We C— w—— SO O—————— OT» H— i —— REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINIYS SUN. DAY SERMON, “The Lesson mids.” Subject: of the Pyra- Text: “In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border there. of to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness." —Isalah xix, 10, 30, i ————— Isaiah no doubt bere refers to the great | pt. The text speaks of a pillar in Egypt, and this is the greatest pillar ever lifted: Beet. at Gizeh, the chief pyramid of | and the text says it is to be at the border of | the land, and this pyramid is at ths 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 ser- mon is the first of a course of sermons en- titled, “From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What I saw in Egypt and Greece Con firmatory of tite Scriptures.” We had, on a morning of December, 1880, landed in Africa. Amid the howling boat- men at Alexandria we had come ashore and taken tho rail train at 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 Herodie persecution. It was our first night in Egypt. No destroying angel swooping through as ones, but all the stars were out, and the sky was filled with angels of beauty and angels of light, and the air was baimy as an American June. The next morning we were early awake and at the window, looking upon the palm trees in full glory of leafage, and upon gardens of fruits apd flowers at the very season when ow homes {ar away are canopied by bleak skies and the last leaf of the forest has gone down in the equinoctials, But how ean [ describe the thrill of ex. pectation, for to-day we are to see what all the world has seen or wants to see—the pyramids. We are 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 Al glers, from Persia, from Turkey, and through strects where we meet people of all colors and all garbs, carts loaded with garden pro- ductions, priests in gowns, women in A es veils, Bedouins in long and seemingly super- fluous apoarel, Janissaries in jacket of em- broidered gold-—out and on toward the great pyramid, for though there are sixty-nine yrami‘s still standing, the pyramid at Gizeh 4 the monarch pyramids. We mest camels grunting under their loads, and see buffaloes on either side browsing in pasture flells, The road we trav : 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 bave reached the margin of the desert, the great Sahara desert, and we ery out to the great dragoman as we see a huge pile of rock ooming in sight, “"Dragoman, what is that? His answer is, ‘The pyramid.” and thea it seemed as if we were living a century every minute, Cur thoughts and emotions were too rapid and intense for uttarancy, 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--four thou- sand years old at least, Here itis. 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 of Nn person Ir our party bad two or three guides or helpers, One of them unrolisd 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 beyoad aay ordin- ary human stride unless assisted. Hot, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, [ found myself rapidly ascending from heigahth to heighth, and on to altitudes terrific, and at last at the tiptop we found ourselves on a level space of about thirty feet square. Through clearest atmosphere wa looked off uoon the desert, and off upon the winding Nile, and off upon the Sphinix, with its features of everiasting stone, and yonder upon the min. arets of Cairo glittering in the sun, and yoo der upon Memphis in ruins, and off upon the wreck of empires and the battiefislds 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, an! a kodal had pictured the groun, we desconde The descont was more trying than the ascent, for climbing you need not see the depths beneath, but coming down it was im- waible not to ses the abyss below. Bat wo Arabs ahead to help us down, anil two Ara’s to hold us back, we were lowersd, band below hand, until the ground was in vitingl¥ pear, and amid the jargon of the Arabs we were w'sly ianded. Then eae one of the most wonderful feats of daring and agility. One of the Arabs solicitel a dollar, saying he would ran up an! down the pyramid in seven minutes. We would rather havo given him a doliar not to but this ascent and descent tn seven minutes he was determine! on, and so by the wateh in sovea minutes he went to the top and was back again at ths base, It was a bloodeur dling spectacie 1 said the dominant color of the pyramid was gray, but in cortain lights it seems to shake off the gray of centaries and become a blond, and the silver turns to tha gol fon It covers vhirteen acres of ground. What an antiquity! It was at least two thousand years old when the baby Christ was carried within sight of it by His fugitive parents, Joseph and Mary, The storms of forty osn- turies have drenched it, bombarded it, shadowed it, flashed upon it, but there it stands, ready to take another forty oen- turies of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist, The oldest build ings of the earth are juniors to this great senior of the osnturies Herodotus says that for ten years pre rations were being made for the butidin Fo ’ . It 1s seven bun. ep foot seach side of the stracture is four huadred Ntrasburg, Peter's and Bt. Paul's . It has a subterraneous room of rad granits oalisd the “sing's cham ," and another room ealied the “queen's Tha evident design of the architect was to make these rooms as inasocsssable as | wants to be forgotten as soon as the obsequies | sasign anda witness, demonstrates that | that they might be as coatinuousl The disappointment of the workmen in finding the sarcophagus empty of all silver and gold and precious stonss was so groat that they would haves asassinatel Al Ma. moun, who employed them, had he not hid in another part of the pyramid as much sil: ver and gold as would pay them for thelr work at ordinary rates of wages and in- duced them there to dig till they to their surprise camo upon adequate compsasation, I wonder not that this mountain of lime. stone and red granite has been the fascina- tion of scholars, of scientists, of intelligent Christians in all ages, Sir John