The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-23

ably IN that sarcophagus once
lay wooden coffin containing
dead king, nut time has de-
stroyed the coffin and destroyed
the last vestage Of human remains,
For 3, 600 years this sepulchrsl room
was unopened, and would have been
until to-day. probably unopened had
not a supsFstitious impression got
abroad that the heart of the pyramid
was filed with silver and gold and ata-
monds and under Al Mamoun an ex-
eevating party went to work and haV-
ing bored and blasted through a 100
feet of rock they found no opening
ahead, and were abcut to give up the
attempt when the Worlkmen heard
stone roll down into = seemingly hol-
low place and encouraged by that they
resumed their work and came into the
underground rooms. The disapPOint-
ment of the workmen in finding the
sArcophagus empty of all silver and
gold and precious stones was SO great
that they would have assassinated Al
Mamoun, who employed them, had he
not hid in another part of the pyramid
as much silver and gold as would pay
them for their work at ordinary rate of
wages and induced them there to dig
till they to their surprise came upon
adequate compensation
I wonder not that this mountain of
AAtslGsLOAAc anu EG1 -EEEELG mas DcS1l sAAc
fascination Of scholars, Of scientists OF
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Hersehel. the astronomer, said he
thought It had astronomical sigRifi-
canoe. The wise men who accom-
panied Nspoleon's army into Egypt
went into profound study Of the pyrs-
mid. IN 1865 Prot Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as continU-
Ously as possible close to the pyramid
that they were investigating. The
pyramid built more than four thousand
years ago, being a complete geometric-
al figure, wise men have concluded it
must have been divinely constructed.
Man came through thousands of years
to fine architecture. to music, to paint
| ing. but this was perfect at the worlds
start. and God must have directed it.
| All astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say that it was scien tificaIly
and Hasthematicsliy constructed before
science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
/ from its proportions, from the points
| Of the compass recognized in its
| structure, from the direction in
which its tunnels run, from the relative
position of the blocks that compose it,
/ scientists, Christians and infidels have
| demonstrated this pyramid must have
| known the worlds sPhericity, and that
/ its motion was rotatOry. and how many
miles it was in diameter and circumfer-
/ snce, and how many tons the world
| weighs, and knew at what point in the
heavens certain stars would appear at
certain periods of time. Not in the
| 1000 years since the putting up OF that
| pyramid has a single fact in astronomy
or mathematics been found to contra
diet the wisdom OF that structure. Yet
they had not at the age when the pyra-
| mid was started an astronomer or an
architect or a mathematician worth
mentioning Who then planned the
| pyramid? Who superintendent its cree
ton? Who from its first foundation
stone to its capstone erected every
thing? It must have been God. Isaiah
was right when he said in my text, "a
pillar shall be at the border of the LAND
of Egypt and it shall be for a sign anG
a witness" The pyramid is Gods frs
Bible. Hundreds. If not thousands o.
years before the first line of the boOL
of Genesis was written, the lesson o.
q the pyramid was written.
Well. of what is this Clyclopear
masonry a sign and a witness
Among other things, of the prolonga
ton of human work compared will
the brevity of human life. IN all the
4, 900 years this pyramid has only los
| eighteen feet in width, one side of it
square at the base changed only from
764 feet to T46 feet and the most of tina
| eighteen feet taken off by architects Z
| furnish stone for building in the city o
Cairo. All Egypt has been shaken b.
terrible earthquakes and cities hav'
been FRUSTRATED or swallowed, but tina
pyramid has defied all volcani
parozysms. 1t has looked upon SOM
of the greatest battles ever Tough
since the world stood. Where are tn
men who constructed it2 Their bodie
gone to dust and even the dust scat
tered. Even the sarcOphagus in whicl
the kings mummy may have slept j
empty.
; So men die, but their work lives on
: We are building pyramids not to las
1000 years, but 40, 600. 80, OOO OOO, 40, 600,
900. 900, 80, 900, GOO, coo, 900, 80, 600. OOG
l coo. 900, coo. For while we WELD tn
trowel or pound with the hammer o
measure with the yard stick or writ
: with the pen or experiment with tn
scientific battery or plan with tn
: brain, and for a while the foot walk
) and the eye sees and the ear hears an
the tongue speaks All the gOO'
, ! words or the bad words we speak ar,
! | spread out into one layer for q pyra
: mid. All the kind deeds or ma1evoIen
| deeds we do are spread out into an
other layer. All the Christian or ur
| christian example we set are spreR
, I Sus INTO l-Aius-AG- Ia e. Al Tue AA0l
, | rect influences of our lives are sprea
8 out into another layer. Then the tim
? | soon comes when we put down the in
| plement of toll and pass away, but til
t pyramid stands
D You modestiy say: That is true i
D regard TO the great workers for goo
= or evil and Of gigantic geniuses. Milton
3 ian or Talieyrandian, but not of me-
i for live and work on a small scale.
? My nearer, remember that those VIII
built the pyramids were common vvOrl
e men. Not one of them could lii
S one of those great stones. 1t too
I dozen of them to lift one ston
e and others just welded a trowS
s clicking It the hard edge c
q smoothing the mortar between tn
5 layers One hundred thousand me
d toiled on those sublime elevations
e Cheops didn't build the Pyrimid- Som
o boss mason in the worlds twiligt
d didn't build the PyFinaid- One hundre
d thousand men built It and perhaps frOI
o first to last 9OOs eco men
j. So with the pyramids now Eisiut