[Q] An Address to College Students at the close of a course of lectures on Egypt and her Monuments. Illustrated by lantern photographs. The Reis is at his helm, the great sail is furled and bound closely to the long yard; for, as the wind during the early spring blows here constantly from the north, we must depend on the rapid current of the Nile to bear us back to civilization: a river which, flowing through so many generations of men from the unknown to the unlimited, not unfitly typifies the course of history; and as, in imagination, we drift with this historical stream, we can not fail to learn the lesson which the associations and the scenes are so calculated to teach. That lesson is the grandeur, the glory, and the immortality of the spiritual life of man. We go back six thousand years, and find the Sphinx, as to-day, looking toward the rising sun, and pondering the problem of human destiny. The pyramid-builders come, and erect those neighboring piles to preserve their bodies when dead for that glorious destiny in which they trust. The long procession of the Pharaohs passes, and each inscribes indelibly on rocky walls his faith in the great God who holds human destiny in his hands. Moses comes, and leads out of Egypt the chosen people to prepare the way for the expected Messiah. The Assyrians and the Persians come, and, while seeking to read their destiny in the courses of the stars, pay homage to the same great hope. The Greeks come, and, even amid gross licentiousness and idolatry, erect magnificent temples, in attestation of a belief in human destiny which, however degraded, still survived. The Romans come, and in this mystic land lay aside their legal codes, and add their testimony to the same great truth. The Christian hermits come, and make the storied stones of the Pharaohs re-echo with their triumphant songs. The Arab comes, and, as morning and evening he gazes into the East, sees visions of the glorious Mecca of his hopes for which the Sphinx has looked so long. Last of all, the modern traveler comes, and he journeys in vain if he does not recognize in all this aspiration and all this yearning the attestation of those spiritual truths which to him the risen Christ has revealed. As in material nature every unemployed organ distinctly points to a previous use or to a future fruition: so, in the spiritual world, every striving is a promise of a possible good; and these yearnings of humanity, which have come down through the ages, are as truly a promise of the Eternal as were the words spoken to Abraham on the plains of Mamre.