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A 80M5MN AHU IMI'UKSHIVK KIDB.
This ridoVlong tho Nile In ono of the
most solemn und hupressivo rides of all
my lifetime, and our emotions deepen
as tho curtains of tho night full upon
all surroundings. Dut wo shall not be
haven of the blest " Ueru Josepli was
prime minister. Hero Pharaoh received
Jacob. All possible splendors were
built up into this royal city. Uoea,
Ezckiel, Jeremiah and Jsalali speak of
it as something wonderful.
Never did I visit a city with such ex
alted anticipations and never did my
satisfied until wo can take a ship and I anticipations drop so flat. Not a pnlar
SAiLlAt UP 1M MLJ&
SECOND SERMON IN DR. TALMAGE'S
senms on his travels.
Tho Text from Ifeeklel xxlx, V, "The
River In Mine, ami I Ultra 3lmla It."
A Sermon '1 lint May tin Iteml nml l'n
Ieril to KdlflcHtlnn.
BBOOIU.YN, Oct. 25. Tho rtsider
Ing of tho First Sonata in D Minor, by
Ouilmant, on tho great organ of tho
Brooklyn Tiibcrnncle this morning, by
Professor Honry Kyre Browne, the or
ganist, hold the vast congregation
spcllbuund with profound emotion.
Dr. Talmnge preaahed on "Sailing up
tho Nile," tho second sermon of the
Bories, untitled "From the Pyrandds to
tho AcropoliN; or, What I Saw In Dgypt
and Greece Conlimiatory of tho Scrip
tures." Ilis text was Ezckiel xxlx, 9,
"Tho river is mino and I have made it."
Alia! This Is the Iliver Nile. A
brown or yellow or silver cord on
which are hung moro Jewels of thrill
ing Interest than on any river that was
ovor twisted in tho sunshine. It ripples
through tho book of Ezckiel, and Hashes
In tho books of Deuteronomy and
Isaiah and Zeclmrinh and Nullum, and
on Its banks stood the mlglities of
many ages. It was tho crystal cradle
of Moses, and on Its banks Mary, tho
rofngee, carried tho Infant Jesus. To
find tho birthplace of this river was the
fascination and defeat of expeditions
without number.
Not many years ago Bayard Taylor,
our great American traveler, wrote,
"Sinco Columbus first looked upon Sun
Salvador tho earth has but ono emo
tion of triumph loft for her bestowal,
and that sho reserves for him who shall
first drink from the fountains of the
Whlto Nile under tho snow Ileitis of
Kilima-NJaro." But tho discovery of
the sources of tho NHo by most peoplo
was considered an Impossibility. Tho
flhall understand why the Blblo gives
such prominence to this river, which Is
the largest river of all the earth with
ono exception.
But before wo board tho train we
must take a look at Alexandria. It
was founded by Alexander tho Great,
und was onco tho Now York, tho Paris,
tho London of tho world. Temples,
palaces, fountains, jmrdens. pillared
und efflorescent with all architectural sleep."
pass right out upon thoso wondrous
waters und between the banks crowded
with the story of empires.
According to the lead pencil mark in
my Blblo it was Thankglvlng day
morning, Nov. 28, 18S9, tllat with my
family and friends we stepped aboard
the steamer on tho Nile. Tho Moham
medan call to prayers had been sound
ed by tho priests of that religion, the
Muezzins, from the four hundred
mosques of Cairo as the cry went eut:
"God Is creat I bear witness that
stands. Not a wall Is unbroken. Not
a fountain tosses In the sun. Even the
ruins liavo been ruined, and all that
remains aro chips of marble, small
pieces of fractured sculpture and splin
tered human bones. Here und there a
letter of somo elaborate inscription, a
toe or car of .a statue that onco stood
In niche of palace wall. Ezekiel proph
esied its blotting out, and tho prophecy
hits been fulfilled.
