The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-27

Lands--Ths Wonderful Pyramid of
GIzsh and the Losso ons 1t Teaches.
BROOKLYN, Oct. l8.--The vast con-
gre9ation ut the brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was delighted by an ex.
quisite rendering, by Professor Henry
Eyre Browne, on the new organ, OF
Denier's second sonata in G.. DIR. Tai
mage's sermon was the first of q series
he intends preaching on his eastern tour,
entitled, "From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis, or What l Saw in Egypt and
Greece Coniirmatory of the Scriptures. :"
that day shall there be an altar to the
Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt,
and pillar at the border thereofto the
Lord. And it shall be for sign and
for witness"
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid at GiZeh, the chef pyra-
mid Of Egypt. The text speaks of a
pillar in Egypt, and this Is the greatest
pillar ever lifted; and the text says it is
to be at thc border OF Tie land, and this
pyramil is at the border of the land;
and The text says il shall bo Tor wit
ness, and the object OF this sermon is
to tell What this pyramid witnesses.
This scrmon is the first of a course of
sermons ertltlcd, "From the Pyramids
to the Ac opCls, or What L Saw IN
Egypt and Greece Coniirmatory of the
Scriptures"
We he'd, on & morning of December,
1889, landCdin in Africa. Amid the howl.
ing hO2tman at Alexandria We had com G
ashore and taken the rail train lor Cairo,
Fgypi, uluuS the banks of the most
Thoroughly lamessed river of all the
world--thc river Nile. We had at even
tide entered the city of Cairo, the city
where Christ dwelL while staying IN
Egypt during the Herodc persecution.
1t was our irst night in Egypt. No dcs-
troling angel sweeping through as once,
but all The stars were out, and the skies
were filled with angels OF beauty and
angels of Light, and the air was baimy
as an American June. The next morn
iny we were early awake and at the VIM
dow, looking upon palm trees in full
glory Of le0tagc, aud upon gardens OF
fruits and ,lowcrs at the very season
when our homes far away are canopied
by bleak skies and the last leaf of the
forest has gone down in the equnoctials.
But how can [ describe the thrill Of
expectation, tor today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants TO
scc-thc pyramids. We are mounted
for an hour and a hali's ride. We pass
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and
carpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts
from Smyrna, from Alglers, from Per-
sia, from Turkey. We meet camels
grunting under their loads, and see buff
falOes on either side browsing in pasture
fields.
The road we travel is ior part of the
II, i
rows OF sycamore and tamcrisk, but al
ter awhile il IS a path of rock and sand,
and we find we have reached the mar
gin of tho desert, the great Sahara des-
ert, and VIZ cry ont to the dragoman as
sight, "Dragoman, what Is that?n His
answer IS, The pyramid" and then IL
seemed as ii we were living century
every minute. Our thoughts and emo
tions were 100 rapid and intence for ut
terancc, and We ride On in silence until
we como TO the foot of the pyramid
spoken of III the text, the oldest struc-
turc in all the earth, tour thousand years
old at least. Here it is. We stand un-
der the shadow Of structure that shuts
out all The earth and all the sky, and we
look up and STRAIN our vision to appre-
ciate the distant top, and are over
whclmcd while we cry, 1.-THE pyramid!
The Pyramid"
Each person in our party had two Or
thce guides or helpers. One of them
unrolled his turban aud tied it around
my waist and he held the other end of
tie ban Is q matter of safety. Many
Of the blocks Of stone arc four or five
feet high and beyond any ordinary hui
man stride unless assisted. But, two
Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, l
found myself rapidly ascending from
height to height. and on TO attitudes ter.
rifle. and at LAST at the tiptop we found
ourselves on level space of about thir-
iy leot square. Through clearest at
mOsphcre We looked of upon the desert.
anI of upon thc winding Nile, and OF
upon Tie sphinx, with It's features OF
everlasting stone, and yondcr up',n the
mi alets Of Cairo S,ittering in the sun,
and yondc. ulOn Memphis i'll ruins, and
of upon q c wreck OF empires end the
battCiicl(n Of ages, n radius of view
enough TO ill The mind and shock the
nerves a.,G ovcrwhclm ones entire be-
ing. AilCr looking around for aw lille,
and lodak bad pictured the group, we
descended
| said ,he dominant color of the
pyramid was gray, but IN certain lights
it seems 10 shake of the gray Of CEN
tures and become blond and the sill
yer Turns TO tie golden. 1t covers lhir-
teen acres OF ground. What an anti
quity! H. was at least two thousand
years old when TIC baby Christ was car
ried within sigh Of it by his fugitive
parents, Joseph and Mary. The storms
Of forty centuries have drencRed it, bonn
barlcd it, shadowed it, flashed upon it,
hut there u stands, ready to take another
forty centuries of atmospheric attack if
the world should continue TO exist.
The oldest buildings of the earth are
juniors to this great sonior Of the CEN
turcs.
Hcrodotus says that for len years
preparations were being made for the
building otthls pyramid. 1t has eighty
two million one hundred and eleven
thousand cubic feet of masonry. One
hundred thousand workmen at one time
toiled in its erection. TO bring the stone
from the Quarries a causeway sixty feet
wide was ruiit. The top stones were
lifted by machinery such as the world
knows nothing Of today. 1t is seven
hundred and iorty-siX ieet each side of
the square base. The structure is four
hundred and iity feet high; higher than