| Show WHO BUILT THE PYRAMIDS A recent number of Black woods Bl agazIne magadino Ma gasino contained a somewhat striking article en cn this subject subjects hab has lately attracted more than usual attention among european antiquarians and scholar scholars the tae publication of a number of malca wt has hes Q led to much vigorous and sharp discussion cus sion there are periods when men seem moved by bya a peculiar epidemic tomake assaults on received history his hiB tory torl and on the sacred scriptures such a period we are now passing through it is aate q ante fashionable among bome some classes of critics to attack the asto b sto ical character acter r of the books of moses and the attack usually results in shoeing the tte ferson person who make mackesit bitto to be equally opposed to the go gospel and the law abe man who rejects moses is f round found to have but a slim faith in paul and to be a mere theoretic admirer of the messiah himself there is therefore a good deal of infidelity afloat among the critics and it ia to getting to be rare to meet with a man who up boldi boldly y and says there is the apse ipse dixit of god and I 1 stand by it 21 the most shallow arguments pass ass for strong reasoning with thee these the e men they they would mould not noil rubt trust money not a dollar on evidence with BO little strength as that on ort which they ask the world to repose its moat vital interests A piece of old pottery dug out of a deep deerr bole in the ground is the centre of a circle of heads of wise men who find in it ample ground for rejecting the mosaic account of at the age ot of the world and the human family Some bonea bones found at the foot of a cliff over which they may have walked a living man within a century are the sufficient evidence to learned geologists that men existed twenty thousand I 1 years ego the grand staggering argument however which they seek to evade or disprove or otherwise dispose of Is that the evidences eviden cea of mans mana existence in the work of his bis hands the product of his labor on the surface of the earth all serve to confirm the mosaic we go back with human art to its very origin and find that origin at just about the time the bible tells us it was the pyramids of egypt were a favorite subject or of discussion with these antica antiquarians ran and as there is so much doubt about t them h m t they hey seek once in a while te to give the idea that aney max may be he vastly older than they have been suppose supposed my and that some ten or fifteen thousand veara vears mav have rolled over their white piles there is no better if illustration than this of the anxiety of men to obtain some assistance as sistan C e in the rejection 0 of the bible none oe of them pretend to give any proof 0 at the extreme antiquity of the pyra byra mida A against gainal all the evidence of their probable da date t they offer the con conjectures lectures and theories but nothing more the age of the pyramids is indeed by no means a settled bottled matter but there is sufficient evidence to bring theal the oldest dest deBt at 0 them within the post historic period the writer in blackwood presents presenta a theory which is peculiarly interesting it supposes the pyramid of choops eo so called to have hava been erected by a king who was a worshipper wor shipper of the true god before idolatry wras fras known to egypt in support of this be he cites the total absence of idolatrous inser potions so common on all other egyptian monuments the traditions of the priests that they were built by a race of accursed kings who despised the gods the name saophia choops Cheo ps which tos thenes translates the hairy indicating phoenician and not an egyptian and various other noteworthy suggestions it har haa been remark eJ that the pyramids are not mentioned in the bible yet it ia not improbable that in job the allusion to itile desolate places which klags kings and counsellors coun of the earth had h hid ia built for themselves and in which they were fat at rest J refers to the pyramids and ani and other egyptian tombs the idea that among the splendid remains of egyptian idolatry that are lying shattered and broken along the nile banks these silent silena solemn monuments are aretha the tha remains of an older and purer faith which stands firm firmon on the r ck as oe old outlasting out lasting the decay of temples and altara altars to false gods is an idea worth considering for its very grandeur deurl journal of Com commerce metze merZe tire THE AGE OF PURITY RESTORED fourteenth street streel washington is aid said to contain throughout its whole length south bouth from vil wit larde larda not one house that is not a house of ill fame A contract hab has just been made to build a house of the same character that is to cost od babylon and ancient romel were models of purity compared with kack ington Ti teea tEeg |
