The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-10-23
BUILD FOR ETERNITY.
SUBLIME LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE
GREAT PYRAMID OF GlzEH.

GREAT PYRAMID OF GlzEH.
DIR. Taimage begins u Series of Sermons
Entitled, From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis," Enforcing and Illustrating
the Truths OF Scripture.
BROOKLYN, Oct ss1s.-The vast con-
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delighted by an ex,
quisite rendering, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, OF
Denier's second sonata in G. DR..
Talmage's sermon was the first OF d
series he intends preaching on his east,
ern tour, entitled, From the Pyramids
to the Acropolis, or What l Saw in
Egypt and Greece Conflrmatory of the
Scriptures. His text was Isaiah xix, 49,,
90: "In that day shall there be an altar
to the Lord In the midst of the land of
Egypt and a pillar at the border thereof
to the Lord. And it shall be for sign
and for witness"
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyra,
mid of Egypt. The text speaks of a
pillar in Egypt, and this is the great
est pillar ever lifted; and the text says
1t 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 witness, and the object of this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid
witnesses. This sermon is the first of
a course of sermons entitled, From
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or
What Saw in Egypt and Greece Con-
lrmatory of the Scriptures.
We had, on a morning of December,
1889, landed in 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 harnessed 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. 1t was our first night in Egypt.
No destroying angel sweeping through
rs once, but all the 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 palm trees
in full glory of LEAKAGE, and upon gar
dens of fruits and flowers at the very
season when our homes far away are
canopied by bleak skies and the last
leaf of the forest has gone down with
the equinoctials.
But how can describe the thrill of
expectation, for today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
to see-thc pyramids. We are mount
ed for an hour and halfs ride. We
pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs
md 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 all garbs, carts loaded with
garden productions, priests in gowns,
women il black wells, Bedouins in long
and seemingly srperHuous apparel,
Janissaries III 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.
mids We meet camels 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
long rows of sycamore and tanerisk,
but after awhile it is path Of rock
and sand, and we find we have reached
the margin of the desert the great
Sahara desert, and we Cry out to the
dragonan as we see huge pile of
rock looming in sight, 'Dragoman, what
is that2' His answer Is, The pyra
mid, and then it seemed as if we were
living a century every minute. Our
thoughts and emotions were too rapid
and intense for utterance, and we ride
5ii IN silence until we come to the foot
bl the pyramid spoken of in the text
tile oldest structure in all the earth
four thousand years old at least. Here
It is We stand under the shadow of a
structure that shuts out all the earth
and all the sky, and we look up and
strain our vision to appreciate the dis
tant top, and are overwhelmed while
we cry. "The pyramid! The Pyramid
"AF:ihID or THAT WHICH IS HIGH"
had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the pyra-
mid. Onc 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
| cane to this eternity in stone the
more my determination was shaken.
Its altitude to me was simply appalling.
A great height las always been to me q
most disagreeabie sensation. AS we
hislnounted at the base of the pyramid
said: Others may go up it, but
not |. will satisfy myself with a
view from the base. The ascent of it
would be to me foolhardy undertak.
ing"
But after had given up all idea OF
ascending found my daughter was de
ter.nined to 50, and could not let her
go with strangers, and | changed my
mind. and we started with guides 1t
canuot be done without these helpers.
Two or three times foolhardy men have
attempted it alone, but their bodies
came tumbling down unacceptable
and lifelcss. Each person in our party
had two or three guides or helpers. One
of them unrolled his turban and tied il
around my waist, and he held the Other
end of the turban as a matter of safety
Many OF the blocks of stone are four Oh
tive feet high and beyond any ordinary