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VOL. LXXXVII. RICH1V
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it should always be interesting in a tour through
the East to visit those places with which Bible history
has been connected. Egypt is especially interesting
to the traveler because Bible history and
its own wonderful history centre about so many
places. Among the places mentioned in the Bible
are No-Annnon, the ancient Thebes, Noph the ancient
Memphis, Bethshemcsh, the ancient On and
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and the Land of Goshen. With the exception
of No-Ammon, all these sites
are in Lower Egypt and in the Delta.
With Cairo as a centre Noph was word!
twenty miles south and Bethshemesh 1 i}, Ur i b*
or On six miles north. The railroad
from Port Said to Cairo passes through
the Land of Goshen and Pithom and 2.
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Baaraeses and Tahpanhes are not far 4.
away from the railway line.
The city of On of the Egyptian,
"Ain Shems" of the Arab, "Heliopolis"
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the Hebrew is especially interesting as {rTy''"? ~
the home of Joseph and as the place
where he married Asenath, daughter I,
of the Prince or Priest of On. This
city was the site of the great temple y
of the god Ra, the god of the sun, one t?v. , .
of the most popular of the Egyptian r Vp"~
deities. Every Pharaoh was regarded
as the human embodiment of this god, 1 J? b
and one of the kingly titles was "Lord K
of Heliopolis." To this shrine the
kings brought some of their costliest C
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gnus, muiting it one oi tne richest of ^
the Egyptian temples. It is said that 1
twelve thousand attendants ministered
at this shrine. J'y
Here also was a great university
whose fame reached to Greece and the p u l
surrounding lands. To it Plato and ^
Thales and Solon came. Here, too,
Moses was taught in all the wisdom of ^
the Egyptians. Tradition states that p..
later he was a professor in the same ' P (r
institution. It is said that it was in
or near this religious and intellectual
center that Jeremiah wrote his hook IT
of Lampntnfinr>a flr> moo
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and Athens of ancient Egypt. -.
One afternoon while in Egypt our
party visited the site of this ancient . copyrtii
and holy city. We left Shepherd's
Hotel in Cairo in carriages for a drive of six miles.
Our way led through the streets of this great Mos
l?m city with its picturesque scenes of people and
animals and houses and bazaars and mosques and
tombs of holy men. Beyond the city we drove
along avenues lined with acacias and between fertile
fields and gardens. At one place we stopped
ln?side a well from which the Egyptian farmer was
raising* the water in buckets fastened to a wheel
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which a blindfolds *%?' *tli measured tread i
turned. The water looa. *? ' cool and refreshing
that I could not resist the temptation to take a i
drink of it. Off to the right was the palace of the
Khedive, with its gardens and groves of trees
within whose branches strange birds uttered their <
notes and cries. (
Then we came to the traditional site of the rest- <
ing place of Joseph and Mary and the infant i
DOWN AMID THE SHADOWS.
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Down a - mid the shadows Is your heart to - day? Un-der skies o'ercl
Down a - mid the shadows Of our dai - ly cares, Oft a strengthen^
Down a - mid the shadows Of our blighted hopes, When the soul in ai
Down a - mid the shadows, Bearing loads of care, Ofttimes hev'.i grow
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lies your wea -ry way? Down a-mong the shadows; Ah! we can nol
n the way" ap-pears. 'Tia when we are burdened That we look a
hro' the darkness gropes; E'en then, lifting wea - ry, Help-less hands a
pir - its pure and fair. Ah! the sweetest heart-songs Ev-er sung on
keeping, sorrowing there. Think'st that he forgets us?We who bur-den
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lut ofttimes sweet blessings Come to you and me.
Etching sweetest glimpses Of our Father's love. Oh, the wea-ry si
iod seems bending near-er In his pity-ing love.
)own among the shad-ows Oft - en had their birth.
Jay, the hearts that suffer, Have his tend'rest care.
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Saviour when they fled from the murderous fur)' s
of old Iferod. A wall encloses the spot, but an i
open gate invited us to enter. Within this grows j
an ancient sycamore, a descendant, perhaps, of the s
tree under which Joseph and Mary rested nearly <
two thousand years since, if they really ever were
here.
Turning to the left and stopping our carriages 1
under some inviting shade trees, we found our
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solves in the presence of the only monument that
now marks the site of ancient On, with its temple
and its thousands of attendants and the great university
with its distinguished professors. The
obelisk was a symbol of the sun, and On was a
city of obelisks. These stood in pairs and in front
sf the temples. Like the last rose of summer, this
:>nc stands alone. Its companions have crumbled
and gone. On was the original home of the obelisk
that stands in Central Park, New
York. Its companion stands 011 the
banks of the Thames in London. Both,
* however, stopped in their journey iifj
| teen hundred years at Alexandria be^
fore reaching their present homes.
ouded This obelisk stands in an open field.
a-guiah It is a monolith of red granite, sixtytend'rer
sjx foe? high, and with inscriptions in
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, hieroglyphics on its four sides. It is
' *-1 as perfect today with its sharp corners
and carefully cut inscriptions as it was
I - | the day when amid the acclamations of
thousands it rose above the delta, fresh
from the hands of the workmen of
t see,
-bove, Usertsen I, the Bharoali of the twolff>?
earth' dynasty, who had it erected. A fence
9 bear? encloses the obelisk and the .earth has
. f ^*1 been excavated from about it so that
h we could see to the bottom of the shaft.
' This is some eight feet below the pres|
j ent surface. The foundation on which
g J -* it stands must be several feet lower.
This gives some idea of the long period
hadows which lias elapsed since it was set up.
Within this time it would seem that the
whole Nile Delta had been raised by
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r a me urpusns iroiii me annual overflow
P tr... some ten or twelve feet. That would
mean that many feet of soil over a tri?-i
an^le whose three sides measure one
j I hundred and fifty miles each.
As we stood in the green field and in
^in the presence of that venerable product
of the past, representing man's work
^ I more than four thousand years since,
/ts I took the Bible and, with our little
party gathered about me, read the forty
~ third chapter of the prophecy of Jerepuafind.
miah. 1 was looking, too, upon soine^
|i thing that Joseph and Moses had looked
P*4J upon, and my imagination was guilty
of no freak as I saw Joseph and Asenath
on some beautiful moonlit night
sittintr within its shadow and tntl-inr* ???r. t
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ture plans of their lives so strangely brought together.
Here, too, Jeremiah might have recounted
some of the sad and stirring events of his life that
constituted him the man of much affliction and
many tears. It was he who wrote of this same
place and of the land in which he was then an unwilling
exile: "God shall break also the images
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