The Globe-republican., 1891-11-19

money gave ont and then they paid IL
cattle. After awhile the cattle were 81
In the possession of the Government, and
then the Hebrews bought corn from the
Government by surrendering themselves
as slaves
Then began slavery in Egypt The
Government owned all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunatics, who in Ameri-
ca propose handing over telegraph com
panies and railroads and other things to
be run by Government see the folly OF
letting Government get its hands on
everything. 1 would rather trust the
people than any government the United
States ever had or will have. Woe
worth the day when legislators and con.
crosses and administrations get posses
sion OF anything more than it is neces.
sary for them to have. That would be
the revival in this land of that old
Egyptian tyranny for which God has
never had anything but red hot thunder,
bolts.
But through such unwise processes
Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and the
long line OF agOnies began all up and
down the Nile. Heavier and sharper
fell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier
grew the workmeD, louder and longer
went up the prayer. until three millions
OF the enslaved were CRYING: "Ya, Al
lah. Va, Allah" o God! o God!
Where was help to come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding nations;
Pharaoh's threat made them tremble.
Not the gods Ammon and Osiris or the
goddess Isis, for Pharaoh built their
temples out of this diabolical servitude.
But one hot day the Princess Thonoris,
the daughter of Pharaoh, while in her
has word brought her that there is a
baby afloat on the river in a cradle made
out of big leaves.
OF course there is excitement all up
and down the banks, for an ordinary
baby in an ordinary cradle attracts
smiling attention, but an infant in a
cradle of papyrus rocking on a river
arOuseS not only admiration but curiosity.
Who made that boat? Who made it
watertight with bitumen? Who launched
it? Reckless Of the crocOdiles who lay
basking themselves in the sun, the
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries him and then
another carries him, and all the way up
the bank he runs gantlet of caresses,
till Thonoris rushes out Of the bathing
house and says: Beautiful founding,
will adopt you as my own. You shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit on
the Egyptian throne"
No! No! No! He is to be the eman-
cipator of the Hebrews. Tell it in all
the brick kilns. Tell it among all those
who are writhing under the lash. Tell
it among all the castles of Memphis and
Heliopolis and ZOan and Thebes. Be-
fore him a sea will part. On mountain
top, alone, this one will receive from the
Almighty law that is to be the foun-
dation of all good law while the world
lasts. When he is dead, God will come
down on Nebo and alone bury him, no
tend the obsequies.
The child grows up and goes out al d
studies the horrors of Egyptian Oppres-
sion and suppreSses his Indignation, for
the right time has not come, although
once for minute he let fly, and when
he saw a taskmaster put the whip on
the back of a workman who was doing
his best. and heard the poor fellow cry
and saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
up his fist and struck him on the temple
till the cruel william rolled over in the
sand exanimate and never swung the
lash again. Served him right!
But, Moses, are you going to under
take the impOssibilities? You feel that
you are going to free the Hebrews from
bondage. But where is your army?
Where is your navy? Not sword have
you, not spear, not chariot, not
horse. All. God was on his side and He
has an army of his own. The snowstorms
are on Gods side-witness the snow
banks in which the French army of in
vaSion were buried on their way back
from Moscow. The lain is on His side
the 18th of June at Waterloo,
when the tempest so saturated the road
that the attack could not be made ON
WelIington's forces until IL o'clock and
he was strong enough to hold out until
arrived.
Had that battle been opened at 5
o'clock in the morning instead of at IL,
the destiny of Europe would have been
turned the wrong way. The heavy rain
decided everything. So also are the
winds and the waves on Gods side
witness the Amanda with $50 ships, .
ESQ guns. and 5000 sailors. and 10000
soldiers sent out by Philip IL of Spain to
conquer England.
What became Of those men aud that
shipping? Ask the wind and the waves
oil along the English and Irish coasts.
The men and the ships all wrecked or
drowned or scattered. So l expect that
Moses will be helped in rescuing the Is
raelites by special weaponry. To the
Egyptian the Nile was a deity. Its
waters were then as now very delicious
It was the finest natural beverage of all
the earth. We have no such love for the
and Germans have no such love
for the Rhine, and Russians have no
such love for the VOlga, as the Egyptians
have love for the Nile.
But one gay. when Pharaoh comes
Down to this river, Moses takes stick
and whips the waters, and they turn into
The cores Of q slaughter house. and
through the sluices and fish ponds the
ncarnadined liquid backs up into the
and. and the malodor whelms every
hing from mud howell to throne room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
Ill over everything. Then this people.
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