"Rldo on," I said to our p.trty, "and
don't wait for mo." And as I stood
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BARRELS OF MONE
BY
there Is no God but God. I bear wit- thero alone tho city of Memphis In the
ness that Mohammed 13 tho apostle of I dory of past centuries returned. And'
God. Como to prayers. Como to sal
vation. God Is great. Thero is no
other but God. Prayers aro better than
and Edoulc grandeur and sweetness.
Apollos. the eloquent, whom In Now
Testament times somo people tried to
make a rival to Paul, lived hero. Hero
Mark, the author of the second book of
tho New Tcotninont, expired under
Nero's anathema. From hero tho ship :
sailed that left Paul and tho crow
struggling In the breakers of Melita.
Pompoy's pillar is hero, about ono
hundred feet high, its baso surrounded
by so much filth and squalor I wasglad
to escape into an air that was breath
able. This tower was built in honor of
Diocletian for sparing tho rebellious
citizens. After having declared that
he would make the blood run to his
horso's knees, and his horse fell with
him into the blood and his knees red
dened, tho tyrant took it for granted
that was a sign ho should stop the
massacre, ana licnco tins commemora
tive pillar to his mercy.
This is the city to which Omar cume
after building fourteen hundred
mosques and destrpying four thousand
Tho skv and tho palm craves and
river shipping were bathed In the light.
It was not much of 11 craft that we
boarded. It would not bo hailed on
any of our rivers with any rapture of
admiration. It fortunately had but lit
tle speed, for twice wo ran aground
and tho sailors Jumped into tho water
and on their shoulders pushed her out.
But what yacht of gayest sportsman,
what deck of swiftest ocean queen
could mve such thrill of rapture as a
sail on the NHo? The pyramids in
sight, tho remains of cities that are now
only a name, tho villages thronged
with population. Both banks crowded
with historical deeds of forty or sixty
centuries. Oh, what a book the Bible
Is when read on tho Nile I
As wo slowly move up the majestic
river I see on each bank the wheels,
the pump, tho buckets for irrigation,
and see a man with his foot on tho
treadle of a wheel that fetches up the
water for a garden, and tlion for tho
first timo I understand that passage in
fi.nmi.vi nnd tlilrfv.flvn f liniimnd vll- ueuceronomy wnicii says 01 uioxsraci-
.....,... j ...- . - ..-..,.
Iiiww nrw? n,i.tlp vnt rifllnif In nn n es alter tliev Hail got DUCK lroill
mnlarias, the wild beasts, tho savages, i,or through tho streots
tho unclimbablo steeps, tho vast dls-' j1(,r iCim wm j10r bonc
winces, stopped all tho expeditions for
ages.
An intelligent nativosald to Sir Sam
uel W. Baker and wlfo as they woro on
thoir way to accomplish that In which
others had failed: "Glvo up tho mad
seheino of tho NHo source. How would
it bo possible for a lady young and del
lcato to enduro what would kill tho
strongest man? Giro It up." But tho
work went on until Spcko and Grant
and Baker found the two lakes which
aro tho sourco of what was called tho
Whlto Nile, and baptlzod theso two
lakes with tho names of Victoria and
Albert.
Theso two lakes, filled by great rain
falls and by accumulated snows from
the mountains, pour their waters, ladon
with agricultural wealth Buch as blesses
no other river, on down ovor tho cata
racts, on between frowning mountains,
on between cities living and cities dead,
on for four thousand miles and through
a continent But tho White NHo would
do Httlo for Egypt if this wcro all. It
would keep its banks and Egypt would
remain a desert
But from Abyssinia thero comes what
is called tho Bluo Nile, which, though
dry or nearly dry half the year, under
tremendous rains about tho middlo of
Juno rises to great momentum, and
this Blue NHo dashes with sudden in
flux into the Whlto Nile, which In con
sequence rises thirty feet, and their
combined waters inundate Egypt with
a rich soil which drops on all tho fields
and gardens as It Is conducted by
ditches and sluices and canals ovcry
whither.
