Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-27
MAJOR HILLS LECTURE.



The large lecture ball Of tue Church
UnivorsiIy was we'll filed last evening
when tho opening payer was offered
by Elder Wi'son. o. the blhosboards
had been placed some mapi Illustrative
OF tho plhcos which were referred 10 BY
the lecturer, Major II. @. Hlll.
The speaker tald that not much was
known about Egypt previous 10 the
French expedition, under Napoleon,
tho knowledge previous TO thun being
u most vague AMI indolurmina,U
kind. 10 the 0hltct0r- OF the uupopu.
Jar expedition Nap con HluIo that
memorable reply that while France
might not derive great military funown
ii0m tue occupation of Egypt thAt
country was the great ttofehouee Of
ancient history and ancient learning,
aud u lac succeeded In unlocking tina
etorehOutr and glviug its contents 10
the world, he would cover himself viii
impurishahle glory aud aid m0to g. thu
rennwn " his country than was uOssiblU
by any mere military success.
10 Is not known exactly when the
hrst attempts ~ duciphsfing Egyptian
iAerOgiyphics was made, but come
thing hal been dUno Ia this direction
bui0tu the French occupation Ui thu
country. Some little OF Egyptian HE.
tory u necessary 10 appreciate the scope
nnd meaning OF thesu Inscriptions. In
the history ny Josgphus, ani Ia the
writings by Pluiarch ami Olhefs, there
IN record VI on Egyptian hialoflan
aud priust named Manctho, who lived
about go years Is. G.. lilo was In.
ntfuctcd Ia the GfuciRu language and
wrote IN IL. From thii history OF
hianOinO aud other sources We learn
that inscribed records were begun In
the third dynasty, after King Muna,
WHO Is bnliuved 10 have lived aud
reigned about 1000 yean b. &. aud who
was thu iifst king OF Egypi.
The building OF monuments and
the insoribing OF records was continued
until the tins OF the thirteenth dyuas.
~, when there cams 10 the country the
Invasion Of the HylsOs Or Shepherd
kings. Under this HyReos royal tomhs
were rihed ~ obtain lhu gold and
silver aud precious stones 10 be
found upon the munmiol u these
rulers. After 500 yeats the people 10.
volted, uriving the hyhsos from the
throne anu from the land.
Subsequent rulera changed some o
the monument and Inscriptions OF
previous ones, aud thaie changes con.
tinurd until tho rOmiug OF Candy leB,
tho Pcrdlani 621 Be, who alter con.
quest OF tho people accented the
throne, taking the title OF Pharaoh.
Tue almost innumufaOlu statues OF and
inscriptions from tho great Ramgfbp,
tho Krgalost VI all Pharaohs, gave the
many English, German, Italian aud
French acnOlaru wh1 were engaged iu
tho work Of Translation stariiur
point The value Of tablet found
luriug tho construction OF French
garrison near onoOi the maAy barracks
" thu Nile uollu, and known 40 thu
Rosetta s.Juo, rapidly spread over the
civilized world. And while the French
expedition % Egypt must DO claBseu
amung military lailu 90, yet through
he fading Of tai. IL ias,.a alOne, anu
the decipherlns accomplished with iiB
aid, Egyp3s vast at0Toh0ufe was un.
locked AMI became agogsiiOlo - thu |
world.
Here tho major ia a masteEly mau-
nor explained many Of the proofs Of |
biblical history made through the |
writings thus laid before the civilized |
world. lie also gave many minute |
descriptions OF the mode OF liyiug re-. |
Venlou through those lfausiatIons Of tho |
careful ungraviugs on papytus found |
among tue mummloi Of these anciouia, |
whose work WAS old when Greece ans |
lt)me had not been h1rH. 10 WIS |
further shown other highly civilized |
nations were their oOutumpoaries, the |
thaldeans, BAbyiuulans, Cushites an |
others unknown 70 the HtudUuts being |
referred &C.. Tue Ciyiliz ,tlOn OF the |
cluuuies Inhabited by these people WAS |
ih9wn % have been ss far advanced at |
the limr OF these records that II 10 os.
lAollshel beyond any doubt that many |
OF These nahOna had attain 81 civil. |
dltlon IN some directions superior 20 |
Hnu thtliur than that OF Eyynl. After \
giving the views Of many ancient
wHlem snd religious systems about the
ago OF Tue earth, her people and their
earliest History, and comparing them
win statements Of modern geolOyists,
Major HIN closed as follows: uIn tbe
llHht OF what We now know ant Of
Wnat We believe and with the almost
uHliy additions Go our knowledge, who
VIII nave the lomurity 10 say which u
an these oysleml gives us the most
accurate, tue most trustworthy history
uI either the human race or OF the
EARN upon which Wo sxiBl2D
Napl. willard Young announced
That the next lecture OF these serlrp