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Ml TALMAQE'8 SECOND SERMON ON
HI9 OLD VOIUD JOURNEYS.
Ha rimli Confirmation nf Km Trnlli of
tlm Rcrllurr. In tin, Trithnonjr of the
Olllfi anil UUiri ami I'larri of Iing
A 10.
HltOOKLYN, Oct, &V--TIIU ti'llilfrlllK of
the Klrxt Soimtii In I) .Minor, liy (liillnmnt,
on tlio Krcnt orKMii of tlm llrooklyu Tnlier
undo thin morula, liy Profeonor Henry
Kjro llrmvne, tlm nrniinlt, held tlio vnt
BoiiKrt'Kntltui Apellliounil with profound
motion. Dr. Tnlmiigniiri'iicliiil on "Hall
ItiK Up thu Nlli'," thoHccoinUorinon of the
Mrlr entitled "Kroni tlm PynunliN to the
Acropollnj or, Whnt I 8nw In Kypt ntnl
Clreeco Conllmmtory of tlio .Scripture.'
111 text wna Kreklel xxlx, P, "Tho lllvar
laMluuiiuit 1 HnvnMmlo It."
Alml Thl In tho Hlver Nllo. A lirimu
or yellow or ivJIver conl on lileli nro Iiuiim
inoro Jewel of thrilling Interest Mian on
any rlvur tlint was over tvlnteil In tho hiiii
llillic. It ripple throiiKh tho hook of K.o
kl1, mid llnahoi In tho ImioKh of Deuteroti
omy nnd Initinh nnd .eoluirlti and Nn-
hum, nud on Itn hunkN stood tho nilulitli'ii
of many linen. It wan thu cryMal cradlo of
Mown, nnd on IU ImnkM Mary, tho refugee,
carried tho Infant .lenim. To llud tho birth
plnrocif tlila river wan tho fWliuitloii and
defeat of oxpedltloun without nuniliur.
Not ninny yearn nnu Hayard Taylor, our
Krcnt American traveler, wrote, "Milieu
Columhun Unit looked upon San Salvador,
thu enrth him hut ono emotion of triumph
left for her lieMowal, and that hIio renervcH
for him who hIiuII Unit drink from tho
fountnlnnof tho Whlto Nllo under tho nnow
Hold of Klllmn-NJaro." Hut tho dUcovory
sf thuHourcenof tho Nllo by niont iteoplo
arna coimldcred nu ImpoMlblllty. Tho inn
larliw, tho wild bcnitn, tho anviiKea, tho un
jllmlmblo hteepn, tho vnat distances,
topped nil tlio expeditions for nKCfi.
An Intelligent natlvo Hald to Sir Samuel
W. Unkor mid wlfo ns they woro on their
.ny to accomplish that in which othorn
bad fnlled: "Olvo up tho niml schemo of
ilie Nilo source. How would It bo possible
Jot it lndy youtiK nnd delicate, to end nro
what would kill tho strongest tuniir Give
It up." llul (lie work wont on until Spoke
uul Grant nnd Baker found tho two lakes
which nro tho source of what was called
tho Whlto Nile, nnd bnptlr.ed theso two
lakes with tho names of Victoria nnd Al
bert. Theso two lakes, filled by grout rain
falls nnd by accumulated snows from tho
mountain, pour their waters, laden with
ORrlculurnl wealth such us blesses no other
river, on down over thu cataracts, on bo
tweon frownltiK mountains, on between
cities living and cities dcvul, on for four
thousand miles mid through n continent.
Hut tho Whlto Nllo would do little for
Egypt It this were nil. It would keep Its
banks nnd Egypt would rutnntu a desert.
But from AbysitnU tliero comes whnt Is
called tho Ulue Nllo, which, though dry or
nearly dry hnlf the yenr, under tremendous
ruins about thu mlddlo of Juno rises to
great momentum, and this uluo Nllo
dashes with sudden Influx Into tho Whlto
Nile, which In conscqucnco rises thirty
feet and their combined waters Inundate
Egypt with n rich soil which drops on nil
the.tlelds nnd gardens ns It Is conducted
by djtches and sluices and canals every
whither.
