The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-30

the last vestage of human remains
For 1900 years this s~epulchral room
was unopened, and would have beer
until to-day, probably unopened, had
not q superstitious impression got
abroad that the heart of the pyramid
was filed with silver and gold and dia.
monds, and under Al Mamoun an ex'
cavating party went t. work and hav'
ing bored and blasted through q 100
feet of rock they found no opening
ahead, and were about TO give up the
attempt when the workmen heard q
stone roll down into a seemingly hol'
low place and encouraged by that they
resumed their work and came into the
underground rooms The disappoint-
ment Of the workmen in finding the
sarcophagus empty of all silver and
gold and precious stones was so great
that they would have assassinated Al
Mamoun. who employed them, had he
not hid in another part of the pyramid
as much silver and gold as would pay
them for their work at ordinary rate OF
wages and induced them there 70 dig
till they TO their surprise came upon
adequate compensation.
/ wonder not hat this mountain OF
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination OF scholars, of scientists, OF
intelligent Christians in all ages Sir
John Herschel. the astronomer. said he
thought it had astronomical signif'
canoe. The wise men who accom-
panied Napoleon's army into Egypt
went into profound study of the pyra-
mid. In 1865 Prof Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as continu'
ously as possible close to the pyramid
that they were investigating. The
pyramid built more than four thousand
years ago, being a complete geometric-
al figure, wise men have concluded il
must have been divinely constructed
Man came through thousands of years
10 fine architecture, TO music, to paint
ing, but this vas perfect at the worlds
start, and God must have directed it
All astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say hat it was scientifically
and automatically constructed before
science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions from the points
of the compass recognized in its
structure, from the direction in
which its tunnels run, from the relative
position of the blocks thai compose il,
scientists, Christians and infidels have
demonstrated this pyramid must have
known the worlds sphericity, and that
its motion was rotatory, and how many
miles it was in diameter and circumfer-
weighs, and knew at what point in the
heavens certain stars would appear al
certain periods of time. Not in the
1900 years since the putting up Of that
pyramid has n single fact in astronomy
or mathematics been found TO contra,
dict the wisdom of that structure. Yet
they had not at the age when the pyra-
mid was started an astronomer or ar
architect or n mathematician worth
mentioning. Who then planned the
pyramid? Who superintendent it's cree
ton? Who from its first foundation
stone 20 its capstone erected every
thing? 1t must have been God. Isaiah
was right when he said in my text "A
pillar shall he at the border of the land
of Egypt aud il shall bc for a sign and
a witness" The pyramid is Gods first
Bible. Hundreds, If not thousands of
years before the first line of ths, 5Ia-.
OF Genesis Was%Ehren, the lesson OF
the pyramid was written.
Well, of what is this Clyclopean
masonry a sign and a witness:
Among other things, of the prolonga'
ton of human work compared with
the brevity of human life. In all the
1 1000 years this pyramid has only LOST
eighteen feet in width, one side of Its
square ~ the base changed only from
76i feet t. 146 feet and the most of thai
eighteen feet taken off by architects t.
furnish stone for building in the city oi
Cairo. All Egypt has been shaken by
terrible earthquakes and cities have
been FRUSTRATED or swallowed, but tina,
pyramid has deiied all volcanic
paroxysms II has looked upon some
OF the greatest battles ever fought
since The world stood. Where are the
men who constructed il? Their bodie.
gone TO dust and even the dust scat
tered Even the sarcophagus in which
the kings mummy may have slept i.
empty.
SO men die, but their work lives on,
We are building pyramids not to last
4. 600 years, but 40. 600. 40. 900, 600. 80. 600.
600, 600, 40, 900, 600, 000, O00. 40. O0O. 900
600, 600. 900. For a while we WELD the
trowel or pound with the hammer ol
measure with the yard stick n write
with the pen or experiment with the
scientific battery or plan with the
brain. and for a while the foot walks
and the eve secs and the ear hears and
the tongue speaks All the good
words or the bad words we speak are
spread out into one layer for a pyra'
mid. All the kind deeds or malevolen,
deeds we do are spread out into an
other layer. All the Christian or un'
christian example we set are spread
ont into another layer. All the indi,
rect influences of our lives are spread
out into another layer. Then the time
soon comes when we put down the i'm.
plement of toll and pass away, but the
pyramid stands
You modestly say: That is true in
regard TO the great workers for good
or evil and of gigantic geniuses Milton
ian " Talleyrandian, but not of me,
for | live and work on a small scale
NV nearer, remember that those who
built the pyramids were common work
men. Not one of them could lif,
one of those great stones II took
a dozen of them { lift one stone
and others just welded a trowel
clicking it on the hard edge OF
smoothing the mortar between the
layers One hundred thousand men
toiled on those sublime elevations
Cheops didn't build the pyrimid Some
boss mason in the worlds twilight
didn't build the pyrimid- One hundred
thousand c built il and perhaps from
first TO last 200. 900 men
So with the pyramids now rising,
pyramids of evil OF pyramids Of good
The pyramid of drunkenness rising
ever since the time when Noah 60,
drunk on wine, although there was a,
his time Such m Spnara ~