Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-02

tho world must abolish its deserts.
Eight hundrA million OF the human
race are now living on lands not blessed
with rains, but dependent on irrigation,
and we want by irrigation to make room
for SOC, 200, 900 more. BY irrigation the
prophecy will be fulfilled, and s'the
desert will blossom as the rose." So
from Egypt the burden OF sand will be
lifted.
em phasis upon the fact that the last
outrage that resulted In the liberation
of the Hebrews was their being COM
nelled to make bricks without straw.
That was the last straw that broke the
camels back. God would allow the des-
potism against his people to 60 no fur
ther. Making bricks without straw!
But In all departments there are
Pharoahs: Sometimes
CAPITAL A PHARoAH,
and sometimes Labor Pharoah. When
Capital prospers, and makes large per-
centage on its investments, and declines
TO consider the needs of the operatives,
and treats them as so many human ma
chimes. their nerves no more than the
bands on the factory wheel-then Capt.
tai is a Pharaoh.
When In December of 1889. at the
Museum at Boulac, Egypt. l looked at
the mummies of the old Pharaohs, the
very miscreants who diabolized centur-
les. and saw their teeth and hair and
finger nails and the flesh drawn tight
over their cheek bones, the sarcophagi
of these dead moparchs side by side,
and was SO fascinated could only
with difficulty get away from the spot.
/ was not looking upon the last OF the
Pharaohs.
There is no more abhorrent Pharaoh
than q domestic Pharaoh. There are
thousands of women to whom death is
passage from Egypt to Canaan, because
they get rid of cruel task-master.
What an accursed monster is that man
who keeps his wife in dread about fam
lily expenses, and must be cautious how
she introduces an article of millinery,
or womanly wardrobe without humili-
ating consultation and apology. Who
is that man acting so? For six months
i'm order to win that woman's heart,
he sent her every few days bouquet
wound with white ribbon, and an en-
dearing couplet, and took her to con-
certs and theatres, and helped her into
carriages as though she were princess,
and ran across the room to pick up her
pocket-handerchie with the speed OF
an antelope, and on che
MARRIAGE-DAY
promised all that the liturgy required,
saying, st pillp with an emphasis that
excited the admiration of all spectators.
But now he begrudges her two cents
for postage stamp, and wonders why
she rides across Brooklyn Bridge when
the foot-passage costs nothing. He
thinks now she is awful plain, and he
acts like the devil, and while he
thunders out, "Where did you get that
new hat from? That is where my
money goes. Where's my breakfast?
Do you call that coffee? Didn't l tell
you to sew on that button? Want to
see your mother, do you? You are
always going to see your mother! What
are you whimpering about? Hurry up
now aud get my slippers! Where's the
newspaper" The tone, the look, the
patience-the cruelty Of Pharaoh.
That Is what gives so many women
cowed down look. Pharaoh! you had
better take your iron heel of that wo-
mans neck, or God will help you re-
move your heel. She says nothing.
For the sake of avoiding scandal she
keeps -eilent: but her tears - '---0I. 's,S
have gone into record that you Will
have to meet as certainly as Pharaoh
had to meet hail, and lightning, and
darkness, and the death angel. God
never vet gave to any man the right to
tyrannize woman, and what sneak
you are to take advantage OF the mar
riage-vow, and because she cannot help
herself, and under the shelter OF your
own home out-Pharaoh the Egyptian
oppressor. There is something awfully
wrong i'm household where the woman
is not considered. No room in this
world for any
MORE PHARAoHs!
But it rolls over on me with great
power the thought that we have all been
slaves down in Egypt, and sin has been
our taskmaster, and again and again we
have felt its lash. But Christ has been
our Moses to lead US out of bondage,
aud we are forever free. The Red Sea
of a Saviour's 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 Christ did for US
He will do for you. Exodus" Is the
word. Exodus! Instead OF the brick
kilns OF Egypt come into the empur-
pied vineyards Of God where one clus-
ter Of grapes is bigger than the one that
the spies brought to the Israelites by
the brook Eschol, though that cluster
was so large that it was born "between
two upon staff"
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