"The greatest damage that ever came to
Egypt cntno by the drying up of tho Htver
Nile, nnd tho greatest blessing by Its
healthful nnd abundant How. Tho famine
In Joseph's time ramo from the lack of suf
ficient Inundation from tho Nile, Not
enough Nilo Is drought; too much Nllo is
freshet and plague. Tho rivers of tho enrth
are tho mothers of its prosperity. If by
aorao convulsion of nature tho Mississippi
should bo taken from North America, or
the Amazon from South America, or thu
Danubo from Europe, or tho Yenisei front
Asia whnt liotnUplierla calamity! Still,
there are other rivers that could fertilize
and nave theso countries.
Our own continent is gulched, Is rib
boned, is glorllled by Innumerable water
courses. But Egypt has oulyono great
river, and that Is harnessed to draw all
the prospcrltlcH of realms In acrengo neml
Infinite. What happens to tlio Nile, Imp-
, pens to Egypt. The Nllometcr was to mu
rcry suggtstlro as we went up nnd dowu
lUdamp Btono steps and saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low aru tho waters of the Nllo.
When the Nllo Is rising four criers every
morning run through tho city announc
ing how many feet tho river has risen
ton feet, fifteen feet, tweuty feet, twenty-
""touMeet and when tho right height of
waters reached the gates of the canals
are fluiiu open and the liquid and refresh
Ityrt bene'ctlon Is pronounced on all tho
land, v
' W BJCVK5J MOUTHS CHANGED.
Jjtrro start where the Nile empties Into
lh Mediterranean sea, we behold a won
derful fulfillment of prophecy. Tho Nllo
In very ancient times used to have seven
souths. As the grtat river approached
the sea It entered the sea at seven dlffereut
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 Herodotus snld these two remaining
are artificial. Up the Nile we shall go;
part of the way by Egyptian mil train and
then by boat, and we shall understand
why the Ulble gives such prominence to
this river, which is the largest river of nil
the earth with one exception.
But before we board the train we must
take a look at Alexandria, It was founded
by Alexauder the Great, and was once the
New York, the Paris, the London of the
world. Temples, palaces, fountains, gar
dens, pillared and efflorescent with all
architectural aud Edenlo grandeur aud
sweetness. Apollos, the eloquent, whom
In New Testament times some people tried
to make a rival to Paul, lived here.
Here Mark, the author of the second book
of the New Testament, expired under
Nero's auathema. From hero the ship
sailed that left Paul nnd the crew strug
gling In the breakers of Melita. Pompey'a
pillar la here, about ono hundred feet high,
lta base surrounded by so much filth and
squalor Iwaa glad to escape into an air
that was breathable. This tower was built
In. honor of Diocletian for sparing the re
bellious cltif ens.
After having declared' that he would
make the blood run to his horse's knees,
and his horse fell with him luto tho blood
and bis knees reddened, the tyrant took It
for granted that was a sign he should stop
the massacre, aud hence this commemora
tive pillar to his mercy. This is the city to
which Omar came after building fourteen
hundred mosques aud destroying four
thousand temples nnd thirty-five thousand
villages and castles, yet riding In on a
capael, wiW fr)f of 09 r a ttk of figs
and a woeden plate all that be had kept
for hluMolf and the diet to which he had
limited tilmaelf for mokt of the time was
bread 'and water. Was there ever in any
other man a commingling of elements so
itrnngn, in weird, so ft'iitmus, so cruel, so
mighty, so weak, so religious, so fau.it
icalr In this city wan tho greatest female, lee
llirerlho world over snw Hypatla. Hut
tho lesson of virtue that slio taught wan
obnoxious, nuil so they drngged her
through tho streets nnd scraped her lies 1 1
from her bone with sharp ouster shells
mil then burned tho fragments of tho mas
incrcd body. And hero dwelt Cleopatra,
pronounced to Iw tlm lienuty of nil time
llthotigh If her pictures nro correct I Imvd
eon n thousand women in Brooklyn moru
ittrnctlvo nnd slio was an bad ns slio
won snld to bo handsome. Queen, cnmiuer
Ms, nnd spoko seven languages, although
It Would hnvulieen ltetter for tho world If
1I10 had not Ikmwi ablo to spenR any. Julius
L'iKsar conquered tho world, yet sho con
quered Julius Cunr.
AI.K.XAMllll.V'H UIIKAT UtlltAltV.
