The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-29
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THE CITY OF so

ill you reach IheDeS, In Scripture
called the City Of No. Hundred gated
A quadrangular city four
miles from limit 10 limit. Four great |
two of them Karnac and |
Luxor, once mountains Of exquisite |
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidifed |
In stone. Statue Of Rameses II, eight |
hundred and eighty-seven tons in
weight and seventy-fve feet high but |
now fallen and scattered Walls
abloom with the battlefelds Of cen
turisa
The surrounding hills Of rock hol-
lowed into sepulchers on the wall Of
which are chiseled In picture and hier
oglyphics the confirmation of Bible
story In regard to the treatment of the
Israelltes In Egypt, so that as eIplora-
tions go On with the work the walls OF
the sepulchers become commentaries
OF the Bible, the Scriptures originally
written upon parchment here cut into
everlasting stone. Thebes mighty and
dominant Ave hundred years. Then
she went down In fulfllment of Ezekiel's
prophecy concerning the City OF No,
which was another name for Thebes:
II will execute judgment In No. viii
cut of the multtudes of No." Jere-
miah also prophesied, Thus saith the
Lord, will punish the multitudes
of No"
This city Of Thebes and all TIE ether
dead cities of Egypt iterate and reiter-
ate the veracity of the Scriptures, tell
ing the same story which Moses and
tho prophets told. Have you noticed
how God kept back these archaeological
combinations OF the Bible until our
time, when the air is full OF unbelief
about the truthfulness Of the dear old
booki He waited until the printing
press fnd been set up IN its perfected
snaps, and the submarine cable was
laid, and the world was intelligent
enough to appreciate the testimony,
and then he resurrected the dead cities
Of the earth and commands them, say
Ing: "Open your long sealed lips md
speak, Memphis and Thebes, Is the
Bible trueT' 'True!" respond Mem
phis and Thebes. Babylon, Is the
book of Daniel truer' 'True!" re-
spends Babylon. ruins Of Palestine
and Syria, Is the New Testament
true" "Truel" respond the ruins all
the way from Joppa to the Dead sea,
and from Jerusalem to Damascus.
What mercy that this testimony OF
the dead cities should come at time
when the Bible is especially assailed.
And this work will 90 on until the We
racity and divinity Of the Scriptures
will be as certain to all sensible men
and women as that two and two make
four, as that an isosceles triangle Is one
which has two Of its sides equal as
that the diameter of a circle is q line
drawn through the center and ter
minated by the circumference as GER
tain as any mathematical demonstra-
ton.
Never did / feel more encouraged
than when after preaching a sermon 20
evidences of the truth of the Bible
drawn from oriental lands. A dlstin
guished senator of the United States,
known and honored everywhere, bu'
now deceased, came up to the plat
form and said, II wes brought up II
the faith OF Christianity, but I gU'
specializing on all these subjects ant
had given up my faith In the Bible, but
those facts and arguments archsolog
ical take me back to my old faith in tn,
Bible, which my father and mothe
taught me-" The tears rolling dowr
his cheeks evinced the depth of hi
emotion. When l read of the senator
death was comforted to think tina
perhaps may have helped him it'll
in the struggle Of his life, and perhap
given him an easier pillow on which b
die.
A VALUABLE BOOK.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece
dplomatized and almost came to bal
tie for one book, copy Of "Eschyfus.
Ptolemy, ths Egyptian king, discovere'
that In the great library at Alexandr4
there was no copy o. "Eschyrus. IN
Egyptian king sent up to Athens
Greece, to borrow the book and max
q copy OF II. Athens demanded a dt
', post OF seventeen thousand seven hun
dred dollars as security. The Egyptia
; king received the book, but refused t
return that which he had borrowed
and 30 forfeited the seventeen thousan
seven hundred dollars.
The two nations rose In contentio
, concerning that one book. 1eautifu
and mighty book, indeedl But it Is
book Of horrors, the dominant ide
that We are the victims of hereditar
influences from which there Is u
escape, and that fate rules the world
. and although the author does tell {
: Prometheus who was crucifled on tt
!, rocks for sympathy for mankind,
. powerful suggestion Of the sacrifice /,
= Christ In later years, 1t is a very 20,
), book compared with that book whic
;, we hug to our hearts, because It CO.
= tains our only guide in life, our On
!. comfort in death and our only hoI
:. for blissful immortality. If two n
!, tons could afford to struggle for OF
copy Of "Eschylus," how much mo
- can all nations afford to struggle f
, the possession and triumph of the Ho
. Scripturesl
But the dead cities strung along Il
Il Nile not only demolish infdelity, b
= thunder down the absurdlty OF Il
n modern doctrine Of evolution whit
!, says the world started with nothir
: and then rose, and human nature b
J. gan with nothing but evolved In
A SPLENDID manhood and womanhood
" itself Nay; the sculpture of the wor
= was more wonderful In the days
"A Memphis and Thebes and Cartha,
d than In the days Of Boston and Ne
). York.
u Those blocks Of stoae, weighing thr
d hundred tons, high up In the wall
% Karnac, imply machinery equal to