The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-29
GREATNESS
The Rev. Charles Wallis In
structiVe Lecture in His
Renovated Church.
MR.. MITCHELLs FAREWELL WORDS
What the Ministers Throughout
the City Talked About to Their
Congregations Yesterday.

The Rev. Charles H. Vail, at the First
Universalist Church last night, preached
on THE Greatness of Ancient Egypt"
The church was crowded and the lecture
was much enjoyed. A brief Of 'What@Mrr
Vail said follows:-
tray the grief of Agamemnon at Inc
sacrifice of his daughter, threw a cur
tain over the fathers agonized and pros
trate form that 1t might yaguely sus-
ing agony which no art could depict. 50,
ossn a E h1l@sss gr might egt aad 'ma srs fSl.s
EgyPR'' g r ssea .ne Re s0s apeif OUT siaS not II
ib@astteTEs IL c SsI n the nSf hist oDy and sf meaning
of this wonderful race The fires upon
ssFed Ya Is as ssgers bS ct t tnsIn hssf s sRinas
down through the centuries Ill the con
tinuing rays Of g lost star; Let us ,o en-
OF soma of the thought products Of on
Egypt. CONGREGATIONAL geometry was one
Of the earliest products Of Egyptt Ia
,n pon i. The steamship that circum-
n=aviga asrss the si n III II o rs the aes ald OF u 1sis
eohpsrrueti It. And nunberless are the
Beautiful science that had its birth in
the busy brains Of those white rebed q men y
ehe on EUCLID IN EGYPT.
demonstrate the problems Of Euclid. i
is a significant fact hat the text books
in geometry in the great English uni.
more than two thousand years ago; and
there has been no material departure
from them in any school IN either ,,nsia c con
a Creek, but he lived and wrote in Egypt.
under Egyptian influences as tnn result ma1
e Sf . E 5gsasd he snt oaigFn Of 70 our nucii aaa gay
Thhere IS no royal road to kn~owledges.,
When ,Ptolemy asked him II ne y
he replied. There i no royal read to
geometry But whatever the road may
be to geometry, the geometry, OF oid
and beautiful, through all the centuries
since. that Is definitely marked BY the
golden milestonss Of resulting progress r9gd S.
the fathers of mathematics. were sim
ply pupils of Egypt. o,so
led to results the value of which is, in,
s speat astronomers. Al astrenomicaI IN
ylaa@ ss5 cu ii ' IN cRIr aaa n and made
svery e;uDit with the days Of the week
tons. The signs Of the Zodiac, says
G fbsm 81 17 ISeT s. s gF Il is n fo uss a rspres
s%srtion Of the Egyptian' priests 70 Hero 70
| pole of the elliptic had formally coin
| cided has been corroborated by Mackey;
who states that the poles are represented
ogenes Laertius carries back the Egypt.
ian calculations Of astronomy to 49, ssS
before the tine 81 t@aSis { me af fbav
Before bea ssf thsy imesrtsS Their Snowlsdggss
the solar year, the rotundity Of the earth,
and could calculate eclipses of the sun
! WHERE MOSES AND HERoDoTUs
proclaim the heliocentric theory OF the
acknowledged themselves indebted to
Egypt for their knowledge Of this scie np,e,
osophers of Greece travelled into Egypt
for the purpose of acquiring a more per,
be obtained ia their own country. Egypt
Herodotus, Pythagoras, Plato and all the
School. There they were instructed by
the Egyptian priesthood, WHO were, as
in India, the Repositories Of the NATIONAL
the Greek zodiac is but 1884 years old.
While the Egyptian is. shown to be 75,o goo,
Shows Is ftal' psssa snae Of thu three eg sidirial cycles
aBut what is more conclusive of the
are red0rd e E MEiggh Is sh tns Eat 8 { tf Esyp raSra
now ths Straits of sibE rata to T. the 8
from France to Great Britain by 2
may give. us an idea {, the data when
saeh T d 50u sss1g f spHla h agsin 0e aer5 pf5.
received from the E. 3 Is g. Their BEERS WRITTEN bdfors
his time. or nearly 14,ooo years ago. And
vet the age Of Columbus possessed no
arts arsiaa except e0 cf that Of tyt R;rlbnti Mas e nat kno Waa
to the Egyptians; and the civilization of
Egypt at its first appearance was Of q
b bsggioa of 9r is his shan 4 t R aay in s%a the early
shfpea. Which in later times was buried
cation among the people that the great
retain to this day the writings Of the
still may be examined the. work, of their
~jeinters stone cutters: goldsmiths, won
a f,nT 4 IN sb ssone an and m rlna5sn; a arfif Gassn The The
e anseiens peo aaa W Were almost Identical
with HISS saK E KS Ssssy OF EGYPT.
l preserved in her WORKS. Ihe pyTdHnius,
Still in their ruins are the marVelsssef
mankind. The river Nile was diverted
from it's course by monstrous banks;
The artificial lake Of Moerisa was created
as a reservoir for the waters of the Mic:
it was $50 miles in circumference. and 3oe
l~ood-gates. locks and Jams by. which
the wilderness was redeemed from steril-
ity.. Lock at the ruins: of Labyrinth,
which astonished Herodotus, with Its
5000 chambers. half. above ground and
half below-a combination of courts,
mids. Look at the temple Of Karnacs,
covering a square, each side ct which Is
1900 feet. TIE cathedral at Paris could
be placed inside one. of the halls and moi
touch the. walls. The whole valley and
An obelisk of a single stone now stand.
ing weighs 300 tons. and al colossus OF
Ramesfs II. nearly 800. Many inventions
hitherto supposed to be modern, such a,s
known t. the Egyptians They has
l possessed gold n silver money. They
manufactured lines of the finest quality
and worked In gold. silver, opp and
IRON; tsAmpsring iron to the hardness O
ware; and precisely as we are now a
ing railroad car wheels Of. paper, they
made vessels Of paper. Their dentists
filled teeth with gold, and their farmer:
I'm medicine and surgery they wert
far advanced performing several hundred
jaYears before Christ the operation for thu
"A removal OF c~ataract from the eye on
IA of the most delicate n difficult feats
found belonging to the Second Dynasty
which. deals In reasonable remedies. will
II none OF the magic and tucautattcnA at I