The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-11-05

one hundred years, Or nearly ten times
as long as the United States have exist.
cd. Here is recumbent statue seven.
ty-live feet long. BronZed gateways.
A metropolis called "the haven of the
blest." Here Joseph was prime minis.
ter, Here Pharaoh received Jacob. Al,
possible splendors more built up into
this royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel, Jere-
miah and Isaiah speak of it as some
thing wonderful.
Never did L visit a CITY with such ex-
alted antIcipntons, and never did my
antlcipations drop so flat. Not pillar
stands. Not wall is unbroken. Not
a fountain tosscs in The sun. Even the
rulns have been ruined and all that re.
mains arc chips Of marble, small pieces
OF fractured sculpture and splintered
human bones and there letter of some
elaborate inscription, Il toe Or ear Of Il
| statue that once stood IN niche of palace
wall. Ezekiel prOphcsied its blotting
out, and the prophecy has been fulfilled
but back to the Nile and on and up till
| you reach ThebeS. in Scripture called the
City Of No. Hundred gated Thebes. A
| quadrangu!ar city four miles from limit
TO limit. -Four great temples, two Of
them karnac and Luxor, once noun.
talns or exquisite sculptor and gorge
| Gus dreams SOidilied in stone. Statue
OF Nnmeses Ii, eight hundred and eigh-
ty-SeHen tons in weight and seventy
| live feet high, but now fallen and scat
tered. Walls abloom with the battle
fields Of centuries. rhebes mighty and
dominant five hundred years. Then she
| went down in fuliillment of Ezekie $
prophecy concerning the City of No,
which was ano;ler name for Thebes; 81
Will execute Judgement in No. l will
cut c1I the mu!litudes of No." Jprc-
mlah also prophesied, "Thus saith the
Lord, | will punish the multitudes of
No."
| his city of ThebeS and AL the other
dead cities OF EEy pt iterate and rejter.
| ate the Veracity of the Scriptures tell
Ing the same story which Moses and the
prophets tod. Iave you noticed how
| God Kept back these archaeological con
llrmalions of the Bible until our time
When the air is full of unbelief about
NE thruth!ulneSS CT the dear old book :
tie waited until the printing press hal
been set up III its perfected shape, and
the Submarine cable was laid, and the
World was Intelligent enough to apprc.
the testimony, and then he reSurrectrd
Ihe dead cities Of the earth, and com.
mandS them, saying: open your lon I
sealed lips and speak. Memphi' and
rheheS. is the Bible tvue?' "rruew re-
Spond Memphis and TheLes. "Babylon
Is the Book Of Daniel true?" "Truc."
respond Babylon. Ruins Of Palestine
and Syria, is the New Testament uue:'
"Irne." respond the ruins all the way
from Joppa to the Dead sea and from
Jerusalem to Damascus.
Whata mercy that this testimony O
the dead cities should come at time
Whei the BlOle is especially assalled
Ana this work will go on until the We
racity Of the Scriptures will be as Ger
tam to all sensible men and women a
that two and two make four, as that al
lSoScele5 triangle is one which has tW,
Oh It's Sides equal, us that the diamete
f OF Il circle Is line drawn through tht
center and terminated by the circum
terence, as certain any mathematical
demonstration.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece
dlplomatlZed and almost came to battle
1or one book, a copy Of "4ESchylus.
Itolemy, the Egyptian king, discover.
ed that in the great library at Alexan,
dria there was no copy Of "IEschyIus. ,
Ine Egyptian king sent up to Athens
Greece, to borrow the book and make a
copy of it. Athens demanded deposit
seventeen Of Thousand seven hundred
dollars az security. The Egyptian king
received the book, but refused to return
that which he had borrowed, and so for
telted the seventeen thousand seven
hundred dollars.
The two nations rose in contention
concerning that one book. Beautiful
and mighty book indeed! But 1T is a
book OF horrors, the dominant idea that
we are the victims of hereditary innu-
ences from which there is no escape
and that fate rules the world, and al,
though the author does tell Of Prone.
theus, who was cruclied on the rocks
lOr sympathy for mankind, a powerful
suggestion of the sacrifice Of Christ in
later years, it is a very poor book com.
pared with that book which we hug to
our hearts, because it contains our only
glide IN HE. our only comfort Ill
death, and our only hope for a bliSsful
immortality. II two uatiOns could af-
ford to struggle for oGe copy of "IEschy.
| lus, how much more can all nations
afford to struggle for the possession
and triumph Of the Holly Scriptures?
Bat the dead cities strung along the
Nile not only demOlish inlidelity, but
thunder down the absurdity of the
modern doctrine of evolution which
Says WIG "OIlu started with nOJnlng
and then rose, and human nature began
with nothing but evolved into Splenlid
manhood and WomanhOud of Itself
Nay. the sculpture of the world wa.
more wonderful in the days of Mem
phis and Thr',vo and Carthage than il,
the days Of Boston and New York
Those Dloc%s Of stone weighing three
hundred tons high up in the walt at
karnac imply machinery equal to-, if
not surprising, the m1cainery of The
| Nineteenth century.
How was that statue Of RamcseS
weighing eight hundred and eighty.
seven tonS, transported from the quar-
rleS two hundred miles away and how
was it lifted? Tell Us, modern MA.
chIniStS. How were those galleries OF
rock, still standing at Thebcs, filled
with paintings surpassed by no artist s
pencil of the pre- sent day? Tell us
artists of the Nineteenth century. The
dead cities Of Egypt, 80 far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or sepul-
cherS or temple ruins to tell the story
Memphis, Migdol, IIierapois, Xoan,
'fheboS, Goshen, Carthage of them