The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-20
BIBLE LANDS.
Dr.. TalmaGe Continues His Dis
courses on His Late Voyage.
Promises For Egyps rndes Chrissisnssy =
A. the Island Of Rhedes-L~ssons ssoss
the Colosaus-sG Johns Vision Hap
ness FOR Believers

his recent o & Rev. r. Dewitt Tall
mage lately preached q. Brooklyn from
two texts: Acts xxi. 3; when we had
Cyprus We left i, on the left
and Revelation / .; II. John.
was in the isle hat is called PaimoA"
DR.. Talmsgc said:
Good by. Egypt! Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any country
in all the world. except the Holy Land.
was to me some what depressing.
II WAS q post morton examination OF
cities that died 1000 years ago The
or wrapped-up bodies of the
dead. were prepared with reference -
the resurrection day. the Egyptians de-
this life wanted their bodies 10
lie kept in as COOL condition as possible
30 that they would lie presentab.e
they were called again 10 occup
them. But IL when Pharaoh comes 20
he finds hi, body
as saw his mum
my in the museum at Boulac,
his soul will become an un-
Wiling tenant The Sphinx also was
Uuc u SltFh loh>NfoNtAN a
carved out Of rock Of red granite g.
feet high and about ii3 feet long aud
having the bead Of a man and the body
Of a lion. We sat down in the sand OF
the African desert 10 study IL With n
cold smile il has looked down upon
of years Of earthly history;
civilization; upon the rise
aud fall of thrones innumerable; the
victory and defeat OF the armies If cen
turtles. 1t took 5000 years To make n
on it's red check. IL is dread.
full in its stolidity. Its eyes have never
wept a tear. Its cold ears have not
listened 70 the groans Of the Egyptian
nation, the burden of which ! tried TO
last Sabbath. Its heart is stone.
1t cared not for Pliny when he meas
ured il In the first century. II will
care nothing for the man who looks
into its imperturbable countcnance in
the last century.
But Egypt will yet come up 10 the
glow of life. The Bible promises it
The missionaries are sounding a resur-
rection trumpet above those slain en-
pires. There will be Sore other
at Memphis. There will Ice
other Moses Oh the banks OF the
Nile. There will be some other Hypa-
tia to teach good morals to the de-
Instead of n destroying angel
to slay the first born OF Egypt, the
Angel of the New Testament will
everlasting life from his wings
over a nation born in a day.
Good-by. Egypt. This sermon finds
on the steamer Minerva in the
Archipelago. islands of the
New Testament, and islands Paulinian
and Johannian in their rcminiscencc-
What Bradshaw's directory is to
in Europe, and what the rail-
road guide is To travellers in America
the book of the Acts in the Bible i n
in the Grccian. or as ! shall
call il, the Gospel Archipelago. The
Bible geography of that region is ac-
curate without the shadow Of mistake.
We are sailing this morning on the
water that Paul sailed but in the
opposite direction To hat 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 hat Paul left
on the left We. going in the
opposite direction, have II OIL the right
On our ship Minerva were only two
or three passengers besides IL party,
SO we had plenty of room To walk the
deck, and o.. what n night was Christ
night OF 1889 in that Grecian archi-
pelago-islands of light above, islands
Of beauty beneath. II is royal family
Of islands, this Grecian archipelago;
the crown of the worlds scencry set
sapphire and emerald and topaz
and chrysoprasus aud ablaze with n
glory that seems let down out Of celcs-
tial landscapes
The steamer had stopped during the
night and in the morning the ship was
as quiet as this floor, when we fastened
up to deck and found that we had
anchored off the island OF Cyprus. In
n boat, which the natives rowcd 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 walkci and preached
Yea, when at Antioch Paul AMI Bar
ma has got into a fgh,-as ministers
did. and sometimes do, for
they all have imperfections enough 60
anchor them u this world till their
work is done. ! say-when because of
that bitter controversy Paul and Bar
nabas parted, Barnabas came back here
to Cyprus. which was his birth
place. Island wonderful for history,
II has been the prize sometimes won by
by Greece, By Egypt. by the
SaraccnS by the Crusaders, and last OF
all, not by sword but b. pen, and tina,
the pen of the keencst diploDatiSt OF
the century, Lord Beaconsfeld. whD
under a lease which vas n good rs a
purchase Sc: Cyprus among the jewels
Of Victoria's crown We went out into
the excavations from which Di Cesnola
has enriched our American museums
antiquities and with no better
weapon han our foot We stirred up the
deep enough IL get n tear Bot.
tie in which some monrncr shed his
thousands OF years ayo and Il
which before Christ was born
the feet of some poor pilgrim
on his way.
The island of Cyprus has enough Ia
set an antiquarian wild The most of
It's glory is the glory OF the past ani
the typhoid fcvcrs that sweep its eoast
and the clouds Of locusts that often
the skies and the frequent
of governmental masters hin
iers prosperity. But when the Islands
81 the sea come 20 God. CyprIs viii
with them, and the agricultural
and commercial o%pulence which
it in ages past will be eciip~ei
by the Agricultural and commercial and
religious triumphs of the ages to come
Why is the world 20 stupid tha: IL can
not see that nations are prO~Prred
in temporal things in proper
ton as they are p~rosp-rcd IN re-
things G~uiiiness Is profit
able not only for individuals bat
Tor nations Questions OF tariff. quss-
lions of silver bill. questions o! rePub-
.ic or monarchy have no, 80 much to
10 with \ nations temporal welfare A.
questions Of religion Give Cyprrs 20
Christ, give England 20 Chris. give