Article September 4, 1926 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Reynold E. Blight, James Waterman Wise

[From the British Weekly, London, England]

In the late Lord Cromer's "Modern Egypt" there is a thing concerning General Gordon which must not be suffered to die. Lord Cromer had asked Gordon to launch out upon some new venture, or to take some step which could not but be a decisive one. Gordon, in his acknowledgment of Lord Cromer's instruction or advice, replied that "before coming to a decision he would like first to consult the prophet Isaiah"! In a footnote Lord Cromer exclaims upon this naivete. And yet was it not wise? Was it not great? What rivers of blood would never have been let loose, what inequalities and injustices would never have begun to lift up the very tiniest of heads, so that the little, wriggling, wormlike thing would never have grown to a snake and very python, had we all, high and low, emperors, statesmen, financiers, proprietors of newspapers, leaders of the people, and all others of the race that bestride this world like a Colossus, "first consulted the prophet Isaiah"!

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