Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29

in stone. Statue of Rameses II, eight hundred and eighty seven tons in weight and seventy-five feet high but now fallen and scattered. Walls abloom with the battlefields of cen turies
 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 Israelites in Egypt, so that as explora- 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 five hundred years. Then she went down in fulfillment of Ezekiel's prophecy concerning the City of No, which was another name for Thebes: ''I will execute judgment in No. will cut of the multitudes of Mo-" Jere- miah also prophesiedv sThus saith the Lord, will punish the multitudes of No.
 This city of Thebes and all the other dead cities of Egypt iterate and reiter- ate the veracity of the Scriptures, tell ing the same story which Moses and the 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 book9 He waited until the printing press had been set up in it's perfected shape, 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 and speak! Memphis and Thebes, is the Bible true2' ''True!" respond Mem phis and Thebes. Babylon. is the book of Daniel true2" 'True!" re- spends Babylon. Ruins of Palestine and Syria, is the New Testament true9' ''True!" respond the ruins all the way from Joppa to the Dead sea. and from Jerusalem to Damascus.
 What a mercy that this testimony of the dead cities should come at 8 time when the Bible is especially assailed. And this work will go on until the ve- racfty and divinity of the Scriptures will be as certain to all sensible men and woluen as that two and two make four, as tbat an isosceles triangle is one which has two of it's sides equal, as that the diameter of a circle is line drawn through the center and ter minated by the circumference as cer. tain as any mathematical demonstra- tion
 Never did l feel more encouraged than when after preaching a sermon on evidences of the truth of the Bible drawn from oriental lands A distin- guished senator of the United States, known and honored everywhere. but now deceased, came up to the plat form and said. II was brought up in the faith of Christianity. but got speculating on all these subjects and had given up my faith in the Bible, but those facts and arguments archBolog. ical take me back to my old faith in the Bible, which my father and mother taught me. The tears rolling down his cheeks evinced the depth of his emotion. When read of the senator's death was comforted to think that perhaps may have helped him little in the struggle of his life, and perhaps given him an easier pillow on which to die.
 A VALUABLE BOOK.
 Two great nations. Egypt and Greece, diplomatized and almost came to bat tie for one book, copy of Eschylus. Ptoleiny, the Egyptian king, discovered that in the great library at Alexandria there was no copy of " "Eschylus." The Egyptian king sent up to Athens, Greece. to borrow the book and make copy of it. Athens demanded de posit of seventeen thousand seven hun dred dollars as security. The Egyptian king received the book, but refused to return that which he had borrowed, and so forfeited the seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars.
 The two nations rose in contention concerning that one book. Beautiful and mighty book, indeed! But it is a book of horrors. the dominant idea that we are the victims of hereditary influences from which there Is no escape, and that fate rules the world, and although the author does tell of Prometheus who was crucitied on the rocks for sympathy for mankind, a f,,l 0f fho of Christ in later years. it is very poor book compared with that book which we hug to our hearts, because it con tains our only guide in life. our only comfort in death and our only hope for blissful immortality. If two na- tions could afford to struggle for one copy cf "Hscbylus," how much more can all nations afford to struggle for the possession and triumph of the Holy Scriptures9
 But the dead cities strung along the Nile not only demolish infidelity, but thunder down the absurdity of the modern doctrine of, evolution which says the world started with nothing and then rose, and human nature be gan v..h Eothing but evolved into splended manhood and womanhood of itself. Nay; the sculpture of the world was more wonderful in the days of Memphis and Thebes and Carthage than in the days of Boston and New York
 Those blocks of stone, weighing three hundred tons. high up in the wall at Karnac. imply machinery equal to if Nineteenth century. How was that statue of Harnesses, weighing eight hun. dred and eiphty-seven tons, transport