The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
THETABERNACLEPUL
Dir, TALMAeE breaches A SERMON
ON THE GOSPEL ARCHIPELAGO.

Inspired by the brooklyn Dirine's Jour
neyings In the Old world-uis Visit to
the Grecian Islands.
BROOKLYN, Nov. S.-An overlooking
congregation at the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle this morning atteSted the interest
The religious public is taking in the
series of sermons DIR, Talmage is preach
Ing on what he saw contlrnatory of
the Scriptures during his tour from
the Pyramids to the Acropolis, This
mornings sermon, the fourth of the
series, was on the islands of the Greek
archipelago. The doctor took two
texts; Acts xxi, 3, when we had dis
covered Cyprus we left 1t on the left
hand;' and Revelation |, o, II, John,
was in the isle that is called Patmos,"
Goodby, Egypt Although interest
Ing and instructive beyond any coun.
try in all the world, excepting the Holy
Land, Egypt was to Inc somewhat de-
pressing, 1t was a post mortem exalni,
nation of cities that died four thousand
years ago. The mummies, or wrapped
up bodies of the dead, were prepared
with reference to the Resurrection day,
the Egyptians departing this life want
Ing their bodies to be kept in as good
condition as possible SO that they would
be presentable when they were called
again to occupy them. But if when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds
his body looking as saw his mummy
In the museum at Boulac, his soul will
become an unwilling tenant. The
Sphinx also was to me stern mon
strosity, statue carved out of rock Of
red granite sixty-two feet high and
about one hundred and forty three feet
long, and having the head of man
and the body of lion.
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 civiliza
ton, Roman civilization; upon the rise
and fall of thrones innunerable; the
victory and defeat of the armies of
centuries. 1t took three thousand
years to make one wrinkle on its red
cheek. 1t is dreadful in its stolidity
Its eyes have never wept 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. 1t will care nothing
for the man who looks into its ilnper-
turbable countenance in the last cen
fury.
EGYPT WILL YET REVIVE.
But Egypt will yet come up to the
glow of life. The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great Doctor Lansing, are sound
ing a resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires There will be some
other Joseph at Memphis. There will
be some other Moses on the banks of
the Nile. There will be some other
Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead of destroying
angel to slay the tirstborn of Egypt,
the angel of the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings
over a nation born in day.
When, soon after my arrival in Egypt,
l took part in the solemn and tender
obseuuies of missionary from our own
land dying there far away from the
sepulchers of her fathers, and saw
around her the dusky and weeping con
gregation of those whom she had come
to save, l said to myself: Here is sell
sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is
heroism immortal. Here is a queer
unto God forever Here is something
grander than the pyramids. Here i:
that which thrills the heavens Here
is specimen of that which will yet
save the world.
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon Gnd
us on the steamer Minerva in the Gre
clan archipelago, the islands of The
New Testament, and islands Paulnilr
and Johanninn in their "Reminiscences
What Bratis!Iaw's directory is to travel
ers in Europe, and what the railroad
guide is to travellers IN America, th'
Book of the Acts in the Bible is to voy
ayers in the trecian, Or us | shall cal
it, the Gospe! archipelago, The Eih'
geography O. that region is accurate
without u shallow of mistake. We ;r
sailing this morning On the same water
that Paul sailed, but in the OPPOSITE
direction to that which Paul voya%cd
He was sailing s2uthward ard we north
ward. Win lin it WIS Ephesus
Coos, Rhodes Cyprus. With US it
reversed, and is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos
EpheSus There is no book i'll tn
world SO accurate as the Divine Book
My text says that Paul left Cypru
on the left. We. going in the opposite
direction, have it on the right. On on
ship Minerva were only two or tire
passengers besides our party, so we ha'
plenty of room to walk the deck, an
oh, what a night was Christmas nigh
of 1889 in that Grecian archipelago
islands of light above, islands of beaut
beneath! 1t is q royal family of islands
this Grecian archipelago--the crown c
the worlds scenery set with sappllir
and emerald aud topaz and chrysopra
sus, and ablaze with glory that seem
let down out OF celestial landscape.
God evidently made up his mind tina
itust here ne would demonstrate tn
utmost thar can be done with island
for the Identification of earthly seer
lery.
THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.
II The steamer had stopped during til
light and in the morning the ship W;
quiet us this floor, when we hastene
| . tp the deck aud found that we la
tncl,ored of the island of Cyprus.
a boat, which the natives ruwed stand
ing up as is the custom, instead of sit
ting down rs when we row, we wer
soon landed on the streets where Pat
and Barna1as walked and preached
Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Bal