The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-21

hold us back, we were lowered, hand
below hand, until the ground was in.
vitingly near, and amid the jargon OF
Arabs we were safely landed Then
came one Of the most wonderful feats
of daring and agility. One Of the Arabs
solicited dollar, saying he would run
up and down the pyramids in seven
minutes. We would rather have given
him dollar not to go, but this ascent
and descent in seven minutes he waa
determined on, and so by the watch in
seven minutes he weAt to the top and
was back again at the base. 1t was
blood-curdling spectacle.
said the dominant color of the pyra.
mid was gray, but in certain lights il
seems to shake off the gray of centuries
and become blonde and the silver
turns to the golden. 1t covers thirteen
acres Of ground What an antiquity
1t was at least two thousand years old
when the baby Christ was carried with.
in sight of 1t by His fugitive parents,
Joseph and Mary The storms of forty
centuries have drenched it, bombarded
1t, shadowed it, flashed upon 1t, but
there it stands ready to take another
forty centuries OF atmospheric attack Il
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 ten years prep
arations were being made for the build.
ing of this pyramid. 1t has so, III, ,00C
cubic feet of masonry. One hundred
thousand workmen at one time toiled
in its erection. To bring the stone
from the quarries causeway six.
ty 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,
higher than the cathedrals Of Cologne,
Strasburg, Rouen, st. Peters and St
Paurs. No surprise to me that it was
put at the head of the seven wonders OF
the world 1t has a subterraneous
room of red granite called the Kings
chamber" and another room called the
Queens chamber" and the probability
is that there are other rooms yet unex.
plored The evident design of the archi.
tect was to make these rooms as mac
cessible as possible. After all the work
of exploration and all the digging and
blasting, II you would enter these subter.
raneous rooms you must go through a
passage only three feet eleven 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 II
must have been put there before the
structure was reared Probably in tha'
sarcophagus once lay wooden coffir
containing dead king, but time Ia.
destroyed the coffin and destroyed
the last vestige of human remains
For three thousand years this sepulchra
room was unopened and would hav'
been until to-day, probably unopened
had not superstitious impression go
abroad that the heart of the pyramit
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 hun
dred feet of rock they found noopeninl
ahead, and were about TO give up tn,
attempt when the workmen heard
stone roll down into a seemingly hol
low place and encouraged by that the.
resumed their work and came into tn
underground rooms. The disappoint
meut of the workmen in finding tn
sarcophagus empty of all silver ant
gold and precious stones was so grea
that they would have assassinated A
Mamoun, who employed them had h
not hid in another part Of the pyrami
as much silver and gold as would pa.
them for their work at ordinary rate o
wages and induced them there to dil
till they to their surprise came upon ad
equate compensation
wonder not that this mountain O
limestone and red granite has been tn
fascination OF scholars, of scientists, o
intelligent Christians in all ages. 81
John Herschel, the astronomer said h
thought II had astronomical signif
canoe The wise men who accompaniel
Napoleon's army into Egypt went int
profound study of the pyramid. In 1885
Prof. Smyth and his wife lived in tn
empty tombs near by the pyramid tina
they might be rs continuously as possi
BILE close TO the pyramid which the.
were investigating. The pyramid bull
more than four tbopsand years ago, be
ing complete geometrical figure, wis
men have concluded II must have bee
divinely constructed. Men came throug
thousands Of years TO fine architecture
TO music, to painting, but this was pei
feet At the worlds start, and God mus
have directed IT. All astronomers an
geometricians and scientists say that
was scientifically and mathematicall
constructed before science and mathe
matics were born. From the inscNI
tion on the pyramid, from It's propoi
tions, from the points Of the compass
recognized In its structure. from the d
rection In which its tunnels run, fron
the relative position Of the blocks tina
compose II, scientists, Christians and in
fidels, have demonstrated that the beinI
who planned this pyramid must hav
known the worlds sphericity, and tina
its motion was rotatory, and how man.
miles IL was in diameter and circumfer
ence, and how many tons the worl'
weighs, and knew at what point In tn
heavens certain stars would appear a
certain periods Of time. Not in the fou
thousand years since the putting up o
that pyramid has single fact In astron
omy or mathematics been found TO con