Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-26

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gardens and palaces, but they belong
to the rulers.
This ride along the Nile is one OF the
most solemn and impressive rides OF all
nv lifetime, and our emotions deepen
as the curtains of the night fall upon all
surroundings. But we shall not be sat
isfied until we can take ship and pass
right out upon these wondrous waters
and between the banks crowded with
the story Of empires.
AS WE SLOWLY MOVE
up the majestic river l see on each BANK
the wheels, the pumps, the buckets for
irrigation, aud see man with his toot
on the treadle OF a wheel that fetcheS
up the water for a garden, and then Tor
the first time / understand that passage
in Deuteronomy which says OF the lSrae-
lites after they had got back from
Egypt: The land whittier thou goest
in to possess it is not as the lana OF
Egypt, from whence We came out, where
thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst IL
with thy foot" Then / understood how
the land could be watered with the
foot. How do you suppose l felt when
on the deck Of that steamer on the Nile
l looked of upon the'canalS and dltcheS
and sluiceS through which the fields
are irrigated by that river and then
read in Isaiah: The burden OF Egypti
the river shall be wasted AID dried up
and they shall turn the rivers far away
and the brooks Of defense shall be emp
tied and dried up; and they shall be
broken i'm the purposes thereof, all that
make sluiceS and ponds for fish" That
THANKSGIVING morning on the Nile 1
found NV text Of to-day. Pharoah in
this chapter is compared to the dragon
or hippOpOtamus suggested by the croc-
odiles that used 10 line the banks OF this
river: "ThuS saith the Lord God: Be
hold l am against thee, Pharoah, King
of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth In
the midst Of his rivers, which hath SAID
my river is mine own, and l have MADE
it for myself. But I will put hooks In
thy Jaws and will cause the fish of thy
rivers 10 stick unto thy scales, and /
will bring thee up out Of the midst OF
thy rivers, and all the fish OF thy rivers
shall stick unto thy scales, and the land
OF Egypt shall be desOlate and waste;
and they shall know that l am the Lord,
because he hath said the river Is mine,
and have made it,"
HERE WE DISENBARK
a little while for Memphis, off from the
Nile 10 the right. Memphis, founded
by the first king of Egypt and for a
long while the capital. A city Of marble
and gold. Home Of the PharOahS. City
nineteen miles in circumference. Vast
colonnades through which imposing
professions marched. Here stood the
Temple of the Sun, itself in brilliancy
a sun ShOne of by another sun. Mem
phis In power over a thousand one hun
dred years, or nearly ten times as long
as the United States have existed. Here
is recumbent statue seventy-ive feet
long. Bronzed gateways. A metropolis
called 'the haven OF the best" 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 wonder
full. Never did 1 visit city with such
exalted auticipatiOns and never did my
anticipations drop 50 fat. Not pillar
stands. Not a wall is unbroken. Not
q fountain losses in the sun. Even the
ruins have been ruined and all that re-
mains are chips Of marble, small pieces
of fractured sculpture and splintered
human homes. Here and there letter
Of some elaborate inscription, toe or
ear Of a statue that once stood In niche
of palace wall Ezekiel prophesied its
blotting-Out and the prophecy has been
fulfilled.
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 10 limit. Four great
temples, two OF them Karnac and Luxor,
once mountains OF exquisite sculpture
and gorgeous dreams SOlidifed in stone
Statue OF RameSes ii, eight hundred
and eighty-seyen tons in weight and
seventy-fve feet high but now fallen
aud scattered walls abloOm with the bat
tlefeldS of centuries.
THE CITY OF THEBES
and all the other dead cities of Egypt
iterate and reiterate the veracity of the
Scriptures, telling the same story which
Moses and the prophets told. Have
YOU noticed how God kept back these
archaeological combinations Of the Bible
until our time, when the air is full of
unbelief about the truthfulness of the
dear old Book? He waited. until the
printing press had been set up in its
perfected shape, and the submarine ca
BILE was laid, and the world was intelli-
gent enough TO appreciate the teSti-
mOny, and then he reSurrected the dead
cities OF the earth, and com mandS them,
saying: "Open your long sealed lips and
speak, Memphis and Thebes! Is the
Bible true?" ''Truel" respond Mem
phis and Thebes. Babylon, is the
book OF Daniel true?" "Truer re-
spends Babylon. "RuinS of Palestine
and SyriO. Is the New Testament true?"
True. respond the ruins all the way
from Joppa TO the Dead Sea, and from
Jerusalem 70 Damascus.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplOmltiZed and almost came TO battle
for one book, a copy of Eschylus.
Ptoemy, the Egyptian king, discovered
that in the great library at Alexandria
there was no copy of KschyluS. The
Egyptian king sent to Athens, Greece,
to borrow the book and make a copy Of
it, Athens demanded deposite Of sew
enteen thousand seven hundred dollars
as security. The Egyptian king received
the book, but refused to return that
which he had borrowed and so forfeited
the seventeen thousand seven hundred
dollars. The two nations rose in con-
tentiOn concerning that one book.
Beautiful aud mighty book indeed!
But it is a book of horrors, the
dominant idea that we are
the victims Of hereditary influences
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