The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-19
IN THE ORIENT.
BIS TOUR FROM THE PYRAMIDS
TO TEE ACROPOLIs.

Saw Confirm atory of the Scriptures.
The Great Pyramid.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 1S.-The vast congrega-
tion at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this MORN
ing was delighted by an exquisite render
ing, by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne, on the
new organ, of Denier's Second Sonata in g.
DR.. Talmage's sermon was the first of
series he intends preaching on his eastern
tour, entitled "From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis; or, What Saw in Egypt and
Greece Conflrmatory of the Scriptures"
His text was Isaiah xix, 10, 20: I'm that
day shall there be an altar to the Lord in
the midst Of the land Of Egypt and pillar
at the border thereof to the Lord. And ID
shall be for sign and for witness.n
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the great
pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyramid OF
Egypt. The text speaks of pillar in Egypt,
aud this is the greatest pillar ever
lifted; and the text says 1t is to be at the
border Of the land, and this pyramid is at
the border Of the land; and the text says ir
shall be for a witness, and the object of this
sermon is to tell what this pyramid wit
nesses. This sermon is the first Of "A course
of sermons entitled. "From the Pyramids
| to the Acropolis; or, What Saw in Egypt
and Greece ConfirmatorY of the Scriptures"
We had on a morning Of December. 1899,
| landed III Africa. Amid the bowling boat
| men at Alexandria we had come ashore and
taken the rail train for Cairo, Egypt, along
the banks of the most thoroughly harnessed
| river of all the world-the river Nile. We
| had, at even-tide, entered the city Of Cairo,
the city where Christ dwelt while staying
| In Egypt during the Herodic persecution.
1t was our first night in Egypt. No de-
stroying angel sweeping through as once,
but all the stars were out, and the skies
were filed with angels of beauty
| and angels Of light. and the air
| was balmy as an American June. The
next morning we were early awake and at
the window, looking upon palm trees in full
| glory Of LEAKAGE, aud upon gardens Of fruits
and flowers at the very season when our
homes far away are canopied by bleak
skies and the last leaf of the forest has gone
down in the equinoctials.
But how can describe the thrill OF ex-
poctation, for to-day we are to sec what all
the world has seen or wants to ses-the
| pyramids We are mounted for an hour
and hslf's ride. We pass on amid bazars
stuffed with rugs and carpets, and curious
fabrics Of all sorts from Smyrna, from
| Alglers, from Persia, from Turkey. and
| through streets where we meet people OF
| all colors and oil garbs, carts loaded with
| garden productions, priests in gowns.
| women in black vslls, Bedouins in long aud
aud seemingly supernuous apparel, Janis
saries In jacket OF embroidered gold-out
and on toward the great pyramid; for
though there are sixty-nin pyramids still
standing. the pyramid of Gizeh is the
monarch OF pyramids. We meet camels
grunting under their load, and see buffa-
Ices on either side, browsing in pasture
fields. The road we travel Is for
part Of the way under clumps Of acacin,
| and by long rows OF sycamore
aud tamerisk but after while it is
path OF rock and sand. and we find we have
reac led the margin Of the desert, the great
| Sahara desert, and we cry out TO the drago-
mau as we see huge pile of rock looming
up in sight: "DraRoman, what is thatr
His answer is THE pyramid and then II
seemed as II we we're living a century every
minute. Our thoughts and emotions were
too rapid and intense for utterance, and we
ride on in silence until we come to the fool
Of the pyramid spoken of in the text, the
oldest structure in all the earth, four
thousand years old at least Here it is.
We stand under the shadow of q structure
that shuts ont all the earth and all the sky
and we look up and strain our vision to ap,
preciate the distant top, and are over
whelmed while we cry 'rhe Pyramid The
pyramidP
had started that morning with the de
termination of ascending the pyramid One
OF my chief objects in going to Egypt wai
not only to see the base OF that granite
wonder, but to stand on the top of it. Yet
the nearer | came to this eternity In stone
the more my determination was shaken
Its altitude to me was simply appalling. a
great hight has always been to me a most
disagreeable sensation. AS we dismounted
at the base Of the pyramid / said, ''others
may 90 up II, but not |. will satisfy myself
with view from the base. The ascent Of
it would be, TO me, foolhardy undertak.
ing" But after l had given up all idea Of
ascending, found my daughter was deter
mined to 90, and / could not let her 90
with Strangers, and changed my mind and
we started with guides. 1t cannot be done
without these helpers. Two or three times
foolhardy men have attempted it alone,
but their bodies came tumbling down un-
recognizable and lfeless Each person in
our party had two or three guides of help
era One Of them unrolled his turban and
tied 1t Ground my waist and he held tbs
other end Of The turban as a matter Of
safety. Many OF the blocks of stone ars
, four or five feet high, and beyond any or
! binary human stride unless assisted But
two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push,
. l found myself rapidly ascending from
hight to hight. and on to attitudes ter
rife, and at last at the tip top we found
ourselves On level space Of about thirty
feet square. Through clearest atmosphere
we looked of upon the DESERT and Off upon
the winding Nile, aud of upon the Sphinx
with its features OF everlasting stone, and
. yonder upon the minarets Of Cairo glitter.
ing in the sun. and yonder upon Memphis
. in ruins, and off upon the wreck of empires
and the battle-helds Of ages, a radius OF
view enough to fill the mind and shock the
nerves and overwhelm ones entire being.
After looking around for while and 9
kodak had pictured the group, we descended.
The descent WAS more trying tnan the
y ascent, for climbing you need not see the
e depths beneath, but coming down it was
10 impossible not TO see the abysms below. Bui
two Arabs ahead to help us down and two
% Arabs to hold us back, We we're lowered,
= hand below hand, until the ground was
10 invitingly near, and amid the jargon Of the
.. Arabs we were safely landed. Then came
V one Of the most wonderful feats Of daring
d and agility. One Of the Arabs solicited 9
y dollar, saying he would run up aud down
it the pyramids in seven minutes We would
d rathe- have given him dollar not 20 60,
I. but this ascent and descent in seve minutes
he was determined Oh, and 80, by the watch,
In seven minutes he went 70 the top and wai
y back again at the base. IL was blood
Il curdling spectacle.
10 said the dominant color OF the pyramid
5 was grey but in certain lights It seems 70
Q shake of the gray Of centuries ana pecomt
4 blonde and tho silver turns 20 the golden.
! 10 covers thirteen acre@ 81 ground. Nnht
q an antiquity IL was at least two thousand
"A years old when the baby Cnrist WAS carried
, within sight Of il by his fugitive parents.
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