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


TaImage in his second discourse took his
text from Ezekiel XXX Q, The river
is mine and have made it" He said:
Anal This is the river Nile. A
brown, or yellow, or silver on which
are hung more jewels Of thrilling in
terest than on any river that has ever
twisted in the sunshine. 1t ripPles
through the book of Ezekiel and flashes
in the books of Deuteronomy, aud
Isaiah, and Zachariah. and Nahum.
aud or its banks stood the mighties of
many ages 1t was the crystal cradle
of Moses, and on its banks, Mary, the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus To
find the birthplace of this river was
the fascination and defeat of expedi-
lions without mum Der. Not many years
ago Bayard Taylor, our great American
traveller, wrote: "Since Columbus frat
looked upon San Salvador, the earth has
but one emotion of triumph left for her
bestowal and that she reserves for him
wbo-shatl first drink from the fountains
of the White Nile under the snow fields
of Kilimaniaro BuS the discovery of
the sources of the Nile by most people
was considered an imPOssibilitY. The
malarias, the wild beasts, the unclimb-
able sleeps, the vast distances, stopped
all the expeditions for ages
But the work went on until Spoke,
and Grant, and Baker found the two
lakes which are the source of what was
called the White Nile, and baptized
these two lakes with the names of Vic
toria and Albert These two lakes,
filed by great rainfalls and by accumu-
lated SHOWS from the mountains pour
their waters, laden with agricultural
wealth such as blesses no other river,
on down over the cataracts for 4, 600
miles and through a continent But
the White Nile would do little for
l. T.
its banks and Egypt would remain q
desert. But from Abyssinia there
comes what is called the Blue Nile,
which. though dry or nearly dry half
the year, under tremendous rains about
the middle of June rises to great mo-
mentum, and the Blue Nile dashes with
sudden influx into the White Nile,
which in consequence rises thirty feet,
and their com bined waters inundate
Egypt with rich soil which drops on
all the fields and gardens as it is con-
Quoted by bitches and sIuices, and
canals every whittier
The greatest damage that ever came
TO Egypt came by the drying Hp Of the
river Nile, and the greatest blessing
by its healthful aad abundant low.
The famine in Joseph's time came from
the lack of sufficient humiliation from
the Nile Not enough Nile is drought,
too much Nile is freshet and plague.
What happens to the Nile happens
to Egypt The nilometer was to me
very suggestive as we went mp and
dow n its stone steps and saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters of the Nile.
When the Nile is rising, four criers
every morning run through the city an
nOuncing how many feet the river has
risen-ten feet, fifteen feet. twenty feet,
twenty-four feet-aud when the right
height of water is reached the gates of
the canals are flung open and the liquid
and refreshing benedictiOn Is pro-
nounced on all the land.
As we start where the Nile empties
into the Mediterranean sea we behold
ii wonderful fulhllment of prophecy.
The Nile in very ancient times used to
have seven mouths As the great river
approached the sea it entered the sea
at the seven different places Isaiah
prOphesied: THE Lord shall utterly
destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea
and shall smite it in seven stresms-"
The fact is they are all destroyed but
two, and Herodotus said these two re-
naming are artificial. Up the Nile we
shall go, part of the way by Egyptian
rail train and then by boat and we
shall understand why the Bible gives
such prominence to this river which Is
the largest river of all the earth, with
Que exception. But before we board
the train we must take a look at Alex
andria it was founded by Alexander
the Great, and was once the New York,
the Paris, the London OF the world
Temples palaces fountains, gardens,
pillRred and effiorescent with ali
architectural and Edenfc grandeur and
sweetness APOllos, the eloquent,
whom in New Testament times some
people tried to make a rival 60 Paul,
-
the second book of the New Testament
expired under Nero's anathema- From
here the ship sailed that left Paul and
the crew struggling in the breakers OF
Melita. POmPey's pillar is here.
This tower was built in honor of
Diecletian for sparing the rsbsllfOus
citizens. After having declared that
he rVnElld make the blood run 40 his
horses knees and his horse fell with
him into the blood and his knees red
dened, the tyrant took it for granted
that it was a sign he should stop the
massacre and hence this commemora-
tive pillar to his mercy. This is the city
to which Omar came after building
I.4OO mosques and destroying Z. 600
temples and IS, 900 villages and castles,
vet riding in on a camel with a sack
of corn, sack of figs and wooden
plate. all that ne had kept for himself,
and the diet to which he had limited
himself for most of the time was bread
and water. Was there ever in any
other man a comminRling of elements
so strange. so weird, so generous, SO
cruel, so mighty. so weak. SO religious,
SO fanatfcai2
In this city was the greatest female
lecturer the world ever saw-Hypstia-
But the lessons of virtue that she
taught were obnoxious and so they
dragged her through the streets and
scraped he flesh from her bones with
sharp oyster shells and then burned
the fragment OF the massscred body.
And here dvvelt Cleopatra. pronounced
to be the beauty OF all tims-RlthOugh
If her pictures are correct have seen
n Thousand women in Brooklyn more
attraetive-aud she was as bad as she
was said to be handsome
But Alexandria, fascinating for this
or that thing, according to the taste of
the visitor was TO me most entertain
ing because it had been the site Of the
greatest library the world ever saw,
considering the fact that the art OF
printing had not been invented Seven
hundred thousand volumes and all the