. Weme canels gruns-
Ing under their loads, and see bufYaloes ON
either side browsing Ia pasture felds.
The road We travel Is for part Of the way
under clumps Of acacia and by long rows
OF sycamore and tanerisk. but after awhile
IL is path Of rock and sand. and We find
we have reached the margin Of the desert,
ia. great Sahara desert, aud we cry out TO
tho dragom&n as we see huge pile Of rock
looming In sight, "psagoman, what is
THAR" His answer Is. THE pyramid"
and then IL seemed IS II we were living q
century every minute. Our thoughts and
emotions were too rapid and intense for
gttsrance, and We ride on in silence until
we come 20 the foot OF the pyramid spoken
Of in the text, the eldest structure in all
the earth, four thousand years old at least.
Here IL H. We stand under the shadow Of
a structure that shuts out all the earth
and ali the SKY. and we look up anc strain
eur vision 70 appreciate the distant top.
and are overwhelmed while We CRY. ""he
pyramidi The pyramid"
/ had started that morning with the de-
termination Of ascending the pyramid.
One Of ray chief objects Ia going to Egypt
was not only to see the base OF that grs-
nitic wonder, bat % stand on the top OF IL.
Yet the nearer came 10 this eternity in
stone the more my determination was
shaken. Tia altitude 20 me was simply
appalling. A great height has always
been 70 ms a most disagreeable sensation
"a We disIncunted at tho base OF the pyra-
aid, l said: Others may go up II, bat not
T. Will satisfy myself with view from
abe hasa. The ascen. 81 it wonld be 10 me
a foolhar-y undertaking" But after l
had given up all Idea Of ascend ng. found
NY daughter was determined to 90, and
could not les her 70 with strangers. and I
changed my mind and we started with
guides. IL cannot 10 done without these
helpers. Two or three times foolhsriy men
hsve attempted tt alone. but their bodies
sams tumbslag down, unrscogn.zable aad
Iifeiess.
Each person in or party had two or
three guides or heipsrs. Ore OF them m
rolled nts taroan aud tied lt around my
waist and be held sbe other end II the tur.
bea as q matter 90 safety. Msny OF the
blocks Of stone are four or Eve fest high
and beyond any oet.i nary human stride IN
gr~- assisted Bat. two Arabs % pull and
two Arabs 20 ptlsa. found myself rapidly
Ascending from height 10 height, AMI on to
attitudes terrific. and az last NJ the tiptop
We found ourselves on n lew, apace az
about thirty feet square THROUGH cleare.t
atmosphere we Ioos et OF upon the desert,
and or pvoa he winding Nile. and Of
upcu the sphinx. with lts features II ever
lasting ston-. ard reader upon sse raia-
srsts Of Cairo Rilltering Ia ths sun. aud
yonier upoa Ne=apkia IN ruiss. aaa OF
upos the wreck 81 era pires and the battle
fields OF se-s. radius ~ view enough 10
gu the mind aad saook the nerves. aad
svervhsifn ones easlre being.
sFAKrrKya AaRAT OF FIGURES.
After locking sroaaa for awhile. and .
koda< bad esesured the groap. We te-
sceud~d The descent was more trying
than the s-eeas. for elm hing you need not
see the depths scneath. but coming down
it Vas snpos.ssle not - sse the sbysnss be-
iow Dat two Araes ahead 20 help ne
down, aai two Arabs 20 held ss hask. ws