. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . n clutch his shattered sceptre. On a camels back on the way to Memphis, Egypt, I am writing many millions have crossed the desert on this style of beast! Proud,mysterious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous shape, stalkingout of the past. The driver with his whip taps the camel on the fore-leg andhe kneels to take you. But when he rises, hold fast, or you will first fall oftbackward as he puts his fore feet in standing position, and then you will falloff in front as his back legs take their place. Not a h
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . n clutch his shattered sceptre. On a camels back on the way to Memphis, Egypt, I am writing many millions have crossed the desert on this style of beast! Proud,mysterious, solemn, ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous shape, stalkingout of the past. The driver with his whip taps the camel on the fore-leg andhe kneels to take you. But when he rises, hold fast, or you will first fall oftbackward as he puts his fore feet in standing position, and then you will falloff in front as his back legs take their place. Not a house or an inhabitantin all Memphis, though it was the mightiest city under the sun. I bring awaya few stones from Pharaohs palace, and recall, as well as I can, the once gor-geous capital of Egypt. SETTING OUT FOR. CANAAN From Memphis back again to Cairo, exhausted by travel, wearied byreflection on the mutations of the ages. But this morning, I especially thank-God for sleep. I feel rested and buoyant. Sleep puts a bound to weariness. A SACRED PILGRIMAGE 129. A VISIT TO THU SPHINX 130 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK It says: Thus far shalt thou go and no farther. It pours light into the eyesand geniality into the disposition and faith into the heart and makes a newworld every morning. And now just think of it! We start out of Egypt forCanaan, the way the Israelites went thousands of years ago. But ihey wentafoot, we with riving express train; they fugitive slaves, we American freemen;they amid the hardships that slew most of them, we amid the luxuries of moderntravel for recuperation and sight-seeing. What a compliment to modern civ-ilization and the principles of liberty which have begun to range the world !No; I can put it in a more righteous way: what obligation we are under to theblessed God and our glorious Christianity! Farewell, land of Pharaoh andJoseph and Jacob, and the regions through which the infant Christ passed bothways, from Palestine to Egypt, and from
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