The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-28


La,as-Cae Eoac.r,u, Pyramid of
Gizeh and sae i.es,ous Il Ie,clavs.
BROOKLYN. est. l>.-The vast con-
ereget:ou &: tie BrorAlyu tabernacle
this nlorulo. was Gei!.h!ed BY an cx-
ou;>:to readeriu-, ~ Professor Henry
Ere Browne, oa .he rev organ, OF
Denier>s second sonata IN G. DR.. Tai
mage's sermon was the first OF 3 series
he intends preaching OF his eastern tour,
entitled. Prom the Pyramids to the
Acropoi:s. or What Saw in Egypt and
Greece Couii:matory OF the Scriptures
His tex. was ISAIAH xix, 10, 20: In
that day shall there he an altar to the
Loyi IL the midst Ct Tie land OF Egypt.
ard i pillar a. lhe border thereof 10 the
Lord. An>, it shall be for syn and
for !. witness"
Isaiah 70 DOUBT here refers to the
great pyramid at Gizeh, the CHIEF pYra-
mid OF Egypt. The text speaks OF
pillar IN E.ypg. aud this is the greatest
pillar ever lifted; &ni The text says 1t is
to be al the border ot the land, and this
pyramid is al The border OF the land;
and tbs lext 50, 5 j, shall lie tor wit
ness, aa& tie oaicct ui this sermon Is
to tell wt:>a t;I.s pyramid witnesses.
This sr-yuca IS he first OF course OF
sermons eri.ieu. From The Pyramids
to the aclopClis, or What Saw IN
Eglp p1 and Greece Conilrmatory OF the
ScripiiH es."
We nsl. on q, morning OF December,
1855, la.:!e, il. Africa. Amid the howl
ing tc;,tmaH at Alexandria we had come
ashore o:,d ;:ll;eii the rail train tor Cairo,
Fg1uI. aio3@ lie banks Of the most
thuruG&aly harGessed river OF al the
wor:G-tke liver Nile. We had at even
tide uttered the city of Cairo, the city
whore Christ dSelt while staying IN
Eayr. during tie Herodic persecution.
1t wa, cur first night in Egypt. No des-
trolii.g angei sweeplng through as once,
but al tie stars were out, and the skies
were filled with angels OF beauty and
angels Of li4lt, and the air was baimv
as az American June. The next morn
in- sc we're early awake and at the win
dow. locking upon palm trees IN full
glory Of Leakage. and upon gardens OF
fruits and flowers at tbs very season
wien our homes iar away are canop!ed
by bleak skies and the last leaf Of the
forest has gene down in the eQuinoctiais.
But low can I describe tho thrill OF
expectation, for today we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants TO
see-ihc pyramids. We are mounted
Sor an aour and halt's ride. We pass
on amid baZaars stuffed with rugs and
carpets. and curious fabrics of all sorts
from SMYRNA, from lAlglers, from Per-
sia, from Turkey. We meet camels
grunting under their loads, and see buff
falces on either side browsing in pasture
fields.
The roaG we travel is tor part Of the
way under ClunAps Of acacia and by long
rows of sycamore and tamerisk, but al
ter awhile il :, u pagh OF rock an6 sand,
and we find we have reached the mar
Gin of the desert, the great Sahara des-
ert, and We cry out to the Gragoman as
we see huge pile OF rock looming IN
sight, ''Dsaeonan, what Is ihat:" His
answer IS, The pyramid" and then it
seemed as Il We We're living a century
every minute. Our thoughts and emo
tions were too rapid and intence for ut
terance. and we ride on in silence until
we come 70 the foot CT the pyramid
spoken of in the text, the Oldest struc-
ture in all the earth, tour thousand years
old at least. Here tits. We stand un-
der the shadow Of structure that shuts
out al the earth and all the sky, and We
look I'D and strain our vision to appre-
ciate The distant top, and are over
whelmed while we cry, The pyramid!
The pyramid"
Each person in our party had two or
three guides oE helpers. One OF them
unrclled his turban aud tied it around
my waist and he held the other end Of
the lul ban as a matter Of safety. Many
OF the blocks Of stone are four or five
feet high aud beyond any ordinary hu-
man stride unless assisted. But, two
Arabs to pull and two Arabs to pash, l
found myself rapidly ascending from
heieh. to height, and On 10 attitudes ter.
rife. and st LAST at the tiptop we found
ourselves on level space OF about th!r-
u teet square. Through clearest at
mosp!!ere welookea off upon the desert.
ana of upon tie winding Nile, and of
unoa the Sph,ijX, With is features OF
eyerlastin@ stoGe, and yonder up L the
mi:.alets OF Calro siittering in the SUI,
ard son6e- upon Memphis il ruins, and
OF upon tie wreck OF empires and the
batt!efeloS o. ages, q RADIUS OF view
er&ueh to Eli The mind and shcuk the
nerves arG ove:whelm ones entire be-
i2g. AttGr locking around for awhile,
aaG koa3;; K had pictured the group, ne
descended.
I said f.e dominant color Of the
pvrar!.u waS gray. but IN certain lights
il seems 20 shake of the gray OF cen
turies aad become blond, and The sill
yer luGns % tie golden. 1t covers .hir-
tceu acres o: ground. What ~ anti
quit,. l, was at least two thousand
Yeas old When TIE baby Christ was car
lied within sieht otit by his fugitive
parents. joseph and Mary. Ths storms
of icrty cellurles have drenched It, bonn
tarled it, shadowed it, flashed upon it,
but there j; stands, ready to take another
icrty centuries OF atmospheric attack II
Tie wcrll; should continue 10 exist.
The oldest buildings OF the earth are
juniors to This great sonior Il the cen
turies.
HGlcGotrs says that for len Years
preparal;v;.s we're being made for the
building 0: ;hs pyramid. II has eighty
two million one hundred and eleven
thousand cubic feet Of masonry. One
hundred thousand workmen al one time
,cileG in its erection. To bring the stone
from the Quargies : causeway s!Niy ises
vide was tui,t. The top stones were
ht.ed by machiner! such as the world
knows no-hiH. OF today. 1t is seven
hundred ard iorsy-siS teet each side OF