f Philitis--a name which the early historians of Egypt gave
to the builder of the Pyramid, which was none other person than
Melchisedek. By the Israelites they were driven out of Palestine, and
finally settled in the South of Ireland, as Irish historians allow.

Another member of the family of Shem was called--namely, Abraham, from
whom came God's chosen people--Israel and the Jews. They also had to
sojourn in Egypt, and they, too, were sent to Palestine, and graffed on
to the purpose of God, where the Philistines had been broken off.

"Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the
Philistines from Caphtor?" (Amos ix. 7).

Egypt has played a noble part in the providence of God through
Melchisedek, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses. Even the blessed Jesus is said
to be called from this land. "Out of Egypt have I called My Son." The
Egyptians gave to the world the first translation of the Hebrew Bible,
and it was for centuries the stronghold of Christianity after the
destruction of Jerusalem. The best of the Christian fathers were
Egyptians, and in the coming struggle, the great war, which will begin
about 1882, again Egypt will become conspicuous with England and Prussia.
For the Prussians are the Assyrians as the English art the Lost Tribes of
Israel. Bismarck may manoeuvre as he please, and be as pro-Russian as
Dr. Storrs, yet when the time comes he and his people will fall in with
the providential purpose, and become an ally with Israel-England; and
timid and bankrupt Egypt will then come forth to take her place once more
among the nations of the earth as an independent Power. Hear what the
prophet Isaiah says in chap. xix.: "And the Lord shall smite Egypt, He
shall smite and heal it, and they shall return even to the Lord, and He
shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there
be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into
Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with
the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts
shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of
My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance."

"_In that day_" refers to this day, now at hand. To this the Great
Pyramid is witness. For in verses 19 and 20 of this chapter we read: "In
_that day_ shall there be an altar to the Lord in the mid