The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-26

{ or nearly ten times as long as inc Onlteu
3 States have existed. Here is q recuTnbent
3 statue seventy-five feet long. Bronzed gate
.. ways. A metropolis called "tne haven OF
the best" Here Joseph was prime minister.
Here Pharaoh received Jacob. Ali possible
splendors we're built up into this royal CITY.
Hosea, Ezekiel. Jeremiah and lsala speak
( Of It as something wonderful. Never die
visit city with such exalted antIcipstlons
and never did my Rnticipations drop 80 fiat.
. Not a pillar stands. Not q wall Is unbroken.
Not "a fountain losses in the sun. Even the
ruins have been ruined and all that re-
mains are chips Of marble. small pieces Of
fractured sculpture and spin cred human
bones. Here and there letter of some
elaborate inscription, a toe or ear OF
statue that once stood in niche Of palace
wall. Ezekiel prophesied its blot
ting-Out and the prop ecy has been
fulfilled. Ride on" said 70 our party,
| land don't wait for ms" As | stood there
alone, the city OF Memphis, IN the glory of
past centuries returned. And | heard the
rush OF her chari3ts and the dash OF her
| fountains and the convi Vitality of her pal
/ scss, and saw the drunken mobiles roll on the
/ floors Of MOSAIC, while in startling contrast
amid all the royalties OF the place. saw
| Pharaoh look up into the face OF aged.
rustic Jacob, the shepherd, saying: How
old art tlou:n
| Bat back u the Milo, and on and up until
| you reach Theoes in scripture called the
| City of No. Humid -ed-gated Thsbes A
! qusdranSuisr city, four miles from limit %
/ limit. -Four great temples, two of them
! Karnao ald Luxor, onca mountains in ex-
/ quisite sculpture and gorgeous dreams solid
| lhed IN stone. Statue or ham
| eses IL. eight hundred aud eigbty-ssyen
weight tons in AMI ssvslty-hve feet hign,
| but now fallen aud scattered. Walls abloon
| with the battlshelds Of centuries The sur
rounding hills Of rock followed into sepul-
chsrs, on the wall Of which are chiseled in
| picture and hieroglyphicS the confirmation
| treatment Of the Israelitss in Egypt.
SO that, as explorations go on
| with the work. the walls of these
| sepulchres 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
fulh Of Ezekiel's prophecy concerning
the City of No, which was another name
for Thebes: Il viii execute Judgment in
No. | viii cut of the rnultitudes of No."
Jeremiah also prophesied: Thus saith the
Lord l will punish the multitudes of No."
| This city OF TbebeS and all the other dead
cities of Egypt itsrate and reiterate the
| veracitT OF the scriptures. telling the same
| story which Moses and the prophets told.
I Have you no iced how God kept back these
| archaeological combinations Of the Bible
| until our time, when the air Is full of un-
| belief ablu The t-u hfulness Of the dear old
| book lie waited until the printing press
had been set up in its perfected shape, and
| the submarine cable was LAID, and the world
! was Intelligent enough to appreciate the
testimony, aud then he resurrected the dead
cities Of the earth, and commands them,
saying: open your long sealed lips ana
| speak, Memphis and Thebes Is the Bible
! truen "Iruem respond Memphis and
| Ihebas - RabYlOni the bOotx NJ Daninl
! trueP "Truen responds Babylon. ruins
| Of Palestine and Syria Is the New Testa-
ment trusp "True" respond tue ruins all
| the way from Joppa to the Dead sea, and
| from Jerusalem to Damascus. What
a mercy that this testimony of the dead
cities should come at a time when the
| Bible is especially asseied. And this work
will 20 on until the veracity and divinity
OF the scriptures will be as certain to all
| sensible men and women as that two and
| Two make four, as that al isoscalos triangle
| is one which has two Il its sides equal. as
| that the diameter of a circle is a line drawn
| through the center and terminated by the
| circumference. as certain as any mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration. Never did l feel
more encouraged than when after preach
ing sermon on evidences OF the truth of
the Bible drawn from Oriental lands, dis
known and honored everywhere, but
now deceased, came up to the
platform aud said: II was brought up in
the faith OF Christianity, butt gJt specnla-
ting on all these subjects, ana had given up
my faith in the Bible but those facts and
arguments archaeological talks me back to
my old faith in the B bis, which my father
and IN lther taught me" The tears rolling
down his checks evinced the depth OF his
emotion. When | read of the senator's
death was comfortei to think that per.
haps may have helped him little in the
struggle of his life, and perhaps given him
an easier pillow on which to die.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost came to battle for
one book, q copy of 4Eschylus. PtoIemy
the Egyptian king discovered that in the
great library at Alexandria there was no
copy OF 4Eschylus. The Egyptian king sent
up TO Athens, Greece, to borrow the book
and make copy of it, Athens demanded
| deposit OF seventeen thousand seven hum
dred dollars as security. The Egyptian king
received the book. but refused TO return
that which he had borrowed and so forfeited
the seventeen thousand seven hundred dol
lars. The two nations rose in contention
concerning that one book. Beautiful
and mighty book indeed! But it is a book
OF horrors, the dominant idea that we are
the victims OF hereditary influences from
which there is no escaps, and chat fate rules
the world, and although the author does tell
OF Prometheus who was crucified on the
rocks for sympathy for mankind, q power
full suggestion Of the sacrifice OF Christ in
later years, 1t Is a very poor book compared
with that book which we hug TO our hearts
because it contains our only guide in life,
our only comfort In death, and our only
hope FOR a blissful immortality. If two
nations could afford to struggle for one copy
OF ASchylus, how much more can all nations
afford to struggle for the possession aud tri-
umph OF the holy scriptures
But the dead cities strung along the Nile
not only dsmoiish infdelity, but thunder
down the abSurdity Of the modern doctrine
Of evolution which says the world started
with nothing and thes rose, and human
nature began with nothing, but evolved into
splendid manhood and womanhood Of itself
Nay; the sculpture Of the world was moro
wonderful in the days Of Memphis and
Thebes and Carthage than in the days of
Boston and New York. Those blocks OF
stone weighing three hundred tous high up
in the wall at karDac imply machinery
} equal to. II not surpass ing. the machinery OF
the nineteenth century. How was that
statue OF Rauleses, weighing eight hundred
and elghty-seven tons transported from
} the quarries two hundred miles away and
how was it liftedE Tell ms, modern machin-
lists. How wore those galleries of rock, still
standing at Thebes filled with paintings
surpassed by 10 artists pencil OF the present
| days Tell US artists OF the nineteenth can