Herschel, the astronomer, | he thought it hal as tronomical significance, The wise men who accompanied Napoleon's army into Egypt went into profound study of ths pyramid. In 1865 Professor Smyth and his wife lived | in the empty tombs near by the pyramid as pos- sible close to the pyramid which they wara investigating. The pyramid, built more than four thousand years ago, being a com- ple geometrical figure, wise men haves cons cluded it must have ben divinely con- structed. Men came through thousands of ears to fine architecture, to music, to paint- ng, but this was perfect at the worl®s start, and God must have directed i. All astronomers, geometricians and scien. tists say that it was coientifically and mathe- matically constructed before ‘selence and mathematics were born, From the inserip- tions on the pyramid, from its proportions, from the points of the compass recognized in its structare, from the direction in which its tunnels ran, from the relative positi m of the blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris tians and infidels have demonstrated that the being who plannad this pyramid must have known the world's sphericity, and that its motion was rotary, bi how many miles it was in diameter and circumference, and how many tons the world weighs, and koew at what point in the heavens certain stars would appear at certain periods of tim Not in the four thousand years since the putting up of that pyramid has a single fact in astronomy or mathematics been found to contradict the wisdom of that structures, Yot they had not at the age woen the pyramid was started an astronmoar or an ar chitect or a mathematician worth meation. ing. Who then planned the pyramid? Who superintended its erection’ Who from its first foundation stone to its cap everything?! Itmust have bean God was right when he said in my text, lar shall be at the border of the land Egypt and it shall be fora sign ania one en nage ths pyramid s (3 Hundreds, if not t the first line of written, the less ten Ww ell, of wusands, of voar Book of His WS mn of the pyramid was wri the (jen what ia this {iy s] gign and a witness’ of the prolon pared with the all the four th pan masonry sthyer ation nan w numan i sand years this pyr brevity of OmyY ¢ square at wen hundred and wndred and forty AX Loot eighteen foot taker urnish stone : The men who mid worked at it only a few years, and put down the trowel, and the compass the square, and lowered the derrick which had lifted the ponderous weights: but ¥ centuries bas their work stoo 1. and it will be good for [orty centuries more All Egypt bean shaken by torr aarthaqgn : fotos Dy 3 ¥en strated rswallowed, but that pyramid bas defied ali voleamic paroxysms It has looked wpoa soma of the greatest evar fought since the wo the men who constructs Ther bodies gon to st and ever t soattared Event MICophagus He Kings mummy for bail construct 3 Datiies Whers ars i ¢ Hyves on We are all building pyras wx 0 last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, quadrillon, forty quintillion. For a while we wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or meas ure with the yard stick, or write with the pen, or experiment with the scientific bat. tery, or pian with the brala, and for a while the foot walks, and the eve soos. and the ear bears, and the tongue speaks. All the good wards or bad words we speak are spread out into one layer for a pyramid i the kind deeds or malevolent deeds we do are spread out into another layer. All the Christian or un-Christian example wa sot 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 “he pyramid is a sign and a witness that big tombstones are not the best way of keeping one’s wif affectionately remom- bered. This pyramid and the sixty-nine other pyramids still standing were built for sepulehers, 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 my that Cheops was the King who buiit this pyramid, but it is uncertain, Who was Cheops anyhow? All that the world knows about him could be told in a few sentences Toe 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 Egyptiacs were glad when he 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 bons of his arm or foot had been found in the sarcophagus beneath the pyramid, it would bave excited no more veneration than the skeleton of a camel bleaching on the Libyan desert: yea, Joss veneration, for when | saw the carcass of a camel by the roadside on the way to Mens phis, I said to mywif, “Poor thing, I wonder of what it died.” Wo say nothing against the marble or the brooss of the necropolis, Lat all the sculpture and (orescence and ar borescence can do for the places of the dead be done, If means will allow it. But if after one is dead there is nothing left to remind the worid of him but some pisces of stous, there is but little left While there seoms to be no practioal nse for post mortem consideration later than the time of one's great-grandohildren, yet no ons HRY are over, This pyramid, which Isaiah says | neither limeston nor rad granite are com | Parian | granite do the work, But there is something | out of which to build an everiastin | ever and ever, nt to keep one affectionately remem. d; neither oan bronse, neither can marble; neither oan Abarleen mons ument and that will keep one freshly re membarad four thousan! yeart—vea, for. ards, thus plessant] reat thet , They found out that he was the pater i : i [5 : ¥ Hy TF : 4] | my praise, | of the trowel and chisel of { than four thousand years ago expired. | ware what you do, oh, man! for what you | do will Ie {1 have not | business relations with the | ceive of the terrible | and largest guns, tender emotion, and that t pyramid seemed to be hamanized and with lips of stone it ssene | to spaak and ery out; “Hear me, man, mortal and {wm nortal! My volos is the voice of Gol. Hae designed me. Isalna sald I would be assign anda witness, 1 saw Moses when he was a lad, I witnessed the long procession of the le raelites ay they started to cross the Led Sea and Pharaoh's host in pursait: of them. The faloons ant the eagles of many cen- turies have brushed my brow. [ “stood here when Cleopatra's