The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-11
SCRIPTURES CONFIRMED.
Egypt and tho Nile Abandoned for
Other Chimes.
the waters Over which st. Paul Sailed
sermon by Rcv. +. Dewitt Talmage, DID.

wi. g. "When we had discovered
Cyprus we left it on the left hand" and,
Revelation. /, o II, John, wa.
IN the isle that is called Patmos"
Good-by Egypt! Although interest
ing and instructive beyond any country
An the world except the Holy Land,
Egypt was TO me somewhat depressing.
II was n postmortem examination OF
cities that died 1000 years ago The
mummics, or wrappcd-up bodies OF the
dead, were prepared with reference TO
the resurrection day, the Egyptians
departing this life wanting their bodies
10 be kept in rs good condition as posi-
bic so that they would be prescntable
when they were called again to occupy
them. But IL when Pharoah comes TO
resurrection he finds his body looking
ms saw his mummy in the museum ut
Boulac his soul will become an unwill-
ing tenant
The Sphinx also was 20 mo stern
monstrosity, n statue carved out of rock
OF red granite. siNty-two feet high and
bbout li3 feet long.and having the head
OF man and the body of lion. We sat
. down In the sand Of the African desert
20 study Il. With cold smile it has
looked down upon thousands of years
of earthly history Egyptian civiliza.
ton, Grccian civilization, Roman civil.
zation upon the rise and fall of thrones
innumcrablc; the victory and defeat OF
the armies of centuries. 1t took 5000
years 10 make one wrinkle on its red
IL - f,,1
Its eyes have never wcpt 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 IL in the first
century. II viii care nothing for the
man who looks INTO its impcrturbablc
countcnauce in the last century.
But Ervpt will yet come up TO the
glow of life. The Bible promises it.
The missionaries like my friend, good
and great Or. Lansing, are sounding
resurrection trumpet above those
slain empires. There will be some
other Joseph ut Memphis There will
be some other Moses on the Nile. There
will be some other lIypatia to teach
good morals to the degraded. Instead
of n destroying angel TO slny the
frst-born Of Egypt the angel of the
New Testament will shake everlasting
life from his wings over n nation born
in n day. When, soon after my arrival
in Egypt. took part in the solemn and
tender obscquics of a missionary from
our own land diving there far away
from the scpulchcrs of her fathers, and f.
saw around her the dusliy aud weeping !
OF those whom she had /
come To save. said 10 myself: "llerc !
Is self-sacrficc OF the noblcst type. !
Here is hcrosm immortal. Here is n |
queen unto God forever. Here is some |
thing grandcr than the pyramids Here
is that which thrills the heavens Here |
is n specimen of that which will yet |
save the word.
Goodbye, Egypt! This sermon finds
us on the steamer Minerva in the
Grccian Archipelago, the islands of the |
New Testament, and islands Paulinian |
and Johauian in their reminiscence, !
What Bradshaw's directory is TO travel |
ers in Europe. and what the railroad |
guide is to travellers in America, the |
Book of the Acts in the Bible is To |
voyagcrs in the Grecian, or as I shall !
call IL, the Gospel Archipelago The |
Bible geography of that region is acur-
ute without "A shadow of mistake. We |
are sailing this morning on the same |
waters that Paul sailed, but in the OPP |
positc direction to that which Paul voy- |
aged, He was sailing southwark and |
we northward. With him it was: Ephc- |
Bus, Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus With us 1t |
Is reversed and 1t is: Cyprus, Rhodes,
Coos, Ephcsus,
There is no book in the world so ac-
curate as the Divine Rock. My text |
says that Paul left Cyprus on tho left; |
we, going in the opposite direction
have il on the right On our ship Mi |
nerva were only two or three passen-
gers beside our party, so we had plenty |
of room TO walk the deck and oh, what |
a night was Christmas night OF 1852 In |
that Grccian NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF /
light above, islands OF beauty beneath
1t is royal family OF islands this Gre
Clan archipelago; the crown OF the |
worlds scenery set with sapphire and |
emerald and topaz and chrys prasus,
and nhlazc with II glory that seems let |
down out OF celestial landscapes God |
evidently made up his mind that just
here he would demonstrate the utmost /
that can be done with islands for the
Identification OF earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during the
night, and In the morning the ship was
as quiet as this floor, when we fastened |
up to the deck and found that we had |
anchored ell the island Cyprus In