The greatest damage that over came
to Egypt camo by tho drying up of the
Itlver NHo and tho greatest blessing by
Its healthful and abundant ilow, Tho
famlno In Joseph's tlmo camo from tho
lack of MilHcIcnt inundation from tho
Nile. Not enough Nllo is drouth, too
much Nile Is froshet and plaguo. Tho
rivers of tho earth aro tho mothers of
its prosperity. If by some convulsion
of uaturo tho Mississippi should bo
taken from North America, or tho Am
azon from South America, or tho Dan
ube from Europe, or tho Yenlbel from
Asia what hemispheric calamity I Still
thero aro other rivers that could fer
tlliro and savo these countries.
Our own continent Is gulched, is rib
boned, Is glorilled by inuumorablo
water courses. But Egypt has only ono
great river, ami that is hariuued to
draw nil tho prosperities of realms
in acreage semt-iudnlto. What hap
pens to tho Nllo happens to Egypt.
Tho Nllometor was to me very sugges
tive as wo went up and down Its damp
stone stops and saw tho pillar marked
with notches telliug Just how high or
low aro tlio waters of tho Nile. When
tho Nile Is rising, four criers every
morning rim through tlio city unnouuo
Ing how many feet tho river has risen
tea feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet,
t,wenty-fonr feet and whou the right
height of water Is reached the gates of
tho canals are Hung open and tho liquid
and refreshing benediction U pro
nounced on all the land.
A -WONDUItVlUi KUU'l UA1K.NT Ok
1'1101'IIKOY.
As wo start where tho NHo empties
Into tlio Mediterranean wn we behold
wonderful fulllllment of prophecy.
Tho Nile hi very ancient times used to
have j-en mouths. As the great river
approached tho ea It entered tho tea
nt scveu different place. Isaiah proph
esied, "Tho Lord shall utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptltui ben and
hull imitelt In the mjvii streams."
The fact U thoy are all destroyed but
two, and Herodotus Bald these two re
KuUnlng ore artlllctal. Up the iilla wo
IwUlgo; port of tho way by Egyptian
mil train nd then by boat, nud we
i '
camel with a sack of corn, a sack of
(igsand u wooden plato, ail that he had
kept for himself, and the diet to which
ho had limited himself for most of the
timo was bread and water. Was there
ever hi any other man a commingling
of elements bo strango, so weird, so
genorous, so cruel, so mighty, so weak,
so religious, so fanatical?
In this city was tho greatest femalo
lecturer tho world over saw Hyjmtia.
But tlio lesson of virtuo that sho taught
was obnoxious, and so tuey dragged
nud scraped
bones with sharp
oyster shells and then burned tho frag
ments of the massacred body. And
hero dwelt Cleopatra, pronounced to
bo tho beauty of all time although if
her pictures aro correct I havo seen a
thousand women In Brooklyn more at
tractive and she was as bad as sho
was said to bo handsome. Queon, con
queross, and spoko seven languages, al
though it would havo been better for
tho world if sho had not been ablo to
speak any. Julius Cmsar conquered
tlio world, yet sho conquered Julius
Cicsar.
cosquKiion of hooks.
But Alexandria, fascinating for tills
or that thing, according to tho taste of
tho visitor, was to mo moftt entertain
ing because It had been tho site of tho
greatest library that tlio world ever
saw, considering tlio fact that tho art
of printing had not boon invented.
Soven hundred thousand volumes, and
all tho work of a slow pen. But down
it all went under tho torch of besiegers.
Built again and destroyed again. Built
again, but tlio Arabs came along for
Its final demolition, and tho four thou
sand baths of tho city woro heated
with theso volumes, tho fuel lasting six
months, and woro ever Arcs kindled at
such fearful cost? What holocausts of
tho world's literature? What martyr
dom of books I How many of them
havo gono down under tho rago of na
tions. Only ono book has been ablo to with
stand tho bombardment, and that has
gone through without smell of tiro on
Its lids. No sword or spear or musket
for its defense An unarmed Now Tes
tament An unarmed Old Testament
Yet Invulnerable and triumphant
There must bo something supernatural
about it Conqueror of books! Mon
arch of books I All tho books of tho
ages in all tho libraries outshono by
this ono book which you and I can
carry to church in a pockot. So me
thought amid tho ashes of Alexandrian
libraries.