Hut Alexander, fascinating for this or
thatthlug, according to tho taito of tho
visitor, wan to mo most entertaining ho
nu 1 mi It had been tho slto of tho greatest
llhrnry that tho world over saw, consider
ing tho fact that tho nrt of printing had
not been Invented, Savon hundred thou
sand volumes anil nil tho work of 11 slow
pen. Hut down It nil went under thu
torch of besiegers. Hullt ngnln nnd do
stroyed again. Hullt nualu. but tho Arabs
ramo along for Its Hunt demolition nnd thu
four thousand baths of thocltv worn heat
fd with thosu volumes, tho fuel lasting
six montliH, anil uero over llres kindled at
such fearful cost What holocausts of the
world's Iltoraturol What martyrdom of
books! How uiailV of them havn mum
down under tho rago of nations.
Only ono book has been ablo to with
M11111I thu bombardment, mid that line gone
through without smoll of fire on Its lids,
No sword or spear or musket for Its do
feusu. An unarmed New Trstninenf- An
I lllniri.it.jl fMil 'I'. ..... f.... I. ,
....... ...1.. v,i.i tuiiiiiiiuuu j.ui, invuiiicr
nolo mid triumphant, Tliero must bo
something supernatural about It. Con
queror of hooksl Monarch of books! All
tho books of nil tho ages In nil tho libraries
outshone by this onu book which you and
I carry to church In a pockot. So mo'
thought amid thu ashes of Alexandrian li
braries Hut till aboard tho Egyptian rail train
going up the hanks of tho Nllol Look out
of thu window nnd see those camels kneel
ing for tho Imposition of their lonil. And
I think wo might tnke from them n lesson,
and, lusteud of trying to stand upright In
our own strength, becomo conscious of our
weakness nnd need of dlvlno help More wo
tnko upon us the henvydutlesoftheyearor
tho week or the dny, nnd so kneel for tho
nurd en. w o meet processions of men nnd
beasU on tho way from their day's work,
but nlas, for tho homes to which tho poor
InhabltnnU nro going, for the most part
hovels of mud. Hut tliero is something In
tho scone that thoroughly enlists us. Itln
tho novelty of wretchedness and n scono of
picturesque rags. For thousands of years
this land has been tinder a very damnation
oftnxes. Nothing but Christian civilian
tlon will roll back tho Influences which
nro "spoiling tho Egyptians." There nro
gardens nnd pnlaccs, but they belong to
the rulers.
About hero under tho valiant Murad
Hoy, tho Mamelukes, who are tho finest
horsemen In tho world, came like a hurrl
cane upon Napoleon's army, but they were
beaten back by tho French In ono of tho
fiercest battles of aU time. Then tlio Mam
elukes turned their horses' bends the othpr
way, and In desperation backed them
against tho French troops, hoping the
horses would kick tho life out of thu
French regiments. Tho Mamelukes, fall
ing again, plunged Into this Nllo and were
drowned, thu French for days fishing out
tho dead bodies of tho Mamelukes to get
iho valuables upon tholr dead bodies. Nn
poleon, at tho daring of theso Mamelukes,
exclaimed, "Could I have united tlm Mum.
eluko liorso to tho French Infantry, I would
navorecKoneii in vseir master nf tlio world."
THK JOUIISKV UP TIIK NII.K.
This rldu along tho Nllu Is onu of thu
most solemn and Impressive, rides of nil my
llfo time, nnd our emotions deenon ns the
curtains of tho night fall unon all sur
roundings. Hut wo shall not bo satisfied
until wo can tnko a ship mid pass right out
upon theso wondrous waters and between
the banks crowded with the story of em
pires. According to thu lend pencil mark In my
Hlblo It wiih Thnnksgtvlng day morning,
Nov. 23, 18S0, that with my family and
friends wo stepped aboard thu steamer on
the Nile. Tho Mohammedan call to prayers
had been sounded by tho priests of that re
ligion, tho Muezzins, from thu four bun
drcd mosques of Cairo as tho cry went out!
"God is grent, I benr witness that tliero Is
no God but God. I bear witness that Mo
hammed Is the apostle of God. Come to
prayers. Come to salvation. God Is great.
Thoro is no other but God. Prayers aru
better than sleep."
The sky and city and palm groves and
river shipping were bathed In tho light. It
was not much of n craft thnt wo boarded.
