The Dickinson press., 1891-10-31
A GREAT PYRAMID.
That Structure, Which With Others of
lis Kind, Stands in Egypt on the
Deserts Border.
It Is for a Sign to Mankind and
Teaches a Lesson That All
Should Learn.

BROOKLYN, Special.-The vast con-
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
was delighted by an exquisite render
ing, by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne, on
the new organ, of Denier's Second Son
alta in G. DIR. Talmage's sermon was
the first OF q series he intends preach
ing on his Eastern tour, entitled
"From the Pyramids to the Acropo-
lis, or What Isawi in Egypt and Greece
Confirmatory OF the Scriptures" His
text was Isaiah xix: 10, 20: "In that
day shall there be an altar to the
Lord in the midst OF thelando OF Egypt
and a pillar at the border thereof to
the Lord. And it shall be for a sign
and for witness"
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyr-
amid in Egypt. The text speaks OF a
pillar in Egypt, and this is the great
est pillar eve lifted; and thetext says
it is to be at the border OF the land,
and this pyramid is at the border Of
the land; and the text says it shall be
for a witness, and the object OF this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid
witnesses. This ermon is the first OF
q course of sermons entitled, ''From
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or
What 1 Saw in Egypt and Greece Con-
frmatory of the Scriptures.
We had on a morning OF December,
1889, landed in Africa. Amid the
bowling boat-men at Alexandria we
had come ashore and taken the rail
train for Cairo, Egypt, along the
banks of the most thoroughly harness
sed river in all the ~world-the Nile.
We had, at even-tide entered the city
of Cairo, the city where Christ dwelt
while staying in Egypt during the
Herodic persecution. 1t VAS II
first night IN Egypt. No destroying
angel sweeping through as once, but
all the stars We're 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 ut
the window, looking upon palm trees
in full glory OF LEAKAGE, and upon gar
OcllS vi lIUllS StIlQ llOMCIS tl lllC very
season when our homes far away are
canopied by bleak skies and the last
leaf OF the forest has gone down in the
equinotials.
But how a | Z describe
THE THRILL OF EXPECTATION,
for today we are to see what all the
the world has seen or wants to Sec
the Pyramids. We are mounted for
an hour and a halls ride. We pass
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugsand
carpets, ndcuriousfabrics ofall sorts
from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Per-
STA, from Turkey, and through streets
where we meet people OF all colorsan
all CARDS, carts loaded with garden
productions, priests in gowns, women
in black wells, Bedouins in long and
seemingly s%uperfluous apparel, Janis
saries in jacket OF embroidered gold
out and on toward the great Pyra-
mid, forthough there are 60 pyramids
still standing, the pyramid OF Gizeh is
the monarch OF pyramids. We meet
camels grunting under their load, and
see butfaloes on either side, browsing
IN pasture fields. The road we travel
is for part OF the way under clumps OF
acacia, and by long rows OF sycamore
and tamerisk, but after q while it is a
have reached the margin Of the desert,
the great Sahara desert, and we cry
out to the dragoman rs we see n huge
pile of rock looming in sight, "Drago-
man, what is that9" His answer is
1.-THE Pyramid" and then it seemed
az if we were living u century every
minute. Our thoughts and emotions
were too rapid and intense for utter.
ance, and we ride in silence until we
come to thefoot OF the Pyramid spok-
en- of in the text, the Oldest structure
in all the earth, 1000 years old at
least. Here it is. We stand under
the shadow OF the structurethat shuts
out all the earth and all the sky and
we look up and strain our vision to
appreciate the distant top and are
overwhelmed while we cry
''THE PYRAMID! THE PYRAMID"
1had started that morning with the
determination OF ascending the Pyra-
mid. One OF my chief objects in going
to Egypt was not only to see the base
of that granite wonder, but to stand
on the top of it. Yet the nearer |
came to this eternity in stone the
more my determination was shaken.
Its altitude to ME was simply appal-
ing. Agreat height has always been
to me a most disagreeable sensation.
AS we dismounted at the base of the
Pyramid 1 said. "Others may goupit,
but not L. will satisfy myself with
view from the base. The ascent OF it
would be to me q foolhardy under.
taking" But after l had given up all
idea OF ascending, l found my daugh.
ter was determined to go, and I could
not let her go with strangers, and ]
changed my mind and we started with
guides. 1t cannot be done without
these helpers. Two or three times
foolhardy men have attempted it
alone, but their bodies came tumblins
down unacceptable and ~lifeless
Each person in our party had two OF
three guides or helpers. One OF then
unrolled his turban and tied it around
my waist and he held the other end O.
the turban a IS a matter Of safety
Many of the blocks OF stone are fou,
or five feet high and beyond any ordi
nary human stride unless assisted
But, two Arabs to pull and two Arab
to push, l found myself rapidly as
cending from height to height, and on
to attitudes terrific, and at last a
the tip top we found ourselves on
level space of about 80 feet square
Through clearest atmosphere we look
ed of upon the desert, and
B UPON HI WINDING NILE.
and off upon the sphynx with it's fea
lures of everlasting stone, and yonde
upon the minarets of Carlo glitterin
in the sun, and yonder upon Memphi
empires and the battlefield OF ages,
radius Of veiw enough to fill the min,
and shock the nerves and overwhell
ones entire being.
After looking around for a while
and a kodak had pictured tn
group. We descended. The descen
was more trying than the ascent fc
climbing you need not see the depth
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