p. 317 | News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 28, 1868

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

—A lady asked a minister whether a person might not be fond of dress and ornaments, and not be proud. “Madame,” said the minister, “when you see a fox’s tail peeping out of the hole, you may be sure the fox is within.”

The Oldest Relic of Humanity.—The oldest relic of humanity extant is the skeleton of one of the earlier Pharaohs, incased in its original burial robes, and wonderfully perfect, considering its age, which was deposited about eighteen or twenty months ago in the British Museum, and is justly considered the most valuable of its archæological treasures. The lid of the coffin which contained the royal mummy, was inscribed with the name of its occupant, Pharaoh Mykerimus, who succeeded the heir of the builder of the great pyramid, about ten centuries before Christ. Only think of it! the monarch whose crumbling bones and leathery integuments are now exciting the wonder of numerous gazers in London, reigned in Egypt before Solomon was born, and only about eleven centuries or so after Mizraim, the grandson of old father Noah, and the first of the Pharaohs, had been gathered to his fathers! Why, the tide-mark of the deluge would scarcely have been obliterated, or the gopher-wood knee timbers of the ark have rotted on Mount Ararat, when this man of the early world lived, moved and had his being! His flesh and blood were contemporary with the progenitors of the great patriarch! His bones and shriveled skin are contemporary with the nineteenth century, and the date of the crucifixion is only about midway between his era and ours.

To store our memories with a sense of injuries, is to fill that chest with rusty iron which was made for refined gold.

BELOVED, this rough-hewing of reproof is but to square us for the celestial building.