But all aboard the Egyptian rail train
going up the hanks of the Nllo I Look
out of tlio window and see those cam
els kneeling for tho Imposition of their
load. And I think wo might tako from
thoin a lesson, and, Instead of trying to
stand upright in our own strength, be
come conscious 'of our weakness and
need of dlvino help before wo tako
upon us tho heavy duties of tho year
or tho week or tho day, and so kneel
for the burden. Wo meet processions
of men and beasts on the way from
their day's work, but alas for tho
homes to which tlio poor inhabitants
are going, for tho most part ho ols of
mud. But thero Is something in tho
scone that thoroughly enlists us. It la
tho novelty of wretchedness and a
sceuo of ploturesquo rags. For thou
sands of years this land has been under
a very damnation of taxes. Nothing
but Christian civilization will roll buck
tho iutluenoes which are "spoiling tho
Egyptians." There aro gardens and
palaces, but thoy belong to the rulers.
About here, under tho valiant Murad
Boy, the Mamelukes, who are thollnost
lionMimeu In all tho world, camo like a
hurricane upon Napoleon's army, but
thoy wore beaten back by tlio French
hi ono of tho fiercest battles of all time.
Then tho Mamelukes tumod their
hoiW hcuds tho other way, and lu des
peration kicked them against tho
French troops, hoping tho hones would
kick tho life out of the French regl
incuts. Tho Mamelukes falling again,
plunged into this Nile and were drown
ed, the French or days tilling out tho
dead bodioa of tho Mamelukes to get
tho valuables upon their bodies. Na
poleon, at the daring of thoe Maine
hikes, exclaimed, "Could I havo united
Urn ilameluk tioree to tlia French In
- ,
Egypt, "Tho land whither thou goest
in to possess It Is not as tho land of
Egypt from whence yo camo out, where
thou sowedst thy seed and watcredst
It with thy foot."
Then I understood how the laud
could bo watered with the foot. How
do you suppose I felt when 011 the deck
of that steamer on tho Nile I looked off
upon tho canals and ditches and sluices
through which tho fields are irrigated
by that river, and then read in Isaiah,
"Tho burden of Egypt; tho river shall
bo wasted and dried up and thoy shall
turn the rivers faraway and tho brooks
I heard tho rush of her chariots, and
tho dash of her fountains, and the con
viviality of her palaces, and taw the
drunken nobles roll on the Doors of mo
saic, whilo In startling contrast amid
all the regaliticsof tho pl.ico I saw Pha
raoh look up into tho faco of aged, rus
tic Jacob, tho shepherd, saylntr. "How
old art thou?"
TUB CITY Of NO.
But back to tho NHo and on and up
till you reach Thebes, In Scripture
called tlK City of No. Hundred gated
Thebes. A quadrangular city four
mUes from limit to limit. Four great
temples, two of them Karnac and
Lutor, onco mountains of eiquisite
sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidified
in stone. Statue of Itameses II, eight
hundred and eighty-seven tons in
weight and seventy-flve feet high but
now fallen and scattered. Walls
aoioom with tuo uattlcllelus 01 centuries.
Tlio surrounding hills of rock hol
lowed Into scpulchers on the wall of
which aro chiseled in picture and hier
oglyphics the confirmation of Bible
story in regard to tho treatment of the
Israelites in Egypt, so that as explora
tions go on with tho work the walls of
tho sepulchers become commentaries
of the Bible, tho Scriptures originally
written upon parchment here cut into
everlasting tone. Thebos mighty and
dominant fire hundred yoars. Then
sho went down in fulfillment of Ezekiel's
prophecy concerning the City of No,
which was another name for Thebes:
"I will esceuto Judgment in No. I will
cut oil the multitudes of No." Jere
miah also prophesied, "Thus saith the
Lord, I will punish the multitudes
of No."
