Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-29
SAILING UP THE NILE.
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES A
GREAT DESCRIPTIVE SERMON.
tIow the History OF tho World re-
Pcsts Itsclf--A Chapter Taken From
the Divine's Travels Thanksgiving
Day, 1850.

BRooKLyN, N. ", Oct. 25.--The rend-
ering of the first sonata In ID minor by
Gullmant ON the great organ of the
Brooklyn Tai ernncle this morning, by
Prof Henry Eyre Browne, the organ
list, held the vast congregation spell
bound with profound emotion. Dr.
Talmuge preached ON sailing Up the
Nile," the second sermon OF tho series,
! entitled "FrCm the pyramids of the
Acropolis, or What Saw in Egypt and
Greece COM rmatory OF the Scriptures
| His text was Ezekiel 300; The river
Ii mine and have made it."
Ahal This is the river Nile, A
brown, or yellow, or silver cord on
which are hung more jewels of thrill
! ing interest than on any river that was
ever twisted In the sunshine, IL rip
pies through the Book of Ezekiel, ana
flashes In the Books of Deuteronomy,
and Isaiah, and Lechnriah, and Ma
hum, and ON its banks stood the
mighties of many ages. IL was tho
crystal cradle of Moses, and GA its
banks Mary, the refugee, carried the
infant Jesus. To find tho Sirth-
place of this river was the fascin alton
and defeat of expeditions without num-
Der. Not many years ago, BIyard
Taylor our great American ira 'oler
wrote: "Since Columbus first looked
upon San Salvador, the earth has but
one emotion OF triumph left for her
bestowal, and that she reserves for
him who shall first drink from the
fountain OF tie White Nile under the
snow fields of Kilimaujaro, But the
discovery of the sources of the Nile by
most people was considered an i'm
possibility. The mn'arias, the wild
beasts, the savages, the unclimable
! sleeps, the vast distances, stopped NIL
the expeditions for ages. An intelli-
gent native said To Sir Samuel w.
Baker and wife Ms they were on their
way to accomplish tLat In which
others had failed: "Givc up the mad
scheme Of the Milo source. How
would II be possible for n lady young
and delicate to endure what would
kill the strongest mani Give IL up"
! But the work went on until Spoke, and
Grant, and Baker found the two
lakes which are the source OF what
was called the White Nile. and bap-
| tised these two lakes with the names
Of Victoria and Albert These two
lakes, filed by great rainfall, = and by
accumulated SHOWS from the noun
tains, pour their waters, laden with
agricult raj wealth such ms blcsscs no
o.hcr river on down over the cntaracts,
on between frowning mountains, on
between cities living and cities dead,
on for four thousand miles and
through continent. hut the White
Nile would do little for Egypt II this
were all II would keep Its banks ana
| Egypt would remain u desert But
| from Abyssinia there comes what Is
called the Blue Nile, which, though
dry or nearly dry half the year, under
| tremendous rains about the middle OF
June rises to great momentum, and
this Blue Nile dashes with sudden
Influx into the White Nile, which
In consequence rises thirty feet,
md their combined waters inundatc
Egypt with q rich soil that drops on
oil the fields and gardens as IL Is con
Quoted by bitches, and sluices, and can
ais every whittier. The greatest damage
that ever came to Egypt came by the
drying up of the river Nile ard the
2, entest blessing by it's healthful and
| abundant fow. The famine in
| Joseplis time came from the
lack of sufficient inundation from
the Nile. Not enough Nile Is
drouth, too much Nile IL freshet and
plague. The rivers OF the earth are the
mothers Of Its prosperity. II by some
CONFUSION OF nature tho Mississippi
should bc taken from North America
or the Amazon from South America
or the Danube from Europe, or
the Yenesei from Asia-what hemis'
pheric calamity still There are
other rivers that could fertilize
and save these countries Our
own continent Is gulched, Is ribboned,
is glorilcd by innumcrablc water
courses, But Egypt has on y one great
river, and that Ia harnessed to draw all
the properties Of realms in acreage
semi.inlinite What happens to the
Nile, happens to Egypt The Milo
meter was TO me very suggestive as
we went up and down its damp stone
steps, and saw the pillar
mnri cd with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters OF the
| Nile. When the Nile Is rising, four
cricrs every morning run through the
,ity announcing how many feet the
river has risen-tcn feet, fifteen feet,
twenty feet, twcntyiour eet-aud
when the right height of water is
reached the gates of the canals arc
curg open and the liquid and refresh
ing benrdic,ion is pronounced on all
the land
A, cording TO the lead pencil mark in
nv biblc n was Thanksgiving day
morning. November 20, 1889, that with
MY family and friends we stepped
aboard the steamer on the Nile. The
MuItammedan call 10 prayers had
i,rn suun1cd by the priests of that
religion, the Muezzins, from the four
hundred mosques of Cairo rs the cry
went ont: God is great. bear wit
hess that there is no GCd but Tod.
bear witness that Mohamned is the
,rnst'r OF God Come to prayers.
Tn, 90 salvation. Gcd is great
TL,rc is no other but God. Prayers are
letter than sleep" The sky and city
and rain groves and river shipping
were Gathcd in the light II was not
much Of n craft that we boarded. II
would not be hailed on any Of our
riy,r, with any rapture Of admiration,
II fortunately had but little speed, for
twi a we ran aground and the
,ail RS Jumped iato the water ana on
their shoulders pushed her out. But
What acht ot gayest sportsman, what
eek OF swiftcst ocean queen should
|
the ME- The Pyramids in sight the
cmaius Of cities that are now only Il
lgmc. the ,iilagcs thronged with pop
ilaliun. Buth banks crowded with
historical deeds OF forty or sixty cen
turics. Oh what a Took the bible Is
when read on the Nile.
White sailing ON this river or stop
mag 1T Que OF the villages we see peo
nlr on the banks who verify the bibl,
lrscrivtiun for they are now rs they
wrrc in bible times. shoes are now
AIKEN on in reverence to sacred places
hillrcn carried astrIde the mothers
shoulder as in Hagars time
y omen with proiusion OF jewelry
tswI.en Rebecca was atlianced. Len
ais shrllcd into the pottage. as wter
sau sold his brthright get such q
dish The same habits of salutatior
as " hen Joseph aud his brethren fell
on each others necks Courts OF law
hold Under his trees as in olden times.
cope making bricks without straw,
compelled bV circumstances to use
stuJble instcu OF straw Flying over
~ sIundiusr ON the banks as in Scrip.