Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-29

ut one of the villages, we SEQ people on the
banks who verify the Bible description for
they are now as they were m Bible times.
| Shoes are now taken off in reverence to
sacred places. Children carried astride the
hother's shoulder as in Hagar's time.
Women with profusion of jewelry as when
Rebecca was affianced. Lentils sheled
into the pottage, as when Esau sold his
birthright to get such u dish The same
Sabits of salutation as when Joseph and
lis brethren fell on each others necks.
Courts Of law held under big trees as in
olden times People making bricks with
out straw, compelled by circumstances to
| use stubbe instead OF straw
Flying over or standing on the banks ms
In Scripture days are flamingoes, osprevs.
eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos and bull
inches. On all sides of this river sepul-
| cheers. Villages of sepulchers. Cities Of
| Bepulchers. Nations Of sepuchers. And
one Is tempted to call it an empire of
tombs. never saw such place as Exypt
is for graves. And now we understand the
| complaining sarcasm of the Israelites when
they were on the way from Egypt to Can
aan, Because there are no graves In Egypt
| hast thou taken us away to die in the will
derness." Down the river bank come the
buffalo and the cattle or kline to drink
And it was the ancestors of these cattle
that inspired Pharoah's dream of the lean
kline and the fat kine.
| Here we disembark little while for
Memphis, off 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 circum-
| ference. Vast colonnades through which
/ ina,
the Temple of the SUM- itself in brilliancy
sun shoue on by another sun. Thebes in
power over Il Thousand one hundred years,
or nearly ten times rs long as the United
States have existed. Here is mbent
Statue se,enty-fve feet long. Bronzed
gateways. a metropolis called "the haven
of the blest." Here Joseph was prime
minister. Here Pharaoh received Jacob
All possible splendors were built up into
this royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel Jeremiah
and Isaiah speak OF it as something won
! derful
/ Never did visit a city with such exalted
antlcipations, and never did my anticipa-
tons drop so flat. not pillar stands
Not wall is unbroken. Not fountain
losses in the sun. Even the ruins have
been ruined and all that remains are chips
Of marble, small pieces of fractured sculp-
tu.e and splinterei human bones. Here
and there II letter of some elaborate in
scription, II toe or ear OF "A statue that once
stood in niche of palace wall. Ezekirl
prophesied its bIotting out, and the proph.
ecy has been fulfilled "Ride on" said
to our party, land don't wait for me. /"
And as stood there alone the city of Mem
phs in the glory OF past centuries returned
And heard the rush of her cha -f1ts, and
the dash of her fountains, and the conviv-
lality of her palaces and SAW the drunken
/ mobiles roll on the floors of mosaic, while
In startling contrast amid all the royalties
Of the place saw Pharaoh look up into
the face of AGED rustic Jacob, the shepherd,
saying, How Old art thou"
THERE'S.
But back to the Nile and on and ND till
you reach VhcbeS, 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 ex.
quisite sculpture and gorgeous dreams
solidiGed in stone. Statue of Raneses II ,
eight hundred and eighty-scven tons in
weight and seventy-flvp feet hi4h, but now
fallen and scattered. Walls apioom with
1 the battlefields Of centuries.
The surrounding hills of rock followed
into sepulchers on the wall Of which are
chiseled in picture and hieroglypl.ics the
/ confirmation of Bible story in regard to
the treatment of the Israelites in Egypt so
/ that, as explorations 90 on with the work,
the walls OF THESE sepulchers become COM
mentarles OF the Bible, the Scriptures
/ originally written upon parchment here
/ cut into everlasting stone 1hebcS mighty
| and dominant five hundred years Then
! she went down in fulfillment of Ezekiel
/ prophecy concerning The City of No, which
! was another name for Ihebes: II will eX-
ecute Judgment in No. | will cut off the
multitudcs II No" jeremiah also proph-
esed, Thus saith the Lord, l will punish
the multitudes Of No."
This city of Thebes and all the other
dead cities of Egypt iterate and rcitera;e
| the veracity of the Scriptures, telling
the same story which Moses and tho
| prophets told. Have you noticed how God
| kept back these archaeological coulirma-
| tons of the Bible until our time, when the
! air Is full of unbelief about the truthful
ness of the dear old book2 lie waited I'M
til the printing press had been set up in it's
| perfected shape, and the submarine cable
was laid, and the world was intelligent
enough to appreciate the testimony, and
| tIANi ho ieNU4 Ittlctl lllc NCttl CIJlcS Oh ne
earth, and commands them, saying: open
your long sealed lips and speak, Memphis
and Thebcs, is the Bible truet' 'True"
respond Memphis and Thebes. Babylon,
Is the Book OF Daniel true" 'True!' re-
| spends Babylon. "Ruins Of Palestine and
Syria is the New Testament trueY"
"Truel" respond the ruins all the way from
Joppa TO the Dead sea and from Jerusalem
! to Damascus.
What mercy that this testimony Of the
dead cities should come at a time when the
Bible is especially assailed. And this work
will go on until the veracty of the Scrip
lures will be as certain to all sensible men
and women as that two and two make
! Jour, as that an isoscees triangle is one
which has two of it's sides equal, as that
the diameter of circle is line drawn
through the center and terminated by the
circumference, MS certain AS any mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration.
Never did feel more encouraged than
when, after preaching sermon on evil
hences Of the truth OF the Bible drawn
from oriental lands, u distinguished sena-
tor of the United States, known and hon
ored everywhere, but now deceased, came
| up to the platform md said 81 WAS