Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-19

UufieS ltGfOdotuS says Il Tor ten
years preparations were ben, ;.lade
for the building Of this pyr1.n 1t
has eighty-two million one hundred
and eleven Thousand cI5bic feet OF il:i
sonry One hundred Thousand work
men at one time toiled in its erection
To bring the stone from the quarries a
| causeway sixty feet wide was built.
The top stones were lifted by lnachin-
cry such as the world knows nothing
of today. 1t is seven hundred and
forty-six feet each side of the square
base The structure is four hundred
and fifty feet high. higher than the
cathedrals of Colo-ae StrasbuTg
| ROuen, St Peters and St. Paul's.
No surprise to me that it was put ut
the head of the Seven Wonders of the
Worl1 1t has subterraneous room of
red granite called the kings chamber
and another room called the queens
chamber and the probability is that
there are other rooms yet unexplored.
The evident design of the architect
was to make these rooms us inacces
sible as possible After all the work of
exploration and all the dig ,ing and
| blasting, if you would enter these sub
| terraneous rooms you must go through
il passage only three feet eleven inches
high and less than four feet wide.
THE GREAT KING TURNED TO DUST.
\ sarcophagus of red granite stands
down under this mountain of masonry.
The sarcOphagus could not have been
carried in after the pyramid was built,
II ,n11ct he va haon mt thar1A I1aTOra tho
structure was reared T. JOIbly in that
sarcophagus once lay Il wooden coffin
containing Il dead king, but tiile has
destroyed the coffin and destroyed the
last vestige of human remains.
For three thousand years this sepul-
chral room was unopened, and would
have been until today probably un-
opened had not u supers1itious impress
sion got abroad that the heart Of the
pyramid was filled with silver and gold
and diamonds, and under Al Mamoun
an excavating party went to work, and
having bored and blasted through a
hundred feet of rock they found no
opening ahead, and were about to give
up the attempt when the wOrknen
heard a stone roll down into Il seeming
ly hollow place, and encouraged by
that they resumed their work and came
into the underground rooms.
The disappointment of the worlmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty of all
silver and gold and precious stones was
so great that they would have assas-
sinated 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 sur
prise. came upon adequate compensa-
ton.
[ wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars of scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought it had astronomical signifi
canoe The wise men who accompa-
MED NapOleons army into Egypt went
into profound study of the pyramid.
In 1865, Professor Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as cOntin-
uously as possible close to the pyramid,
which they were investigating.
The pyramid built more than four
thousand years ago, being Il complete
geometrical figure, wise men have con
Guided it must have been divineiy CON
structed. Man came through thou
sands of years to fine architecture to
music, to painting but this was perfect
1t the worlds start. and God must
have directed it. All astronomers and |
geometricians and scientists say that it |
was scientifically and mathenlal icalIy |
constructed before science and Matte |
MATES were born. From the inrcrip- |
tiOns on the pyramid. from its proper
tiOns, 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 in
fidels have demonstrated that the be
ing who planned this pyramid must
have known the worlds sphericity. and |
that its motion was rotatory, and how
many miles it was in diameter and cir
conference, and how many tons the
world weighs. and knew at what point |
in the heavens certain stars would APP
pear at certain periods of time
Not in the four thousand years since
the putting up of that pyramid has
single fact in astronomy or mathe-
MATES 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 archi
tect or a mathematician worth men
tioning Who, then, planned the pyra
mid? Who superintendent its erection2
Who from its first foundation 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 I; sign and wit
ness" The pyramid is Gods first
bible. Hundreds, if not thousands of
years before the first line of the Book
of Genesis was written, the lesson of
the pyramid was written.
THE SIGN AND SYMBOL OF ETERNITY.
Well, Of what is this Cyclopean ma
sorry sign and witness? Among
other things, of the prolongation of
WOIh COIIl GU Will tlIC OiCN- |
ity of human life. In all the four
thousand years this pyramid has only
lost eighteen feet in width, one side of
it's square at the base changed only from
seven hundred and siXty-four feet to
seven hundred and forty-six feet, and
the most of that eighteen feet taken
off by architects to furnish stone for
building in the city Of Cairo.
The men who constructed the pyra-
mid worked at it only few years and
then put down the trowel and the com
pass, and the square and lowered the
derrick which had lifted the ponderOus
weights; but forty centuries has their
work stood, and it will be good for
forty centuries more. All Egypt has
been shaken by terrible earthquakes
and cities have been FRUSTRATED OF
swallowed, but that pyramid has defied
all volcanic parOxySms 1t has looked
upon some of the greatest battles ever
fought since the world stood. Where