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tered. Walls abloom with the battle
, fields OF centuries. Thebes mighty and
dominant five hundred years. Then she
went down in fulfillment of Ezekiel's
prophecy concerning the City of No
which was another name for Thebes; 81
VIM execute judgement in No. L 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 Egg ptiterate and reiter.
ate the veracity OF the Scriptures tell.
ing the same story which Moses and the
prophets told. lave you noticed how
God kept back these archaeological con
iirmations of the Bible until our time
when the air is full of unbelief about
the thruthfulness of the dear old book {.
lie waited until the printing press hal
been set up in its perfected shape, and
the submarine cable was laid, and the
world was Intelligent enough to appre.
the testimony, and then he resurrectetI
the dead cities Of the earth, and com
mands them, saying: "Open your long
sealed lips and speak! Memphis and
Thebes, is the Bible true?" "Truew re.
spond Memphis and Thete tes. Babylon
is the Book of Daniel true?" "True!
respond Babylon. Ruins of Palestine
and Syria, is the New Testament true ?'
"True!" respond the ruins all the way
from Joppa to the Dead sea and from
Jerusalem to Damascus.
Whata mercy that this testimony of
the dead cities should come at time
when the Bible is especially assailed
And this work will go on until the We.
racity OF the Scriptures will be as Ger
tam TO all sensible men and women as
that two and two make four, as that an
lsosceles triangle is one which has two
ot It's sides equal, as that the diameter
oil circle IS a line drawn through the
center and terminated by the circum-
ference, as certain any mathematical
demonstration.
dtplomatized and almost came to battle
Tor one book, a copy Of "4Eschylus." +"
Ptolcmy, the Egyptian king, discover
ed that i'll the great library at Alexan-
drla there was no copy of "4ESchyluS. %
The Egyptian king sent up to Athens,
Greece, TO borrow the book and make 3
copy of it. Athens demanded "A deposit
seventeen Of Thousand seven hundred
dollars az security. The Egyptian king
received the book, but refused to return
that which he had borrowed, and so for
feited the seventeen thousand seven
hundred dollars.
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 intlu-
ences from which there is no escape,
and that fate rules the world, and al
though the author does tell OF Prone.
theus, who was cruciiied on the rocks
Tor sympathy for ma lkind, Il powerful
suggestion OF The sacrifice of Christ in
pared with that book which we hug TO
Or hearts, because it contains our only
guide in life. our only comfort in
death, and our only hope for Il blisSful
Immortality. II two uations could af-
ford to struggle for one copy of "IEschy.
lllS,' how much more can all nations
afford to struggle for the possession
and triumph OF the Holly Scriptures?
Bat the dead cities strung along the
Nile not only demolish inlidelity, but
thunder down the absurdity of the
modern doctrine of evolution which
says The world started with nothing
and then rose, and human nature began
with nothing but evolved into splendid
| manhood and WomanhouQ of itself.
Nay, the sculpture Of the world was
more wonderful in the days OF Mem
phis and Thebes aud Carthage than in
the days of Boston and New York.
those blocks Of stone weighing three
hundred tons high up in the wall at
karnac imply machinery equal to, if
not surprising, the machinery of the
Nineteenth century.
How was that statue OF Ramcses,
weighing eight hundred and eighty
seven tons, transported from the guar
rles two hundred miles away and how
was it lifted? Tell us, modern ma
chiniSts. How were those galleries of
rock, still standing at Thebcs, filed
with paintings surpassed by no arti SITS
pencil of the present day? Tell us,
artists of the Nineteenth century. The
dead cities of Egypt, SO far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or sepul-
cners or temple ruins to tell the story
Memphis, Migdol, Hierapolis, Zoan,
Thebes, Goshen, Carthage-all of them
developing downward instead of up
ward They have evOlutcd from mag.
nilicence into destruction. The Gospel
OF Jesus Christ is the only elevator of
individual and social national charac-
ter. Let all the living cities know that
pomp and opulence ana temporal pros.
perlty are no security.
hose ancient cities lacked nothing
but good morals. Dissipation and sin
slew them, and unless dissipation and
sin are halted, they will some day Slay
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OF merchandise and our galleries OF art
and oar city hall us fla5 in the dust as
we found MemphiS on the afternoon
of that Thanksgiving day. And il the
cities ge down, the nation will gO
down. on you say, CHAT is impos.
siDie; we have stood so long-yea, over
a hundred years as q nation" Why,
what OF that? Thcbes stood five hun.
dred years. Memphis stood a thousand
years. God does not forget. One day
with the Lord is rs thousand years
and thousand years as one day.
Rum and deDauchery and bad politics
are more rapidly working the destruc-
tion OF our American cities than sin of
any kind and all kinds worked for the
destruction of the cities of A frica, once
so mighty and now so PROSTATE. But
their gods were idols. and could do
nothing except for deDasemcnt. Our
God made the heavens and sent his Son
80 redeem the nations. And our cities
Will not go down, and our nation will
not perish because the gospel is going
TO triumph. Forward! all schools and
colleges and churches! Forward! all
reformatory and missionary organiZa-
tions. Forward! all the influences mar
shaled to bless the world. Let our
modern European and American cities
listen to the voice of those ancient
cities resurrected, and by hammer aud
ChiSel and crOwbar ha ,nonpalIod to