Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-11-12

strange, soiweird, SD generous, SO cruel, 4
20 mighty, SO weak, so religious, 20
sfanaticalS In this city was the great
est female lecturer the world ever saw
Hypatia. But
THE LESSON OF VIRTUE
that she taught was obnoxious and so
they dragged her through the streets
and scraped her flesh from her bones
with sharp oyster shells and then
burned the fragment of the massacred
body. And here dwelt Cleopatra,
pronounced to be the beauty of ali
tlme-although if her pictures are cor
rect have seen q thousand women
in Brooklyn more attractive-and
she was as bad as she was said to be
handsome. Queen, conqueress, and
spoke, seven languages, although it
would have been better for the world
if she had not been able to speak any.
Quilts Cesar conquered the world yet
she conquered Julius Caesar
But all aboard the Egyptian rail
train going up the banks OF the Nile!
Look out OF the window and see those
camels kneeling for the imposition of
their load. And think we might take
from them a lesson, and instead of
trying to stand upright in our own
strength, become conscious of our
weakness and need of divine help be-
fore we take upon us the heavy duties
OF the year or The week or the day,
and so kneel for the burden. We
meet professions of men and beasts
on their way from their days work,
but alas, for the homes to which the
poor inhabitants are going. For the
most part novels of mud. But there
is something in the scene that
thoroughly enlists us. It is the
novelty OF Indebtedness and a scene
OF picturesque rags. For thousands
OF years this land has been under q
very damnation of taxes. Nothing
but Christian civilization will roll
back the influence which are "spoil-
ing the Egyptians" There are gar
adens and palaces, but they belong to
the rulers.
About here, under the valiant
Murad Bey the Mamelukes, who are
the finest horsemen in all the world,
came like hurricane upon Napoleon's
army, but they are beaten back by
the French in one of the fiercest
battles OF all time. Then the Name
lukes turned their horses heads the
other way, and in desperation backed
them against the French troops,
hoping the horses would kick the life
out OF the French reg iments. The
Mamelukes failing again, plunged
into this Nile and were drowned,
the French for days fishing. out the
dead bodies of the Mamelukes to
get the valuables upon their bodies.
Napoleon, at the daring OF the Name
lukes, exclaimed: "Could Ihave united
the Mameluke horse to the French in
fantry, | would have reckoned myself
master OF the world"
This ride along the Nile is one of the
most solemn and impressive rides Of
all my lifetime, and our emotions
deepen as the curtains OF the mig ht fall
upon all the surroundings. But we
shall not be satisfied until we can
take q ship and pass right out upon
these wondrous waters and between
the banks crowded with the story OF
empires.
According TO the lead pencil mark
in my Bible it was Thanksgiving Day
morning Nov. 20, 1889, that with my
family and friends we stepped aboard
the steamer on the Nile,
AS we slowly move up the majestic
river | see on each bank the wheels,
the pumps, the buckets for irrigation,
and see man with his foot on the
treadle OF a wheel that fetches up the
water for garden, and then for the
first time understand that passage
in Deuteronomy which says of the Is
raelites after they got back from
Egypt: "The land whittier thou goest
i'll to possess it is not as the land of
Egypt, from whence We came out,
where thou sowedst thy seed and wa
teredst it with thy foot" Then I I'M
derstood how the land could be wa
tered with the foot.
But back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes, in Scripture
called the city Of No. Hundred-gated
Thebes. A quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit. Four great
temples, two of them Karnac and
Luxor, once mountains of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidi.
fed in stone. Statue of Rameses H.,
875 tons in weight and rs feet high,
but now fallen and scattered. Walls
abloom with the battletields OF centur-
les. The surrounding hills of rock
followed into sepulchres on the wall
of which are chiselled in pictures and
hieroglyphics the confirmation OF
Bible story in regard to the treatment
of the Israelites in Egypt SO that, as
explorations go on with the work the
walls of these sepulchres become COM
mentaries of the Bible, the Scriptures
originally written upon parchment
here cut into everlastingstone Thebes
mighty and dominant 500 years.
Then she went down in fulfillment of
Ezekiel's prophecy concerning the city
Of No, which was another name for
Thebes: 81 will execute Judgment on
No. I will cut off the multitudes of
No." Jeremiah also said, "Thus
saith the Lord, will punish the null
titudes of No." This city of Thebes and
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