This city of Thebes and all the other
dead cities of Egypt iterato and reiter
ate tlio veracity of the Script uies, tell
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up; anu uiey Mian oo oroKcn m uie ; tho prophets told. Havo you noticed
that niako sluices
That Thanksgiv-
Nilo I found my
purposes thereof, all
and ponds for fish."
Ing morning on the
toxt of today.
Pharaoh in this chapter is compared
to tlio dragon or hippopotamus bug I
gested by tho crocodiles that used to
lino tho banks of this river: "Thus
saith tho Lord God, Behold I am
against thoo, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, I
tho great dragon that lieth in the midst
of his rivers, which hath said my river
Is mino own, and I have made it for
myself. But I will put hooks In thy
Jaws and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and 1
will bring thee up out of tho midst of
thy rivers, and all tho fish of thy rivers
shall stick unto thy scales, and tho laud
of Egypt shall bo desolate and waste;
and they shall know that I am tho
Lord, becauso ho hath said tho riyer is
mino and I havo made It"
AS IN UIHLK TIMK3,
While sailing on this riverorstopping
at ono of tho villages, wo seo peoplo on
tho banks who verify the Blblo descrip
tion, for they are now as thoy were In
Biblo times. SUqos aro now taken off
in rererenco to sacrod places. Chil
dren carried astrido tho mother's shoul
der as in Hagar's time. Women with
profusion of Jowelry as when Rebecca
was afilancod. Lentils sholled into tho
pottogo, as when Esau sold his birth
right to get such a dish. Tlio samo
habits of salutation as when Josepli and
his brethren fell on eaoh othors' necks,
Courts of law held under big trees as
In oldon times. People making bricks
without straw, compelled by circum
stances to uso stubblo Instead of straw.
Flying over or standing on tho banks,
as hi Scripture days, aro llamlngoes, os
proys, eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos
ami bullfinches. On all sides of this
river sepulohors. Villages of sepulchers.
Cities of sepulchors. Nations of sepul
chers. And ono U tempted to call It an
empire of tombs. I never saw such a
placo as Egypt Is for graves. And noy
we understand tho complaining sarcasm
of tho Israelites when thoy wero on tho
way from Egypt to Canaan, "Because
thero are no graves In Egypt hast thou
taken us away to dio in tho wilderness?"
Down tho river bank como tho buffalo
and tho cattle or kino to drink, and it
was tho ascestors of theso cattlo that
Inspired Pharaoh's dream of tho loan
kino and tho fat kino.
Here wo disembark a Httlo while for
Memphis, off from tho Nllo to tho right
Memphis founded by tho first king of
Egypt and for a long while tho capital.
A city of marblo and gold. Home of
tho Pharaohs. City nlnoteon miles In cir
cumferenco. Vast colonnades through
which Imposing processions marched.
Hero stood tho Temple of the Sun, It
self in brllllauoy a sun shone on by an
other sun, Thebes In power over a
thousand ono hundred years, or nearly
ten times us long as tho United States
have exibted. Here Is a recumbent
stntuo Mveiity-tlvo feet long. Bronzed
gateways. A necropolis called "tho
how God kept back these arclueological
confirmations of the Biblo until our
time, when the air is full of unbelief
about the truthfulness of tlio dear old
book? Ho waited until tho printing
press had been set up in its perfected
shape, and the submarine cable was
laid, and tho world was intelligent
enough to appreciate tho testimony,
and then he resurrected the dead cities
of the eai th and commands them, say
ing: "Open your long sealed lips and
speak! Memphis and Thebes, is tho
Bible trueT' "True!" respond Mem
phis and Thebes. "Babylon, is the
book of Daniel true?" "True!" re
sponds Babylon. "Ruins of Palestine
and Syria, is tho New Testament
true?" "True!" respond tho ruins all
tho way fioin Joppa to tho Dead sea,
and from Jei iisalem to Damascus.
"What a mercy that this testimony of
the dead cities should como at a time
when the Biblo is especially assailed.
