American Indians, but the Irish! And here is a publication of the
"Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society," declaring:

The great pyramid in Egypt is a witness to all the events of
the ages and of our day. The pyramid's downward passage
under "a Draconis" symbolizes the course of Sin. Its first
ascending passage symbolizes the Jewish Age. Its Grand
Gallery symbolizes the Gospel Age. Its upper step symbolizes
the approaching period of tribulation and anarchy,
"Judgment" upon Christendom.

It is a Sunday morning, and I sit in the California sunshine revising
this manuscript, when a decorous-looking young man approaches, having
a sack over his shoulder. "From the Bible-students," he says politely,
and hands me a little paper, "The Bible Students' Monthly: an
Independent, Unsectarian Religious Newspaper, Specially devoted to the
Forwarding of the Lay-men's Home Missionary Movement for the Glory of
God and Good of Humanity." The leading article is headed "The Fall of
Babylon: Ancient Babylon a Type--Mystic Babylon the Antitype: Why
Christendom must Suffer--the Final Outcome." A note explains:

The following article is extracted from Pastor Russell's
posthumous volume entitled "The Finished Mystery," the 7th
in the series of his Studies in the Scriptures and published
subsequent to his death. Pastor Russell held the distinction
of being the most fearless and powerful writer of modern
times on ecclesiastical subjects. In this posthumous volume,
which is called "his last legacy to the Christians on
earth," is found a thorough exposition of every verse in the
entire book of Revelation and also an elucidation of the
obscure prophecy of Ezekiel. The book contains 608 pages,
handsomely bound in embossed cloth.

Pastor Russell used to publish a two-column sermon in some
hundreds of Sunday newspapers, together with a presentment of his
features--solemn, stiff, white-whiskered, set off with a "choker" and
a black broadcloth coat. There are five million such faces in America,
but if you have an impulse to despair for your country, remember that
it produced Mark Twain and Artemus Ward, as well as Pastor Russell and
the Moody and Sankey hymn-book. I quote one passage from "The Finished
Mystery", in order that the reader may know what it means to "hold the
distinction of being the most fearless and powerful writer of modern
times on ecclesiastical