Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-26
UP TIE NILE.
eEcoND SERMON IN DR.. TALMAeE's
SERIES ON HIS TRAVELS.

dered to Edincation.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 25.-The rerde
ing Of the First Sonata in d Minor, b
Guilmant, on the great organ Of til
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning. b
Professor Henry Eyre Browne, the o
ganist. held the vast congregatio
spellbound with profound emotion
DR.. Talmage preached on Sailing u
the Nile" the second sermon of tn
series, entitled From the Pyramids t
the Acropolis; or, What ] Saw in Egyp
and Greece ContiI1natory of the Scrip
lures" His text was Ezekiel xxx, 8
''The river is mine and have made il.
Aha! This is the River Nile A
brown or yellow or silver cord OF
which are hung more jewels of thrill
ing interest than on any river that was
ever twisted in the sunshine 1t ripples
through the book of Ezekiel, and flashes
in the books of Deuteronomy and
Isaiah and Zechariah and Nahum, and
on its banks stood the mighties OF
many ages. 1t was the crystal cradle
of Moses, and on its banks Mary. the
refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To
find the birthplace of this river was the
fascination and defeat of expeditions
without number.
Not many years ago Bayard Taylor,
our great American traveller, wrote,
''Since Columbus first looked upon San
Salvador the earth has but one emo
tiou of triumph left for her bestowal,
and that she reserves for him who shall
first drink from the fountains of the
White Nile under the snow fields of
Kilima-Njaro. But the discovery of
the sources of the Nile by most people
was considered nm impossibility. The
malarias, the wild beasts, the savages,
the unclimbable sleeps, the vast dis
tances, stopped all the expeditions for
ages.
An intelligent native said to Sir Sam
uel W. Baker and wife as they were on
their way to accomplish that in which
others had failed "Give up the mad |
scheme of the Nile source. How would |
it be possible for lady young and del
icate to endure what would kill the |
strongest mani Give it up." But the
work went on until Speke and Grant |
and Baker found the two lakes which !
are the source of what was called the !
White Nile, and baptized these two
lakes with the names of Victoria and |
Albert.
These two lakes, filed by great rain
falls and by accumulated SHOWS from
the mountains, pour their waters, laden
with agricultural wealth such as blesses
no other river, on down over the cata- |
racts, on between frowning mountains,
on between cities living and cities dead,
ON for four thousand miles and through
a continent. But the White Nile would
do little for Egypt II this were all. 1t
would keep its banks and Egypt would
remain a desert.
But from AbysSinia there comes what
Is called the Blue Nile, which, though
dry or nearly dry half the year. under
rains about the middle of
June rises to great momentum, and
this Blue Nile dashes with sudden in
iux into the White Nile, which In con-
rises thirty feet, and their
combined waters inundate Egypt with
l rich soil which drops on all the fields
md gardens as it Is conducted by
iitches and sluices and canals every
whittier.
The greatest damage that ever came
o Egypt came by the drying up Of the
River Nile and the greatest blessing by
Is healthlul and abundant flow, The
anime In Joseph's time came from the
ack of sufficient inundation from the
Nile. Not enough Nile is drouth, too
much Nile is freshet and plague. The
ivers of the earth are the mothers OF
Is prosperity If by some convulsion
If nature the Mississippi should be
aiken from North America, or the Am
lzon from South America, or the Dan
abe from Europe, or the Yenisei from
Asia-what hemisphere calamity Still |
here are other rivers that could fer
.ilize and save these countries.
Our own continent is gulched, is rib |
boned, is gloriied by innumerable
water courses But Egypt has only one
great river, and that is harnessed to
iraw all the properties Of realms
N acreage semi-intlnite What hap
pens 10 the Nile happens 10 Egypt. |
The Nilometer was To me very sugges-
live as we went up and down It's damp
stone steps and saw the pillar marked |
with notehes telling just how high or
ow are the waters of the Nile. When |
Inc Nile is rising, four eriers every
run through the city announo-
ng how many feet the river has risen
ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet,
iwenty-four feet--and when the right /
height OF water is reached the gates OF
he canals are flung open and the liquid !
md refreshing benediction is pro
lounced on all the land.
WONDERFUL FULFILIMENr on
PROPHECY.
As we start where the Nile emptIes |
nto tho Mediterranean sea we behold |
wonderful fulilllment OF prophecy. |
rhe Nile Ia very ancient times used TO
AVE seven mouths- As the great river
the sea it entered the sea
& seven different places. Isaiah proph-
sled, '''rhe Lord shall utterly destroy
he tongue Of the Egyplissn sea and
hall smite Il la the seven streams