REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Bivine’s Sunday Sermon, fubject: "The Lesson af the Pyra- mids.” Texr: “In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pitiar at the border there ef to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness.” —lsaian xix, 19, 2). Isaiah no doubt hers refers to the great ramid at Gizeh, the chief pyramid of gyot 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 o the land, and this pyramid is at the border of the land; and the text says it shall be for & Withess, and the object of this sermon is to tell what this pyramid witnesses. ‘his ser mon is the first of a course of sermons ene titled, “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What I saw in Egvpt and Greece Cone firmatory of the Seriptures.” We had, on a morning of Decembar, 1889, landed in Africe. Amd the howiing boate men &t Alexandria we bad come ashore and taken the rail train at Cairo, Egypt, aloag the banks of the m thorourhiy harpessed river of all the world— the river Nile. We had at eventide entered the city of Cairo, the eity where Chr Walle staving in Egypt during tos persecution. | § was our first night in Nod z angel sweeping throug stars were out, and tae sy anges of beauty and ang air was baimy Ar REX MmOrning we were oar the win looking upon full giory lealagze, and upon fruits and flowers at very our homes faraway are canopial skies and the last leaf of tae [orest down in the equinoctials But how cau | descrit the thrill of ex. station, for ay we are to see what all the world has seen or wants sain pyramids, We are mounted for an hour and a half's ri We pass on amid bazaars stuffed w and oar aud curious fabrics of all from Smyrna, from Al giers, trom Verda, from Turkey, and throuch sireets wher and ai! garos ductions, pr vel: Be fluous ap broiler d= pyramid, tor ram gE the ont el suf fleias, * The roa under © SYCAMOIe # is 8 pain have re great Hal gre st drag looming in His sn seemed as minute, wo rap ride on | of the oldest structure sand under the out ail up and distant ery, '” : Each pers guides or help "E. turban and tad it beld the other en of safety. Mar four or five feet hic 8 Yio, nS Onee, Was sg of ii erican Jue. y awabe and paim trees us an 34 i gardens of wasn by bleak has gone ow, tae the HOAAaNon HA ts LO- to ‘a ra SOULS th § pets, Years { shadow the sart strain Wp, ani ar ii i 3 » Rwy Bi Gown IE was 1% Bo we * ¥ 34 Ow, two Arabs abs to help as down, and two Arabs to we were lowered, band beio unt the ground was in vitingiy pear, ani i the jargon the Arabs we were safey landed. Then cane one of the most wonderful feats of daring and agility, One of ti Arabs solicite dollar, saying he would run up and do the pyramid in seven minutes, We ald rather have given him a dollar not to go, t this ascent and descent in seven minutes was determined on, and so by the wateh in seven minutes ho went to the top and was back again at the base. It was a bloodcur- dling spectacie. I sald the dominant color of the pyramid was grav, but in certain lights it seems to shake off t ‘ray of contnries and become a blond, an’ the er turns to the golien, It covers thirteen acres ground, Whas an ant quit It was at least two thousaud years o baoy Carist was carriad within sigh Ly Bis fugitive paren Jose an Thastorins of forty ow turies hav irenched 8 bombarded shadowed it flashed uson it but th ands, ready to take another forty cen Loire at eric attack if the w show tinge to exist, The oldest builds ings of tue earco ars juciors to ths gread Nor Oo the centuries, Berocotius says that for ten years prepa rations were hein 7 made for the buildin: of this pyramid, It has sighty-two million one hundrad and eleven thousand cubic feet of masonry. One hundred tucusand workmen atone time toiled in its erection. To bring the #tone irom the quarries a causeway sixty foot wide was built. Tho top stones wers lifted by machinery such as the world knows nothing of to-day. It is seven hun dred and forty-six fest each side of the square base, @ structure is four hundred aud fifty feet high; higher than the cathe drals of Cologne, StraasLurg, Rouen, St Peter's and Bt, Paul's, No surprise to me that it was put at the head of the seven won dersof the world, It has a subterraneous room of red granite called the “ging's cham ber,” and another room ealied the “queen's chamber, and the probability is that there Are other rooms yet unexplored, The evident design of the architect was to make Lhasa rooms as inaccessabie as possible, After all the work of exploration and all the digging and blasting, if you would enter these sulderraneous rooms you must go throagh a passage only throes fest eleven wiches high and i=sa than four fest wide, A BICOp aR Of read