barge landed with her sorceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was slain in yonder streets. Alexander the Great, Beostris and Pwlemy admired my proportions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded Lam old, Tam very old, For thousands of years | have watched the com- ing and going of gencrations, They tarry only a little while, but they make everlast- ing impression, 1 bear on my side the mark ose who more last long after Lon would be membered after you not to any earthly commemoration, one word to say about any astropomar who studied the heavens from my heights, or any king who was sep- ulchered in my bosom. Iam slowly passing away. lama dying pyramid, 1 shall yet lie down in the de of the plain, and the sands of the des rt shall cover me, or when the earth goos I will go. But you are ime mortal, The feet with which you climbed my sides to-day will turn to dust, but you have a soul that will outlast ne and all iny brotherhood of pyramids. Live for eternity | Live for God! With the shadows of the evening now falling from my side, I pro. pounce upon you sa benediction, Take it with you across the Mediterranean Take it with you across the Atlantic. God only is reat! Latall the earth keep silence before fim. Amen!” you are dead} affectionately re- Are gone, And then the lips of granite bushed, and | the great giant of masonry wrapped himself again in the silence of ages, and as I rode away in the gathering twilight, this course of sermons was pro jected, Wondroas Egypt! pride, Where Beauty walks by hoary uin's side, Where pleaty relgns and still the seasons And rolis—~rich gift of God-—exbaustices Land of saclent pomp sud smile, Nile, Suicide of a Sparrow. A sparrow sat on the limb of a tree near the fountain in City Hall Park and A dozen ragged newsboys turned their attention the other noon twittered. to the lonely little bird. “Hully ge shot. See me Taking a the boy aimed at the bird. ) whistled a few inches from it. The row broke off in the middie of fluttered its wings and took to a higher branch. The bird was youag asad could not fly far. The same boy tried again to hit the little bird, and six other boys had by this time got their beanshooters drawn on the bird. The pebbles flew thick and fast around the sparrow, driving it from limb to limb, Then it tried to elude the young- sters by flying over the fountain. The boys followed. Back to the tree with the pebbles trom a shooters after it, Fron tain, and from fountain to tree bird with the boys in pursuit. The sparrow made one final laborious effort and fluttered over the fountain. It circled over the water a second or two, and then dived into the water and was drowaed. The little bird's persecutors looked at each other in amazement, “Hully gee!” said the spokesman. “I'm blowed I" —5¢. Louis Star-Sayings. I" said one; *‘where’s me me pick him now, Socky.” beaashooter from his the sparrow went, dozen tree to foun flew the bean Cranberry Calture. The cultivation of cranberries has be- come one of the most important indus | tries of Cape Cod, Mass., nod a number of those who are engaged in become weathly through their encerprise in the reclamation of formerly worthless | lands and their appropriation to this use. The original cost of the land used for | twenty-five | this cultivation is about Be- | trust | it have | In Mental Ruts. “The monotony of certain lines of business and slight use of the mental : faculties consequent upon a familiarity | with a simple, unvarying routine,” said . an observant gentleman, ‘‘soon gives a stolid, apathetic, half idiotic cast in the human countenance. Take the average elevated railway ticket agent or gate- man, or park official, or theatre door- keeper, or anybody else who has little or no variety in his daily life, and in a short time his face is as blank as a piece of putty. A wooden impassiveness of | feature takes the place of what we term expression, and the intellectual powers relapse into that dormant state that char- acterizes alike the savage and the idi- otic. You will see the same thing in | the idle, listless man about town, who is | too lazy to work or think, and hasn't enough energy or evea inclination to be bad. It is irritating to talk to such peo- pie. The restless, nervous man of keen intellectual edge who comes in contact with them chafes inwardly and | times outwardly. Half the trouble and friction that arises between individual members of the great, active, hustling public and officials of various lower grades 1s from this very fact. Neither the offender nor the offended under stands the seat of the difficulty in deal. | ing with each otl er, There are theatri- cal officisls in the box office and at the door whom the average man of intelli. gence can scarcely address without the itching desire to club. The hotel clerk generally arouses the same animosity," — New York Herald. The Story of Dresden China. The first hard rope others porcelain made in Eno Palissy ware, and are potlery, -was the lovely Dresden ~for majolica, of the sort porcelain and in that made to exceed its beauty, line nothing has ever in design and color; there that real lace is put firing for the parts but how that n ny iL © is into the clay bef repre senting be we ils existence Lo ar who on the Elector in ord maxing goid and RCTOSS wos chiemnist, having come semaiiag porce Rin crucible, was unable U tint, till lay fount white clay on his horse's ho A rider one fs, wi had dried using it and observing its weight, exper- imented with it, and Dresden ware—or Meissen, as it straighitway is more correctly called first sculptors and { colorists i + lending their art to its perfection. eity, or rather ty=anny, has often attend ed on Dresden china; Great, having sent greal quanti les this white earth to Berlin, ¢ the best workers in the Meissen and sent them after it, never allowing them to see home again; and presently he obliged the Jews in his dominion to buy the ching be thus masufactured by refusing them marriage licenses till they had procured a service, thus gaining an immense annual revenue. 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