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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE PYRAMID OF OIZEH. Dr. Tnlnssg* Begins * Series of Sermons Entitled “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis,** Enforcing and Illustrating the Truths of Scripture Build for EternityDr. Talmage’s sermon last Sunday was the first of a series he intends preaching on his Eastern tour, entitled, “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures.” His text was Isaiah xix, 19, 20: “In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the nftdst of the land of Egypt and at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness.” Isaiah no doubt here refers to the great pyramid at Gizeh, the chief pyramid of Egypt The text speaks of a pillar in Egypt, and this is the greatest pillar ever lifted; and the text says it is to be at the border of the land; and the text says it shall be for a witness, and the object of this sermon is to tell what this pyramid witnesses. This sermon is the first of a course of sermons entitled, “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What I saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures.” We had, on a morning of December, 1889, landed in Africa. Amid the howling boatmen at Alexandria we had come ashore and taken the rail train for Cairo, Egypt, along the banks of the most thoroughly harnessed river of all the world—the river Nile. We had, at eventide, entered the city of Cairo, the city where Christ dwelt while staying in Egypt during the Herodic persecution. It was our first night in Egypt. Nb destroying angel sweeping through as once, but all the stars were out and the skies were filled with angels of beauty and angels of light, and the air was as balmy as an American June. The next morning we were early awake and at the window, looking upon palm trees in full glory of leafage, and upon gardens of fruits and flowers at the very season when our homes far away are canopied by bleak skies and the last leaf of the forest has gone down with the equinoctials.

But how can I describe the thrill of expectation, for to-day we are to see what all the world has seen or wants to see—the pyramids. We art mounted for an hour and a half’s ride. We pass on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and carpets and curious fabrics of all sorts from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Persia, from Turkey, and through the Streets, where we meet people of all colors and all garbs, carts loaded with garden productions, priests in gowns, women in black veils, Bedouins in long and seemingly superfluous apparel, Janissiaries in jackets of embroidered gold-r-out and on toward the great pyramid; for though there are sixty-nine pyramids still standing, the pyramid at Gizeh is the monarch of pyramids. We meet camels grunting under their load, and see buffaloes on either side browsing in pasture fields. The road we travel is for part of the way under clumps of acacia, and by long rows of sycamore and tamerisk, but after awhile it is a path of rock and sand, and we find we have reached the margin of the desert, the great Sahara desert, and we cry out to the dragoman as we see a huge pile of rock looming in sight “Dragoman, what is that?’’ His answer is, “The pyramid.” and then it seemed as if we were living a century every minute. Our thoughts and emotions were too rapid and intense for utterance, and we ride on in silence until we come to the foot of the pyramid spoken of in the text, the oldest structure in all the earth, 4,000 years old at least. Here it is. We stand under the shadow of a structure that shuts out all the earth and all the sky, and we look up and strain our vision to appreciate the distant top, and are overwhelmed while we cry, “The pyramid! The pyramid!” I had started that morning with the determination of ascending the pyramid. One of my chief objects in going to Egypt was not only to see the base of that granite wonder, but to stand on the top of it. Yet the nearer I came to this eternity in stone the more my determination was shaken. Its altitude to me was simply appalling. A great height has always been to me a most disagreeable sensation. As we dismounted at the base of the pyramid I said: “Others may go up it, but not I. I will satisfy myself with a view from the base. The ascent of it would be to me a foolhardy undertaking.” But after I had given uh all idea of ascending I found my daughter was determined to go. and I could not let her go with strangers, and 1 changed my mind, and we started- with guides. It cannot be done without these helpers. Two or three times foolhardy men have attempted it alone, but their bodies came tumbling down unrecognizable and lifeless. Each person in our party had two. or three guides or helpers. One of them unrolled his turban and tied it around my waist, and he held the other end of the turban as a matter of safety. Many of