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SAILING UP THE NILE.

{The Wonderful River of Egypt and its Living and Dead Cities.

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Rights Witnessed—Xhe Alrer'i Many Vlr* taei—The Crystal Cradlo of Moses—Dr. Tslmago'i Sermon.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday. Subject, |''Sailing Up the Nile." Text,

Ezekiel xxix., 9. He said: Aha! This is the river Nile. A brown, or yellow, or silver cord on which are hunt? more jewels of thrilling interest than on any river that ever twisted in the sunshine. It ripples through the Book of Ezekiel, and flashes in the Book of Deuteronomy, and Isiah, and Zachariah, and Nahum, and on its banks stood the jgiL mighties of many ages. It was the crystal cradle of Moses, and on its "ir banks Mavy. th^ refugee, carried the

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Infant Jesus'. To find the birthplace of this river was the fascination and vjs| defeat of expeditions without number. Not man.y years, ago Bayard fi Taylor our great American traveler, •f'" wrote:' ''Since Columbus first looked upon San Salvador, the earth has but one amotion of triumph left for her disposal, and that she reserves for him who shall first drink from the fountains of the White Nile under the \snow fields of Iviliman^c[^ jaro." But the discovery of the sources of the Nile by most people was considered an impossibility.

The malarias, the wild beasts, the savages, the unclimbable steeps, the vast distances stopped all the expeditions for ages. An intelligent bative said to Sir Samuel W. Baker Sand wife as they were on their way to accomplish that in which others Shad failed: "Give tupjnthe mad •cheme of the Nile source. How would it be possible for a lad}', young and delicate, to endure what would kill the strongest man? Give it up."

But the work went on until Speke and Grant and Baker found the two takes which are the source of what was called the White Nile and baptized these two lakes with the names of Victoria and Albert. These two lakes, filled bv great rainfalls and by accumulated snows from ffche mountains, pour their waters, itLdeu with agricultural wealth such bs blesses no other river, on down over the cataracts, on between frov/ning mountains, on between pities living and cities dead, on for 4,000 miles and through a continent.

But t.'uo White Nile would do little for Egypt if this were all. It would .keep its banks and Egypt would refciain a desert. But from Abyssinaia there conies what is called the Blue ile, which, though dry or nearly ry half the year, under tremendous tains about the middle of June rises -|(M great momentum, and this Blue

Kile dashes with sudden influx into the White Nile, which in consequence rises thirty feet, and their combined waters inundate Egypt with a rich •oil which drops on ail the fields and gardens as it is conducted by ditches and sluices and canals everywhither, rfce greatest damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the river Nile, and the greatest blessing by its healthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph's time came from the lack of sufficient Inundation from the Nile. Scarcity pf Nile is drought too much Nile is freshet and plague.

The rivers of the earth are the mothers of its prospcritj*. If by some convulsion of nature the Mispissippi should be taken from North

America, or the Amazon from South America, or the Danube from Europe, or the Yenesei from Asia, what hemispheric calamity! Btill there are other rivers that-pould fertilize and save these countries. Our own continent is gulelied, is ribboned, is glorified by innumerable water courses. But Egypt has only one great river, and that is harnessed to draw all the prosperities of realms and acreage semi-infinite. What happens to the Nile, happens to f* Egypt. The nilometer was to me very suggestive as we went up and down its damn stone steps and saw the pillar marked with notches telling just how high or low are the waters

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When the Nile is rising four criers every morning run through the city hnnouueing how many feet the river has arisen—ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet, twenty-four feet—and When the right height of water is reached the gates of the canals are flung open and the liquid and refreshing benediction is pronounced bn all the land.

As we start where the Nile empties Into the Mediterranean Sea we behold a wonderful fulfillment of prophecy. The Nile in very ancient times used to have seven mouths. As the great river approached the sea it entered the sea at seven different places. Isaiah prophesied: "The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and shall smite it in the seven streams." The fact is they are all destroyed but two, and Hero dotus said these two remaining are artificial. Up the Nile wo shall go part of the way by Egyptian rail train, and then by boat, and then we shall understand why the Bible gives such-prominence to this river which is the largest river of all the earth w'ith one exception.

