The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-06
to all sensible men AMI women a. that

to all sensible men AMI women a that
two and two make four.
But the dead cities strung along the
Nile not only demolish infdelity, but
thunder down the a~bsurdity OF the
modern doctrine Of evolution which
says the world started with nothing
and then rose, and human nations be-
gan with nothing but evolved into
splendid manhood and womanhood Of
itself. Nay; the sculpture Of the world
was moro wonderful in the days OF
Memphis and Thebes and Carthage
than in the days Of Boston and New
York.
Those blocks Of stone weighing 800
tons high up in the wall at Karnac i'm
ply machinery equal 10 IL not surpaSs-
ing the machinery Of the nineteenth
century. How was hat statue Of
Rsmeses, weighing eight hundred and
eighty-scven tons. transported from the
auarries two hundred miles away. and
how was II lifted? Tell Us, modern
machiuistS How were those galleries
of rock, still standing at Thebes. filled
with paintings surpassed by no artists
pencil of the present day? Tell us,
artists of the nineteenth century. The
lead cities OF Egypt so far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or Sc
pulchres Of temple ruins To tell the
story-Memphis, Migiol, Hierapolis, To-
an. The hes Goshen, Carthage-all Of
them developing downward instead OF
upward. They have evolved from mag
nificerce To destruction. The gospel
| Of Jesus Christ is the only elevator OF
Individual and social national char
actcr. Let all the living cities
know that pomp and opulcnce and
These ancient cities lacked nothing but
good morals. Dissipation and sir slew
them, and unless dissipation and sin
are halted, they will some day Stay our
modem cities, and leave our palaces Of
merchandise and our galleries OF art
and our city halls as fiat in the
dus; as we found Memphis And
if the cities go down. the ma
tim will go down 60" You
say, that is impossible; we have
sDod so long-yea, over 100 years as o
ration" Why. what of that? Thebes
Stood over 500 years; Memphis stood
100 years. God does not forget One
.iy with the Lord is as 900 years and
1000 years as one day. Rum and de-
bauchery and bad politics are more
rapidly working the destruction OF our
american cities than sin of any kind,
,nd all kinds worked for the destruc-
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might and now so PROSTATE. Buttheir
gods were idols and could do nothing
except for debasement.
Our God made the heavens and sent
His Son To redeem the nations And
our cities will not 60 down. n our
nations will not perish because the Cos
pei is going to triumph. Forward! all
schools and colleges and chufchesi
Forward! all the influences marshaled
to bless the world Let our modern
European and American cities listen TO
the voice of those ancient cities fcsur-
rectcd, and by hammer and chisel and
,crowbar compelled TO speak.
/ notice the voice of those ancient
cities is hoarse from the exposure Of
forty centuries. and they accehtuate
slowly with lips that were palsied for
,gcs, but all together those cite. along
he Nile intone these words: Hear US
hr we are very old. and it is hard for
Us to speak. We were wise long before
Athens learned her first lesson. We
sailed our ships while yet navigation
was unborn. These obclisks, these
pyramids, these fallen pillars, these
wrecked temples. these colossi of
iia,k granite, these wrecked
sartophagi under the brow of b
lie, Tell you of what | was In
grandeur and what | am coming down
to be. We sinncd and we fell. Our
learning could not saw us. See those
half obiterated hieroglyphics on you-
der wall. Our architecture could not
save us. See the painted columns OF
Phila and tho shattered temple of
Esneh. Our heroes could not save MS.
Witness Mcnes, Diodorus. Harnesses and
Ptolemv. Our gods Ammon and Osiris
could not save us. See their fallen
temples all along the 1000 miles OF
other God: a God who can help.
a God who can pardon. n God
who can save. Called up As we are for
n little while to give testimony. again
the sands Of the desert will bury us
Ashes To ashes. dust To dust And rs
these voices of porphyry and granite
ceased. all the ~sarcophagi under the
hills responded: ashes to ashes"
and the capital of a lofty column fell.
grinding itself to powder among the
rocks, and responded: Dust to dust!"