It would not be hailed on any of our rivers
with any rapture of admiration. It fortu
nately had but little speed, for twice we ran
aground aud tho sailors jumped into thu
water and o'n their shoulders pushed her
out. Dut what yacht of gnyestsportsinau,
what deck of swiftest ocean queen could
give such thrill of rupture ns n sail on thu
Nller Tho pyramids In sight, the remains
of cities that nre now only a name, tho vil
lages thronged with population. Hoth
bnnks crowded with historical deeds of
forty or Blxty centuries. Oh, what n book
the Ulble Is when rend 011 the Nilel
As we slowly move up the majestic river
I see on each bank tho wheels, the pumps,
the bucket for Irrigation, and see a man
with his foot on tho treadle of n wheel that
fetches up the water for n gnrden, and
then for the first tlmo I understand that
passage In Deuteronomy which snys of
the Israelites after they had got back from
Egypt, "Thu Innd whither thou gocst in to
possess It is not ns the laud of Egypt, from
whence ye came out. where thou sowedst
thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot."
Then I understood how tho land could be
watered with the foot. How do you sup
pose I felt when 011 the deck of that steam
er on the Nile I looked off upon tho canals
aud 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 mid dried up, and
they shall turn thu rivers far away and
the brooks of defense shall be emptied and
dried up; and they shall be broken in the
purposes thereof, all that make sluices aud
ponds for fish."
That Thanksgiving morning on tho Nile
I found my text of today, Pharaoh In this
chapter is compared to tho dragon or hip
popotamus suggested by the crocodiles that
used to line the banks of this river. "Thus
Milth the Lord God: Behold ,1 am agnlnx
thee Pharoah, king of Egypt, tbegreatdrng
on thatlleth in themldstof his rivers, which
hath snld my river Is mine own, nnd I have
made It for niysplf Hyr I ;ir.U pat hooks
in thy jaws nnd I will caue the lull of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will
bring therup out of the midst of thy riv
en, and all the fish of tby rivers shall stick
into ,tey scales, and land of Egypt
limit bo .lesolatu atl wast-; and they shall
Know that I am tho Uirdi because ho hath
mid thu river Is mluo nnd I bavo mode It,"
TIIK WAV8 (IK OTIIKII KAYB.
While willing mi this river or stopping
'it ono of tho villages, wo see people on the
, hanks who verify the Hlhloilescrlptlon, for
they nro now as they were lit Hlblo times.
, Shoes nro now luken off III revcrcnen tn
ncrod places. Children carried ostridothu
mother's shoulder ns In Hngnr's tlmo.
Women with profusion uf Jewelry ns when
Huhcccit was iilllauced. LontlU shelled
Into tho pottage, ns when Esau sold his
birthright to get stall a dish. Tho smun
habits of, salutation as when Joseph mid
his brethren fill tin each other's necks.
Courts of law held under big trees as in
olden times. People making bricks with
out straw, compelled by circumstances to
tlso sttlhblo Instead of straw.
Flying civer or standing on the banks ns
In Scripture days nro llatnlngoes, ospreys,
ingles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos nnd bull
finches, On all sides of this river sepul
chers. Villages of sepulchers. Cities of
sepulchers. Nations of sepulchers. And
ono Is tempted to cull It mi empire of
tombs. I neter saw such n place ns Egypt
Is for gravis. Anil now wu understand the
complaining sarcasm of thu Israelites when
they w urn on tho way from Egypt to Can
nan, "Hecmiso theru uru no graves In Egypt
hast thou taken us nwuy to tlio In tlio wll
derness." Down tho river bank como the
bulTalo mid tho cattle or kino to drink
And It was tho niices'or of thesu cuttle
that Inspired Pliniiml 'ailruniii of tho lenn
kino anil the fat klne
Hem ui illM'iulmr.t u llttlu while for
.Memphis, olT fiom tl'o Nllu to tho right.
Memphis founded by tho first king of
Egypt nnd for a long while thu capital. A
tlty of marblu mid gold. Homu of the
Pharaoh- City nineteen miles In clrcuni
fercneo. Vast colonnades through which
Imposing processions matched. Hero htood
thcTotnpluof tho Sun, Itself 111 brilliancy
u sun shone on by another sun. Thebes in
(lower over 11 thousand 0110 hundred yearn,
or nearly ten times ns long ns thu United
States havn existed. Hero Imi recumbent
statuu fcoventy-llvo feet long. Hrou.ed
gatuways. A necropolis called "tho haven
of tho blu4l " Hero Joseph was prime
minister. Here Pharaoh received Jacob
All possible splondors woro built up into
thl3 royal city. Ilosea, Ezeklel, Jeremiah
niu Igaluli speak of It us something won
tieriui.