And this work will go on until tho ve
racity and divinity of tho Scriptures
will be ascertain to all sensible men
and women as that two anil two mako
four, as that an isosceles triangle is ono
which hr.3 two of its sides equal, as
that the diameter of a circle is a lino
drawn through tho center and ter
minated by tho circumference as cer
tain as any mathematical demonstra
tion. Never did 1 fool moro encouraged
than when after preaching a sermon on
evidences of the truth of tho Biblo
drawn from oriental lands. A distin
guished senator of tho United States,
known and honored everywhere, but
now deceased, camo up "to tho plat
form and said, "I was brought up in
tlio faith of Christianity, but I got
speculating on all theso subjects and
hud given up my faith in tho Bible, but
those facts and arguments archasolog
ical tako mo back to my old faith in tho
Bible, which my father and mother
taii;ht mo " Tlio tears rolling down
his cheeks evinced tho depth of his
emotion. When I read of thosenator's
dath 1 was comforted to think that
perhaps I may have helped him a Httlo
h) tho strugglo of his life, and perhaps
given him an easier pillow on which to
die, '
A VALUAULB BOOK.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece,
diplomatized and almost camo to bat
tle for ono book, a copy of "iEschylus."
Ptolemy, tho Egyptian king, discovered
that In tho great library at Alexandria
there was no copy of "iEschylus." Tho
Egyptian king sent up to Athens,
Greece, to borrow tho book and mako
a copy of It. Athens demanded a do
posit of seventeen thousand sovon hun
dred dollars as security. Tho Egyptian
king received tho book, but refused to
return that which ho had borrowed,
and so forfeited tho seventeen thousand
seven hundred dollars.
Tho two nations roso in contention
concerning that ono book. Beautiful
and mighty book, Indeed! But It is s
book of horrors, tho dominant idea
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powerful suggestion of the sacrifice of
Christ in later years, it is a very poor
book com pai ed with that book which
wo hug to our hearts, because it con
tains our only guide hi life, our only
comfort in death and our only hope
for a blissful immortality. If two na
tions could afford to struggle for one
copy of "iEschylus," how much more
can all nations afford to struggle for
tho possession and triumph of tho Holy
Scriptures?
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 tlio world started with nothing
and then rose, and human nature be
gan with nothing but evolved into
splendcd manhood and womanhood of
itself. Nay; the sculpture of tho world
was more wonderful in the days of
Memphis and Thebes and Cartilage
than in tlio days of Boston and New
York.
Those blocks of stone, weighing throe
hundred tons, high up in tho wall at
Karnac, imply machinery equal to if
not surpassing tho machinery of tho
Nineteenth century. How was that
statuo of Rameses, weighing eight hun
dred and eighty-seven tons, transport
ed from tho quarries, two hundred
miles away, and how was it lifted? Tell
us, modern machinists. How wero
those galleries of rock, still standing at
Thebes, filled with paintings surpassed
by no artist's pencil of tho present day?
Tell us, artists of the Nineteenth cen
tury. Tlio dead cities of Egypt, so far
as they have left enough pillars of
statues or sepulchers or temple ruins to
tell tho story Memphis, Migdol, Hier
opolis, Zoan, Thebes, Goshen, Carthago
all of them developing downward in
stead of upward. They have evoluted
from magnificence into destruction.
Tho gospel of Jesus Christ is tho only
elevator of individual and social na
tional character. Let all the living
cities know that pomp and opulenco
and temporal prosperity are no security.
Thoso ancient cities lacked nothing but
good morals. Dissipation and sin slew
them, and unless dissipation and sin
are halted they will somo day slay our
modern cities, and leave our palaces of
merchandise, and our galleries of art,
and our city halls as flat in tho dust as
wo found Memphis on tho afternoon of
that Thanksgiving day. And if tho
cities go down the nation will go down.
"Oh," you say, "that is Impossible; wo
havo stood so long yea, over a hun
dred years as a natiom" Why, what
of that? Thebes btood flvo hundred
years; Memphis stood a thousand
years. God does not forget. Ono day
with the Lord is as a thousand years
and a thousand years as ono day.
