The Dickinson press., 1891-10-31

was carried within sight OF 1T by his
parents. Joseph and Mary.
The storms OF 40 centuries have
drenched it, bombarded it, Swallowed
it, flashed upon it, but there it stands
ready to take another 40 centuries OF
atmospheric attack ii the world
should continue to exist. The oldest
buildings OF the earth are juniors to
this great senior OF the centuries.
says that for 10 years
preparations were being made for the
building OF this pyramid. 1t has 81
11l.OOO cubic feet OF masonry. One
hundred thousand workman at one
time toiled i'll its erection. 10
bring the stone IRON the quarrles
q causeway 60 feet wide was built.
The top stones We're lifted up by ma
chinery such MS the world knows
nothing OF today. 1t is TAG feet each
side OF the square base. The struc-
tureis $50 feet high, higher than the
cathedrals OF Cologne, Stratsburg,
Rouen, st. Peters and st. Paul's. No
surpsise to me that it was put ut the
head OF the seven wonders OF the
world. 1t has Il subterraneous room
OF red granite called the %'queen's
chamber" and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet u~neNplored.
The evident design OF the architect
was to make these room as inaccesSl-
bic as possible. After all the work OF
exploration and all the digging and
blasting, ii you would enter these sub
terraneous rooms you must 90
through a passageo only thrcetect eleven
inches high and less than four feet
wide a sarcophasus OF red granite
stands down under
THIS MOUNTAIN OF MASONRY.
The sarcophagus could not haye
been carried in after the pyramid was
built. 1t must have been lut there
before the structure wasreared. Pro
badly in that sarcophasus once lay a
wooden coffin containing Il dead king,
but time has destroyed the coffin and
DESTROYED the last vestige OF human
remains.
wonder not that this mountain OF
limestone and red granite has been
the fascination OF scholars, OF sclcn-
lists, OF intelligent CllristiaMs in all
ages. Sir john llcrschel the astrono-
mer. said he thought it hal as
Economical significance. The wise
men who accompanied Napo!con's
army into Egypt went into profound
study OF the pyramid. In 1860 Prof.
Smyih and his wife lived i'm the empty
tombs neat by the pyramid that they
might be as continuously as possible
close To the pyramid Which they were
investigating. Thepyramid,b baltimore
than 1000 years ago, being Il csm-
plete %geomctrica! figure, wise menhave
concluded it must have been dlvinely
constructed. Nam came through
thousands OF years to fine architect
urc. to music, to painting, but this
was perfect at the worlds start, and
God must have directed it. All as
tronomers and gcomctricians and
scientists say that it vas scientifically
and fundamentally constructed be-
fore science and mathematics were
born. From the inscriptions on the
pyramid, from its proportions, from
the points OF the compass recognized
in it's structure, from the direction j II
which its tunnels run, from the re-
lative position OF the blocksthat COM
pose 1T,
SCIENTISTS, CHRISTIANS AND lNFlDELS
have demonstrated that the being
who planned this pyramid must have
known the worlds s%phericity, and
that its motion was rotatoly, and
how many miles it was in diameter
and circumference, 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 mathe-
matics been found to contradict the
wisdom OF that structure. Yet they
had not at the age when the pyramid
was started an astronomer or an
architect or a mathematician worth
mentioning. Who then planned the
pyramid? Who superintended its
erection? Who from its first founda.
ton stone to its capstone erected
everything? 1t 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 and a Witness" The pyra
mid is Gods first Bible. Hundreds, i
not thousands OF years before the
first line OF the Book OF Genesis was
written, the lesson OF thepyramid wal
written.
Your business and mine is not tt
bull q pyramid, but to be one OF thu
hun dreds OF thousands who shall
ring the trowel, or pull q rope or turf
the crank OF a derrick or cry "Ye
hea vel" while lifting another block to
it's ell ovation. Though it be seemingly
a SIN all work and a brief work, it is {
work
THAT SHALL LAST FOREVER.
IN the last day many q man and wo.
man whose Work has nevcr beer
recognized on earth will come to 8
special honor. The Ecumenica
Council, nowin session at Washington
its delegates the honored representa-
tives of fifty million Methodists III al
parts OF the earth, will at every ses
sion do honor to the memory OF JOIN
Wesley, but wonder if any OF then
will think to twist Il garland for tn,
memory OF humble Peter Boiler, tn
Moravian, who brought John Wesle,
into the kingdom OF God. | rejoic
that all the thousand who have bee
toiling on the pyramid OF righteous
ness will at last be recognized an
rewarded-the mother who brough
her children to Christ, the Sabbat,
teacher who brought her class to til
knowledge OF the truth, the UMPIRE
tending mar who saved asoul. The
the trowel will be more honored tina
the scepter.
Further, carrying out the idea {
my text, the pyramid is a sign and
witness that big tombstones are nc
the best way OF keeping ones sc
atfectionately remembered. Til
pyramid and the SO other pyramid
still standing were built io
sepulchres, all this great pile {
granite and limestone by whic
we stand today to cover the memor
OF a dead king. 1t wasthegreat Yves
minister Abbey OF the ancients. Son
say that Cheops was the king VIII
built this pyramid, but it is uncertai