Never did I visit 11 city with such exulted
anticipations, ami never did my nutlclpn
tlous drop so lint. Not n pillar standi.
Not 11 wall i unbroken. Not n fountain
tosses In the sun. Even tho ruins have
been ruined mid all thnt, remains are chips
of marble, small pieces of fractured sculp
turu mid splintered human bones. Her.
mid tliero 11 letter of souiu elaliorato 1
i Iptlon, a tou or .ir of 11 statuu thnt once
stood In ulcho of palace wall. Ezeklt-I
prophesied Its blotting out, mid tho proph
ecy has been fulfilled. "Hide on," I snld
to our party, "nnd don't wult for 1110."
And as I stood there nlonothuclty of Mem
phis In the glory of past centuries returned.
And I heard the rush of her chariots, ami
tin! (hush of her fountains, mid the conviv
iality of her pnlaccs, aud snw thu drunken
nobles roll on thu lloors of mosaic, while
In startling contrast amid nil thu regalities
of thu pluce I saw Pimmoli look up luto
tho faco of aged rustic Jacob, tho shepherd,
saying, "How old nrt thouf"
TIIKIIKS.
But back to thu Nllu and on and up till
you reach Thebes, In Scripture called thu
City of No. Hundred gated Thebes. A
quadrangular city four miles from limit to
limit. Four great temples, two of them
Kiirimonud Luxor, onco mountains of ex
qulslte wiilptiiro nnd gorgeous dreams
solidified In stone. Statue of Hamcses II,
eight hundred mid eighty-seven tons In
weight nnd huvouty-five feet high, but now
fallen ami scattered. Walls abloom with
the battlefields of centuries.
Tho surrounding hills of rock hollowed
lutosepulchurH on tho wall of which are
chiseled in picture mid hieroglyphics the
confirmation of Bible story In regard to
thu treatment of tho Israelites In Egypt so
that, as explorations go on with tho work,
tho walls of these sepulchers becomo com
mentarles of the Bible, thu Scriptures
originally written upon parchment here
cut Into everlasting stone. Thebes mighty
nnd dominant live hundred jeurs. Then
she went down hi fulfillment of Ezcklel's
prophecy concerning tho City of No, which
was miother iiamo for Thebes: "I will ox
cento Judgment In No. I will cut olT the
multitudes of Nn." Jeremiah also proph
esled, "Thus tuiitli tho Lord, I will punish
tho multitudes of No."
This city of Thebes nnd nil tho other
dead cities of Egypt iterate mid reiterate
the veracity of tho Scriptures, telling
the same story wliich, Moses and the
prophets told. Have you noticed how God
kept back thesu nrchieologlcnl coullrnia
tlous of thu Bible until our time, when the
air is full of unbelief about tho truthful
uess of the dear old bookf Hu waited 1111
til tho printing press had been set up In Itt
perfected shape, aud the submnrluo cabl
was laid, and the world was Intelligent
enough to appreciate the testimony, nnd
then he resurrected the dead cities of the
enrth. and commands them, saying: "Open
your long sealed lips mid speakl Memphl
aud ThelieH, Is the Bible true?" "Truel"
respond Memphis mid Thebes. "Babylon,
Is tho Book of Daniel true?" "Truel" ru
spouds Babylon. "Ituins of Palestlno ami
Syria, is the New Testament truer'
"Truel" respond the ruins all tho way from
Joppa to the Dead sea and from Jerusalem
to Damascus.
What a mercy that this testimony of the
dead cities should come at a time when the
Bible Is especially assailed. And this work
will go on until the veracity of the Scrip
tures will bo as certain to nil sensible men
and women as that two and two make
four, as that an isosceles triangle Is onu
which has two of Its sides equal, as that
the diameter of a circle Is a line drawn
through the center and terminated by thu
circumference, ns certain ns any mnthe
nuitical demonstration.