Rum and debauchery and bad poli
tics are moro rapidly working tho de
struction of our American cities than
sin of any kind and all kinds worked
for tlio destruction of tho cities of Afri
ca, onco so mighty and now so pros
trate. But their gods wero idols, and
could do nothing except for debase
ment Our God made the heavens and
sent his Son to redeem tho nations.
And our cities will not go down, and
our nation will not perish, becauso tho
Gospel is going to triumph. Fowardl
all schools and colleges and churches)
Forward ! all reformatory and mission
ary organizations. Forward I all the
Influences marslmled to bless tho
world. Let our modorn European and
Aiuorlcan cities listen to tho voico of
thoso ancient cities resurrected, and
by hammer and chisel and crowbar
bo compelled to speak.
VOICES mOM TIIB PAST.
I notice tho volco of thoso ancient
cities is hoarso from tho exposure of
forty centuries, and they accentuate
slowly with lips that woro palslod for
ages, but all together thoso cities along
tho NHo Intono theso werds: "Hear us
for wo aro very old, and It Is hard for
us to speak. Wo were wise long before
Athens learned her first lesson. We
sailed our ships whilo yot navigatiou
was unborn. Theso obelisks, theso pyr
amids, theso fallen pillars, these wrecked
temples, thoso colossi of black granite,
theso wrecked sarcophagi under tho
brow of tho hills, tell you of what I was
In grandeur and of what I am coming
do-vntobo. Wo sinned and wo fell Our
learning oould not save us. See thoso
half obliterated hieroglyphics ou yon
der wall. Our architecture could not
savo us: See tho painted columns of
Phllw and tho shattored temple of Es
noh. Our heroes could not 6a ve us:
Witness Munos, Dlodorus, Rameses and
Ptolemy. Our gtxls, Ainmou and
Pjlris, co-Jd not sae us." See their
fallen temples all along tho four thou
sand miles of Nile. Oh, yo modorn
oltlos, get wmio oiher God a God who
can help, a God who eau pardon, a
God who can savo. Colled up as wo
are for a. little while to give testimony,
again the sands of the desert will bury
us. Ahestoahes,ddttodust!" And
as these voices of porphyry and granite
ceased, all tho sarcophagi under tho
hills responded, "Ashes to ashcsl" and
the capital of u lofty column foil, grind
ing itself to powder under tho rocks,
and responding, "Dust to dustl"
The increase in traffic on tho Suez
canal causes serious delays. Tho com
pany has begun to widen the canal
and the work will bo completed in
about two years.
British ships and cargoes lost every
year at sea are valued at about $100,-000,000.
CARTER'S
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PILLS.
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Sick Ileadnchonml relieve nil the troubles Incl
dent to a bilious stato of tlm system, such a!
Dizziness, Nausea. Dron kIik'SS, Distress aftei
eatinjr. Pain in the Side, &c While their most
remarkable success has be'ii shown in curing
B.
Headaci.e, yet Carteii's Liitle Liver Fille
are equally aluahle in Constipation, curing
and preventing this annoying complaint, while
they also correct all disorders of the stomach,
stimulate thelher and regulate the bowels.
:ven If they only cured
Ache thoy would be almost priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint;
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here, and those who once tiy them -n ill find
these little pills valuable in so many ways that
they will not be willing to do without them.
Hut after all sick head
is tho bane of so many lives that here Is where
ne make our great boast. Our pills cure It
while others do not.
Caiiter's Little Liver Pii is are very small
and very easy to take. One or t o pills make
a dose. They are strictly epetable and do
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please oil who use them. In vials nt S5 cents;
flvo for SI Sold evei y here, or sent by malL
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EDUCATIONAL.
Willamette Doiwily.
THE
OLDEST, LARGEST,
Least Expensive
AND
MOST HOME-LIKE
Institution ofleuruliiK In t lie nort tiw el.
l3(l btudeuts lu IhCT, I9j iu Is'Jl nn increase
ol nearly fO per cent in four j euru.