granide stands dowa un der this ostsin masonry. The sareopasgus could not have besa carried in after the preamid wasbmilt, Id mast Have bees put thers belore the structures was reared. Provably in that sarospasgus ones Iay a wooden coin containing a dead kin 3, but tie bas destroyed the coffin and do stroyed the last vestive of hitnan remains For three thousand years this seouloaral roo was unopens!, and would have besa antl to-day prouably usopenel aad not a suparstitious im oression got abroad that ths boned of the pyramid was filed with silver and goid and diamonds, and under Al Mamoun an excavating party went to work, and having bored and through a hun Ls ii of Fan of nhead, and were about to give up the at teinpt when the workmen heard a stone roll down into a seemingly boliow piace, and en couraged by that they resumed their work nad came lute the undergr wind roves. ! The disappointment of the workmsa in finding the sarcophagus empty of all mlver “and goid and precious stones was so great | that they would have assassinatel Al Ma. { moun, who employed them, had he not hid in anothor part of the pyramid as much sil. ver and gold ns would pay them for their work at ordinary rates of wages and in. duced them there to dig till they to their surprise came upon acequate compensation, I wonder not that this mountain of lime stone and red granite has been the fascini- tion of scholars, of sclentists, of intelligent Christians in all ages, Bir John Harschel, the astronomer, said he thought it had as. tronoimnical significance, ‘I'he 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 erapty tombs near by the pyramid ' that they might be as continuously as pos- sible close to the pyramid which they were investigating, The pyramid, built more than four thousand years ago, belag a come , ple geometrical figure, wise men have cone clued it must have been divinely con- structed. Men came through thousands of years to fine architecture, to mus.c, ing, but this was per.ect at the world's start, | and God must have direcied it All astronomer, geo netricians and sclens tists say that it was scientifically and mathe naticaly constructed ore and mathematics were born, From the inserine ti on the pyramid, from its proportions, i i i i Le sciences ing i in its stru from the which , from the re LOO DORs 318, § tians and infidels have tiie being woo planned have known the » ity, } t its motion was rotary, and how many miles it was in {i circamfe and bow many tons the rid iP Kaew at what p t aoava Lin stars | would appear tain peri tine, : i Not in the { thousand vears since the | putting up of that pyramitl has a singe fact in astronomy found to contra the wisdom of ti slraciure, | Yet they had not at the age woen the pyramid was started an sstronmer or an are chitecl or a mathematician mantion. ing. Who then planned the pyramid? Who superintend first t ad ire y rection in tive 1 bid ion of iti , Chris demo rated thal this p ar: ik RD diamaoter renee, Welghs, an ia of wis Of Or malisinatics bean woria acd its erection? Woo [rom its J 7 oot nust have was right when be said ig lar shail bo at border Exypt and it shali be for a sod a w 054s, 1% is God's first Bib Hu asan ly, of years be the Book Genesis 18 8, the leason of the pyramid was writ capt & been (20d, “ Bil« A pi and my i yf the 810 # ol w nin write or wit i SCieni n, and { gran 31% | iny was Laas gg ints fe y $ iv & 3 an the king who built this | uncertain, Who was All that the world knows about him could be told in a few sentences, Tne only thing osrtain is that he was bad, and that he shut up the ternpies of worship, | and that he was hated so that the Egyptians were giad when be was dead. This pyramid of rock seven hundred and forty feet each side of the square base and four hundred and fifty feet high wins for him no respect. If a bone of his arm or foot | had been found in the sarcophagus beneath | the pyramid, it would have excited no more veneration than the skeleton ) bleaching oun the Libyan deseri: vaneration, for whon | saw the carcass amel by the roadside on the way to shi, myself, “Poor thing, [ wo of what die” the marble or the bhroags of the necr Let ali bo reg say that Cheop pyramid but Uhoops any ow? t is of , id to der is te sare can do tor the places of the dead Bus if alter to remind ol stons, ¢ done, if means will adow it s dead thers ts nothing left of him bul sous pieces thers is but little jet While taere to be no practical uw for post mortem onnsideration later than the wine of ands great grandchildren, ved no one wants to be lor gotiean as 000 as the obeequies are over, This pyramid, which Isaiah says jo a mign anda witness, demonstrates thal neither limestone nor red graaite are come tent to keep oue