The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-19

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vesrs preparations were being made for IN
huiIding Of this pyr mid. 1t has eighty
two million one hundred and eleven thou
sand cubic feet of masonry. One hun
dred thousand workmeu ac one time toileC
in its erecti IL. To bring the stone from
the quarries cause"ay sixty feet wide
was built The top stones we're lifted BY
machinery such as the world knows moth
inc of to-day. 1t is seven hundred anC
foTtv-six feet each side of the square base
The structure il four hundred and fifty fee;
hiph-higher than the cathedrals of Col gne
Stresburg, Rouen, st. Peters and st. PsuPs.
No surprise to me that 10 was put at the
head of the Seven Wonders of the World.
II hos a subterraneous room of red granite
calIed the kings Chamber" and another
room called the Queens Chamber" and
the probability is Tat there are other rooms
ver nnexplored. The evident design Of the
architect was to make these rooms as in
accessible as poss bic. After al the work
of exploration and all the digging and
hlastlng. if YOU would enter these subter-
rapeous rooms you must SO through pas
SAGA only three feet eleven inches high and
less than four feet wide. A sa coph gus or
red granite stands down under his mount
ain of masonry. The sarcopheguS could
not have been carried IN after the pyramid
was built. Ii must have been put there
before the structure was reared. Probably
Ll8E SdECOlAhSuo WV 10y.
coffin containing dead KING, but
time has DESTROYED the coffin and de-
stroyed the last vestige of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepulchral
room was unopened, and would have
been until to-day, probably unopened, had
not a supersttlous impression got abroad
that the heart of the pyramids was filled
with silver aud gold and diamonds, and
under II Mamoun an excavating party
went to work, and. having bored and
blasted through hundred feet Of rock
they found no opening ahead, and were
about to give up the attempt when the
workmen heard stone roll down into a
seemingly hollow place, and, encouraged by
that, they resumed their work and came
into tie underground rooms. The disap-
pointment of the workmen in finding the
sarcophagus empty Of all silver and gold
and precious stones was so great that they
would have sssassinated 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 ordl-
mary rate of wages and induced them there
TO dig till they, to their surprise, came upon
adequate compensation.
/ wonder not that this mountain of lime
stone and red granite has been the fascina-
ton of scholars. of scientists. of intelligent
Christians in all ages Sir John Herschel,
the astronomer said he thought it had
astronomical Significance. The wise men
who accompanied Napoleon's army into
Egypt went into profound study of the
pyramid. In 1865, Prof. Smyth and his
wife lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as continuously
as possible close to the pyramid which they
were investigating. The pyramid built
more than four thousand years ago, being
a complete geometrlcal figure, wise men
have concluded IL must have been diyinely
constructed. > Man came through thou
sands Of years 10 fine architecture, to music,
to painting, but this was perfect at the
worlds start, and God must have directed
it. All astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say that it was scientifically and
fundamentally constructed before science
and mathematics were born. From the in
scriptions on the pyramid, from its proper
tions, from the points of the compass recog-
nized in its structure from the direction in
whioh its tunnels run, from the relative
position of the blocks that compose 1t, sci-
entisls, Christians and infidels have demon
streted that the being who planned this
pyramid must have known the worlds
sphericity. and that its motion was rotary,
and hon many miles IL was in diameter and
circumference, and how many tons the
world weighs, and knew at what point in
the heavens cs tain stars would appear
at certain pc iods of time. Not in the
four thousand years since the putting up OF
that pyramid has q single fact in astron-
dict the wisdom of that Structure. Yet
they had not at the age when the pyramid
was started an astronomer or an architect
or O mathematician worth mentioning.
Who then planned the pyramid Who
superi tended its erectioni who from its
frs foundation stone TO its capstone erected
everything2 1t must have been God.
-fcrh ba eafH g,,r 4ax
"A pillar shall be at the border Of the land
of Egypt and it shall be for a sigu and q
wit ess." This pyramid is Gods first Bible.
Hundreds, if not thousands of years before
the first line of the Book Of Genesis was
written. the lesson of the pyramid was
written.
Wen, of what is this Cyclopean masonry
a sign and c wiunesss Among other things
of the prolongation OF human work com
pared with the brevity of human life. In al
The four thousand years this pyramid has
only lost eighteen feet in width, one side Of
its square at the base changed only from
seven hundred and sixtY-four feet to seven
hundred and forty six feet and the most OF
that eighteen feet taken off by architects IL
furnish stone for building in the city Of
Cairo. The men who constructed the
pyramid worked at it only few years and
then pus down the trowel and the compass
ana the square and lowered the derrick
which had lifted the popderous weights;
but forty centuries has their work stood
and it will be good for forty centuries
more. All Egypt has been shaken by
terrible earthquakes and cities have been
Frustrated or swallowed, but that pyramid
has defied all volcanic paroxysms. 1t has
looked upon some Of the greatest battles
ever fought since the world stood. Where
are the men who constructed itl Their
bodies gone TO dust and even the dust scat
tered. Even the sarcophagus in which the
kings mummy may have slept Is empty.
So mende but their work live on. We
are all building pyramids not to last four
thousand years, but forty thousand. forty
million, forty trillion, forty quadrilhon,
forty quintillion. For awhile we WELD
the trowel or pound with the hammer or
measure with the yard-stick or write
with the pen, or experiment with the
scientific battery. or plan with the brain,
and for while the foot walks and the
eye sees, and the ear hears and the
tongue speaks. All the good words or bad
words we speak are spread out into one
layer for pyramid. All the kinds deeds
or malevolent deeds we do are spread out
into another layer. All the Christian or
unchristian examples we set are spread out in
another LAYER. All the indirect influences
of our lives are spread out in another LAYER
Then the tine soon comes when we put down
the implement of toll and pass away. but
the pyramid stands. The twentieth century
will not rock it down, ncr the thirtietb
century nor the one hundred century. The
earthquake thai rocks is world pieces will
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