Ornciimtos ttiideMn In
Art, Business, Classical,
Law, Literary, Medical,
ard Musical.
Pharmaceutical, Bcleutltlci nrt theological
coursi k.
KORMAL COUUSE.
(Jruduates Irom the Norn ill Course have
all the advantages of graduates ftom tho
State Normal fccbools.
Metier fticllitii's tor tenchlug next year
than ever before.
Fii-st Term Begins Sept. 1, 1891.
For cat loj.uu, with lull lufwrniatloa
addicss
KEV OHO. WHITTAKKi!. 1). !.Pre.
b '51 Hw valom. uit'uou.
Portland University
OPKN.H
SEPTEMBER 14th
N Beautiful and heiiltuttilt.le:iottrt tie rit
lw-ciifes us rcivoimhlo nsi.ii oilierlnt.il.
tuUouorieart'lUKon tLc iw!.i. t UubUul.
Uti'rary, felenllrte, 'I liuili- jio.I, l'upnra
tory, Normal una" Jjiulnei couin-s. btu-oentiiOfMllKi-Hdearecel.ed.
fiiiuul mw
slght anil direction g.-ii ,. ml .uideniB.
Ludled boarding hull uml. r est erlenrvU
MHHr Islun, PioftisMirs ol i x nutit t-chol.
nrkbhi uuil much txperie.ioe irtiiployed.
torluforiiuitlou iidtlic.H,
C. C.STRATTON.D. D.,
Portland, or
THOS.VANSC0Y.D.D.,
Boan of Uollrgo, Port
land University, Portland,
Oregon 7i7iwu
STATE AGRICULTL'KAL GOLLKGB.
Opens Sept. Stli, 1891.
COURSE OF STUDY umiftj i raprelv to
i ijW" WW"110" bi1 tfeU-vrutlMed
bUtl4uSv. HwfW.r.. t.lOOQUdlBn 1.31
MIUTAUV TRAINING.
EMMt t txtted J0 to tfc fU
Stsiloa
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every county. Writ for Cnutfoew to
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nui jo students the post SSl? (
and latest Methods MiS'tVfc
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lng, the Ut wf Heptembfr. Will tesi-jj
cai iina instrument il nnislc,lio Gttl
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MUSIC !
MSS ALZI1U fll
Teacher of riano uud OrgiD.
295 Oct'ajHl-d
PltOVKSSIOKAIi CAKW.
ST. Itlt HAltDSON, AUornejulnl
. office up atuirs In front room of w I
ijuni uiouK toiueri'onimeraaiuiurl
hireeih, taiein, urf gou.
JOHN A. CAUSON, AttorDfjilitl
Rooms a nun 4, LadQ & Wliikil
uiuiuiuK. Diiem, uregon. nil
.oil
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raaiuin, uregon.
rnlliMON FOUU, attorneys Jsir, j'l
X Oregon. Office ur-staira in nWI
block,
DlAUOY A BlNOUAil, Attorntr
counselors at Javr, bflem, Wig
liuvlnganabstructolliienwrdiiof.Maio
county, including a lot and UXwra'
oalem, they have special oJUUci Ior
amlniug titles to reul estat. Uubinejiil
the supreme tourl and In the btateaep.1
ments will receiro prompt attention.
Dlt. W S MOTT. phyfclclan and
geon. Offloe in fldrldge Bo
lem.Oieg-m. OUice hours 10 to IH
lo i p. in.
Jjj. Ofllre 155 Lourt streei; 1 tod?5
Tugh btrcet. Gei.eral PJil2
Ktlentiou given to du.ease.uf Wowenw
children.
DR. AIINTA ti. A. DAVIS. WfjH
u. ui. to 11 a. w.; 2 P.-.Pl.'ldSf
my or night utlls ProiapUSJ
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feu und children, umre iu ""- I
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halem. Or. tWhed Ojgjfl
tlons of every description,
lions u specialty
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