Never did I feel more encouraged than
when, after preaching a sermou on evi
deuces of the truth of the Bible drawn
from oriental lands, a distinguished seun
tor of the United States, known and lion
ored everywhere, but now deceased, came
up to the platform and snld, "I was
brought up In the fnlth of Christianity,
but I got speculating 011 all these subjects,
and had given up my faith In the Bible,
but those facts and arguments archicolog
Icnl take me Imck to my old fultli In th
Bible which my father mid mother taught
me." The tears rolling down his cheeks
eilnce Mm depth of his emotion. When I
read of the senator's death I was comforted
to think that perhaps I may have helped
him a little in the struggle of his life, and
perhaps given him an easier pillow 011
which to die.
THE UIULE IS THE OIIEATE8T HOOK.
Two great nations, Egjpt and Greece,
'IplcuiKtlrvJ sd Hiymts tvtwf ,)o battle
forone book, a ccf.y of "jUchyl;i." Ptol
emy, the Egyptian king, discovered that
In the great library at Alexandria there
was no copy of "Eschylus." The Egyptian
king sent up to Athens, Greece; to borrow
tlm hook aid make x copy of It. Athena
demanded n deposit of seventeen thousand
icvon hundred dollars an security. The
I Egyptian king received the book, but re
filled to return that which ho had bor
rowed, nnd so forfeited tho seventeen thou-
and seven hundred dollars,
1 1111 two nations roM-in contention con
cerning that one book. Beautiful and
mighty book, ludeedl Hut It Inn book of
horrors, the dominant Idea that o aru tho
vlctimsnfhcri'dltnry Influences from which
there Is no osonpe, and that fate rules thu
I world, mid ulthough tho author does tell
I of Prometh-iis, who was crucified on the
1 rocks for sympathy for mankind, n power
fill suggestion of tho sncrldco of Christ In
later j ears, It Is a very poor book com
pared with that book which wehiig tootir
hearts, Im cause It contains our only guide
In life, our only comfort In death, and our
Only hope for a blissful Immortality. If
two nations could afford to struggle for
onu copy of "Esehylus," how much moru
can all nations iitfonl to struggle for thu
possession mid triumph of tho Holy Scrip
ttirosf But the dead ill les strung along tho Nllo
not only demolish Infidelity, hut thunder
down thu absurdity of thu modern doctrine
of evolution which sajs tho world started
Willi uotliing mid then rose, mid human
nature began with nothing but evolved
Into splendid manhood and womanhood of
Itself. Nay, the sculpture of thu world
was more wonderful In thu days of Mem
phis and Thebes mid Carthago than In the
days of Boston ami New York. Those
blocks of Htouu weighing threu hundred
tons high up in thu wall at lCarnac Imply
machinery equal to. If not surpassing, the
machinery of tlm Nineteenth century.
How was that statue of Haineses, weigh
ing eight hundred and eighty-seven tons,
transported from the quarries two hundred
miles nwny nuil how was It llftcdf Tell
us, modern machinists. How were those
galleries of rock, still standing at Thebes,
filled with paintings surpassed by no
artist's pencil of the present dnyf Tell us,
artists of tho Nineteenth century. The
dead cities of Egypt, so far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or sepulchers
or temple ruins to tell tho story Memphis,
Mlgdol, Illernpolls, Bonn, Thebes, Goshen,
Carthage all of them developing down
ward Instead of upward. They have evo
luted from magnificence Into destruction.
Tho Gospel of Jesus Christ Is the only
eievator 01 individual ami social national
character. Let all thu living cities know
that pomp nnd opulence and temporal pros
perity nro no security.
IK MOItAUTV IS GONE, All IS LOST.
Thoe undent cities lacked nothing but
good morals. Dissipation mid sin slew
them, mid unless dissipation and sin uru
halted, they will souiu day slny our
modern cities, nnd leave our palaces of
merchandise and our galleries of art and
our city hall nn lint In tho dust as wo found
Memphis on tho afternoon of that Thanks
giving day. And If tho cities go down, the
nation will go down. "Oh," you say, "that
Is Impossible; wu have Mood so long yea,
over a hundred years as a natlou." Why,
whnt of that? Thebes stood five hundred
years. Memphis stood a thousand years.
God does not forget. Ono day with thu
Lord Is as u thousmid years and a thousand
years as onu day,
. Hum and dubnuchcry and bad politics
nru more rapidly working the destruction
of our American cities than sin of any kind
and nil kinds worked for tho destruction
of tho cities of Africa, onco so mighty nnd
now so prostrate. But their gods were
idols, mid could do nothing except for de
basement. Our God mndo thu heavens
ami sunt his Son to redeem the nations.
