Connecticut western news., 1891-10-29
SAILING UP THE NILE
SECOND SERMON IN DR. TALMAGES
 SERIES ON HIS TRAVELS.

| SECOND SERMON IN DR. TALMAGE9 SERIES ON HIS TRAVELS. | Tho Text from Ezekiel xxix, g. ''Ths | River is Mine, and Have Made It." A Sermon That May Be Read and Pom dered to Edincation.
 BROOKLYN, Oct. 25.-The render ing of the First Sonata in D Minor, by
 Guilmant, on the great organ of the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning, by Professor Henry Eyre Browne, the or ganist, held the vast congregation spellbound with profound emotion. pr. Talmage preached on Sailing up the Nile" the second sermon of the series, entitled From the Pyramids to the Acropolis; or, What Saw in Egypt and Greece Confir1natory of the Scrip lures His text was Ezekiel xxix, g,
 ''The river is mine and have made 1t. " Aha! This is the River Nile. A brown or yellow or silver cord on which are hung more jewels of thrill ing interest than on any river that was ever twisted in the sunshine. It nipples through the book of Ezekiel, and flashes in the books of Deuteronomy and Isaiah and Zechariah and Nahum, and on it's banks stood the mighties of many ages. It was the crystal cradle of Moses. and on its banks Mary, the refugee. carried the infant Jesus. To find the birthplace of this river was the fascination and defeat of expeditions without number.
 Not many years ago Bayard Taylor, our great American traveller, wrote,
 Since Columbus first looked upon San Salvador the earth has but one emo ton of triumph left for her bestowal, and that she reserves for him who shall first drink from the fountains of the White Nile under the snow fields of Kilima- Marc" But the discovery of the sources of the Nile by most people was considered all i1npossibility. The nalarias, the wild beasts, the savages, the unclilnbable steeps, the vast dis tances, stopped all the expeditions for ages ...-
 An intelligent native said to Sir Sam uel w. Baker and wife as they were on their way to accomplish that in which others had failed: Give up the mad scheme of the Nile source How would it be possible for lady young and del icate> to endure what would kill the strongest mani Give it up." But the work went on until Spoke and Grant and Baker found the two lakes which are the source of what was called the White Nile, and baptized these two lakes with the names of Victoria and Albert.
 These two lakes, filled by great rain falls and by accumulated snows from the mountains pour their waters, laden with agricultural wealth such as blesses no other river. on down over the cata- racts. on between frowning mountains, on between cities living and cities dead, on for four thousand miles and through a continent. But the White Nile would do little for Egypt if this were all. It would keep it's banks and Egypt would remain 8 desert.
 But from Abyssinia there comes what is called the Blue Nile. which, though dry or nearly dry half the year, under tremendous rains about the middle of June rises to great momentum, and this Blue Nile dashes with sudden in. Aux into the White Nile, which in con- sequence rises thirty feet. and their combined waters inundate Egypt with rich soil which drops on all the fields and gardens as it is conducted by ditches and sluices and canals every whither
 The greatest damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the River Nile and the greatest blessing by it's heaIthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph's time came from the lack of sufficient inundation from the Nile. Not enough Nile is drouth, too much Nile is freshet and plague. The rivers of the earth are the mothers of it's prosperity. If by some convulsion of nature the Mississippi should be taken from North America. or the Am azon from South America, or the Dan ube from Europe, or the Yenisei from Asia-what hemispheric calamity Still 1 there are other rivers that could fer l tilize and save these countries.
 Our own continent is gulched, is rib boned. is glorified by innumerable water courses. But Egypt has only one great river, and that is harnessed to l draw all the prosperities of realms in acreage semi-infnite. What hap
 pens to the Nile happens to Egypt. Tine NiloIneter was to me very sugges- l tive as we went up and down it's damp 1 stone steps and saw the pillar marked
 with notches telling just how high or low are the waters of the Nile. When | the Nile is rising, four criers every
 morning run through the city announc-
 ing how many feet the river has risen ten feet. fifteen feet. twenty feet, 1 twenty-four feet-and when the right
 height of water is reached the gates of
 the canals are flung open and the liquid
 and refreshing benediction is pro-
 nounced on all the land.
 IA WONDERFUL FULF1LLMENr OF l PROPHECY.
 AS we start where the Nile e1upties
 into the Mediterranean sea we behold
 a wonderful fulfllment of prophecy.
 The Nile in very ancient times used to
 have seven mouths. As the great river l approached the sea it entered the sea
 at sevea different. places. Isaiah proph-
 esied. The Lord shall utterly destroy
 the tongue of the Egyptian sea and | shall sInite it in the seven streams" |"
 The fact is they are all destroyed but
 two, and Herodotus said these two re-
 maining are artificial. Up the Nile we
 shall go; part of the way by Egyptian
 rail train and then by boat. and we
 shall understand why the Bible gives