The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

ton system of Egypt thousands of years old yet system from which modern ir- rigators can well learn their lessons at the present time?
 MAUD MAUD
 Egyptians Not Ignorant.
 The Egyptians were not an ignorant people IL is very grave question whether they did not know as much ii their line as we know in ours. They had their written forms for the conveying of Knowledge just as We have now. A. II. SayCe, one of the most famous mod ern Egyptian archaeologtsts, tells us in his wonderful book entitled Monument Facts and Higher Critical Funcies,' U that "the Babylonia of the age of Abra- ham was q more highly educated couu- try than the England of George III :" Then he goes on to show that Egyptian literature goes back to the time of King Menes in 5702 B. C., or over 4500 years before Moses was born. He goes further and shows that no Egyp- tian il, the third and fourth period was looked upon as gentleman unless he knew how to read. TEe business men, .he farmers, the oVerseers, as well a3 the priests and scTibes, were conVer- sant with Egyptian literature. 50 uni versal was the Knowledge of the an cient Egyptians of Moses time that they dlu not DellGNe there was lIilIlOG- tality for any Egyptian unless he, as a resurrected spirit, could rcsd the sentences which were carved upon his own tomb" Thus it is not only Moses as a prince who is testifying to us to- day about the ways of God. ic is Moses the sage as well, 1t is Moses who had studied all the philOsopnies of his day, t is Moses the erudite scholar with the vast libraries cf his time by his cfd xu1t n tpGtffNs n yIfC If Christ. Do not the words of my text have a deeper significance when you realize the transcendent intellectualitg fthis Egyptian prince than when you simply look upon him as the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter and the heir apparent of the Egyptian throne? By character and by atlainnents he is en- titled to our attention. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be per suaded, though one rose from the dead"
 His Creative Brain.
 But Moses brain was not simly recep- tive He had a creative as well as absorbing intellect. He could give out as well as take in. You know that there are certain intellectual men who seem tS lack the creative faculty. They learn as parrots learn. When they take book they can read it through and repeat the pages almost verbatim. They can index their minds so that you can hardly ask them a question that they cannot answer They are like some of the honor students of our college days who always stood at the head of their classes, yet when they entered life's struggles they were abject failures because thy nver could create any new ideas of their own. Like sheep, they may be led, but, unlike the shep- herds they cannot hunt up new pastures, and when lost, they have not intelligence enough to pilot their way into a safe fold.
 Now, Moses had a creative as well IS an absorbing intellect. As we study this gigantic genius we know not which to admire the most-the power by which he absorbs knowledge or the power by which he creates new knowledge. Study him any way you will and you cannot but be amazed. Study him with refer ance to his hygienic laws. We have gone on in our investigations in dietary de- velopments We have our vegetarian theories and our two meals a day" theo- ries and our hot water theories and all that. Yet today it is admitted by hy- gieDic authorities that no dietary sys- tenn has yet been devised which can sivA