The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-27

q fountain losses in the sun. Even the
ruins have been ruined aud all that re-
mains are chips of marble small pieces
OF fractured sculpture and splintcrcd
human bones Here and there letter
of some elaborate inscription. A toe
or ear of statue that once
had stood In niche of palace
wall. Ezekiel prophesicd its blot
ting out, and the prophecy has been
fulfilled. Ride on" said to our party,
and don't wait for me" And rs
stood there alone the city of Memphis
in the glory of past centuries returned.
And | heard the rush of her chariots
and the dash of her fountains and the
conviviality of her palaces and saw tho
drunken mobiles roll on the floors of
mosaic. while In startling contrast
amid all the royalties of the place
saw Pharaoh look up into the face of
aged, rustic Jacob, the shepherd. say
ing: How old art thou?"
But back to the Nile and on and up
till you reach Thebes. in Scriptures
called the City of No. llundred.gated
Thebcs. A quadrangular city four
miles from limit to limit Four great
temples, two of them Karnick and
Luxor. once mountains of exquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidi-
fled in stone. Statue of Rameses
III. SS7 tons in weight aud seventy-hve
feet high, but now fallen and scat
tered Walls abloom with the battle
En1IS ~ nantnp;no grhn
hills of rock followed into scpulchcrs,
on tho walls of which are chiselcd in
picture and hieroglyphics the confrma-
ton of Bible story in regard to the
treatment of the lsraelitcs in Egypt SO
that rs explorations go on with the
work, the walls of these sepulchers be-
come commentaries of the Bible, the
Scriptures originally written upon
parchment here cut into everlasting
stone. Thebcs mighty and dominant
500 years
Then she went down in fulfillment OF
Ezekiels prophecy concerning the City
of No, which was another name for
Thebes: 81 will execute judgment in
No. | will cut off the multitudes OF
No" jeremiah also prophcsicd; Thus
saith the Lord, | will punish the multi
tudes of No" This city of Thebcs and
all the other dead cities of Egypt, tier
ate and reiterate the veracity of the
telling the same story
which Moses and the prophets told
Have you noticed how God kept
back these archaeological combinations
Of the Bible until our time, when the
air is full of unbelief about truthfulness
Of the dear old book? lie waited un.
til the printing press had been set up i'm
its perfected shape, and the submarine
cable was laid, and the world was intel. |
ligent enough to appreciate the testi-
mony, and then He rcsurrected the dead |
cities of the earth and commands them,
saying open your long lips !
Is the Bible true?" "True" responds |
Memphis and Thebes Babylon! is the |
Book of Daniel true?" "Truew responds
Babylon. Ruins of Palestine and |
Syria! Is the New Testament true?"
'Truew respond the ruins all the way |
from Joppa to the Dead Sea and from !
Jerusalem to Damascus. What IA mercy |
hat this testimony of the dead cities |
should come ut time when the Bible |
s especially assaulted. And this work
will go on until the veracity and divin.
ty of the Scriptures will be rs certain
20 all sensible men and women as that
,wo and two make four-as that an is
)scelcs triangle is one that has two of
is sides cqual-as that the diameter of
! circle is n line drawn through the
center and terminated by the circum-
erence--as certain as any mathemati-