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an entrance by tearing a Luge ugly hole in its beautifulsurface, as near as he could estimate the location of thedoor. Through solid masomy of massive stones, secura1y cemented together, he quarried hh way tediousij.bout 100 feet, and reached one of the inner passages.Egerly him men sought the buried treswraIt war a treasurshouse indeed, but its mines con-tained none of the gold or gems he was 100- for.Neither Al Marnoun nor his workmen had any use formch M they found. They were like the ignorant eol-'diar who was rsnsacking the palm of a defeated king.a"ha king In his precipitate 'Bight had dropped his bagcontaining the royal j e d of great value. The soldierfound it and-picked it up. He opened the bag and salvtho pnciou stonea He wondered what a king wouldwant with such worthless pebbles. He threw them awayand, rhowing his empQ bag to a comrade, said: "Seewhat a h e dinner-bag I have found" Not only wasA3 Uoun disappointed, but to appeaw the disappointmatand of his workmen$ had to hide a qusn-tity af gold therein and kt them find it.Later the beautiful casing-stones were remo~ed andused b bdd moaquer and cities, until nearly all ofthem were stripped from their long resting-plnce andtaken to adorn palaces and 'public buildings- Likeghouh robbing the wounded, the vandals continued thair-tion, until today the Pyramid stands ea a mightywt, mbkled and prematurely old, yet in its atrengthr?defying enemies and the elements, still guarding thetreasnres tntruebd to its care until'they shalldelrvered aa directed..-1 Like a royal messenger with strid orden to deliverhis message only to cerhin ones and at a specged time,m this m-ger from Jehovah had orden ta deliverhis treasares to the 'hobles of the mind", scientists, ata speci5ed time aa a witness to them. That time is here,and this messenger is delivering these hidden keasuresbefore their astonished gaze. Like the inventions ofthis "age of miracles", the supply appears ineshaustible.We now d e at the suggestion reported to havebeen made by the Superintendent of the Patent Offimat Washington in 1844, that Congress might as wellclose the Patent Office, for all that could be inveutedhad been patented. Uany in the past have been inclinedto smile at the folly of any one who would build suchmig11t;P structure aa the Pyramid when it could beput to no use.Not until the nineteenth century, however, did it graduallydawn upon some scholars that the Great I'yramidmight contain some scientific features. In 1799some FrencH savants who accompnnied Nnpoleon on hisEgyptian expedition, made a few sun-eys and examinationsThey dug into some of the pdes of dbbria at thebase, fonned by the chips when the casing-stones wemtorn from their cemented positions and did or tumbleddown from above, and by sand blown in from the desert.They found what they termed "encnstrements" nt twoPEN AGE 'BMOKSTS, W. f.of the comers, large square stones sunk into the solidrock bed on which the Pyramid wan built. In. 1837Colonel Howard V p epent several month ~amioing .the Great Pyramid psrticulariy and employed W O ~hundred workmen to assist him to dig through the ms9of dhbris, in some places lifty feet deep, with the dmh Ito locate if possible the original brw, lines. Beaidaoreaching the foundation, he was fortunate in locatingthree of the original casing-stones still in pOriti0~Though varying in thicknese t* were each four feet,eleven inches high, and had the same outer face bevel.One of the tbrea is estimated to weigh nineteen bw.These. casing-stones were joined together 8o closely thatit was di5cult to determine the point of joining. 'Xb~ e nis t only about one-Gftieth of an inch thick, yethdds the stones together so tightly that it is ditEdtto pry them apart. Considering the large mufaces thuaevenly faced, the workmen muat have been esp@superior to any of today. -These casing-stones gare Colonel Vysa the dw tothe original exterior dimensions and to the incline of thcddea He also found the two ccwrner-stoned' mentionedby the French savants. He believed that they wen,d into the rock foundation to indicate p.articdapoints for measurements. This was vaed byh v e r k kiou fie-dram lines wem nlso foundupon them, which were later found to refer to other8Kithip the stmcture. NO such ucorner-st~nes" amfound in any of the other pyramidd. Theae uaocketstoned' are evidently referred to in Job 38 : 4-7 :'Them'upon are the sockets [margin] thereof made to. sink? .or who laid the cornerstone thereof?Great firamid Receives Much AttentionOLOLVEL WSE published three large volumesC entitled "Operations at thq Pyramids d Ghh".Thae rorks aroused deep inte* and others began toinvestigate. In 1859 John Taylor published a work,"The Gpt PyTamid; why waa it built? and who builtit?'' He was the first to suggest that pwibly thePynumd was of divine origin. Before his death he interestedProfessor C. Piazzi Smyth, at that time RoyalAstronomer for Scotland.In 1864-1865 Professor Smyth spent several monthsat the Pyramids. He made extensive measurements andastmnomical cnlculations; these he published in threemlumes entitled "Life and Work at the Great Pyranlid".He also published "Our Inheritance in the GreatPyramid". Later he made other visits to secure additionalmeasurements and to verify some previous ones,and in a few paint3 he re~ised his astronomical calcuktiomslightly.Tillivn Petrie. father of Professor ~lGders Petria,Grst suggested tliat the 'Ctopstone", itself a emallpyramid, to the form and anglea of which the wholestructure conformed, might in some lcnss qmbolim4