The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-10-30

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Jacob. All possible splendors were
built up into this royal city. Hosea,
Ezekiel, jeremiah and Isaiah speak OF
1t as something wonderful.
Never did visit city With sucn ex-
allied anticipations and never did my
anticipations drop SO fiat. Not q pillar
stands. Not q wall is unbroken. Not
a fountain losses in the sun. Even the
ruins have been ruined, and all that
remains are chips Of marble, small
pieces of fractured sculpture and splin-
tered human bones Here and there a
letter of some elaborate inscription, a
toe or ear of a statue that once stood
in niche of palace wall. Ezekiel proph-
esied its blotting out, and the prophecy
has been fulfilled.
ride on" said to our party, land
don't wait for me-" And as l stood
there alone the city of Memphis in the
glory of past centuries returned. And
| heard the rush of her chariots, and
the dash of her fountains, and the con-
VITALITY of her palaces, and saw the
drunken mobiles roll on the floors of mo-
sale, while in startling contrast amid
all the royalties of the place saw Pha-
raoh look up into the face of aged, rus.
tic Jacob, the shepherd, saying, "How
old art thoul"
THE CITY OF NO.
But back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes, in Scripture
called the City of No. Hundred gated
Thebes. A quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit. -Four great
temples, two of them Karnac and
Luxor, once mountains. of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidified
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 battletields of cen,
turtles.
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 Ezekiels
concerning the City of No,
which was another name for Thebes:
81 will execute Judgment in No. I will
cut off the multitudes Of No." Jere-
miah also prophesied, '"Thus saith the
Lord, l 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
of the Bible until our
time, when the air is full Of unbelief
about the truthfulness of the dear old
bookY 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
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
speakl Memphis and Thebes, is the
Bible truce" "True!" respond Mem
phis and Thebes. Babylon, is the
book of Daniel trueg" "True!" re-
spends Babylon. ruins of Palestine
and Syria. is the New Testament
trueT 'True!' respond the ruins all
The way from Joppa to the Dead sea,
md from Jerusalem to Damascus.
What a mercy that this testimony of
he dead cities should come at time
when the Bible is especially assailed.
And this work will go on until the We
'acity and divinity of the Scriptures
will be as certain to all sensible men
md women as that two and two make |
our, as that an isosceles triangle is one
which has two of it's sides equal, as
hat the diameter of a circle is line
lrawn through the center and ter |
minated by the circumference as GER
ain as any mathematical demonstra-
ion.
Never did l feel more encouraged
han when after preaching sermon on
wilderness of the truth of the Bible
lrawn from oriental lands. A distin-
,uished senator of the United States,
,nown and honored everywhere, but
low deceased, came up to the plat
orm and said, II was brought up in
he faith of Christianity, but l got
on all these subjects and
lad given up my faith in the Bible, but
hose facts and arguments arch@olog-
cal take me back to my old faith in the
Bible, which my father and mother
aught me-" The tears rolling down
lis cheeks evinced the depth OF his
motion. When read of the senator's
cath was comforted to think that
erhaps I may have helped him little
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