affectionately remems Bron: neither can Parian marble, neither ‘ granite do the work, Bat there is something out of which to build an everlasting mone ument and that will keep one y re WAIN over and ever, It does not stand in marble ards, It is mot to be purchased at mourn. ng stores. Yet it into be found in every neighborhood, plenty of it, inexhaustible Quantities of it. It is the greatest stuf in the universe to build monuments out of, | refer to the memories of those to whom we can do a kindness, the memories of thos whose struggies we may alleviate, the mem. ories of those whose souls we may save, A minister passing along the street avery day looked up and smiled to a baby in the window The father and mother wondered Who it was that thus nisasantly greeted their child, They found ot that he was the pastor of a chareh. They mild, “We must wo and hear him preach.” They went and heard him and both were converted to Gol Will there bs auy power in fifty million years to erase from the souls of thoes parents the memory of that man who by hie friendliness brougat them to God? Matthew Cranswick, an svangelist, said that he had the names of two hundred souls saved through his sincing the hymn, “Arise, my soul, aries?” Will any of those two hundred souls in all eternity forges Matthow Cranswiok? Will any of the four handrod and seventy-nine women and chil. dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India, waitin for masacrs by the Sepoys, forget Haveloo . and Outram and Sir David Beard, who broke in and effected their rescue? As in that iro, wo took our last look of the pyramid at Ghzoh, And you know there is something in the air toward that sess productive of solemn aad seemed to be humanized and with stone it seeme | to speak and ery out: “Hear me, man, mortal and im norta | My vo.ce is the voles of (Gol. He desi rue il f me. Isaiah said I would be msiguania witness, I saw Moses when he was a ad, I witnessed the long procession of the raslites ng they started to cross the Red and Pharaoh's host in pursuit them, The falcons ani the eagles of many cea turies have brusaed my brow. L stil here when Cl sopatra’s barge landel wits ner sorceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was slain in yonder streets, Alexan ior the Great, Seostris and Ptolemy admired my proportions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded my praise. ILamold, [ am very old, For thousands of years | have watched the com ing and going of generations, They tarry only a little while, but they make everiasie ing impression, I bear on my side the mark of the trowel and chisel of those who more than four thousand years ago expire, ware what you do, oh, man! for what do will last long after you are If you would be affectionately re- membered alter you are gone, trust not to any earthly commemoration, have not one word to say about any astronomer who stulied the heivens from my beights, or any King wi wus se hips of Be Hea Of Bea. you dead! ” BCIENTIFIC. ' Se ———— Coffee acts as a germ'olde, tts Pps Elcetric pleasure-boats are successful ——————— peared —————— A has been paient din Loudon, — It is estimated that the eoal strata underlying Colorado exceeds square miles, To make cloth that is ned n lining shoes waterpro f, use oiled silk or Leal the linings in weld paratiio bills is diivivg the pastepot aad hand- brush out of use in Pars fic uichersd in my bosom. Iam slowiy pasiaz lama dying pyramid, I shal yet of the plain, an sands of the des rt shall cover me, the earth goes { will go, mortal, The feet with But you which ¥y tura Ww dus that will outlast me an erhood of pyramids, Live for Live for God! With the evening now falling from nounce upon you s besasdiction. with you across the Mediterranean, with you scross the Atlantic, | only is great! Letall the earth keep silevce beiore Him. Amen i And then the lips of granite hushed, and the great giant of ma ¢ wrappe! himaenll again in the silence of ag and I rode away in tue gathering twilight, Course of sermons was pro jected, Land have a soul ith shadows o sae, I pro. Taks it Take it ti Lis Wondrous Egypu of ancient pomp sud Where i ARd riile~—rich i stiti ha » a a of God-—azi rely » smiley A —— WEDDING BIN They Are of Ancient Origin an nify Good Faith and Fidelity, “You want to know why the ring is baking. From th ywa throug tion of Gre: GAY 83 a that sigif the seal has mn coms | : ifrm Civ) de the present “se 3 sie} It is with i upon the left band to erself sod her it is sur. ded LO 18. she owes ¢ emblem of gk does tho he 1 : i * Li : ) ‘ rd Bnger of wi 8 i : § Decords for the an fnvest ment o In uli Carolios, A station of the the Jouns Hopkin, been open i ology of a8 jusi a in. Port sslolu dau Dr. Brown-Sequard says the neighibortom of th front of the m.y ing. pres«ing rizhtd Co git, O ear slop ep A society has ve frm for f ¢.