the blocks of stone are four or five feet high and beyond any ordinary human stride unless assisted. But, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly ascending from height to height, and on to altitudes terrific, and at last at the tip top we found ourselves on a level space of about thirty feet square. Through the clearest atmosphere we looked off upon the.desert, and off upon the winding Nile, and off upon the Sphinx with its features of everlasting stone, and yonder upon the minarets of Cairo glittering in the sun, and yonder upon Memphis in ruins, and off upon the wreck of empires and the battlefields of ages, a radius of view enough to fill the mind and shock the nerves and overwhelm one’s entire being. After looking around for awhile, and a kodak had pictured the group we descended. The descent was more trying than the ascent, for climbing you need not see the depth beneath, but coming down it was impossible not to see the abysm below. But, two.Arabs ahead to help us down and two Arabs to hold us back, we were lowered hand below hand until the ground was invitingly near, and amid the jargon of the Arabs we were safely landed. Then came one of the most wonderful feats of daring and agility. One of the Arabs solicited a dollar, saying he would run up and down the pyramid in seven minutes. We would rather have given him a dollar not to go, but this ascent and descent in seven minutes he was determined on and so by the watch in seven minutes he went to the top and was back again at the base. It was a bloodcurdling spectacle. I said the dominant color of the pyramid was gray, but in certain lights it seems to shake off the gray of centuries and become a blonde and the silver turns to the golden. It covers. thirteen acres of ground. What an antiquity! It was at least two thousand years old when the baby Christ was carried In sight of it by His fugitive parents, Joseph and Mary. The storms of forty centuries hive drenched it, bombarded it, shadowed it, flashed upon it, but there it stands ready to take another forty centuries of atmospheric attack, if the world, should continue to exist. The oldest buildings of the earth are juniors to this great senior of the cen«n- • . - . ■

riea. Herodotus says that for ten years preparations were being made for the building of this pyramid. It has 88,111,000 cubic feet of masonry. One hundred thousand workmen at one time toiled in its erection. To bring the stone from the quarries a causeway sixty feet wide was built The top stones were lifted by machiney such as the world knows nothing of to-day. It is 746 feet each side of the square base. The structure is 450 feet high, higher than the cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg, Rouen, St Peter’s and St Paul’s. No surprise to me that it was put at the head of the Seven Wonders of the World. It has a subterraneous room of red granite called the “king’s chamber,” and another room called the “queen’s chamber,” and the probability is that there are other rooms yet unexplored. The evident design of the architect was to make these rooms as inaccessible as possible. After all the work of exploration and all the digging and blasting, if you would enter these subterraneous rooms you must go . through a passage only three feet eleven inches high and less than four feet wide. A sarcophagus o| red granite stands down under thia mountain of masonry. The sarcophagus could not have been carried in after the pyramid was built It must have been put there after the structure was reared. Probably in that sacrophagus once lay a wooden coffin containing a dead king, but time has destroyed the coffin and destroyed the last vestige of human remains. For three thousand years this sepulchral room was unopened, and would have been] until to-day probably unopened had not a superstitious impression got abroad that the heart of the pyramid was filled with silver and gold and diamonds, and under Al Mamoun an excavating party went to work, and having bored and blasted through a hundred feet of rfick they found no opening ahead, and were about to give up the attempt when the workmen heard a stone roll down into a seemingly holplace, and encouraged by that they resumed their work and came into the underground rooms. The disappointment of the workmen in finding the sarcophagus empty of all silver and gold and precious stones was so great that they would have assassinated Al Mamoun, who employed them, had he not hid in another part of the pyramid as much silver and gold as would pay them for their work at ordinary rate of wages and induced them there to dig till they, to their surprise, came upon adequate compensation. I wonder not that this mountain of limestone and red granite has been the fascination of scholars, of scientists, of intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir John Herschel, the astronomer, said he thought it had astronomcial signincance. The wise men