The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-19

+, my gone When he came out hc would
| have TO have an Arab Dacksheesh.
in obedience to a custom mat had
grown 40 since he Wzrked people 81
hard and paid them nothing Go 81
over 10 Luxor. ne woul see himself
photographed on post cards and being
sent all OYER the world by travellers
as the fellow who oppressed the he
brews in Egypt. He would find a
new race Of people in his kingdom
and no one wOrshippinG Idols. lie
would find that his gods had disap-
peared from their places. However.
he could buy plenty Of them on the
streets or in the stores 1T Il reasonable
price. But he would find that all OF
those grand temples which he had
erected to them all over Egypt We're
in utter ruins, and the once popufous
cities in which they stood had been
wiped off the face of the earth. lie
would fad his capital city, Thebes.
under the debris n rubbish OF ages.
Tho great temple Of Ammon. the larg-
est structure Of its kind ever erected
to q heather god, he would find de-
strOyed. But he could still read the
Inscriptions and carving on the south
tower of the second pylon, which re-
cords the victory Of SheShauk l..
Called Shiehak in the Bible) over Re-
hoboam, the son Of Solomon. tThls
Sheshauh ~ulundered the houses of tile
Lord and Of the King and carried dWay
their t~re2sures.) He Would stu see
on the laf- of the King the form OF
the deity of AmnIon. who is graspin
the sword of victory in his right hand
and in whose left hand are cords which
bind five rows of conquered cities Of
the Holy Land. He would see that
those who are led away as captiVes
nave the curved noses, prominent
cheek bones, and the pointed boards
of the Jews Of Palestine. The hero
1lunhicC ON thn wall NN0nlG tell nm
that Sheshauk captured Jerusalem
about $50 B.. c., and by consulting the
Bible chronology as revised by the As
syrian records, he would find that Ike
hoboam reigned from 931 TO 920 -. I.
AT a glance he would see that those
inscriptions on the remains of q heatn-
en- temple are a standing confirmation
Of the facts recorded in /. Kings XIV.
25. 26, and in II. Chronicles Xii: z, 4
and 8. Doubtless he would be mn
pressed with the fact that the carved
form of his own god, on
the walls of its own fallen temple, is
teStifying TO the truth of the Bible. lie
would find the temple of Luxor, the
RameSSeum, the many other te1npleS
at which he W~orshiped III Thebes, all
in heaps of fallen stones, with
here and there a standing column
he mammoth granite statues Oh
himself, with which he ornamenteu
these heather temples, broken ana
mutilated. The great oppressor Woui1
wonder what had become of Thebes
lin the Bible called MOI But doubtless
one of the American missionaries there
would explain it all and repeat to nm
the words. 'BehOld, ] Will punish the
multitude of No, and Of Pharaoh, ana
Egypt, With their gods and the1r
kings Ger. 46:25). The very mex
verse would account to him for the
present city of Luxor, which STANDS on
and aimed the ruins of his idols and
temples-'and afterwards It shall De
inhabited. as in the days Of old, saith
the Lord" (46 26.)
The Changes that Old Rameses Might
Find We're He to Come Back.
He would find a part of the walls of
the Mamesseum, which he dedicated
to the god Ammon, stiI standing, and
the carved representations showing
his victory over the Hittites at kad-
esh. On the interior pyhon he would
see himself returning thanks to his
gods for the victory, but he would find
no trace of his gods, and only a yes
tige of the temple upon which he law
ished the spoils of conquered nations
and upon which he probably required
the children of Israel to work. A visit
to Memphis (Bible name Noph} would
still more surprise him. Not only the
temple where he WOrShipped
Isis and other gods, and before which
he erected a gigantic marble statue
of himself. entirely gone, his idols
gone. and his broken statue lying in
the dirt, but he would find the bat and
the owl the only inhabitants of the
once famous capital of Egypt. A new
light would break upon his mind when
shown the words, For Noph shall be
waste and desolate without an inhab-
liant Ger. 46:19.) Il will also de-
strOy the idols, and / will cause their
images to cease out of Noph." Geek.
30:13).
Proceeding on down the Nile to
Heliopolis (the On of the Bible). he
would not recognize the city where
Joseph married Asenath, a daughter
Of the priest of On. The Oldest ODE
lisk in Egypt would be the only ia
miliar object, and by it alone could
he locate where the great temple of
the Sun stood: a temples which he en-
bellished and in which he often wOr-
shipped the Sun god. At Zoan, Pith-