The Dickinson press., 1891-11-21
THE ARCHIPELAGO.
n. Talmage Tells His Good People
y About His Trip Among the
Grecian Islands.
Cyprus With Its Wonderful History,
Reminds Him of Barnabas and
His Quarrel With Paul.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, [Special.1-Dr.
Talmage took twotexts: Acts xxi.,3,
"When we had discovered Cyprus we
left it on the left hend;' and Revela-
tions l., 8, II, John was in the isle
that is called Patmos."
Good bye, Egypt! Although inter-
ssting and instructive beyond any
country in all the world excepting the
Hold Land, Egypt was to mo some
what depressing. 1t was a post-mor-
tenn examination OF cities that died
1000 years ago. The mummies, or
wrapped up bodies of the dead, were
prepared with reference to the resur-
rection day, the Egyptians departing
this life wanting their bodies to be
kept in as good condition as possible,
20 that they would be presentable
when they were called again to occupy
them. But if when Pharaoh comes
to resurrection he finds his body look
ing as ! saw his mummy in the muse
UNI at Boulac, his soul will become an
unwilling tenant. The Sphinx also
was to me a stern m~onstrosity,
. statue carved out OF rock of red
granite, 90 feet high and about 143
feet long and having the head ofaman
and the body of alton. We sat down
In the sand OF the African desert to
study it. With a cold smile it has
looked down upon thousands OF
years of earthly history; Egyptian
civilization, Grecian civilization,
Roman civilization; upon the rise and
tall of thrones innumerable; the
victory and defeat o. the armies Of
centuries. It took 5000 years to
make wrinkle onits red cheek. 1t
is dreadful in its stolidity. Its eyes
have never wept q tear. Its cold ears
have not listened to the groans OF the
Egyptian nation, the burden OF which
! tried to. weigh last Sabbath. Its
heart is stone. 1t cared not for
Pliny when he measured it in the first
century. It will care nothing for the
man who looks into it's imperturbable
countenance in the last century.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life. The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great DR.. Lansing, are sounding
A RESURRECTION TRUMPET
above those slain empires. There
will be some other Joseph at Memphis.
There will besome other Moses on the
banks of the Nile. There will be some
other Hypatia to teach good morals
to photographed. Instead OF adestroy-
ing angel to slay the first born of
Egypt, the angel of the New Testa-
ment will shake everlasting life from
his wings over a nation born in a day.
Goodbye, Egypt! This sermon
finds us on the steamer Minerva IN
the Grecian archipelago, the islands
OF the New Testament, and islands
Paulinian and Johannian in their rem
iniscence. What Bradshaw's direc-
tory is to travellers in Europe, and
what the railroad guideis to travellers
in America, the book of the Acts in
the Bible is to voyagersin the Grecian
or as l shall call it, the Gospel .Archi-
pelago; The Bible geography OF that
region is accurate without a shadow
of mistake. We are sailingthis morn,
on the same waters that Paul sailed
but in the opposite direction to that
which Paul voyaged. He was sailing
southwark and we northward. With
hun it was: Ephesus. Coos, Rhodes,
Cyprus. With us it is reverse and it
Is: Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus.
There is no book in the world SO &C
curate as the Divine Book. My text
says that Paul left Cyprus on the left;
we, going in the opposite direction,
have it on the right. On our ship
Minerva were only two or three pas
sengers beside our party, SO we had
plenty Of room to walk the deck and
oh, what a night was Christmas night
In that Grecian Archipelago-islands
OF light above, islands of beauty
beneathl 1t is
A ROYAL FAMILY OF ISLANDS,
this Grecian Archipelago; the crown of
the worlds scenery set with sapphire
and emerald and topaz and chryso-
prasus and ablaze with a glory that
seems let down out Of celestial land
scapes. God evidently made up his
mind that just here he would demon
strate the utmost that can be done
with islands for the Identification of
earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during the
night and in the morning the ship was
as quiet as this floor, when wehasten-
ed up to the deck and found that we
had anchored off the island ofCyprus.
In a boat, which the natives rowed
standing up as is the custom. instead
OF sitting down as when we row, we
were soon landed on the streets where
Paul and Barnabas walked and
preached. Yea, when at Antioch Paul
and Barnabas got into q fght-asm min
listers sometimes did, and sometimes
do, for they all have imperfections
enough to anchor them to this world
till their work is done, l say-when
because of that bitter controversy
Paul and Barnabas parted, Barnabas
came back here to Cyprus which
was his birthplace. Island Won
derful for history! It has been
the prize sometimes o by Per
STA, by Greece, by Egypt, by the Sara
Gems, by the Crusaders, andlast of all,
not by sword but by pen, and that
the pen of the keenest diplomatist Of
the century, LORD Beaconstield. who
under a lease, which was as good as a
purchase, set Cyprus among the jeS-
els OF Victoria's crown. We went out
into the excavations from which Di
Cesnola has enriched our American
museums with antiquities and with
no better weapon than our foot We
stirred up the ground deep enough tc
get a tear-bottle in which some mourn.
or shed his tears thousands of years
ago and q lamp which before Christ
vas vSs born lighted the feet Of some poor
Cyprus has enough to set an anti
9uarian wild. The most of it's glory
THE GLORY OF THE PAST,
a and the typhoid fevers that sweep it's
coast and the clouds of locusts that
often blacken it's skies Though $780,
600 were expended by the British en-
pire in one year for the extirpation OF
these noxious insects, yetfailing to do
the work,) and the frequent change OF
governmental masters, hinders pros
perity. But when the islands OF the
sea come to God, Cyprus will come
with them, and the agricultural and