who accompanied Napoleon’s army into Egypt went into profound study of the pyramid. In 1865, Professor Smyth and his wife lived in the empty tom bs near by the pyramid that they might be as continuously as possible close to the pyramid, which they were investigating. The pyramid built more than 4,000 years ago, being a complete geometrical figure, wise men have concluded it must have been divinely constructed. Men came through thousands of years to fine architecture, to music,, to painting, but this was perfect at the world’s start, and God must have directed it AU astronomers and geometricians and scientists say that it was scientifically and mathematically constructed before science and mathematics were born. From the inscriptions on the pyramid, from its proportions, from the points of the compass recognized in its structure, from the direction in which its tunnels run, from the relative position of the blocks that compose it, scientists, Christians and infidels have demonstrated that the being who planned this pyramid must have known the world’s sphericity, and that its motion was rotary, and how many miles it was in diameter and circumference, and how many tons the world weighs, and knew at what point in the heaven certain stars would appear at certain periods of time. Not in the 4,000 years since the putting up of that pyramid has a single fact been found in astronomy or mathematics to contradict the wisdom of that structure. Yet they had not at the age when the pyramid was started an astronomer, or an architect or a mathematician worth mentioning. Who, then, planned the pyramid? Who superintended its erection? Who from its first foundation stone to its capstone erected everything? It must have been God. Isaiah was right when he said in my text, “A piller shall be at the border of the land of Egypt and it shall be for a sign aqd a witness.” The pyramid is God’s first Bible. Hundreds, if not thousands of years before the first line of the Book of Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid was written.

Well, of what is this Cyclopean masonry a sign and a witness? Among other things, of the prolongation of human work compared with the brevity of human life. In all the 4,000 years this pyramid has only lost eighteen feet in width, one side of its square at the base changed only from 764 ieet to 746 feet, and the most of that eighteen feet taken off by architects to furnish stone for building in the City of Cairo, The men who constructed the pyramid worked at it only a few years and then put down the trowel and the compass and the square and lowered the derrick which had lifted the ponderous weights; but forty centuries has their worK stood and it will be good for forty centuries more. All Egypt has been shaken by terrible earthquakes and cities have been prostrated or swallowed, but that pyramid has defied all volcanic paroxysms. It has looked upon some of the greatest battles ever fought since the world stood. Where are the men who constructed it? Their bodies gone to dust and even the dust scattered. Even the sarcophagus in which the King’s mummy may have slept is empty. So men die but their work lives on. We are all building pyramids, not to last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion. For awhile we wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with the yardstick, or write with the pen, or experiment with the scientific battery, or plan with the brain, and for awhile the foot walks and the eye sees, and the ear hears, and the tongue speaks. All the good words or bad words we speak are spread out into one layer for a pyramid. All the kind deeds or malevolent deeds we do are spread out into another layer. All the Christian or un-Cbristlan example we set is spread out In another layer. All the indirect influences of our lives are spread out in another layer. Then the time soon comes when we put down the implement of toil and pass away, but the pyramid stands. The Twentieth century will not rock it down, nor the Thirtieth century. The earthquake that rocks this world to pieces will not stop our influence for good or evil. . . . My hearers, that is the autobiography of one block of the pyramio. Cheops didn’t build the pyramid. Some boss mason in the world’s twilight didn’t build the pyramid. One hundred thousand men built it, and perhaps from first to last 200,000 men. So with the pyramids now rising, pyramids of evil or pyramids of good. The pyramid of drunkenness rising ever since the time Noah got drunk on wine, although there was at his time such a superabundance of water. All the saloonists of the ages adding their layers, of ale casks and wine

