Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . I AM GUILTY. THE PLAGUE OF CRIME. All the waters that were in the river were turned to vii, 20. V#¥fmong all the Egyptian plagues none could have?illbeen worse than this. The Nile is the wealth ofSJh^Egypt. Its fish the food, its waters the irriga-tion of garden and fields. Its condition decides theprosperity or the doom of the empire. What happensto the Nile happens to all Egypt. And now in the textthat great river is incarnadined. It is a red gash acrossan empire. In poetic
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . I AM GUILTY. THE PLAGUE OF CRIME. All the waters that were in the river were turned to vii, 20. V#¥fmong all the Egyptian plagues none could have?illbeen worse than this. The Nile is the wealth ofSJh^Egypt. Its fish the food, its waters the irriga-tion of garden and fields. Its condition decides theprosperity or the doom of the empire. What happensto the Nile happens to all Egypt. And now in the textthat great river is incarnadined. It is a red gash acrossan empire. In poetic license we speak of wars whichturn the rivers into blood. But my text is not a poeticlicense. It was a fact, a great crimson, appalling con-dition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Canyou imagine a more awful plague? CRIME IN OUR CITIES. The modern plague which nearest corresponds with thatis the plague of crime in all our cities. It halts not forbloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises andcuts and strikes down and destroys. It revels in theblood of body and soul, this plague of
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