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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Jeremiah, xlii: 13, 14.)--'But if ye say, We will
not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God, saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where
we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell.' By words like
these Jeremiah was seeking to keep the remnant of Judah from going into Egypt out of fear of the king of Babylon. But the
words of the prophet fell on unwilling ears, and in spite of all his efforts they went down into Egypt. But this remnant of
Judah found to their cost that Jeremiah was right. The king of Babylon invaded Egypt also, and the remnant of Judah that fled
from Babylon's king into the land of Egypt were consumed there by the sword and famine. We give as an illustration of this
Scripture, the Sphinx which was the silent witness of the events here recorded."
A man stands on the shoulder of the Sphinx; two pyramids (one partially visible) are in the background
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