pitchers and rum jugs until the pyrami* overshadows the great Sahara desert of desolated homes and broken hearts and destroyed eternities. And as the pyramid still rises, layers of‘human skulls piled on top of human skulls and other mountains of human bones to whiten the peaks reaching unto the heavens, hundreds of thousands of people are building that pyramid. So with the pyramid of righteousness. Multitudes ot hands are toiling on the steeps, hands infantile, hands octogenarian, masculine hands, female hands, strong bands, weak hands. Some clanging a trowel, some pulling *» rope, some measuring the sides. Layers of Psalm books on top of layers of sermons. Layers of prayers on top of layers of holy sacrifice. And hundreds of thousands coming down to sleep their last sleep, but other hundreds of thousands going up to take their places, and the pyramids will continue to rise until the milennial morning gilds the completed work, and the toilers on these heights shall take off their aprons and throw down their trowels, crying, “It is finished.” Your business and mine is not to build a pyramid, but to be one of the hundreds of thousands who shall ring a trowel or pull a rope or turn the crank of a derrick or cry “Yo, heave!” while lifting another block to its elevation. Though it be seemingly a small work and a brief work, it is a work that shall last forever.. In the last day many a man and woman whose work has never been recognized on earth will come to a special honor. The Ecumenical council, now in session at Washington, its delegates the honored representatives of 50,000,000 Methodists in ail parts of the earth, will at every session do honor to the memory of John Wesley, but I wonder if any of them will think to twist a garland for the memory of humble Peter Bohler, the Moravian, who brought John Wesley Into the kingdom of God. I rejoice that all the thousands who have been toiling on the pyramid of righteousness will at last be recognized and rewarded—the mother who brought her children to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who brought her class to the knowledge of the truth, the unpretending man who saved a soul. Then the trowel will be more honored than the scepter. As a great battle was going on, the soldiers were ordered to the front and a sick man jumped out of an ambulance in which he was being carried to the hospital. The surgeon asked him what he meant by getting out of the ambulance when he was sick and almost ready to die. The soldier answered: “Doctor, lam going to the front. I had rather die an the field than die in an ambulance.” Thank God, if we cannot do much we can do a little. Further, carrying out the idea of my text, the pyramid is a sign and a witness that big tombstones are not the best way of keeping one’s self affectionately remembered. This pyramid and sixty-nine other pyramids still standing were built for sepulchers, all this great pile of granite and limestone by which we stand to-day, to cover the memory of a dead King. It was the great Westminster Abbey of the ancients. Some say that Cheops was the king who built this pyramid, bpt it is uncertain. Who was Cheops, anyhow? All that the world knows about him could be told in a few sentences. The only thing certain is that he was bad and that he shut up the temples of worship and that he was hated so that the Egyptians were glad when he was dead. While there seems to oe no practical use for post mortem consideration later than the time of one’s great-grandchil-dren, yet no one wants to be forgotten as soon as the obsequies are over. This pyramid which Isaiah says is a sign and a witness demonstrates that neither limestone nor red granite is competent to keep one affectionately remembered. Neither can bronze, neither can Parian marble, neither can Aberdeen granite do the work. But there is something out of which to build an everlasting monument, and that will keep one freshly remembered four thousand years—yea. forever. It does not stand in marble yards. It is not to be purchased at mourning stores. Yet it is to be found in every neighborhood, plenty of it, inexhaustible quantities of it. It is the greatest stuff in the universe to build monuments out of. I refer to the memories of those to whom we can do a kindness, the memories of those whose struggles we may alleviate, the memories of those souls we may save. All around Cairo and Memphis there are the remains of pyramids that have gone down under the wearing away of time, and this great pyramid of which Isaiah in the text speaks will vanish if the world lasts long enough; and if the world does not last, then with the earth’s dissolution the pyramid will also dissolve. But the, memories of those with whom we associate are indestructible. They will be more vivid the other side of the grave than this side. It is possible for me to do you a good and for you to do me a good that will be vivid in memory as many years after the world is burned up as all the sand§ of the seashore, and all the leaves of the forest, and all the grass blades of the field, and all the stars of Heaven added together, and that aggregate multiplied by all the figures that all the bookkeepers of all time ever wrote.

