Milford chronicle., 1891-10-23


nuarries a cnuseway sixty feet wide was
built. The top stones were lifted by ma |
cbinery such as the world knows nothing |
of today. It is seven hundred and forty
six feet each side of the square base. The |
structure is four hundred and fifty feet |
high: higher than the cathedrals OF Co |
logne. Strasburg, Rouen, St. Peters and
ST. Pauls. No surprise to me that 1t was
mt ut the head Of the seven wonders OF |
tbe world 1t has a subterraneOus room
Of red rrenite called the kings chamber"
and another room called the queens
chamber" " and the probability is that there
are other rooms yet unexplored.
The evident design Of the architect was
70 make these rooms rs inaccessible as
nossible. After all the work of exploration
and all the digging and blasting, il you
vould enter these subterraneous rooms.
Won must go through a passage only three
feet eleven inches high and less than four
feet wide. a sarcOphagus OF red granite
stands down under this mountain OF ma
sonry. The sarcophagus could not haze
been carried in after the pyramid was
built. It must have been put there before
the structure was reared. Probably IN
that sarcophagus once lay wooden coffin
containing n dead king, but time has de
gfTOVeu the eOlnn anu hNabAD9NA haS AHaN
vestige Of human remains
For three thousand years this sepulchral
room was unopened and would have been
until today probaby unopened had not
s,nerstitfous impression got abroad that
tbe heart of the pyramid was filed with
siirar and GOLD and diamonds and under
al Mamoun an excavating party went to
work and having bored and blasted
through a hundred feet of rock, they found
no opening ahead, and were about to give
nm the attempt when the workmen heard
n stone roll down into a seemingly hollow
Mace. and encouraged by that they re-
sunaJ theirwork and came into the under
ground rooms.
Tbe disappointment of the workmen in
Andinr the sarcophagus empty OF all silver
and gold and precious stones was so great
that they would have assassinated Al Ma
NOM. who employed them, had he not hid
In another part of the pyramid as much
silver and gold as would pay them for their
work at ordinary rates Of wages and in
duced them there to dig till they to their
snrnrise came upon adequate compensa-
ton. ,. ,o,,,, ,,,,,,s
Ywonder not that this mountain Of lime
stone and red granite has been the t'4scina-
tion If scholars. of scientists, of intelligent
Christians in all ages Sir John Herschel,
! the astronomer. said he thought it had as
| trononical Significance. The wise men
/ who accompanied NapOleon's army into
Egypt went into profound study OF the
/ DVramid In 1865 Professor Snytb ana ms
wife lived in the empty tOmbs near by the
pvramid that they might be as continuous
/ iy as possible close to the pyramid which
/ they we're investigating. The pyramid,
| built more than four thousand years ago,
/ being a complete geometricai hgure, Wise
men have concluded it must have been
divineIv constructed. Man came through
thousands Of years to fine architecture, to
music, to painting, but this was perfect at
the worlds start and iIod must nave
directed it,
An astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say that it was scientifically ana
m,thematically constructed before science
and mathematics were born. from inc
inscriptious On the pyramid from its pro
nortions from the points Of the compass
recognized in its structure, from the diree'
zion Ia which its tunnels run, from the
relative position of the blocks that com
nose it. scientists, Christians and intidels
have demonstrated that the being who
manned this pyramid must have known
tbe worlds sphercity and that its motion
was rotary, and how many miles it was IL
diameter and circumference, and how
many tons the world weighs, and knew al
what point in the heavens certain stars
would appear at certain periods OF time.
Not in the four thousand years since th'
putting up of that pyramid has single
fact in astronomy or mathematics beer
found to contradict the wisdom OF thai
structure. Yet they had not at the az
when the pyramid WAS started an astron
on,er or an architect or mathematician
zvortb mentioning. Who then planned
tba nvramidg Who superiutended it
prectionP Who from its first foundation
stone to its capstone erected everything
II must have Leen God. Isaiah was righ
when he said in my text, "a pillar shal
he at the border Of the land of Egypt ant
II shall be for 3 sign and witness Tn
nvramid is Gods first Bible. Hundreds
If not thousands, of years before the trs
line Of the Book Of Genesis was written
the lesson Of the pyramid was written
Well. Of what is this Cyclopean masonr
q sign and witnessG Among other thing
of tbe prolongation of human work CON
nared with the brevity of human life. l.
All the four thousand years this pyrami
/ has only lost eighteen feet IN Width; on
side of its square at the base changed onl
! from seven hundred and siXty-tour tee6 {
! seven hundred and forty-six iFet. and tn
most of that eighteen feet taken oil b
! arcbitects TO furnish stone for buildin
in the city of Cairo. The men VINO COZ
rtrncted the pyralnid worked at it only
fe,v Years. and then pat down the trowe
, and the compass, and the square, and low
cred the derrick which had lifted the por
a derous weights; but forty centuries ha
I their work stood, and it will be good tC
! forty centuries more.
1 All Egypt has been shaken by terrio
/, earthouakes and cities have been pro
, trated or swallowed but that pyrami
!, has defied-all volcanic parOxysms. 10 hi
Z looked upon some Of the greatest battle
: over fought since the world stood. Whel
. are the men who constructed iti The
= bodies gone to dust and even the du
! scattered. Even the sarcophagus IN whiS
:. the kings mummy may have slept is empt
a MEMS WORK SURVIVES THEM.
N So men die but their work lives on.
4 are all building pyramids not to last io'
q thousand years, but forty thousand for
4 million. forty trillion, forty quadrillio
forty ouiutillion. For a while we vie
the trowel, or pound with the hammer,
a measure with the yard stick, or write WI
e the pen, or experiment with the sclentii
0 battery. or plan with the brain, and for
II while the foot walks, and the eye sees, NJ
n the ear hears, and the tongue speaks. A
e the GOOD words or bad words we apeak a
Is snread out into one layer for Pyram
fe All the kind deeds or malevolent deeds
le do are spread ont into another layer. !
ls the Christian or un-Christain example
q. Set is spread out in another layer All t
e indirect influences OF our lives are spre
p out in another layer Then the time SO
ip comes when we put down the implemS
=. of toll and pass away, but the pyran
Z; stands.
IN The Twentieth century will not rock
lu down. nor the Thirtieth century, nor
nj one Hundredth century. The earthqua
'e. flat rocks this world to pieces will ]
T., stop our influence for good or evil. \
10 modestly say, "That is true in regard
" the great workers for good or evil, and
ne srie,a,,tic peniuses, Miltonian or Tall