The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-22
Build For Eternity
SUBLIME LESSONS TAUGHT
RI THE GREAT PYRA-
MID Oh GILEH.
DR.. TaiGaagc Begins 81 Series or
Sermons Entitled "From the
Pyramids 10 the Accopo-
lis" Enforcing and IL
Illustrating the Truth
OF Scripture.

Oh scripture.
BRpcKLyS. Oct is The vast con-
gregation at tie Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delighted by On ex-
quisito rendering, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, of
Denier's second sonata IN q. DIR.
Talmage's sermon was the first Of "A
series he intends preaching on lis east
ern tour, entitled, from tie Pyramids
TO the Acropolis, OF }shat I Saw In
Egypt and Greece CorArnatory Of the
Scriptures. Ills text was Isaiah xix, 10,
20: ''In that day shall there bean altar
to tho Lord in the midst Of the land Of
Egypt and a pillar ~ the border thereof
t. the Lora. Andi shall be for Il sign
and for witness"
Isaiah 10 doubt here refers 10 the
great pyramid at Gigeh, the chief pyra-
mid OF Egypt. The text speaks OF a
pillar IL Egypt and this is the great
est pillar ever lifted; and tise text says
it Is to be IT the border u the land,
and this pyramid is 1T the border Of
the land; and the text says it shall be
for a witness, and the object Of this
sermon is To tel what tilis pyramid
witnesses. This sermon Is the first Of
a course OF sermons entitled, From
the Pyramids 10 the Acropolis, or
What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Con
1lrmatory of the Scriptures"
We had, on q morning of December,
1889, landed n Africa amid the howl
ing boatmen at Alexandria We had come
ashore and taken the rail train for
Cairo, Egypt, along the banks of the
most thoroughly iarncssed river Of all
| the world-the river Nile. We had, at
eventide, entered the city Of Cairo, the
city where Christ dwelt while staying
in Egypt during the Herodic persecu-
ton It was our first night in Egypt.
No destroying angel sweeping through
az once, but all tho stars were out and
the skies were filed with angels Of
beauty and angels of light, and the air
| was balmy as an American June. The
next morning we were early awake and
at the window, looking upon pain. trees
| in full glory Of LEAKAGE, and upon gar
| ders of fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
canopied by bleak skies and the last
the equinoctials.
Bu5 how can describe the thrill of
expectation, for today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
to see-the pyramids. We are mount
ed for an hour and halfs ride. We
pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs
and carpets and curious fabrics of all
sorts from Smyrna, from Algiers, from
Persia, from Turkey, and through
streets, where we meet people Of all
colors and ell garbs, carts loaded with
garden productions, priests In gowns,
womensin black wells, Bedouins In long
and seemingly spperfluous apparel,
Janissaries in jackets Of embroidered
gold-out and on toward the great
pyramid; for though there are sixty
nine pyramids still standing, the pyra
mid at Gizeh Is the monarch OF pyra
Inids. We meet calnels grunting under
their load, and see buffaloes on either
side browsing in pasture fields.
The road we travel is for part OF The
way under clumps of acacia, and by
Hong rows Of sycamore and tamerisk
but after awhile It IS path cf rocl
, and sand, and we find we have reached
the margin of The desert, the grea
:, Sahara desert, and we cry out to tht
! dragoulan as We see n huge pile o
rock ioomingin sight, 'Dragoman, wha
, is thatg' Ills answer is, The pyra
mid, F" and then il seemed as il we weT
| living q century every minute. Ou
r thoughts and emotions were too rapi'
/ and intense for utteranoe, aud we rid
en- in silence un5iI We come to the foo
of the pyramid spoken Of in the te1t
the Oldest structure IL all the earth
four thousand years OLD et leagt. Her
1t is. We stand under the shadow Of
: structure that shuts out oil the cart
! and all the sky, and re look up an
? strain cur vision to appreciate the di
: tant top, and are overwhelmed Will
!. We cry. Tho p, -ralnid The pyramid
'sAFRAID or THAT WHICH IS HIGH y
g had started That morning with th
determination of assembling the pyGi
!, mid. One Of Iny caief objects In goin
e to Egypt was not only to see II
l base OF that granite wonder, but
$ stand on the top Of It. Yet tie near'
I came to this eternity III stone IL
q more Iny determination was shaker
, It's altitude to me was simply appalling
/ A.great height has always been to NE
Q most disagreeable sensation. As
. dislnounted at the base Of the pyram
f / said: eofhers may go up It. bl
J, rot /. [ viii satisfy myself with
view from the base The ascent of
Z would be to me feol,lardy underts
= ing
r But after had given up ali idea
l. ascending / found my daughter was d
y terInined to go, and could not let b
o 90 with strangers, and | changed Il
mind, and we started with guides
q cannot be done without these helpe
q Two or three times foolhardy men ha
IS attempted It alone, but their bod
O came tunbiing down unrecogEizat
and lifeIess. Each person in our par
hadse.vo or three guides or helpers. 0
of them unroiied his turban and tied
around my waist, and he held the otf
end of the tJlrban as matter OF safe