As in Egypt .that December afternoon, in 1889, exhausted in body, mind and soul, we mounted to return to Cairo, we took our last look at the pyramid of Gizeh. And you know there is something in the air toward evening that seems productive of solemn and tender emotion, and that great pyramid seemed to be humanized and with lips of stone it seemed to speak and cry out: “Hear me, man, mortal and immortal! My voice is the voice of God. He designed me. Isaiah said I would be a sign and a witness. I saw Moses when he was a lad. I witnessed the long procession of Israelites as they started to cross the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s hosts in pursuit of them. The falcons and the eagles of many centuries have brushed my brow. I stood here when Cleopatra’s barge landed with her soceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was slain in yonder streets. Alexander the Great, Sesostris and Ptolemy admired my proportions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded my praise. I am old, lam very old. For thousands of years I have watched the coming and going of generations. They tarry only a little while, but they make a lasting impression. I bear on my side the mark of the trowel and chisel of those who more than four thousand years ago expired. Beware what you do, oh, man, for what you do will last long after you are dead! If you would be affectionately remembered after you are gone, trust not to any earthly commemoration. I have not one word to say about ahy astronomer who studied the Heavens from my heights, or any king who has sepulchred in" my bosom. lam slowly passing away. I am a dying pyramid. 1 shall yet lie down in the dust of the plain and the sands of the desert shall cover me, or when the earth goes I will go. But you are immortal. The feet with which you climbed my sides to-day will turn to dust, but you have a soul that will outlast me and all my brotherhood of pyramids. Live for eternity! Live for Godi With the shadows of the evening now falling from my side, 1 pronounce upon you a benediction. Take It with you across the Mediterranean. Take it with you across the Atlantic. God only It great!' Let all the earth keep silence before Him. Amenl”

CtaMUPS AlfiWtMktoWs The etiquette aa to the precedency «t Ambassadors at court was happily ■ettlod once and for all by the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, which d ecided that Ambassadors and Ministers were to take rank by seniority according to the dates of their appointments. By courtesy, however, the representative of the Pope is always allowed to hold the first place in the diplomatic body and to act as its spokesman. Before 1815 the wrangles between envoys about precedency were incessant, and the servants of rival legations very often came to blows and blood-shedding to determine whose coach should go first in a state pageant. In 1812 the French artist, Isabey. having been commissioned to paint a picture of the Congress of Aix la Chapelle, was sorely exercised in grouping his plenipotentiaries so as to offend none of them. He was particularly perplexed in settling who was to be the central figure of the picture. Prince TaHoyrand, the representative of France, insisted on having the place of honor, and Isabey, as a Frenchman, desired to give it to nun. On the other hand, the arbiter of the Congress was the Duke of Wellington; and Isabey, being a conscientious worker, wanted his picture to be historically as well as artistically cor rect. At last he hit upon the really-happy thought of putting Talleyrand in the center of the group, while making him and all the other plenipotentiaries face toward the door to greet the Duke of Wellington, .who was walking in. Nowadays, diplomatists, though no longer so touchey about the places they are to fill in banquets and pictures, still hold tightly to some privileges which are hardly in keeping with the spirit of the age. Not only the envoys themselves, but their servants, are free from arrest in the countries where they reside, and an assault committed on an envoy’s servant is regarded as an injury done to the envoy himself. It was only four teen years ago that Baron Turgot, being French Minister to Madrid, wrote indignantly to his Government: "I have this day received a kick in the back of my servant.” The servant had been molested in the riots that followed the overthrow of Isabella 11., but an apology and fine were demanded pretty much as if the Minister himself had been kicked.