But all aboard the Egyptian rail train going up the banks of the Nile! (Look out of the window and see those camels kneeling for the imposi,tion of their load. And I think we might take from them a lesson, and Instead of trying to stand upright in jour own strength, become conscious

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of our weakness and need of Divine help before we take upon us the heavy duties of the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We meet processions of men and beasts on the way from their day's work, but alas, for the homes to which the poor inhabitants are going. For the most part hovels of mud. But there is something in the scene that thoroughly enlists us. It is the novelty of wretchedness, and a scene of picturesque rags. For thousands of years this land has been under a heavy damnation of taxes. Nothing but Christian ci\ il ization will roll back the influences which are "spoiling the Egyptians." There are gardens and palaces, but they belong to the rulers.

This ride along the Nile is one of the most solemn and impressive rides of all my lifetime, and our emotions deepen as the curtains of the night fall upon all surroundings. But we shall not be satisfied until we can take a ship and pass right out upon these wonderous waters and between the banks crowded with the story of empires.

According to the lead pencil marks in my Bible it was Thanksgiving Day morning, Nov. 28, 1889, that with my family and friends we stepped aboard the steamer on the Nile. The Mohammedan call to prayers had been sounded by the priests of that religion, the Muezzins, from the 400 mosques of Cairo as the cry went out: "God is great! I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Come to prayers. Come to salvation. God is great. There is no other but God. Praj'ers are better tnan sleep." The sky and city and palm groves and shipping were bathed in the light. It was not much of a craft that we boarded. It would not be hailed on any of our rivers with any rapture of admiration. It fortunately had but little speed, for twice we ran aground, and the sailors jumped into the water and on their shoulders pushed her out. But what yacht of gayest sportsman, what deck of swiftest ocean queen, could give such thrill of rapture as a sail on the Nile? The Pyramids in sight, the remains of cities that are now only a name, the villages thronged with population. Both banks crowded with" historical deeds of forty or sixty centuries. Oh, what a "Book the 6ible is when read on the Nile!

As we slowly move up the majestic river I see on each bank the wheels, the pumps, the buckets for irrigation and see a man with his foot on the treadle of a wheel that fetches up the water for a garden, and then for the first time I understand that passage in Deuteronomy which says of the Israelites after they had got back to Egypt "The land whither thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Eg3rpt. from whence ye come out, where thou so weds thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot," Then I understood how the land could be watered with the foot. How do you suppose I felt when on the deck of that steamer on the Nile I looked off upon the canals and ditches and sluices through which the fields are irrigated by that river and then read in Isaiah: "The burden of Egypt the river shall be wasted and dried up. and they shall turn the rivers far away-and-the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up, and they shall be broken in the purposes there of, all that make sluices and ponds for fish." That thanksgiving mornmorning on the Nile I found my text of to-day.

While sailing on this river or stopping at one of the villages we see people on the banks who verify the bible description, for they are now as thej' were in Bible times. Shoes are now taken off in reverence to sacred places. Children carried astride the mother's shoulder, as in Hager's time. Women with profusion of jew elrv as when Rebecca was affianced. Lentils shelled into the potage, as when Esau sold his birtheight to get such a dish. The same habits of salutation as when Joseph and his brethren fell on each other's necks. Courts of law held under big trees, as in olden times. People making bricks without straw, compelled by circumstances to use stubble instead of straw. Flying over or standing on the banks, as in Scripture days, are flamingoes, ospreys, eagles, pelicans, herons,cuckoos and bullfinches. On all sides of this river sepulchers, villages of sepulchers, cities of sepulchers, nations of sepulchers, and one is tempted to call it an empire of tombs. I never saw such a place as Egypt is for graves. And now we understand the complaining sarcasm of the Israelites when thej' were on the way from Egypt to Canaan, "Because there are no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?" Down the river bank come the buffalo and the cattle or kine to drink. And it was the ancesters of these cattle that inspired Pharaoh's dream of the lean kine and the fat kine.

Here we disembark a little while for Memphis, off from the Nile to the right. Memphis, founded by the first King of Egypt, and for a while the capital. A city of marble and gold. Home of the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles in circumference, colonades, through which imposing processions marched. Here stood the Temple of the Sun, itself in brilliancy a sun shone on by another sun. Memphis, in power over a thousand one hundred years, or nearly ten times as long as the United States have existed. Here is a recumbent statue seventy-five feet long. Bronzed gateways. A nocropolis called "the Haven of the Blest." Here Joseph was Prime Minister. Here Pharaoh received Jacob. All possible splendors were

built up into this royal city. Bosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah speak of it as something wonderful.

