The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-03
Is THERE ANYPARALLEL?

greatest ofnatiOns, numbered among
them. In her borders dwelt the
little colony of Israel. heir to prom
iseS made to the fathers, yet had
now become the subjects of pro-
scriptive rule, They were con-
sidered as menials and common
labOrers in land where wealth, and
art and science fourished; the
Pharoahs were dynasty for many
generations, and a court magnif-
Gently appointed, with aristocratic
rulers, crushed by ultra and extra
legal and judicial decisions these
tribes of Israel, who nevertheless
continued to increase, Slavery
eventually became their condition.
and some have said that vast num-
bers of them aided in the eonstruc-
ton of the pyramids, being the
great force, in the absence of the
power of modern mechanics, in
these and other public labors
of the land. They were
a prolific race; however intense
labor may have swept of its vic
TINS, they tOOtLld increase and null
tiply; this only adding to the exac-
tions of the pablo Overseers, and
the hatred of the conquerors! In
the brick fields, moulding the Ooze
and slime of the Nile there was no
diminution of the tale of brick"
further, it had been customary on
the part Of the authorities to sur
ply straw, which, when mixed with
the material named, compelled ad-
hesiOn, but finally this important
supply was withheld, without, how
ever, II any wise diminishing the
compulsory count
There had been many an uuno-
ticed protest against exaction many
a cry for simple justice and COM
mon rights had been unheeded; ap-
peal after appeal had been made to
those in authority for redress, but
all had been said and done
in vain; self-help appeare d
an impossibility, the resources
of a wealthy, a Warlike and a sue.
cessful people we're ample to keep
in check anything savOring Of re-
bellion against the government or
opposition to it's decree public Opin-
ion was against Israel, and the relig-
ion and Gods of Egypt were far
mole ancient and potent than the
gospel as practiced by a nOn-resist-
ing people, and as to the God OF Is
Tael, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
there was no faith in or knowledge
of him amid the temples aud priests
and sacrifices of the sO-called higher
race.
With continual friction came the
hour and the man," Moses, in pro
test, then miracle, then demand
gave premOnitOry symptoms OF {
coming change; to go out into the
wilderness where tney might wor
ship their own God in his appointed
way. was the final claim of the Op
press ed; after some parleying ant
the usual red tape which comes
of tyrannic8l rule, judgmen
brought the defiant, uncOm
promising, christening nation
to a stand; the hard sought permits
sion was obtained; Israel went GU
as they desired, but had advanced
but little, when it repented Egyp
that they "had let the people go !;
word went Out for a cOmpulSor,
turning OF the supposed fugitlves
chariotS of war, anu hosts of armed
men Differed by the highest in tn
land, commanded even by the king
! went forth in this wonderful eXpe
dition, sanguine of success they fol
flowed down the mountain defiles tt
where certain capture was expected
on the shores of the famed Rel Sta
hemmed in was Israel then, yet thei
deliVerance was Gods decree, tn,
Iwaters opened to the right and left
men, women, children, t1ocks, herd
passed in safety. pharaoh and hi!
hosts eSsayed to follow" bat the re
ttnrning waters pressed them to theil
fate, then they perished fighting
lagainst God and his people; vic
| tory rested on the banners and tents
= and on the ark OF the covenant a
had been promised Of old.
A striking counterpart of this il
said to belong to modern times; NO
in barbarous nations does thi
exist; not with the semi-civilize(
or Asiatic people of the globe; no
in the steppes. of Russia wher'
despOtism and Plaraoh-like pOwe
is said to make its throne; no
under an empire like that of thu
German confederation not in Eng
land under limited monarchy anC
state-chureh prestige and exactiOn
but in the United States, the mos
Enlightened, the most liberal, The
most tOlerantthe least priest-Eidden
lis this said to bel d d.
| In this modern Egypt but a while
lago there was found a struggling
colony who claimed, like those Of
Iold, the name of Israel; they ever
in some way claimed by lineage OF
otherwise by promise and adoption
to be the same race; they claimed
for themselves the same God
leven the God Of Abraham
| Isaac and Jacob; they were
acquainted with the religions
Of this Egypt, with its priests anC
lsacrifices and the objects Of its Wor
ship; some bad been deyotees OF
these diverse faiths, and had sup
Iposed that rs this diversity excited
| little Or no comment, that one more
could make but very little differ