The Princeton union., 1891-10-29

lures OF everlasting stone, and yonder
upon the minarets Of Carlo glittering
~ the sun, and yonder upon Memphis
u runs, and off upon the wreck OF
empires and the battlefield Of ages, a
radius ofyeiw enough to FILL the mind
ana shock the nerves and overWhelm
ones entire being.
Alter looking around for a while,
and 81 q kodak had pictured the
group. we descended. The descent
was more trying than the ascent for
I gelllnbmg YOU need not see the depths
| beneath, but coming down it was inn
possible not to see the abysns below.
But two Arabs ahead to help usdown,
anu two Arabs to hold us back we
were W lowered hand below hand, until
the ground was invitingly near. and
amid the jargon OF the Arabs we were
safely landed. Then came one of the
most wonderful feats of daring and
| agility. One OF the Arabs solicited q
collar, Saying he would run up and
down the pyramids in seven minutes.
we would rather have given him q
| dollar not to 60, but this ascent and
descent in seven minutes he was deter
mined on and so by the watch in seven
minutes he went to the top and was
pack again at the base, 1t was q
bloodcurdling spectacle.
| said the dominant color Of the
pyramid was gray but in certain lights
It seems to shake off the gray of cen
turles and become q blonde and the
silver turns to the golden. 1t covers
49 acres Of ground. What an antiq-
ulty! 1t was at least 1000 years old
WHEN THE BABY CHRIST
was. carried within sight OF it by his
fugitive parents, Joseph, and Mary
The storms Of 40 centuries have
drenched it, bombarded it, shadowed
It,, flashed upon it, but there it stands
ready to take another 40 centuries Of
atmospheric attack if the world
should continue to exist. The oldest
buildings,of the earth are juniors to
this great senior of the centuries.
Herodotus says that for 10 years
preparations were being made for the
building OF this pyramid. 1t has 82.-
LII, 900 cubic feet Of masonry. One
hundred thousand workman at one
time toiled in. it's erection. To
bring the stone from the quarries
a causeway 60 feet wide was built.
The topstones were lifted up by ma
schlnery such, as the world knows
nothing oftoday. It is 746 feet each
side Of the square base. The struc-
tureis 45O feet high, higher than the
cathedrals OF Cologne, Stratsburg,
Rouen, St. Peters and St. Paul's. No
surpsise to me that it was put at the
head OF the seven wonders Of the
world. It has a subterraneous room
OF red granite called the "queen's
chamber" and the proba bility is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
'Ihe evident design OF the architect
was omake these room as inaccessi-
BILE as possible. After all the work of
exploration and all the digging and
blasting, if you would enter these sub
terraneous rooms you must go
through apassage only threefeet eleven
inches high and less than four feet
wide: A,sarcophagus of red granite
stands doWn,under 5-..s.
THIS MOUNTAIN OF MASONRY.
The sarcophagus could not haye
been carried in after the pyramid was
built. It must have been put there
before the structure wasreared. Pro-
badly in that sarcophagus once lay a
wooden coffin containing dead king
but time has destroyed the coffin and
destroyed the last vestige of human
remains. ..:..
I wonder not that this mountain ,of
limestone and red granite has been
the fascination of scholars, of scien-
fists, Of intelligent Christians in all
ages. Sir John Herschel the astrono-
mer, said, he thought it had as
tronomical| significance. The wise
men who accompanied Napoleon's
army into Egypt went into, profound
study OF the pyramid. 1n,l865, Brof.
Smyth and his wife lived in the empty
tombs near by the pyramid that they
might be as continuously as possible
close to the pyramid which they were
investigating. Thepyramid, builtmore
than 4 900 years ago, being a COM
plete geometrical figure, wise men have
concluded it must have been diNinely
constructed. Man came, through
thousands Of years to fine architect
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was perfect at the worlds start, and
God, must have directed it.. All as
tronomers and geometricians- and
scientists say thatit was scientifically
and mathematically constructed be-
fore science and mathematics were
born. From the inscriptions on the
pyramid, from it's proportions, from
the points OF the compass recognized
in it's structure, from the direction in
which it's tunnels, run, from, the re-
lative. position'of the blocks that COM
pose it,
SCIENTISTS, CHRISTIANS AND INFlDELS
have demonstrated that the being
who planned this pyramid must~have
known the worlds spherlcity, and
that it's. motion was rotatory,. and
how many miles, it was indiameter
and circumference, and how many
tons. the world weighs, and knew at
what point in the heavens certain
STAINS would appear at certain periods
OF time. Not in the 4,OO0years since
the putting up OF that pyramid has a
single fact in astronomy or mathe-
matics BEEN found to contradict the
wisdomn OF that structuue. Yet they
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