The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-05-26
THE MUMM|ES
OF EGYPT,
Synopsis of a Lecture by
Mr.. Patton.


ticularly interesting. Notwithstand-
| ing the inclemency of the weather there
was large attendance. Rev. Arnold
Lindsey intermitted his services at the
Baptist Church and he and his congre-
CATION attended the Presbyterian
Church to hear the lecture.
The subject was The Mummies of
Egypt" which in spite of their inherent
'.dryness," under Mr.. Patton's skilful
| treatment, this quality they lost.
| Mr.. Patton graphically told of how
| the Egyptians had ever been renowned
in the art of embalming their dead.
They believe that the soul remains
with the body, so long as it is preserv-
ed, but as soon as the body goes back
to dust, the soul takes its flight. This
is the reason why the art of mummi-
flying reached such high degree of
perfection among the Egyptians. The
work of excavation has been going on
for many years in this land of the Pha-
raohs, but the most remarkable discov-
cry took place in the year 1881 near the
ancient city of Thebes Just back of
this city in "A natural amphitheatre of
cliffs, a shaft 81 feet square and 81 feet
long had been sunk in the solid rock.
At the bottom of this shaft u passage
led off to the next and then another abb
ruptly to the north, which opened out
into an oblong chamber twenty feet
long and thirteen feet wide. Within
this chamber thirty-six white and yell
low caskets were found, containing the
bodies OF the greatest Kings of Egypt
They were placed in a miserable Arab
boat and steamed down the Nile to
Cairo. The wrappings were removed
and the hieroglyphics were interpreted
The bodies were all Enthusiastically iden-
titled, so that to-day the tourist can
| read the names and look into the faces
of the most renowned Monarchs of
Egypt.
The Ghizer museum at Cairo con-
tains about one hundred rooms. The
main entrance leads one into large
hall. A door on the left brings one in
! to IA room where he finds himself stand
ing in the presence of the royal dead.
Stepping up to the first yellow casket
lying over in the corner, we looked
upon aman we had never seen be-
fore. He was rather small, 515 feet
high, face long and narrow, eyes small
set far back in his head, mouth medi-
UNI, his hands rather gracefully folded
over his silent breast. Stepping around
to the end of the casket, we read the
name of Amenhotep ". Why this
was the man on the throne when Jo-
seph was carried into Egypt; this was
the man who said to Jacob, How old
art thou ?' This was the man who
dreamed that he stood by the river and
saw seven fat cows come up out of the
water and go out on the meadow to
feed and following these the seven lean
ones, and the leans one devoured the
fat ones and being much disturbed by
his dream he had his magicians brought
| in to interpret the dream, but failing
him, he had Joseph brought out of
prison into the palace, who interpreted
! the dream to the Kings satisfaction.
We fingered about the casket. We
could not keep back the thought that
here lies Il man who knew Joseph; that
| old hand, over three thousand years
ago, clasped the hand of the Patriarch,
jacob, and, with Il smile on his face.
gave him welcome into Egypt.
Passing down step or two further,
we lookd into the face of another man
| much better preserved. His face was
lround, straighter, mouth large and
firm, his arms and hands lying at his
side. Looking upon the end of the cas-
ket we read the name, Seti |. This was
| the King on the throne when the infant
| Moses was found amid the bull-rushes
| of the Nile; from these very lips fell
| that infamous decree that all male
children under two years of age should
be put to death. We felt as if we had
met Moses. He never seemed so near
to us before.
By the side of this casket there was
another. This man was Rameses H.,
the son of Seti 1. He is much larger
than his father. His face long, narrow,
Roman nose, high cheek bones, lips
compressed, giving him Il hard, deter
mined look. This man reigned about
So years. He is styled the Pharaoh of
oppression. | said to the guide: "Show
me the daughter of Pharaoh" / was
told she was in the museum along with
her father. The guide said that she
had been removed to the British muse
UNI in London. On reaching London
we searched for Thermuthis, but we
were unable to find her. We asked to
see Menephtah, the Pharaoh of the Ex-
odus, but his remains have never been
found
Science is doing wonderful work in
the way of confirming sacred history.
After looking Seti l. and Rameses III.
in the face, no one can longer claim the
writings of Moses a fiction. The story
of these Pharaohs is no longer poets
myth, but real, and if Seti /. be n his
toric person, why not Moses? We have
seen the one, we believe the other.
Mr.. Patton concluded by saying that
it was more important to preserve the
soul than the body.
His lecture next Sunday night will
be on the subject, "A boat ride on the
Nile and visit to Memphis, the Oldest
city in Egypt"
The Populists in their State
convention last week in Atlanta,
nominated Hon. T r HOGAN Of