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CHAPMAN
TALKS.
The Gospel Proved
: By Stories of
Stones.
WHAT EGYPT'S
SECRETS REVEAL
The Remarkable Confederation o
Bible History Found by
Scientists.
4 T THE CLOSE of DR.. E. S. Chap
"a mans lecture at the Young Mems

night on 1.-THE Stones Crying Out" he
was accorded hearty applause. and many
of the large audience which had assem-
bled to hear the anti-saloon lecturer
speak, went forward to shake hands with
him and personally thank him for his
splendid address.
The text, "The stones Crying Out is
in reference to the great discoveries
within the past half-century, of buried
monuments and tablets upon which, in
ancient hieroglyphics, were Inscribed
records of ancient history. DR.. Chapman
explained in the beginning how The sys-
tenn of interpreting the dead languages
had been perfected, and that the student
in his library had kept pace with the
excavator with his pick and shovel IN
Egypt, until the great evidence of the
clay tablets and inscriptions, for centur-
les lost TO man, had been resurrected and
given out III various languages, ana
spread over the earth. lie spoke OF tne
excavation Of the lost City of Pithon and
of the great discoveries made by ProleS-
sor Maspiro, in charge of the Brush
exploration fund III 1881, by compelling
the curiosity vendors of Caro- to reveal
the source OF the wonderful relics they
were selling to tourists. 1t was Pro1es-
scr Maspuo who discovered in TINS way
the great underground cave wherein
were entombed forty mummies OF Egyp-
| tan Kings, Queens, and Priests, among
them the perfectly preserved BODY OF
Pharaoh, father the daughter who found
| Moses in the bulrushes, the mummy now
! being on exh lbition in the Boulak Mu-
scum.
Taking up in succession the various
prominent points of dispute between the
critics and the believers of the Scrip
! lures DIR. Chapman offered lucid expla-
| nations of the seeming inconsistencies,
pointing out the harmony of the Bible
records with the records OF the tablets
unearthed, even where they seemed 10
conflict, and ran IN direct contradiction to
| the accepted histories of the ancient
tribes and cities.
-Four things, he said the recent dis
| coyeries of the clay tablets and their IN
l.disp9 table evidence proved
| 1.-The possibility of the Scriptures
having fbeen''written In the Original as
they now stand, as at least four Ian
guages are now proved to have been
written before the time of Moses.
1.-THE antiquity of the Scriptures, and
THAT they were written in prophecy, and
necessarily under inspiration. as they
ed in history, as shown by the records
of the countless clay tablets.
! III-The historical accuracy of Tesla
ment records, notwithstanding the con-
fiicting history of Herodotus, whose fal-
lacy could be clearly proven and ex-
planned.
IV.-The perfect harmony and consist
ency Of the Book Of Daniel, which Is the
storm center of the critics attacks.
| With these four theories for demon
| stration, DIR. Chapman went vigorously
| ahead, clearing up dim and doubtful pas
sages from the Scripture, and bringing
out of a chaos of Inconsistency and con-
tradiction the lucid and harmonious line
of record through the triumphs and trib-
ulations OF the Egyptians and their rela-
tons with the enslaved Israelites, the
! Assyrians and the other great tribes of
ancient history.
One of the strongest points brought out
was that of the failure of the ancients
/ to record the sastrous pages of their
histories and the muddle it has caused
for centuries past by reason of result
ing discrepancy in the Scriptural records.
He held that it was the custom of the
ancents to record their victories and
glories at great length, and that the bat
ties and triumphs of the successful kings
could be found in full, but that of the
disastrous periods there was no mention
made, and some of the unsuccessful
kings were never mentioned. Notably
was this the case with Maneptha, the
Egyptian king who was swallowed up by
the Red Sea- 1t was the custom of the
old kings to work during their lifetime
upon the carving out of their tGmbs, and
al their death their bodies We're placed
in the tombs the name of the king be-
ing carved in the stone over the head
of it, and the tomb being sealed. Several
of these tombs have been unearthed, and
have been opened before the assembled
scholars of the world. Among the rest
Meneptha's tomb was discovered, and the
scholars were called together to witness
the unsealing. The name of the ancient
dTg raars rraI II, -+T md N1yae
sealed in the same manner as the rest
but when they came to open the tomb II
was empty.
, Where was the body?" asked DR.
Chapman, where was the body? Why
, If you want to know where the. body oi
| Neneptha was, you read the Scriptures
, and it will tell you that it was in the
Red Sea. Thus, in that untenantec
: tomb was confirmation of the Script
ural story of the destruction of the Egyp.
| tian monarch and his army
Another strong evidence as to the cor.
rectness of the Scriptural records as tC
the bondage and slavery OF the Israel
: ties was pointed ont by DR.. Chapman. He
quoted from the Bible the passage where
the Israelites are said to have built the
City OF Pithon-building first with bricks
made of clay and straw, and then with
clay and the weeds and rushes, and final
ly without straw, or anything other than
clay. "A direct confirmation" said DR.
Chapman, was found when the buried
City of Pithon was unearthed some
years ago. There was one section build
ed of bricks made of clay and straw, an
other of clay and weeds and rushes, and
the third section builded of clay alone
The seeming Inconsistency of the story
OF the last feast of Belshazzar he also
Fexplained. Critics have pointed out that
1t was contrary to the custom to allow
women at the feasts of the kings, and
that there was nowhere else record OF
this rule having been broken. but that
the Scriptures in that case record that
Belshazzar was surrounded by his wives
and concubines. "And. an indisputable
error 1t seemed" said DR.. Chapman "un.
I'll the stones cried out and the tablets
told us that it- was the feast of Turnu-
ius, at which the women were always
present" ~
The Assyrian King Sargon, who is only
mentioned once, and then parenthetical-