THE GREAT PYRAMID.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 21 January 1882, Page 7

THE GREAT PYRAMID.

The Baptist Ministers' Conference in New York listened attentively for about an hour an a quarter to the Rev. Mr. French,-who presented some of the results of his scientific discoveries and computations of the surface measurements of the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh.. He reserved for another occasion the pleasure and privilege of presenting the theological aspects of " The Great Unknown." The Conference unanimously gave Mr. French a vote of thanks, and the Executive Committee were requested to invite him to present the other part of his subject at an j early day. A few points were made clear by Mr. ITrench's paper, in which he stated that the Great Pyramid is the result of inspiration because it lias never been duplicated ; it was abreast of the latest astronomical scientific discoveries, and was built within the historic period, though the ancient historians Tacitus, Herodotus, Strabo, &c., were ignorant of its symbolic meaning. "It presents the only correct square of the circle, ) is located within a little over a mile of the exact centre of the earth, and probably would have been exactly located there but that the soil there is alluvial, and the Pyramid would have sunk out of sight ages ago. Its symbols can be explained religiously 'only hy the existence oi Judaism or Christianity, for it presents nothing that indicates the existence of idolatry. Its inch measurements have recently been found tocorrespond, with proportionate exactness, to the English statute mile, whence some persons argue that it was built by the remote ancestry of the British nation. Its thorough scientific measurements also prove that as the Scriptures declare man-was at his best in tne beginning ot his history, and was not, as materialists claim to-day, in the savage or infantile state, from which he has slowly developed during these centuries. Long before tbo Copernicah system was discovered Job declared that the world hung upon nothing. It is evident from the Great Pyramid that its builders knew of the earth's globular form, and I contend that this knowledge came by inspiration. Job himself was the architect of the Pyramid of Ghizeh. The mean temperature of the earth, 6S degrees Fahrenheit, is found in the King's chamber of the Pyramid at all seasons of the year, and nowhere else in the world. How did the builders know that .at the fiftieth round of masonry, and in the centre of this immense structure, this thermomentical equilibrium could be maintained ? My answer is, only! by inspiration. It was built at a time when' its orientation and date could be fixed by astronomical observation, which cannot be done again for 25,000 years from the date fiied—namely, 2,170 years B.C. Proctor,; who denies the inspiration theory, says that the conjunction of stars necessary to the orientation of the Pyramid might have occurred when the Pleiadic Starwas approach-' ing the North Star, B;C. 2,440, as well-as when it was receding, but the orientation and: date c mid not occur except about 2,170 8.C., when the Pyramid was built. Its measurements, which; I have shown upon this map, correspond to the circumference and weight of the earth and the distance of the sun from our planet, 91,840,270 . miles, to which modern astronomers now agree within 270 miles. Biblical commentators admit that there is a probable reference to this Pyramid in Isaiah xix., 19, 20, because there is no part of Egypt which answers to the description of being in the midst and on th« border thereof also in which an altar and a pillar to the Lord could exist or does exist as a witness. They also suppose that Job has this Pyramid in mind also when he speaks, or when God speaks to him (xxxviii., 4—7) about the laying the measures of the earth and strctching a line upon it, and placing the corner stone at a time when the morning stars sang together, &c. —which metaphors find their symbol and explanation in the Great Pyramid and nowhere else. One thousand million pyramids piled on each other would exactly reach to the sun."