— Chamber’s Journal. The avant-port, or entrance harbor, is nearly dry at low-water, and our tender, even with her draught, stirs •the mud as she proceeds. But when the tide is in, the large steamers and sailing ships can safely proceed to the docks, that have been dug from the money with an enormous expenditure of land and muscle. The docks and basins of Havre are all of man's creation, and owe their existence to his industry and perseverance. They are eight in number and a ninth, and perhaps a tenth, will be added before long. Altogether the existing docks will accommodate 2,000 vessels, and by crowding them closely another hundred or two might be taken in. The largest is the dock of the Eure, and it has a superficial area of fiftythree acres, with a mile and a quarter of quays. The water in this basin has a depth of thirty feet, and a dry-dock opens from it capable of holding any of the ships that visit the port. Think of the labor necessary for making this dock and building the massive walls that form its sides, and then say if Havre is not deserving of all her present prosperity. An older and smaller dock than this is the Bassin du, Commerce, which is generally filled with sailing ships, and sometimes has held as many as 200 of them without impeding circulation. At one end of this dock is the square named after Louis XVI., and on pleasant evenings we will find a dense crowd there to enjoy the military or other music, and to lounge under the trees. Beyond the square and in full view from the dock rises the principal theater of Havre, and at the water’s edge is the machinery for removing the masts of ships or restoring them to their places. The oldest dock of all is the Bassin du Boi, or Vieux Bassin, and it is also the smallest; it was made in 1669, and has latterly been enlarged so as to adapt it to the ships of the present day. It is difficult to ascertain the cost of the docks of Havre, as the old accounts no longer exist, and we have only the modern figures to guide us. Within the last twenty years more than $50,000,000 have been expended on them, and the work is still incomplete.— Thomas W.Knox, in Harper’s Magarino

What Napoleon Cost England. The steward of Napoleon I.’s household at St. Helena, received £I.OOO a month for living expenses. Every fortnight there lauded, for the table of his ex-Majesty, eighty-four bottles of ordinary wine, 266 bottles of strong wine (Constantia, Teneriff, etc.) and fortyfour of porter. In all, the period of his stay on the island is said to have cost England £2,080.000. Os course, there were no poor wretches starving either in England or in France at the time.— Notes and Queries. Smell of Paint. On closing the premises at night, place on a stone in the center of the floor a pan of lighted charcoal, on which a handful of juniper berries have been thrown. Leave this until the following morning, and when the doors are opened all the disagreeable vapors will disappear. Another method is to use a pail of water in which a bunch of hay is soaking, but this takes a longer time to effect the same result A M. PRIEST, Druggilt Shelbyville, Ind., ■ays: “Hill's Catarrh cure give the beat of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials. as it cures every one who takas it.” Druggists sell it, Ysc. i _____ Worth Knowing. The difficulty of distinguishing certain forms- of comatose sleep from actual death has suggested all sorts of ingenious tests, such as holding a bright looking glass in front of the nostrils, or forcing a spray of water against the closed eyelids. A still more decisive experiment however, consists in injecting the pale skin upper arm with a strong solution of ammonia. If a spark of life lingers it will betray itself by the appearance of a red spot—American Druggist If afflicted with Sore Eyes, um Dr. Isaafi Thompson's Bye Water. Druggists seH it, 2Be. A man up atree and a man below with a shotgun cannot agree because they she things differently. Out of Sorts Describes s feeing peculiar to persons eg dyspeptic tendency, or caused by changs ot climate, season or Ute. Th* stomach is out ot ordsr. the head aches er doss act tael right, The Nerves ’ sesaa strained to their utmost the mind la confused and irritable. This condition finds aa excellent eontotivs la Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by Ms mgulattag and toning power* soon Restores Harmony to the eyatam.and gives strength ot mind, nerves and tody. U.K Ba sure to set Hood’s Sarsaparilla wMaU in sure tlve power U Pecu'lar to Itself,

Fpoßts «f Maw Y*rklV*wsp*p*r*. „ The profits of the big papers of New York are enormous. They are gold mines to thelrowners. All the daily papers are said to be making money except the Recorder and the Advertiser, the new papers. The Herald is supposed to be the most profitable of them all, and is followed by the San, the Morning Journal, the Tribune, and the Staatz-Zeitung, in the order named. Mr. Bennett’s income from the Herald is estimated all the way from SBOO,OOO to $1,300,000 per year. The Sun is said to be paving 40 per cent per annum on the capital Invested. The profits of the Morning Journal and the Tribune are probably very near as large.—New York Letter. Rescued from the Depths of Misery. The misery endured by unfortunate* whose livers are derelict in duty is unspeakable. 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