The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-30

boolcsl Monarch of boolzsi Al the
books of all the ages ii all the IL
braries outshone by this one book
a pocket So methought amid the
ashes of AIexandrian libraries
But ali aboard the Egyptian rail
train going mp the banks OF the Nilei
Look out of the window and see those
camels tEueeling for the imposition of
their load AID I think we might take
from them lesson. and instead OF try
ing to stand upright in our own
strength, heoome 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 kneeI for the burden.
About here, under the valiant Murad
Bey, the Mameluzes, who are the finest
horsemen ia all the world. came like =
hurricane upon EaPoieon's army, but
they were beaten back by the French
in one Of the aereest battles Of all
time.
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 night fall
upon all surroundings But we shall
not be satisfied until we can take a
ship and pass right out upon these
wOndFOus waters and between the
banks crowded with the story OF en-
pireG
The pyramids in sight the remains
OF cities that are now only a name, the
villages thrOnEed with population
Both banks crowded with historical
deeds Of forty or sixty centuries o,
what a book the bible is when read on
the Hilei As We slowly move up the
majestic river see on each bank the
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CATION, ana Ees a man with his foot on
the treadIe of a wheel that fetches up
the water for a garden, and then for
the first time understand that passage
in Deuteronomy which says of the
Isrselites after they had got back from
Egypt; THE land whittier thou
goest in to possess it is
not as the land of Egypt, from
whence ye came out where thow
aoWedst thy seed, and wateredst
it with thy foot" Then I understood
how the land could be vvatered with the
foot How do you suppose felt when
on the deck of that steamer on the Nile
1 looked off upon the canals and bitches
and sluices through which the fields are
irrigated by that river and then road in
Isaiah: THE burden of Egypt; the
river shall be wasted and dried up; and
they shall be broken in their purposes
thereof, all that make sluices and ponds
for fish"
While sailing on this river or stopping
at one Of the villages, we see people on
the banks who verify the Bible descrip-
ton for they are now as they were in
Bible times. Shoes are now taken of
in reverence to sacred places. Children
carried astride the mothers shoulder
as in Hagar's time. Women with pro-
fusion of jewelry as when Rebecca was
afianced. Lentils shelIed into the pot
tage as when Esau sold his birthright
TO get such a dish The same habits of
salutation as when Joseph and his
brethren fell On each others neck
Courts of law held under big trees as
in olden times People making bricks
without straw, compelled by cirCum-
stances to use stubbis instead of straw.
Flying over or standing on the banks
as in Scripture days are famingoes,
OsPreys. eagles. pelicans, herOns,
cuckoos and bulIfnches. On all
sides OF this river sspulchres.
Villages of sepulchres- Cities of
sePulchres. Nations OF sepulchres And
one is tempted to call it an empire of
tombs- never saw such a place as
Egypt is for graves And now we IN
derstand the complaining sarcasm of
the Israelites when they were on the
way from Egypt TO Canaan: because
there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou
taken us away to die in the wilder
ness?''
Here we disembarlz a little while for
Memphis, of from the Nile to the
right Memphis, founded by the first
king of Egypt and for long while the
capital A city OF marble and gold.
Home OF the Pharaohs. City nineteen
miles IN circumference. Vast colon
nsdes through which imposing process
sions marched Here stood the temple
of the sun, itself in brilliauce a sun
shone on by another sun. Memphis in
power over a thousand years, or nearly
ten times as long as the United States
have existed.
Here Joseph was prime minister.
Here Pharaoh received Jacob. All
possible splendors were built up into
this royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel, ,Jere-
miah and Isaiah speak Of it as some
thing wonderful Never did I visit q
city with such exalted anticipations
and never did my anticipations drop SO
fat Not pillar stands. Not wall
is unbrolEsH. Not q fountain losses in
the sun. Even the ruins have been
ruined and all that remain arc chips
Of marble, small pieces of fractured
sculpture and splintsred human bones
Here and there q letter Of some elabor-
ate inscription, = toe or car OF q statue
that once stood in niche of palace wall
A4-ldA1A-A PEOPAazs-aA-=tA ~ bLIEGAlE out ana
the prophecy has been fulhlled.
But back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes, Ia scripture
called the city of No. Hundred-gated
The bea- A quadFangular 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 Il, ss7
tons in weight and seventy-five feet
high, but now fallen and scattered.
Walls abloon with the batsleflelds of
centuries The surrounding hills of
rock followed into sepulchFes. on the
wall of which are chiseled In picture
and hierOglyphies the confirmation of
Bible story in regard to the treatment
OF the Israelitss In Egypt 50 that. as
explorations go On with ths work, the
walls of these ssPulchres become COM
meHtaries Of the Bible. the Scriptures
originally written upon parchment
here cut into everlasting stone
Thebes mighty and dominant 500
years Then she went down in fulfill
ment of EzeiEisrs prophecy concerning