Aud our cities will not go down, and our
nation will not perish becnuso tho gospel
Is going to triumph. Forward! all schools
and colleges nid churches! Forward! all
reformatory ami missionary organizations.
Forward! nil tho Inlluences marshaled to
bless tho world. Let our modern European
nnd American cities listen to tho voice of
those ancient cities resurrected, nnd by
hammer nnd chisel mid crowbar lie com
pelled to speak.
I notice thfl voice of thoso ancient cities
Is hoarso frovn thu exposure of forty cen
turies nnd they accentuate slowly with
lips that wuro palsied for ages, but nil to
gether those cities along thu Nllu intone
these words: "Hear us, for we nru very old,
and It is hard for us to speak. Wo were
wlsu long before Athens learned her first
lesson. Wo sailed our ships while yet
navigation Vns unborn. These obelisks,
theso pyramids, these fallen pillars, these
wrecked temples, these colossi of black
granite, theso wrecked sarcophagi under
tho brow of tho hills, tell you of what I was
in grandeur nnd of whnt I am coming
down to be. Wo sinned aud wo fell.
Our learning could not save us. See
those half obliterated hieroglyphics on
yonder wall. Our architecture could not
save us. Seo the painted columns of
Phlhi), and thu shattered temple of Esueh.
Our heroes could not save us. Witness
Menes, Diodorus, Haineses mid Ptolemy.
Our Gods Amnion aud Osiris could not
snvo us. See their fallen temples nil nlong
the four thousmid miles of Nile. Oh,
ye modern cities get somo other God: n
God who can help, u God who can pardon,
a God who can save. Culled up as wo are
for a llttlu while to give testimony, again
the sands of the desert will bury us. Ashes
to ashes, dust to dust!" Aud ns these
voices of porphyry nnd granite ceased, all
the sarcophagi under the hills responded,
"Ashes to ashesl" mid the capltnl of 11 lofty
column fell grinding Itself to powder
among thu rocks, nnd responding, "Dust
to dust?"
WuiIiIiik nuil Curling Feathers.
To wash nnd curl feathers, usu warm soap
suds and riii so them In water a very little
blued, If the feathers are white; then let tho
wind dry them. When the curl has come
out by washing the feather or getting it
damp, place a hot fiatiron bo that you can
hold the feather Just above It while curl
ing. Take a bone or silver knlfo and draw
thu fibers of thu funther between tho thumb
and dull edge of the knife, taking not more
than three libers nt a time, beginning at
the point of the feather and curling one
half the other way. The hot Iron makes
the curl more durable.
After n little practice onecau make them
look ns well as new feathers. Wheu swans
dawn becomes soiled It can be washed mid
made to look as good its new. Tack strips
on a piece of muslin and wash in warm
water with white soap; then rinse aud hung
in the wind to dry. Hip from the musllu
and rub carefully between the fingers to
(.often the leather. Dotrolt Freo Press,
Maine's Lumber Output.
The vustness of Maine's timber wealth Is
not generally appreciated. Every year
now WX),(XX),000 reet of logs are cut in the
state, ubotit one-third of this amount float
ing down the Penobscot, mid tho quantity
of manufactured lumber that has been
shipped from tho state since the first saw
mill wns started is enormous lieyond de
scription. TcO.i.) ll.i. teuti&.vJ log crop
U sawed alums', wholly for thu American
market, New York, Nuw England ports
nnd Philadelphia Inking the bulk of it,
Southern Lumberman.
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G. A. RAYMER &CO.
COAL
CANON,
ROCK SPRINGS,
PERFECTION,
DUQUOIN,
ACKSON,
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BEST GRADE
Telephone 390.
THE OLD RELIABLE
CARPET HOUSE
Is now ready to show the Latest Fall Styles in
CARPETINGS
From the Best Manufacturers' Standard Makes
and Fine Work Guaranteed.
A. M. DAVIS & SON.
That Old Fashionedij Parlor
How dingy itT looks, do you rcmeml
ber when it was papered? Years agot
Here is the way the matter stands:
You have felt for sometime that
sooner or later it must be decorated.
Your friends don't enjoy an evening
at your house as they formerly did
The room is gloomy and not what
they are used to." Things cannot
continue in .this way.
going to do about it ?
DECORATIVE CO.
STREET.
C'Aitl. Ki.wick, Manager
IOWA,
COLORADO.
NEWCASTLE.
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