Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-12-27

collection of very wide range of
objects Of such importance and dig
nifty as to deserve recognition in
national collection The large
| buildings have more the appearance
of simple strength and durability
than of beauty, and there are not the
| splendidly painted ceilings Of the
| Louvre, but the extent Of the col
lection seems far greater And the
museum is being made of increased
value by double course of lectures
by which one may be carried
through the whole place if he can
stay long enough. This blesses the
resident more than the transient,
but here we Americans go in the
wake Of one of the lecturers.
You have heard of the Rosetta
Stone, but here it is with it's inscrip-
tion thrice repeated, once in Greek
besides two of the Egyptian Ian
guages. This cast of the head of
Rameses II (statue) is from Egypt
and now comes in reference to the
[ land of Goshen "about ten miles
northeast of Cairo" He is suppos-
ed to have been the oppressor of the
1sraelites. Where have they been
that they have not been oppressede
And, now as evidence of the old
Egyptians making things massive,
look at this fst, a portion Of one of
their red granite statues. It is a
little more than four feet long and
weighs but a trife-one ton, six
hundred weight, he says Speaking
Of the Sphinx, the points are made
that it is the image of the reigning
Pharaoh Of its time, and the hooded
serpent is symbolical OF his absolute
power Of life and death. This gi-
gantic statue of Thotmes III is CON
uected with the date 1850 3. G.. You
now gaze upon portions of the vast
chariot and horses originally mount
cd on the splendid tomb of Mauso-
lus, the Greek king, this tomb being
one of the seven wonders of an
tiquty. We have already heard
something Of the Great Pyramid and
here we have parts of the celebrated
,Temple of Diana, another member
of the heptad. Some architect is
, quoted as saying that no modern ar
chitect could build the Parthenon of
Athens After speaking of the
= Hanging Gardens OF Babylon, we
visit the Assyrian room. Look at
: Assurbanipal hunting lions, and
{ this cuneiform (wedge-shaped) in
scriptiOn tells of the conquests Of
: Tiglath Pileser, third king of AS
syria. B. c. 745-727. This is Sen
nacherib on his throne But just
> here we have something of much inn
portance.
Turn over to Isa. COL. There
5 you read Of "Sargon the king Of AS
2 syria" In less than four lines is
5 said all that Isaiah has to say and no
2 one else mentions him. There was
? 4 time when you could have found
: nothing Of him in other books, nor
, on the monuments. Skeptics and
? scoffers could have said, and maybe
did say. here is an un-historical
character; here your Bible breaks
down. But it did not break down
for here is rich collection of great
winged, human-headed bull statues
from his palace at Khorsabad which
), archeOlogiets have discovered. These
figures. something near twice the
height of a man, with the inscribed
/, bricks of this king who reigned B
G.. 721-705, supplemented by similar
statues standing in the French Mu-
: scum. bear magnificent testimony tC
, the historicity of the man and cor
: roborate the Biblical record. Sure
ly this is worthwhile museum.
! Walking along, you come upon an
! Etruscan bronze chariot; Graeco-
Roman statuary stone and flint i'm
> plements, a Roman milestone OF
, Hadrian. and pass over to relics oil
E southeast Africa. These are Egypt
ian razors. those hundreds of small
| images are from Egypt. having been
put in the tombs 'to do field work
in the neither world" If a museum
y at home has one genuine Egyptian
mummy, it does well, but they have
' them here by the wholesale. Here
! is a corpse from before Menes the
S first historical king of the land. And
! yonder is the gem and gold orna-
: ment room. But those who stand
: upon their feet and gaze at these
2 things find their bodies becoming
: weary, and as there is limit to en-
1 durance as well as to capacity tor
l taking in and the desire 10 take in,
: we will adjourn" for while.
| The Lords day is spent in Twyn-
? holm, as the meeting place of the
t Fulham Cross church is called. The
; coffee house which was in operation
t when | was here in 1904 has been
| transformed and made over for
church uses now, and the rooms up
stairs where Christian young men
| were formerly lodged had to be clos
ed during the war for want of young
men to occupy them! After the
morning meeting, which | was asked
to address, we went home with Pro.
: Black, busy business man, who
like many of his fellows in Britain,
finds much time and much heart for
, Gods work. In the afternoon, we
/, return to Twynholm and address an
other meeting. After light refresh
= ments, we go down to South Fulham
: and meet another friend of the
earlier days and again an invitation
to preach is promptly given and soon
accepted.
St PauIs Cathedral (what would
Paul say if he were preaching
there?) is in easy reach of the tour
list office where we were frequently
going for our mail. 1t is big
place and of interest to the sight
seer as well as to those who worship
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