The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04

determined ON, and so by the watch in
seven minutes he went to the top and
was back again at the base. It was
bloodcurdling spectacle. d
/ said the dominant color of the pyra.
mid was gray, but in certain lights it
seems to shake Off the gray OF centuries
and become a blonde, and the silver
turns to the golden. 1t covers thirteen
acres of ground. What an antiquity!
1t was at least 2. 900 years old when the
baby Christ was carried within sight of
it by his fugitive parents, Joseph and
Mary. The storms of forty centuries
have drcnched it. bombarded it, shad-
owed it. flashed upon it, but the 2 it
stands ready to take another forty len-
turtles of atmospheric attack it the
world should continue to exist The
oldest buildings of the earth are juniors
to this great senior of the centusies
Herodotus says that Tor ten years prep
arations were being made for the bhild-
ing of this pyramid. It. has s2,1lf00O
cubic feet of masonry. One hundred
thousand workmen at one time toiled
in it's erection. To bring the stones
from the quarries causeway sixty feet
wide was built. The top stones were
lifted by machinery such as the world
knows nothing of to-day. 1t is 746 feet
each side Of the square base. The
structure is $50 feet high, higher than
the Cathedrals Of Cologne. Strasburg.
Rouen, st. Peter and St Paul. No
surprise to me that it was put at the
head Of the Seven Wonders of the
world. 1t has subterraneous room of
red granite called the Kings ckam-
ber," and another room called the
Queens chamber" and che probable
ity is that there are other rooms yet
UNEMPLOYED. The evident design of the
architect was to make these rooms as
inaccessible as possible. After all the
work of exploration and all the digging
and blasting, if you would enter these
subterraneous rooms You must GO
through passage only three feet
eleven inches high and less than four
feet wide. A sarcophagus of red gran
ltC bLdIiAtS ooN IL uAuCL blllS Vi
masonry. The sarcophagus could not
have been carried in after the pyramids
were built. 1t must have been put
there before the structure was reared.
Probably in that sarcophagus once lay
a wooden coffin containing adead king,
but time has destroyed the coffin and
destroyed the last vestige of human
remains For three thousand years this
sepulchral room was unopened and
would have been until to-day, probably
unopened, had not superstitious i'm.
preston got abroad that the heart OF
the pyramid was filed with silver and
gold and diamonds, and under AL Ma.
noun, an excavating party went to
work and having bored and blasted
through hundred feet of rock they
found no opening ahead and were
about to give up the attempt when the
workmen heard stone roll down into
seemingly hollow place, and encour.
aged by that they resumed their work
and came into the underground rooms
The disappointment OF the workmen
in finding the sarcophagus empty of all
silver and gold and precious stony was
SO greaN t1iar they would have ASSASSIN.
ated AL Mamoun, who employed them
had he not hid in another part of the
pyramid as much silver and gold az
would pay them for their work at ordia
airy rate of wages, and induced then
there to dig till they, to their surprise
came upon adequate compensation.
/ wonder not that this mountain o.
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, Of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sill
John Herschel, the astronomer, said hi
thought it had astronomical signifi
canoe. The wise men who accompanied
Napoleon's army into Egypt went into
profound study of the pyramid. II
1865 Prof. Smyth and his wife lived il
the empty tombs near by the pyramit
that they might be as continuously a.
possible close to the pyramid which
they were investigating. The pyramid
built more than 1000 years ago, being
a complete geometrical figure, wise mel
have concluded IL must have been di
vinely constructed. Men came through
thousands Of years to fine architecture
to music. to painting; but thi
was perfect at the worlds start, ant
God must have directed it All astrono
mers and geometricians and scientist
say that it was scientifically and mathe
matically constructed before scienc,
and mathematics were born. From tn,
inscriptions on the pyramid, from it
proportions, from the points of tn
compass recognized in it's structure
from the directions in which its tunnel
run, from the relative position of tn
blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris
tians and infidels have demonstrate
that the being who planned this pyra
mid must have known the world
sphericity, and that its motion was re
tary, and how many miles it was in d
ameter and circumference. and no,
man. tons the world weighs, and kne,
at what point in the heavens certai
stars would appear at certain periods G
time.
| Not in the 1000 years since the pu
ting up of that pyramid has singl
fact in astronomy or mathematics bee
found to contradict the wisdom of tn,
structure. Yet they had not at the ag
when the pyramid was started an a
tronomer or an architect or math,
matician worth mentioning. VIII,
then. planned the pyramidY Who S,
perintended its erection? Who. fro,
its first foundation stone to its ca,
stone. erected every thing? 1t muI
have been God. Isaiah was right whe
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