Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-14
'IAHEIABEllN ACLE UI4PlI'
DIR. TALMAeE breaches A SERMON
ON THE GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.

ON The GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.
Continuation of the Series OF Discoursea
5sInspircd by the Brooklyn Divine'sJonr-
neyings IN the Old world-IIis Visit to
the Grecian Islands.
BROOKLYN, Nov. San OVERLOOKING
congregation at the Brooklyn Tabor
nacle this morning attestcd the interest
the religious public is taking in the
series of sermons DR.. Talmage is preach
ing on what he saw conllrlnatory OF
the Scriptures during his tour from
the Pyramids to the Acropolis. This
Isiuorning's Sermon the fourth of the
series. was on the islands of the Greek
archipelago. The doctor took two
texts; Acts xxi, 3, when we had dis
covered Cyprus we left it on the left
land !" and Revelation j., o. Il, John,
was in the isle that is called Patlnos."
Goodby, Egypt! Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any coun-s
try nsall. tile world, excepting the Holy
Land, Egpyt was to me somewhat de-
pressing It was IL post mortenl exalni:;l
Isnation Of cities thatdied four thousand
years ago. The lnumrnes, or wrapped
sup bodies of the dead, were prepared
with reference to the Resurrection day,
the Egyptians departing this life want
ing their bodies to be kept in as good
condition as possible SO that they would
be presentabIe when they were called
again to occupy them. But if when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds
his body looking as | saw his mummy
in the museum at Boulac, his soul will
become an unwilling tenant. Tile
Sphinx also was to he a stern mon
strosity. statue carved out of rock of
red granite sixtytwo feet high and
about one hundred and forty.tlree feet
long. and having the head of a man
and the body Of Il lion.
We sat down in the sand of the
African desert to study it. With
cold smile it has looked down upon
thousands Of years of earthly history;
Egyptian civilization, Grecian civiiza-
ton, Roman civilization; upon the rise
and fall of thrones innulnerable; the
victory and defeat of the armies OF
centuries. 1t took three thousand
years to make one wrinkle on its red
check. It's dreadful in its stolidity.
It's eyes have never wept Il tear. Its
cold ears lave not listened to the
groans OF the Egyptian nation, the
burden of which tried to weigh last
Sabbath. Its heart is stone. 1t cared
not for Piny when he measured it in
the first century, 1t will care nothing
for the man who looks into it's upper
turbable countenance in the last cen
fury.
EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life. The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great Doctor Lansing, are sound
ing a resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires. There will be some
other Joseph at Memphis. There will
be some ether Noses on the banks OF
the Nile. There will be some other
Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead of destroying
angel to shay the hrstborn of Egypt,
the angel ot the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings
over r natic-n born in day.
When, SOON after my arrivalin Egypt
took part in the solemn and tender
obseqrlies of missionary from our own
land, dying there far away from the
sepulcllers of her fathers, and saw
around her the dusky and weeping con-
gregation OF those whom she had come
to save, said to myself: Here is self
sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is
heroisln immortal. Here is queen
unto God forever. Here is something
grander than the pyramids. Here is
that Which thrills the heavens. Here
is a specimen OF that which will yet
save the world.
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds
us on the steamer Minerva in the Gre
clan archipelago. tile islands OF the
New Testament, and islands Paulinian
and Johannian in their Renaissance.
What Bradshaw's dilaatory is to travel.
ers in Europe. and sahat the railroad
guide is to travellers in America, the
Book of the Acts in tile Bible is to voy
ayers in the Grecian, or as | shall call
it, tho Gospel archipelago. The Bible
geography of that region is accurate
without shadow of mistake. We are
sailing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in the opposite
direction to that which Paul voyaged.
He was sailing southwark and we north
ward. With him it was Ephesus.
Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is
reversed, and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos,
Epliesus. There is no book in the
world so accurate us the Divine Book.
My text says that Paul left Cyprus
on the left. We, going in the opposite
direction have it on the right. On our
ship Minerva were only two or three
passengers besides our party, so we had
plenty OF room to walk the deck, and
oh, what night was Christmas night
of 1889 in that Grecian archipelago
islands of light above, islands of beauty
beneath 1t is royal family OF islands,
this Grecian arclipelago-the crown Of
the worlds scenery set with sapphire
and emerald and topaz and chrysopra-
sus, and ablaze with aslory that seems
let down out of celestial landscapes.
God evidently made up his mind that
tlst here lie would demonstrate the