The Penn's Grove record., 1891-11-20
REV. DIR. N
THE BROOKLYN DTv1NE,s SUN
DAY SERMON.


subjecte The Island of Patmos.'
TEXTS: "When zoe had discouered Gu,
prus zoe LEFT II on the iefthand."-Acts XXI
}, and II, John, apds In the isle thai IL called
Fdtmos l., v.
Goodby, Egypt Although interesting
and instructive beyond any country in all
the world. excepting the Holy Land, Egypt
was to me somewhat depressing. 1t wa q
post norton examination OF cities that died
four thousand years ago. The mummies, or
wrapped up bodies of the dead, were pre-
pared with reference TO the Resurrection
day. the Egyptians departing this life want
ing their bodies to be kept In as good condi-
ton as possible so thai they would be pre-
sentable when they were called again to oc-
cupy them. But II when Pharaoh comes to
resurrection he finds bis body looking as
saw his mummy in the museum at Boulac,
bis soul will become an unwilling tenant.
The Sphinx also WA to me q stern monstros-
ity, a statue carved out Of rock OF red gran
tie sixty-two feet high and about one hun
dred and forty-three feet long, and having
the head of a man and the body Of q lion.
We sat down in the a OF the African
desert to study II. With a cold smile it has
looked down upon thousands Of years OF
esrsa,y c a,sSHlyi Asf Roman ciyiIisation;
upon the rise and fall Of thrones In.
Vulnerable; the victory and defeat of the
armies of centuries. 1t tool three thousand
years to make one wrinkle on its red cheek.
1t is dreadful in its stolidity. It's eyes have
never wept a tear. Its cold ears have not
listened to the groans of the Egyptian ma.
ton, the burden OF which l tried to weigh
last Sabbath. Its heart Is stone. 1t cared
not for Pliny when he measured it In the
first century. 1t will care nothing for the
mar who looks into it's impertubable couu'
tenance in the last century.
But Egypt will yet come up to the glow OF
life. The Bible promises 1t. The mission
aries, like my friend, good and great Dr..
Lansing, are sounding . resurrection
trumpet above those slain empires. There
will be some other Joseph at Memphis. There
will be some other Moses on the banks of the
Nile. There will be some other Hypatia ia
teach good morals to the degraded. Instead
of a destroying angel to slay the firstborn Of
Egypt the angel OF the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings over 0
nation born in a day. When, soon after my
arrival in Egypt, 1 took part In the solemn
and tender obsequies of q missionary from
our own land, dying there far away from the
sepulchers Of her fathers and saw around
her the dusky and weeping congregation Of
those she had come to saw, I said to myself.
Here is self sacrifice OF the noblest type.
Here is heroism immortal. Here is a queer
unto God forever. Here 10 something
grander than the pyramids. Here is thai
which thrills the heavens. Here is q speci.
men Of that which will yet save the world
Goodby. Egypt This finds us or
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Ny text says that Paul left Cyprus OF the
LETT; we, going IN an opposite direction, rave
1t on the right; On our ship Minerva wer.
only two or thres passengers besides ouI
party, so we had plenty Of room to walk the
deck, and oh, what a night was Christina
night OF leS9in that Grecian archipelago
islands OF light above islands of beauty be
neathl IL Is q royal family OF islands, thi:
g uosSd,a nen,peiag3A crow Q ths
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Wa ~ede pssna Enuea ~ me streets where Paul
s.han ~ $3.50. ~AG - anu Pr9scned; Yea,
mt a a1htIas i4u. ane naTnaoas go,
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Syp.m Aos sne 'e"eis u sictorias
ou~"
We went out into the excavations from
which Di Cesnola has enriched our American
museums with antiquities, and with no bet.
ter weapon than our foot We stirred up the
ground deep enough TO get . tear bottle in
which some mourner shed his tears thou
sands of years ago. and q lamp which before
Christ was born lighted the feet of some
poor pilgrim on his way. That island OF
Cyprus has enough to set an antiquarian
wild. The most OF its glory Is the glory of
the past, and the typhoid fevers that swept
its coast, and the clouds OF locusts that often
blacken its skies Though two hundred thou
sand dollars were expended by the British
empire in year for the extirpation of
these noxious insects, yet falling to do the
work.. and the frequent change OF govern
mental masters hinder prosperity.
But wien the islands OF the sea come to
God, Cyprus win come with them, and the
, agricultural and commercial opulenre whica
adorned it in ages past will be collapsed by
the agricultural n commercial and relig-
ious triumphs of the ages to come. Why Ia
the world 50 stupid that it canno see chat
nations are prospered in temporal things in
proportion as they are prospered in religious
thingsf Goodness is profitable not only for
individuals but for nations onustions Of
tarln,, questions OF silver bill, questions OF
republic or monarchy have not 50 much to
do with a nations temporal welfare as ques-
tons Of religion. Give Cyprus to Christ
give England to Christ give Aperica to
| Christ, give the world to Christ, and HIS will