The Iola register., 1891-10-30

stand another forty centuries Of atmos-
pheric attack IL the world should con-
earth are juniors to this great senior OF
the centuries. Heorodotus says that for
ten years preparations were being made
for the building OF this pyramid. 1t has
50, III, GOO cubic feet of masonry.
at one time toiled In its erection. To
bring the stone from the quarries
causeway sixty feet wide was built. The
top stones were lifted by machinery
such as the world knows nothing OF to-
day. 1t is TAG feet each side OF the
square base.
The structure is 450 feet high, high
er than the cathedrals Cologne, Stras-
burg, Rouen, ST. Peters and ST. Paul's.
No surprise to NE that it was put at the
head OF the seven wonders of the world.
1t has a subterraneous room OF red
granite called the 'king's chamber"
and another room called the queens
chamber" and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
| The evident design of the architect was
to make these rooms as inaccessible as
possible. After all the work of explo-
ration and all the digging and blasting,
| If YOU would enter these subterraneous
rooms on must go through a passage
only three feet, seven inches high and
| less than four feet wide. A
sarcophagus Of red granite stands down
under this mountain of masonry. The
sarcophagus could not have been car
ried in after the pyramid was built. 1t
must have been put there before the
structure was reared. Probably in that
sarcophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing dead king, but time has
destroyed the coffin and destroyed the
last vestage of human remains. For
| 3, 900 years this sepulchrai room was
unopened, and would have been until
to-day, probably unopened, had not a
superstitious impression got abroad
that the heart of the pyramid was
! filed with silver and gold and dia-
monds, and under Al Mamoun, an ex-
cavating party went to work and hav-
| ing bored and blasted through a lG0
feet OF rock they found no opening
ahead. and were about to give up the
attempt when the workmen heard a
stone roll down into seemingly hollow
place and encouraged by that they re-
sumed their work and came into the
underground rooms. The dissppoint-
ment Of the workmen in finding the
sarcophagus empty of silver and gold
and precious stones was So great that
they would have assass.,nated AL
sS,1tes.Tnoun, who employed them, had he
not hid in another part of the pyramid
as much silver and gold as would pay
them for their work at ordinary rate Of
wages and INDUCED them there to dig.
till, they to their surprise came upon
adequate compensation.
wonder not that this mountain OF
| limestone and red granite has seen the
! fascination of scholars, scientists and
Christians OF all ages. Sir John Her
schel. the astronomer, said he thought
it had astronomical significance. The
wise men who accompanied Naroleon's
army into Egypt went into profound
study of the pyramids Man came
through thousands OF years to fine arch
itecture, to music, to painting, but this
was perfect at the start. and God must
have directed it. All astronomers and
geometricians and scientists say that it
was scientifically constructed before
science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the points Of
! the compass recognized in its structure,
| from the directions in which its tun.
ncls run, from the relative position
of the blocks which compose it, scien-
lists, Christians and infidels have DEM
onstrated that the being who planned
this pyramid must have known the
worlds sphericity, and how many miles
| II was in diameter and circumference,
and how many tons the world weighs,
and knew at what point in the heavens
certain stars would appear at certain
periods Of time. Not in the 1900 years
since the putting up of that pyramid has
single fact in astronomy or mathemat-
les been found to contradict the wisdom
Of that structure. Yet they had not at
The age when the pyramid was started
an astronomer or an architect or a
mathematician worth mentioning. Who
then planned the pyramid? Who SUI
perintended its erection? Who from
its first foundation stone to its capstone
erected everything? 1t must have been
God. Isaiah was right when he said in
my text, "a pillar shall be at the border
OF the land of Egypt and it shall be for
a
Gods first Bible. Hundreds, II not
OF the book of Genesis was written.
the lesson of the pyramid was written.
You modestly say THAT is true in re.
evil, and of gigantic geniuses, but moi
for me, for l live and work on small
scale" My hearers, those who built
. IL
Not one of them could lift one of those
great stones. One hundred thousand
workmen toiled on those sublime ele-
vations. II one of those granite blocks
that just touch with my feet on this
December morning in 1889 as the two
Arabs pull me and the two other
Arabs push me, could speak out and
tell its history it would say: 1.-THE place
of my nativity was down in the stone
quarry of Mokattam or Asswan, Then
they began to bore at my sides, and then
to drive down great iron wedges.
crushing against me till the whole
quarry quaked and thundered. Then I
was pried out with crow bars and levers,
scores of men putting their weight on
the leverage. Then chains were put
around me and / was hoisted with
wheels that groaned under the weight,
and many workmen had their hands on
the cranks, aub turned until the mus
cles on their arms stood out in ridges,
and the sweat rolled from their dusky
foreheads. Then was drawn by long
teams of oxen, yoke after yoke, yoke
after yoke. Then l was put on an in
cline plain and hauled upward and how
many iron tools, and how many human
arms, ana how many beasts OF burden
were employed to get me to this place
no one can tell. Then l had to be