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THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast 

 forgotten me, saith the Lord God. Behold, therefore, 

 I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which 

 thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the 

 midst of thee." Ezekiel xxii: 12, ij. 



Let us briefly review the history of the nations that 

 have violated this edict of God. Egypt has a name, great 

 in the annals of history. Building is one of the greatest 

 achievements of mankind. The great pyramid of Gizeh 

 is the greatest monument of human history, the mightiest 

 building on earth, and the oldest; in structure a miracle, 

 in extent almost incomprehensible. Forty centuries have 

 looked upon its glittering sides, and the the tooth of Time 

 during all these rolling centuries has not been able to eat 

 away the grandeur of the pile. Generations of men have 

 come and gone; nations have lived and died; empires rose 

 and fell; and, amid all, " Cheops' shaft," like a great rock in 

 a weary land, stands grand, silent, defiant a symbolized 

 finger of Deity. 



But Egypt is dead. Her lands drifted into the hands 

 of one per cent, of her people. The rest were slaves. 

 Usury and land monopoly brought tribulation and suffer- 

 ing. The song of death floated out upon the air amid the 

 wails of the dying and anguish of the living. Then God 

 frowned upon Egypt, and she was known no more among 

 the great nations of the earth. Her death dirge should be 

 a warning to us. 



Then came Babylon, the mightiest city upon earth. 

 The rising sun bathed her wilderness of gilded spires in 

 myriads of colors. She was matchless in beauty and une- 

 qualed in extent. Her walls were sixty miles around, and 

 her battlements three hundred feet high; fifteen hundred 

 streets, crossing at right angles, presented to the view of 

 the happy beholder swinging gardens and sparkling fount- 

 ains. Thus stood Babylon in all the ravishments of her 