Never did I visit a city with such exalted expectations and never d.d my anticipations drop so flat. Not apillar stands. Not a wall is unbroken. Not a fountain tosses in the sun. Even the ruins have been ruined and all that remains are chips of marble, small pieces of fractured sculpture and splintered human bones. Here and there a letter of some elaborate inscription. A toe or ear of a statue that once had stood in niche of palace wall. Ezekiel prophesied its blotting out, and the prophesy has been fulfilled. "Ride on, I said to our party, "and don't wait for me." And as I stood there1 alone the city of Memphis in the glory of past centuries returned. And I heard the rush of her chariots and the dash of her fountains and the convivialty of her palaces and saw the drunken nobles roll on the floors of mosaic, while in startling contrast I amid all the regalities of the place I saw Pharaoh look up into the face of aged, rustic Jacob, the shepherd, saying: "How old art thou?"

But back to the Nile and on and up till you reach Thebes, in Scripture called the City of No. Hund-red-gated Thebes. A quadrangular city four miles from limit to limit. Four great temples, two of them Karnick and Luxor, once mountains of exquisite sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidified in stone. Statue of Rameses II, 887 tons in weight and seventy-five feet high, but now fallen and scattered. Walls abloom with the battle-fields of centuries. The surrounding hills of rock hollowed into sepulchers, on the walls of which are chiseled in the picture and hieroglyphics the confirmation of the Bible story in regard to the treatment of the Israelites in Egypt so that, as explorations go on with the work, the walls of these sepulchers become commentaries of the Bible, the Scriptures originally written upon parchment here cut into everlasting stone, Thebes mighty and dominant 500 years.

But the dead cities strung along the Nile not only demolish infidelity, but thunder down the absurdity of the modern doctrine of evolution which says the world started with nothing and then rose, and human nature began with nothing but evolved into splendid manhood and womanhood of itself. Nay the sculpture of the world was more wonderful in the days of Memphis and Thebes and Carthage than in the days of Boston and New York. Those blocks of stone weighing 300 tons high up the wall at Karnno imply machinery equal to, if not surpassing, the machinery of the nineteenth century. How was that statue of Rameses, weighing 887 tons transported from the quarries 200 miles away, and how was it lifted? Tell, modern machinists. How were those galleries'of rock, still standing at Thebes, filled with paintings surpassed by no artist's pencil of the present day? Tell us, artists of the nineteenth century. The dead cities of Egypt, so far as they have left enough pillars or statues or sepulchers or temple ruins to tells the story—Memphis, Migdel, Hierapolis, Zoan, Thebes, Goshen, Carthage—all of them developing downward instead of upwards They have evoluted from magnificence into destruction. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only elevator of individual and social and national character. Let all the living cities know that pomp and opulence and temporal prosperity are no security. Those ancient cities lacked nothing byt good morals. Dissipation and sin slew them, and unless dissipation and sin are. halted they will some day slay our modern cities and leave our palaces of merchandise and our galleries of art and our City Hall as liat in the dust as we found Memphis on the afternoon of that Thanksgiving Day. And if the cities go down the Nation will go down. "Oh," you say, "that is impossible we have stood so long—yea. over a hundred years as a Nation." Why, what of that? Thebes stood live hundred years Memphis stood a thousand years. God does not forget. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand year as one day.

Rum an debauchery and bad politics are more rapidly working the destruction of our American cities than sin of any kind and all kinds worked for the destruction of the cities of Afiic i, oncesj mighty and now so prostrate. But their gods were idols, and could do nothing except for debasement. Our God made the heavens, and sent his son to redeem the nations. And our cities will not go down, and our nations will not perish, because the Gospel is going to triumph.,, Forward, all schools and colleges and churches? Forward, all reformatory and missionary organizations! Forward, all the influences marshaled to bless the world! Let our modern European and American cities listen to the voice of those ancient cities resurrected, and by hammer and chisel and crow-bar compelled to speak.

"The best bill collector," writes a Georgia editor, "is a shotgun. We have the gun, and if we could afford to buy the shot with a small sprinkling of powder we would have $6 bofore sundown."—Atlanta Constitution.

A Righteous Striker—"But," said the hotel keeper to the striking waiters, you get precisely the same food we serve to the guests. 'Yes." replied the leader, ''that's what we are kicking about."—New York Sum

BURNED AT THE STAKE.

Horrible Punishment Inflicted or a Negro for Murdering a Family in Texas.

Taken from Jail to the Scene of His Crlmt Where Fagots Were Filed High Up. Around Him and Ignited.

