with the scriptural quotations under various headings in this work.)

3d. It follows, therefore, that the British are Israelites.

Again

Ist. God made certain promises to Ten-Tribed Israel which are recorded in the Bible.

2d. These promises have been fulfilled in respect to the British and American people, who, as previously shown, are Ten-Tribed Israelites.

3d. It follows, therefore, that the Bible is the true Word of God, and that God Himself is thereby proved to be true and faithful. Lastly

1st. The Bible is the true Word of God, and we are His creatures.

2d. The Bible tells us that all men are sinners (Rom. v. 12), unable to save themselves by their good works (Gal. ii. 16); that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John iii. 16). It tells us that if we do believe and love Him we will try to keep His commandments (Gal. v. 6; John xiii. 34, 35), and by His grace (Eph. ii. 8) will overcome evil (1 John v. 4, 5). It contains, besides, precious precepts and glorious promises, that affect our highest spiritual interests for time and for eternity.

3d. It follows, therefore, that the Bible, being the true Word of God and calculated to satisfy all the inmost longings of our spiritual nature, should be prayerfully and carefully studied and adhered to, and be the rule of our faith and conduct through life.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

The Great Pyramid of Geezeh in Egypt.

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CHAPTER XV.

HE subject of the following chapters is the GREAT PYRAMID OF GEEZEH IN EGYPT, considered with reference to Prophecy, History, Science, and Theology. Kindly refer to the 19th chapter of Isaiah, the 19th and 20th verses.

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 thereof to the Lord: And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt.

Egypt has always been reckoned as a type of the World; and Pharaoh, of Satan, the god of this world; in contradistinction to Palestine, the promised land of rest, the haven of peace, and Jesus Christ "the King of Righteousness." The Israelites were to be God's witnesses upon earth, that He is the only true and living God, faithful, covenant-keeping, long-suffering, merciful, and gracious; even as the Church, the body of true believers, is the witness to His saving grace. The Pyramid is a type of the people of God, represented by the Israelites, and also of the Church of Christ, the truc Israel of God. Should our readers object to the use of the word type we hope they will bear with us until we have concluded, and in the mean time we venture to suggest that they will understand the word to mean an illustration.

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Observe, that it was "in the midst as well as in the border" of Egypt. By this we learn, that, whereas the Church is in the world, it is not of it. An examination

of a map of Egypt will best explain how well the situation of the Pyramid (a few miles from Cairo) fulfils the apparently contradictory statement of being "in the midst as well as at the border thereof." It is also interesting to notice its central position with reference to the land portion of the whole earth.

The

Turn now to Jeremiah xxxii. 18, 20 verses. Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts is His name, great in counsel and mighty in work; which hast set SIGNS and WONDERS in the land of Egypt, EVEN UNTO THIS

DAY.

Here note, that the signs and wonders referred to, could not have applied to the wonders wrought in Egypt at the deliverance of the children through Moses' instrumentality; for, the prophet, writing in about 588 B.C., refers to the existence, in his day, of a wonder set by the Lord in the land of Egypt. The Great Pyramid has always been looked upon as one of the seven wonders of the world; and is now the only one of them standing. There is nothing else in Egypt, to which the words of the prophet could be made to apply; for, all the other marvellous works of architecture, or engineering skill, bear the idolatrous marks of the Egyptian gods, which this building is entirely free from.

God says to Job (in xxxviii. 4-7),

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest? or, who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations (Heb. sockets) thereof fastened (Heb. made to sink), or who laid the corner stone thereof?

This quotation becomes interesting when read with Pyramid light as an illustration. The Pyramid is built on a basement of solid rock, with its sides carefully oriented; a perfectly square base, with four foundation

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stones carefully sunk into grooves in the rock in the four corners, which enabled Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, to make his accurate measurement of the side of the base, while the last stone with its five surfaces and five angular points, as the topmost corner stone thereof," completed the Pyramid.

The Pyramid is built of large blocks of stone evidently brought from a distance, and chiselled into shape so evenly that they lie on, and against one another in perfectly close proximity. The Pyramid construction consists of four sides of similarly shaped triangles resting on the four sides of a square base, adjacent to one another, and uniting in one common point. The outer steps of the successive layers of stone were faced with well polished limestone so as to present one even surface throughout, with no visible entrance: the passages also were found to have portcullis blocks of stone closing their entrances; which show that the passages were not intended to have been used for the conveyance of sarcophagi. It may be asked what then can be the meaning of these huge blocks portcullying the way into the inner chambers. The answer is, that as this building was not intended to be known as God's witness until His own good time, the entrance passage was blocked up, and the whole of the interior passages remained for 3,000 years unknown except by tradition, until A.D. 850, when Caliph Al Mamoun and his Arab followers, excited by cupidity, endeavoured to force their way by blasting the rocks, and succeeded in penetrating a considerable distance in, until they heard the fall of one of these blocks at the entrance of the first ascending passage, when they changed the direction of their blasting and came upon the junction of the two passages.

The closed entrance passage moreover was placed about 52 feet above the base rock, and about 25 feet to one side of the centre of the northern facing.

Why is it that printing, steam, electricity, and many other arts and sciences, which have been and are

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blessings to mankind, and necessary to our existence now as civilised beings, were not invented, or discovered before? Why is it that Christ the Saviour of mankind was not manifested before the fulness of the time, viz., 4,000 years at least after the fall of Adam? We must confess our inability to answer these questions; for no man has been able to penetrate into the "secret counsels of the Almighty." St. Paul, however, in I. Cor. ii. 7, refers to the subject thus: "But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God preordained before the worlds unto our glory." The blocking up of the passages, so that none could be discovered except by patient investigation and research, appears to symbolise the hidden facts of science and religion discovered by diligent and persevering search after truth; hence our Saviour says "Search the Scriptures, for they are they which testify of Me."

Let us now consider who built the Pyramid.

Cheops, say some, Philitis, says Herodotus. Tradition informs us that one of the Hycsos or shepherd kings came from, no-body-knows-where in the East: without fighting a battle he exerted a power over the Egyptians, and though hated, compelled them to build the great Pyramid, after which the shepherd king retired to Jerusalem and reigned there. The date of the building of the Pyramid, as ascertained by Piazzi Smyth, is 2170 B.C., which date according to some chronologists corresponds to the call of Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees. Soon after his call, we read of Abraham returning from his victory over the five kings, and deliverance of his brother Lot, when Melchizedek, King of Salem, and priest of the Most High God (Gen. xiv. 18) met him and blessed him. Now Melchizedek comes from two words, meaning, "the king or prince of Righteousness," the very title given to Christ. St. Paul in Heb. v.-vii. dwells largely upon the relation of Christ and Melchizedek, pointing out the latter as being "made like unto the Son of God abideth a priest continually," and superior to Abraham: