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I gaze upon these relics of departed greatness Three thousand years have told upon the fortunes of the world since they mingled in the busy scenes of strife and acted their part upon the world’s theatre. Could they but read the mighty change !“ Great Pharaoh’s sceptered pride ” has departed. The refinements and luxuries of Egypt in the days of her glory have faded. Its wealth and power are gone. Where stood the mightiest empire of the earth, now stretches out drear and desolate plains, filled here and there with huge piles of mouldering ruins, monuments of departed greatness. Where palaces, aud temples, and* cities stood in the days of Pharaoh’s glory and ■ Egypt’s power, now ruin sways its sceptre, and the curious tourist and scientific antiquarian study its hyeroglyphics, ramble amid its decaying arches, and pillars, and obelisks, gaze upon its pyramids and penetrate its catacombs and exhume its mummied Pharaohs, to tell the story'of departed grandeur and glory, and point to the wisdom of Moses in choosing rather affliction with God’s people and the imperishable glory of an everlasting reward. w. m. l.St. Louis, Sept. 4, 1857. ■ « mb » ■» , .. .
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St Louis Christian Advocate
St Louis, Missouri, US
Thu, Sep 10, 1857
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