- pe tronomical Beal Cavs, d at Derlin sting welevi ow cal He put PO 0 6 sd Te- in the WW A mining corpo ation region fa i Michigan deepest sh {1 Iu the 00] el i =i .K 1} we £ world—over 4000 Fan tal an Hilial y thane # evel Years, DUIT BilOss tipa— The French have panted works at ’ Havie, Frances, for util zing theebband { the tide to work turbin nerate iyuamos to # Wiheeis log power lie 14 i oR I A —— Is DOW al work on i vie Editon an electri ROP ord ve. ob is designe om a ot east ole ’ 5 A new nv gt . F< rolary sysiew, i pr HAs op ty d on credit f curious superstitions aboul one is broken it sig. that 1s going to I really think that a the ie husl rs ta the fuse her and. An Insect Worth Millions The cottony cushion scale, save the has been for years the It wae brought there from i 18G8, on trees snd shrubs 1 Califoroia, Australis in and multiplied till it promised soon to devastate the entire orange.growing re- gions of the State. A fruit-grower near under the belief that there must be & parasite for the insect in the country from which it came, want to Australia, and after due investigation, made the expected discovery. It was the lady-bird, the Vedalia cardinalis, he found to Le the priocipal enemy of This was the fall of 1888, According | to bulletin No, 54 of the California State | Board of Horticulture, so rapid was their increase thet Ly December 1, 1880, the work of exterminating the cottony cush. | ion scale was practically accomplished, The money value of (his Vedalia to the orange growers of the State has been in. calculable. The saving of the orchards already infested, the protecting of the others that were sure to be blighted by this terrible curse, to sy nothing of per- stusting an industty that it seems will bo the king of all horticultural pursuits, is simply grand, and cannot be estimated io the usual dollar and cent test, prima The largest stud farm in America is near Greely, Col, and 12 owned Ly a syndicate of rich Western men, lv is stocked with 4800 rercheron horses, and is run with a capital of $500,0 0, The farm embraces five ranches, with an area of T5600 acres, It ts known that wasps' nests often take fire, suppose 1 to be caused by the chemloal action of the wax upon the paper material of the nest itself, This may account for the many mysterious fires in barns and outbuildings, 1deas generate ideas; like a potato which ont in plecer,ire-produces itself A I — A new treament for yellow fever has Lhe principal part of placing the is termed a *“‘polac’ room. ES — In establish’ ng the | wm ritude of Ma. Canada, by means of the telegraph, It was found he selec ric current 1.05 & conds to cross the ocean and return, a distance of S000 miles, —————— At the naval exposition in London, there is a colossal electric amp, ©o- structed by the admiral ty. I give: a I ght +q al to that 0 5,000 0 Xs sale and | placed in a mod dd Lighthouse, fifiy-+ix meters above Lhe ground, Notwithstanding the assertion that there 18 no animal fe in Death Valley, the G vernment surv sing par'y has found 200 wvaretirs of mammals and sixty varieties «f reptiles, spy im 1s of which have been forwarded to Wash- wgton. The largest gasometer in the world is 150 feet, with gas, Sissi M——— The manufacture of glass bottles by machinery undertaken awhile ago by a New Jersey manufactuier, has not only proved a succes, bul appears 10 possess gowe decided al autages over Lie or dinary method even the appl ances and processes as thus far deve oped. ———— Rleotr'e welding has now become al most universal in large eetnbisl ent The use of aflux lsunne essary. Elec trleity 1s now ssl for making forg- ings, augers, mai road splaes, bull betage ings on anany o'hor articles hi beri mide by baud or by expensive machin ery. Lilian Cooke, who holds a diploms as a dootor of wedicine, has started for Corea. She intonds to establish a medi onl mission for women and chil fren at Seoul, the capital. Corea is reported to in & multiplied form, be showing & marked increase in toads and prosperity SUNDAY =CHOO1, LESSON, FUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 130, The Werk of the Holy Spirit. LESSON TEXT. (John 16 : 1-15, Memory verses, 3, 14.) LESSON PLAN. Toric ov Son of God, THE QUARTER: Jesus the GorLpes Texr von The 1 here are wrilte n, that ye might be. licve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his John 20 :31. QuUuinren: name, Lisson Tovie: The Son Perpetuat- | ing his Work, r (iorLpes Tex: Ie guide wou 1 : ~ OLN, 15. tnilo all truth, Darry Hour leaniva AM. John 16 ; the Holy Spm T.—Isn 42:1 foret Jd. Ww . I =H, h - foretol I T Joel 2 promised, ¥.