The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09
CYPRUSLEFT ON THELEFT
TALMAGs PREACHES ON The
GREEK ARCHIPELAGO.

Archipelago - Lessons From the
Scenes and Incidents.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Nov. s.-An overflow.
ing congregation ct the Brooklyn Tabernacls
this morning attested the interest the
religious public is taking in the series of
sermons DIR. Talmage is preaching on what
he saw, confirmatory Of the scriptures, DUR
ing his tour from the Pyramids to shs
Acropolis. This IN raing's sermon, the
fourth OF the series, was on the islands of
the Greek Archipelago. The doctor took
two texts: Acts xxi, 3, when we had dis
covered Cyprus we left it on the left hand -
and Revelations l.. 9, 'I. John, . wasi
in the isle that is called Patmos.n
Good-by, Egypt Although interesting.
and Instructive beyond any country in all
the world, excepting the holy land, Egypb
| was TO me somewhat depressing. IL was a
poat'morten examination of cities that died
4,VVO years ago. The mummies, or wrapped
| up bodies of the dead, were prepared with
reference to the resurrection day. ths
| Egyptians departing this life wanting their
bodies to be kept in as good condition as
/ possible, so that they would be presentable
/ when they were called again to occupy;
them. But IL when Pharaoh comes to resnr.;
| rection he finds his body looking as | saw
soul will become an unwilling tenant The
sphinx, also, was to me a stern monstrosity.,
statue carved out Of rock of red Rranlte
| GO feet high and about I4S
feet long and having the head of q woman
and the body Of lion. We sat down in ths
| sand OF the African desert TO study 10.
With a cold smile it has looked down UPON
thousands OF years of earthly hfstory.'
Egyptian civilization, Grecian civilization.
roman civilization; upon the rise aud falb
OF thrones innumerable; the victory ami de-
feat OF the armies of centuries IL took
three thousand years to make
one wrinkle on its red cheek. IL is dreadful
In Its stolidity. Its eyes have never wept a
tear. Its cold ears have not listened to the
groans OF the Egyptian nation, the burden
Of which | tried to weigh last Sabbath Its
heart is stone. lt cared not for PIiny wherz
be measured it in tho first century. 1t will
care nothing for the man who looks into its
imperturoable countenance in the lasb
century.
But Egypt will yet come up to the glow
Of life. The Bible promises it. The mis-
slonaries like my friend, good and great
Dr. Lansing, are sounding u resurrection
trumpet above those slain empires There
will be some other Joseph at Memphis.
There will be some other Moses on the
banks Of the Nile. There will be some
other Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead Of destroying angel to
slaY the first-born OF Egypt, the angel of
the New Testament will shake ever-
iasting life from his wings over a
nation born i'll a day When, soon
after my arrival in Egypt, / took
part in the solemn and tender obsequies OF
Il missionary from our own land, diving
there far away from the sepulchers of her
Fathers, and saw around her the duskv aud
weeping congregation of those wnom shei
had COME TO save, | said TO myself: Here
Is self-sacrihc9 of the noblsst typa Here is
heroism immortal Here ia a queen unto
God forever. Here is something Rrandsri
than the pyramids. Here is that which
thrills the heavens. Here Is a specimen or
that which will yet save the world"
Good-by, Egypt This sermon finds ua
on the steamer Minerva in the Grecan
Archipelago, the islands OF the New Testas
ment, and islands Paulinian and Johannian
IN their reminiScence. What Bradshaws
directory is to travellers in Europe, and
what the railroad guide Is to travellers in
America, the book OF the Acts In the Bible
is TO voyagers in the Grecian, or as shalE
call it, the gospel Archipelago. The Bible
geography OF that region is accurate wlth--
out shadow OF mistake. We are sailing
this morning on the same waters that Paul
sailed but In the opposite direction TO that
which Paul voyaged. He was sailing south-s
wa d and we northward. With him it was,
Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us ID
Is reversed and it is; Cyprus. Rhodes, Coos,
Ephesus. There is no book in the worlds
so aocuIate as the divine book. My text
says that Paul lett Cyprus an the left we!
going in the opposite direction, have it on
the right. On our ship Minerva were only
two or three passengers beside our party, so
we had plenty OF room to walk the deck.
and oh, what night was Christmas nighS
Of 1889 Ia that Greolan Archlpelago-islands
OF light above, islands Of beauty beneaths
r 10 f.xyo1H 20 nf fsta a.
Archipelago; the crown OF the worlds
scenery set with sapphire and emerald and
topaz aud Sslrysonrasus and ablaze with a
glory that seems let down out of celestial
landscapes. God evidently made up his
mind that just here he would demonstrates
the utmost that can be done wi h islands fos
the beaunfy ing of earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during the nighs
and IN the morning the ship was as quiet an
this floor, when we hastened up to the decs7
and found that we had anchored of the
island OF Cyprus. in boat, which the ma.
tives rowsd standing up as is the custom.
instead OF sitting down as when we row
we we're soon landed on the streets whers
Paul and Barnabas walked and preached.
Yea, when &C Antioch Paul and Barnabas
got into hght-as ministers some
times did, and sometimes do, for they
all have iInperfections enough to anchor
them to this world till their work is done, l
-Wnen because OF that bitter cOntrO%
versy Paul and Barnabas parted, Barnabax
came back here TO Cyprus which was his.
birthplace. Island wonderful for hissoryv
IL has been tho prize sometimes won by
Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by the Sara
Gems, by the Crusaders and last of ALL noh
by sword but by pen. and that the pen OF
the keenest diplomatist Of the century,
Lord Beaconsfeld, who under lease which
was as good as purchase, set Cyprus
among the jewels OF Victorias crown.
We went out into the excavations
from which Di Cesnola has
enriched our American museums
with antiquities and with no better weapon
than our foot We stirred up the ground
deep enough to get a tear bottle in which
some mourner shed his tears thousands OF
years ago, and lamp which before Christ
was born lighted the feet of some poor pill
grim on his way. That island Of Cyprus
has enough to set an antiquarian wild. The
most OF its glory is the glory of the past,
and the typhoid feveYs that sweep its coast
and the clouds Of locusts that cften blacken
its skies, Though two hundred thousand
dollars were expended by the British em-
ptre in one year for the extirpation OK
these noxious insects. yet failing to do the
work. and the frequent change OF govern
mental masters, hinders prosperity. But
when the islands Of the sea come To Col,
Cyprus will come with them, and the agri--
cultural and commercial opulence which
adorned it in ages past will be eclipsed by
the agricultural and commercial and re-