A Special from Queen City, Tex., on th 26th says: The negro Leo Green, wh« murdered the family of farmer Lowe seven miles west of Qnenn City, Saturday' was arrested last night near Kildare and harried to jail at Linden. A crowd appeared at the jail at 5 o'clock this morning and demanded the keys from the sheriff's wife, who was forced to deliver them. The determined men who composed th« party took Green from jail and locked th« door and delivered tho keys back to Mrs. Lanies, the sheriff's wife. The sheriff was absent with a posse hunting the negro. They took him to the scene of the tragedy and turned him over to the husband of the murdered woman, who obtained a full confession from him. Green acknowledged that he did the deed for the money- -$60—and killed the family to ayoid defection. He at first Implicated three other negroes, but finally said no one aided him, but another negro shared in the gain. The last-men-tioned negro is in costody, awaiting further developments.

All day long men from the adjoining counties as well as from all parts of this one, continued to arrive at Mr. Lowe's farm. At 2 "30 o'clock a trace chain was placed about Green's neck and fastened to a tree so as to hold him In a standing position. At this stage of the proceedings forty-six negroes piled fagot8 high up around him,..and an old negress touched the match to it, and in a few minutes his soul passed into eternity, only fifty-six hours after those of his victims. The crowd numbered from five hundred to one thonsand, both blacks and whites,

Mrs. Lowe and children were buried side by side In one common grave. The other child is doing well and is oat of danger.

DOWN 60 THE RECORDS.

"Direct" Goes Direct and Beats Hal Pointer Again.

VaatMt Time Ever Made In a Baoe-Flrit Mile In 9:09, Second In 2:08 and

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Third In 8:08 3-4.

The great match race between Direct and Hal Pointer attracted an immense crowd to Columbia, Tenn., on the 26th» and they were rewarded by a great race, though the home favorite fell a victim to the staying qualities of the Californian. There were three races on the card, and all would have been interesting but for the contest of the day, which overshadowed them in the public mind. The second race was the match race,with a purse of 52-,890 and an additional fl,000 If the world's record was broken. The heats were three in number, and in each the result was a victory for Direct. Geers urged Pointer to his utmost, and once to such an extent that he went under the wire off his feet. The heats were almost Identical. The two would get off together Direct almost immediately taking the lead, and they would travel together at a terrific pace to the stretch. There Geers braced hini'self for the final effort, and in the stretch would lap the leader, even coming to Direct's throat latch. Then Starr would let the whip fall, and with a mighty burst the Californian would go under the wire a winner of the heat. The time, 2:09. 2:06, 2:08%, was phenomenal for anew track, though It Is kite-shaped and down hill all the way,

WENT DOWN IN THE 8EA.

Nineteen Lives Lost by a Collision on Two a

The British steamer Boston, from Cardiff for London, arrived at Falmouth, on the 26th, after having been in collision with the British bark Charlwood, 759 tons. Captain Salmon, from Antwerp for Valparaiso. The Charlwood foundered almost immediately after the collision, with a loss of sixteen lives. Three men were killed on board the Boston at the time of the collision, and the steamer's bows were badly stove in. The captain of the Gharlwood, his wife, son and a governess and the stewardess, together with all the bark's officers and six of the seamen, a total of sixteen persons, were drowned in spite of the desperate efforts of lifeboats of vessels which happened to be near the scene of the collision to rescue them. The efforts of the would-be savers were greatly hampered by the darkness which prevailed at the time the accident took place (4:45) in the morning. The spot where the two vessels met was not fai from Eddystone Bock, fourteen miles from Plymouth. Only an apprentice and the captain's daughter were saved. 2p./

A DARING 8AFE BLOWING.

For Cold Nerve This Exploit Wat One to Be Remembered.

Four masked men entered the office of the Ames avenue barn of the Omaha Street Railway Company at Omaha, Neb., Monday morning, and at the point of revolvers compelled Superintendent Beals and two assistants to throw up their hands, while the burglars proceeded to blow open tha safe. They drilled a hole and filled It with giant powder. When the explosion oocorred the safe door was blown twenty feet, and the car cleaners and others employed in the barn proper rushed up to office to see what was the matter. They were mot at the door by two of the burg: lars, with drawn revolvers, who instructed them to return to work, which they did.

The safe contained $1,200, all of which was taken. The telephone lines into tb« city had been cut, and tho police were no* notified until an hour after the burgforv had escaped.

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A Glance at Man.

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