Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-11-13

would allow the despotism against his pso
pie to Ono farther. Making bricks without
| straw.
That oppression still goes on. Demand Of
your wife appropriate wardrobe and
bountiful table without providing the means
necessary-bricks without straw. Cities de-
manting in the public school faithful and
| successful instruction without giving ths
teachers competent livelihood-bricks with
out straw, United States government de-
lnanding of senator's and congressmen at
| Washin Iton full attendance to the interests
| OF the people, but on compensation which
| may have done well enough when twenty
five cents went as far as a dollar now, but
in these times not sufficient to preserve their
influence aud spectability-bricksw without
straw.
In many parts Of the land churches de-
manding OF pastors vigorous sermons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctifled Ciceros on four hundred dollars
year Bricks without straw. That Is one
reason why there are 50 many poor bricks.
In all departments, bricks not even or
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for Is
worth more than work not paid for. More
straw and then better bricks
But in all departments there are Pharaohs;
sometimes Capital Pharaoh and sometimes
Labor Pharaoh. When Capital prospers,
and makes a large percentage on its invest
ment, and declines to consider the needs of
the operatives. and treats them 50 many
human machineS-their nerves no more than
the bands ON the factory wheel-then Capt.
tai Is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
worKn. en-, not regarding the anxieties and
business struggles of the firm employing
them. and Ut the time when the firm are
doing their best to meet an important con-
tract and need all hands busy to accomplish
saN h Iowa
strike and put their employersint extreme
perplexity and severe loss-then Labor be-
comes Pharaoh OF the worst oppression,
and must look for the judgments Of God.
Let all oppressors whether III homes In
churches, in stores in offices, In factories In
social life or political life, in private life or
puUlic life know that God hates oppressors,
aud they will all come to grief here or here
after. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing,
a cunning thing decisive thing when for
the complete extinction of the Hebrews in
Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew boys mas
sacred, but he did not find it SO fine a thing
when his own first born that night OF the de-
stroying angel dropped dead on the mosaic
floor at the loot OF the porphyry pillar of ths
palace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning.
Some of the worst of them are on a small
scale in households. as when a man, because
his arm is strong and his voice loud, dom
mates his poor wife into n domestic slavery.
There are thousands OF such cases where
the wife is lifetime serf. her opinion disre-
garded, her tastes insulted, and her existence
a wretchedness, Though the world may not
know it. 1t Is Pharaoh that sits at the
head of that table, and Pharaoh that ty-
rannizes that home. There is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than domestic Pharaoh.
But 1t rolls over on me with great power
the thought that We have all been slaves
down in Egypt, and sin has been our task
master. and again and again we have feltits
lash. But Christ has been our Moses to lead
us out of bondage. and we are forever free.
The Red sea of saviour sacrifice rolls deep
and wide between us and our aforetime
bondage, and though there may be deserts
yet for US to cross, we are on the way TO the
Promised Land. Thanks be unto God for
this emancipating Gospel.
Come up out OF Egypt all ye who are yet
enslaved. What Cnrist did for US DE viii
do for you. Exodus" is the word. Exc
dusl Instead of the brick kilns OF Egypt
come into the empurploi vineyards of God,
where one cluster OF grapes is bigger than
the one that the spies bl ought to the Israeli
ties by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster
was so large that it was borne between two
upon staff"
Welcome all by sin oppressed,
Welcome to HIS sacred rest;
Nothing brought Him from above
Nothing but rcdeemiDg love.