The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-29
Sailing Upon The Nile.
SECOND SERMON IN DIR
TALMAGE'S SERIES on
HIS TRAVELS.
The Text from Ezekiel xxx, 9.
"The River Is Mine, and
Have Made It."
A SERMON THAT MAY BE
READ AND PONDERED
TO EDIFICATIOS.

BROOKLYN, Oct 25.-The render
ing of the First Sonata IN ID Minor, by
Guilmant, on the great organ of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning, by
Professor Henry Eyre Browne, the or
ganfst, held the vast congregation
spellbound with profound emotion
DR.. Talmage preached on Sailing up
the Nile" the second sermon of the
series, entitled From the Pyramids to
the Acropolis; or, What l Saw In Egypt
and Greece Confirnatory of the Scrip
tures." His text was Ezekiel xxx, 8,
''The river is mine aud have made it,"
Aha! This is the River Mic A
brown or yellow or silver cord on
which are hung more jewels of thrill
ing interest than on any river that was
ever twisted in the sunshine. 1t ripples
through the book of Ezekiel, and flashes
in the books Of Deuteronomy and
Isaiah and Zechariah and Nahum, and
on its banks stood the mighties 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,
'Since Columbus first looked upon San
Salvador the earth has but one emo
ton of triumph left for her bestowal,
and that she reserves for him who shall
first drink from the fountains of the
White Nile under the snow fields of
Kilima- Marc" But the discovery Of
the sources Of the Nile by most people
was considered an impossibility. The
malarias, the wild beasts, the savages,
the uncli1nbable sleeps, the vast dis
tances, stopped all the expeditions for
ages.
An intelligent native said to Sfr Sam
uel 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 Nile source How would
It be possible for a lady young and del
icate to endure what would kill tho
strongest mani Give 1t up" But the
work went on until Speke 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 Victoria and
Albert.
These two lakes, filed by great rain
| falls and by accumulated SHOWS from
the mountains, pour their waters, laden
with agricultural wealth such as blesses
no other river, on down over the cata-
racts, on between frowning mountains,
on for four thousand miles and through
a continent. But the White Nile would
do little for Egypt If this were all. It
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 momentum, and
this Blue Nile dashes with sudden in.
fux into the White Nile, which in con.
sequence rises thirty feet, and their
combined waters inundate Egypt with
a rich soil which drops on all the field.
and gardens as it is conducted by
bitches and sluices and canals every
whittier
| Tho {ho{
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 inundation from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drouth, toe
much Nile is freshet and plague. The
rivers of the earth are the mothers oi
its prosperity If by some ccnvulsiou
of nature the Mississippi should be
taken from North America, or the Am
azon from South America, or the Dan
ube from Europe, Or the Yenisei from
Asia-what hemisphere calamity Still
there are other rivers that could fer
tilize and save these countries
Our own continent is guiched, Is rib
boned, is glorified by innunerablt
water courses. But Egypt has only one
great river, and that Is harnessed tx
draw all the prosperities of realms
in acreage semi-infinite.. What hap
pens to the Nile happens to Egypt
The Nilometer was to me very sugges
tive as we went up and down its dam
stone steps and saw the pillar market
with notches telling inst how high o
low are the wsters of the Nile. Wher
the Nile Is rising, four eriers ever.
morning run through the city announc
ing how many feet the river has riser
ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet
twenty four feet-and when the righ
height of water is reached the gates o
the canals are flung open and heliquit
and refreshing benediction 10 pro
nounced ON all the land.
A WONDERFUL FULFILLMENT o.
/ PROPHECY.
r. As we start where the Nile emptie
into the Mediterranean sea we behol'
4 wonderful fulfillment of prophecy
8 The Nile in very ancient times used t
have seven mouths. Asthe great rive
approached the sea it entered the Sc
at seven different places. Isaiah propI
esied, 1.-The Lord shall utterly destro
the tongue of the Egyptian sea an
shall smite itsin the seven streams.
The fact is they are all destroyed bu
two, and Herodotus said these two =
, manning are artificial. Up the Nile u
shall go; part of the way by Egypia
Fan train and then byyboat, and y