Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-31


Thanksgiving morning on the Nile l
found my text OF to-day. Pharaoh In
this chapter Is compared TO the dragon
or hippopotamus suggested by the
crocodiles that used to line the banks
Of this river: THUS saith the Lord God:
Behold | am against thee Pharoah,
king OF Egypt, the great dragon that
lieth in the midst OF his rivers, which
hath said my river IL my own, and l
have made It for myself / will put
hooks in thy jaws and l will cause the
fish OF thy rivers to stick unto thy
scales, and will bring thee no out oil
the midst OF thy rivers, and all the fish
OF thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales,
and the land Of Egypt shall be desolate
and waste; and they shall know that
am the Lord: because he hath said tho
river is mine, and l have made it."
While sailing on this river or stop
ping ut one OF the villages we see people
on the banks who verify Bible de-
scription for they are now rs they were
In Bible times. Shoes are taken OIL In
reverence to sacred places. Children
are carried astride the mothers shout
der rs In Hagar's time. Women with
proiuson OF iewelry as when Rebecca
was affianced. Letils shelled into the
pottaSe. as when Esau sold his birth
wright to get such dish. The same
habits OF salutatiOn rs when Joseph and
his brethren fell on each others neckS.
Courts OF law held under big trees a. In
olden times. People making bricks
without straw, compelled by circum'
stances to use stubble instead OF straw.
FLYING over or standing on the banks as
In Scripture days are flamingoes, os-
props, eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos,
and bullfinches. On all sides OF this
river sepulchres. Villages OF sspul-
chres. Cities OF sepulchres. Nations
OF sepulchres. And one Is tempted TO
call it an empire OF tombs. l never saw
such place as Egypt is for graves.
And now we understand the complain
ing sarcasm OF the Israelites whom they
were on the way from Egypt to Canaan:
because there are no graves In Egypt,
hast thou taken Us away to die In the
wilderness?" Down the river bank
come the buffalo and cattle or kline to
drink. And 1t was the ancestors OF
these cattle that inspired Pharoah's
dream OF the lean kline and the fat kline.
Here we disembark q little while for
Memphis, of from the Nile to the right.
Memphis was founded by the first king
of Egypt and for lodge while the capt.
tai. A city OF marble and gold. Home
OF the Pharoahs. City nineteen miles
in circumference. Vast colonnades
through which imposing professions
marched. Here stood the temple OF the
son, itself in brilliance sun shone on
by another sun. Memphis in power
over q thousand one hundred years, or
nearly ten times as long as the United
States have existed. Here Is recum-
bent statue seventy-ive feet long.
Bronzed gateways. A metropolis called
1.-The haven OF the best"
Hero Joseph was prime min
ister. 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 city with such ex-
allied authorizations and never did my
drop so fiat. Not pillar
stands. Not a wall is unbrokcn. Not
4 foundation losses in the sun. Even
the ruins have been ruined and all that
are chips OF marble, small
pieces Of fractured sculpture and
splintered human bones. Here and
there O letter OF elaborate inscription, a
toe or ear OF q statue that once stood In
niche OF palace wall. Ezekiel prophe-
sled its plotting out and the prophecy
has been fulfilled. ''Ride on, l said to
BUR party land don't wait for me-" And
as | stood there alone. the city OF Mem
phis in theglory OF past centuries re-
turned. And heard the rush OF her
,hariots and the dash OF her founda-
ions and the conviviality Of her palaces
and saw the drunken MOBILES roll on the
loor OF mosaic, while In startling con-
.rast amid all the royalties OF the
place saw Pharoah look up into the
ace OF aged rustic Jacob, the shepherd,
,ay: chow old art thOu?"
But back to the Nile and on and up
ill you reach Thebes, in scripture
JAILED the city OF No. Hundred-gated
rhebes. A quadrangular city four
nllcS IEOul lILltb W AlthAbs EOuh SIOob
temples, two OF them Karnac and Luxor
once mountains OF exquisite sculpture
md gorgeous dreams soliditied In stone
statue OF Rameses II, S87 tons in weight
md seventy-6ve feet high, but now fall
IN and scattered. Walls abloom with
ne battlehelds OF centuries. The sur
hills Of rock followed into
on the wall Of which are CHS
,lied in picture and hieroglyphics the
OF Bible story in regard to
the treatment OF the Israelites In Egypt
10 that, as explorations go on with the
work, the walls OF these sepulchres be-
,ome commentaries OF the Bible, the
Scriptures originally written upon
parchment here cut into everlasting
tone.
Thebes mighty and dominant 500
,ears. Then she went down in fulfill
nent OF Ezehiels prophecy concerning
be city OF No, which was another name
or Thebes: 81 will execute Judgment
n No. l will cut of the multitudes Of