The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-30

70 all sensible men and women Is thai
two and two make four
Rut the dead cities strung along the
Nile not only demolish inhdelity, but
thunder down the absurdity of the
modern doctrine of evolution which
saws the world started with nothing
and then rose, and human nations be
gan with nothing but evolved into
Splendid manhood and wOmauhOod Of
itself Nay; the sculpture OF the world
was more wonderful Ia the days Of
Memphis aud Thebss aud 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 to IL not surpass-
ing the machinery of the nineteenth
century. How was that statue of
Ramessa, weighing eight hundred and
eighty-seven tons, transported from the
quarries two hundred miles away, and
how was It lifted? Tell us, modern
machinistz How were those galleries
OF rock, still standing at Thebes, filed
with paintings surpassed by no artists
pencil of the present day? Tell us
artists of the nineteenth century. The
dead cities OF Egypt so far as they have
left enough pillars or statues or Sc
pulchres of temple ruins to tell the
story-Aiemphis, bligdol, HieEaPOlis. 70
an, The hes, Goshen, Csrthage-au Of
them developing downward instead of
upward. They have evolved from N ag-
uificsnce to destruction The gospel
of Jesus Christ is the only elevator OF
individual and social national char
acter. Let all the living cities
know that PomP and opulence and
temporal prosperity are no security.
| These ancient cities lacked nothing but
good morals Dissipation and sin slew
them, aud unless dissipation and sin
are halted. they will some day slay our
modern cities, and leave our palaces Of
merchandise aud our galleries of art
dust as we found Memphis And
| if the cities go down, the ma
ton will go down 80, you
/ say, that is impossible; we have
stood SO Iong-yea, over 100 years as
nation" Why, what of that? Thebes
stood over 500 years; Memphis stood
/ 900 years. God does not forget One
day with the Lord is as 1000 years aud
| 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,
and all kinds worked for the destruc-
ton of the cities of Africa, once, SO
might and now so PROSTATE. But.their
/ 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, and our
/ nations will not perish because the Cos
pei is going to triumph. Forward! all
| schools and colleges and churchesf
Forward! all the influences marshaled
/ to bless the world Let our modern
| European and American cities listen to
the voice OF those ancient cities resur-
/ rected, 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 accentuate
slowly with lips that were palsied for
| ages, but all together those cities along
/ the Nile intOne these words: Hear us
/ for 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 obelislIs, these
pyramids, these fallen pillars, these
/ black granite, these wrecked
sarcOphagi under the brow of the
/ hills, tell you of what I was in
| grandeur and what i am coming down
/ to be. We siuned and we fell Our
/ learning could not save us See those
! half Obliterated hieroglyPhics on yon-
/ der wall. Our architecture could not
/ save US See the painted columns of
| PhilB and the shattered temple OF
| Esneh. Our heroes could not save US.
/ Witness Menes, DiOdorus, Rameses and
/ PtOlemy. Our gods Ammon and Osiris
| could not save us. See their fallen
/ temples all along the 1000 miles OF
| Nile. Oh, ye modern cities, get some
| other God; a God who can help.
/ a God who can pardon, a God
/ who can save. Called mp as we are for
| q little while to give testimony, again
! the sands OF the desert will bury us
| Ashes to ashes, dust to dustr' And as
| these voices of pOrphyry and granite
| ceased, all the sarcoPhagi under the
| hills responded; Ashes to ashesl"
and the capital of a lofty column fell,
| grinding itself to powder among the
rocks, and responded; Dust to dusti'