The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-11-20
BIBLE LANDS.
Or. Telmage Continues His Dis
courses CO His Late Voyage.
promises For Egypt Under Christianity
At the Island of Rhodes-Lessons From
the Colossus-St. Johns visIon-Hap-
ness For Believers.

In continuation of his discourse on
his recent voyage Rev. 7. Dewitt Tai
image lately preached at Brooklyn from
two texts: Acts xxi. 8; ''When we had
discovered Cyprus we left it on the left
hand" and Revelation o; 81, John,
was in the isle that is called Patmos"
DIR. Talmage said:
Good-by, Egypt! Although interest
ling and instructive beyond any country
in all the world, except the Holy Land,
Egypt was to me somewhat depressing.
1t was post norton examination of
cities that died 1000 years ago. The
snummies, or wrapped-up bodies of the
dead, were prepared with reference to
the resurrection day. the Egyptians de-
parting this life wanted their bodies to
he kept in as good condition as possible
80 that they would be presentable
when they were called again to occupy
them. But if when Pharaoh comes to
resurrection he finds his body
lookingf as 1 saw his mum
any in the museum at Boulac,
his soul will become an I'M
willing tenant The Sphinx also was
to me a stern monstrosity, a statue
carved out of rock of red granite &C.
feet high and about las feet long and
having the bead of a man and the body
of lion. We sat down in the sand of
the African desert to study it With a
cold smile it has looked down upon
thousands of years of earthly history;
Egyptian civilization; upon the rise
and fall of thrones innumerable; the
victory and defeat of the armies of CEN
'turies. 1t took 8, 900 years to make one
wrinkle on its red cheek. 1t is dread
Yful in its stolidity. Its eyes have never
'wept tear. Its cold ears have not
listened to the groans of the Egyptian
nation, the burden of which 1 tried to
weigh last Sabbath. Its heart is stone.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
,glow of life. The Bible promises it
The missionaries are sounding a resur-
erection trumpet above those slain en-
spires. There will be some other
Joseph at Memphis. There will be
some other Moses on the banks of the
Nile. There will be some other Hypa-
tia to teach good morals to the de-
graded. Instead of destroying angel
80 slay the first born of Egypt the
Angel of the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings
lover a nation born in day.
Good-by, Egypt! This sermon finds
eus on the steamer Minerva in the
aGrecian Archipelago, islands of the
New Testament, and islands Paulinian
Ill -, fhas s-fe
What Bradshaw's directory is to
travellers in Europe, and what the rail-
road guide is to travellers in America,
the book of the Acts in the Bible is a
voyager N the Grecian, or as l shall
call it the Gospel Archipelago. The
Bible geography of that region is ac-
-curate without the shadow of mistake.
We are sailing this morning on the
same water LAT Paul sailed but in the
opposite direction to that which Paul
-voyaged He was sailing southwark
and we northward There is no book
in the world so accurate as the divine
book My text says that Paul left
Cyprus on the left We, going in the
opposite direction, have it on the right
On our ship Minerva were only two
aor three passengers besides our party,
so we had plenty of room to walk the
deck, and o, what night was Christ
mas night of 1889 in that Grecian archi-
pelago-islands of light above, islands
of beauty beneath! 1t is aroyal family
of islands, this Grecian archipelago;
the crown of the worlds scenery set
with sapphire and emerald and topaz
and chrysoprasus and ablaze with
glory that seems let down out of celes-
Ttial landscapes.
The steamer had stopped during the
might and in the morning the ship was
las quiet as this floor, when we fastened
up to deck and found that we had
anchored off the island of Cyprus. In
a boat, which the natives rowed stand
ing up, as is the custom, instead of sit
ting down as when we row, we were
soon landed on the streets where Paul
and Barnabas walked and preached
Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Bar
raabas got into a fght-as ministers
sometimes did, and sometimes do, for
they all have imperfections enough to
anchor them to this world till their
work is done, say-when because of
that bitter controversy Paul and Bar
'nabas parted, Barnabascame back here
ito Cyprus, which was his birth
place. Island wonderful for history
1t has been the prize sometimes won by
Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by the
:Saracens, by the Crusaders, and last of
sail, not by sword but by pen, and that
the pen of the keenest diplomatist of
the century, Lord Beacons6eld, who
under a lease which was as good as
purchase set Cyprus among the jewels
of Victoria's crown We went out into
the excavations from which Di Cesnola
has enriched our American museums
with antiquities and with no better
weapon than our foot we stirred up the
sground deep enough to get tear bot
tie in which some mourner shed his
tears thousands of years ago and a
lamp which before Christ was born
lighted the feet of some poor pilgrim
on his way.
The island of Cyprus has enough to
set an antiquarian wild The most of
ITS glory is the glory of the past. and
the typhoid fesers that sweep its coast
-duO lliS StOUOS VI AOCuSNS Shdb oiDSu
1blackcn the skies and the frequent
change OF governmental masters him
-ders prosperity. But when the islands
of the sea come to God, Cyprus will
come with them, and the agricultural
land commercial opulence which
adorned it in ages past will be eclipsed
by the agricultural and commercial and
religious triumphs of the ages to come.
Why is the world so stupid that it can
mot see that nations are prospered
in temporal things in proper