— Zech 1 promised, Exod, 31 e Bpirit, Acts 2 t work of The Zion's glori B “54 IMIiNng: 111 % will BeD« him all give ¥i John 1 163, The Father another Comforter The Comfoiter whom will send (John 14 : 26). I'hey were all filled with the Spirit (Acts 2 : 4) 11. By the He, when the world (8), EB ua the Father Holy Comforter’s Work: he is come, will convict Conviciing of Sin. Of sin, because they believe not on me (John 16 : 9). They were pricked in their heart 9 @ irs, what mvst 1 do to be saved? 16 wad §, Ci Certainly this was Luke 73 : 47). We know that thou art a teacher come ! from God (John 3 2). Of right onsnes:, because I go to the Father (John 16 ; 10). Acts Acts nvicting of Righteousness: a righteous man Convieting of Judgment. | Of jndgment, becanse the prince... hath been judged (lohn 16 : 11). ' We shall all stand before the judgment seat of God (Rom. 14 : 10), | We must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat (2 Cor. 5 : 10), IIL, VICTORY, | I. All Truth Disclosed: | He shall guide you into all | truth (13), ' He shall teach you all things (John 14 : 26), Ye know all things (John 2 : 20), Hi anointing tescheth you concerning all things Joltn 2: 27 it. the Future I vanis Hevealad: He shell declare unto you the things that are to come (13). Declare the thinrs that are {0 come hereal or (Tan, 41 108), I will shew him how many things he minst suffer (Acta 9: 16 The Hevelation to shew things ; which must shortly como to pass (Rev. 1:1). il. The Lord Glorified: | He shall glorify me (14). That the Son of God may be giorified thereby (11 : 4), Wien Jesus was glorified, then remem. wilted they obi 12 : 16). 0 shall not fear, © Lord, and glorify thy name Rev. 15 : 4), sree Verse 1... “These thincs have I spoken unto yon, that ye should not stumble.” (1) A perilous liability; A gracious preeaution.—{(1) The believer & peril: (2) The Baviour’s care, Verse 2 “Whosoever killeth voz shall think th t he oflereth racrifice unto (27 Gross delusion; (2) Cruel COnRCquence, 1) Goui's will mis judued; 2) i's servants misused. Verse 4.— These things will they do, bee use they have not known ™ (1) Ignorance the par nt of iniquity; (2) 1.iquity the child of ignorance, Yerse 4.— “That ¥6 may remem- ber them, how that 1 told son.” (4) The Lord's words unknown; (2) The Liord’s words forg tteu; (3) The Lord's words remembered. Verse 7.—‘“.¢ is expedient for yom that 1 gO away.” {1} The blessed ness of the Lord's presence; (2) The exped- iency of the Lord's ceparture. Verse “He, when he will ¢ nviet the world.” (1 ing Comforter: (3; The world’s econvie- tion. The Bpirit's convicting work (1) whom exercised: what re By what i) Te what ends, Verse 12, to env 1 i tlhiem ki Lis mi (2) L101," (io =. 8 commas The com- On $1 6048 i “} i 03 means; 2 ““1 have yet many things ito you, but ye eannot bear 1} The Lord's fn { dge; (2) The Lord's considerate oh. BOW, Tema Oy Ow ie je shall ie you inte The Spirit a guide; yy The gal thie Father's Ol BU MeN of scie will dominate coming ventions, — / SexarTon Moras, ¢f Ahbama, & in favor of making a permanent Census bureau. ——— Bostox is the only city in the world which preserves an exact record of the of its common council, Every iwnpotion, argument and remark, no matter how unimportant, is steno. graphically taken down. The members, therefore, are very careful of their ute terances, mme— Tine more tly and peaceably we all get on, iter-—the better for | ourselves, the better for our neighbors, In nine cases out of ten the wisest cour<e i=, if a man cheat you, to quit | dealing with him; if be be ub isive, ! quit his company; if be slander you, to | take care to live 80 that nobo ly will be- | lieve him, A GREAT outcry is being raised in Finland against the recent introduction of the Russian language into the schools of that country. Heret fore the | innovation had not extended to the | publication «f a newspaper in the for- ign tongue, but now it is announced proceedings ——— 0 ei that the Government is about to grant 2 subsidy for the starting of a Russian pewsnaper in that provines, regardless of the outspoken indigoation of Finnish patriots, A SATII FACTORY best ia said to have { been wade of a dew machine designed for oads ty clear away wre simplicity and power ate goch at a small byw wonld not have the tab dificuity In pulling an engine or a carout of ad tsa” wth Head, Abie the nventlon of a cit zon of Newton, Moh, Ithes ben put to a practical use as a puller of stamps, whieh 1% is sad Lo extirpate as easily as a clawhammer pulls tacks, A stock empany 18 to bo organized te put the machine on the marset, «One of the commercial novel i the Maine coast is a floating sid sa on rall a, Wh ag sli a tore,
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