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hali aud lightning. And then locusts
came III. swarms OF them, worse than
the grasshoppers ever were in Kansas,
and then darkness dropped for three
days 80 that the people could not see
their hand before their face, great
surges Of midnight covering them.
And last Of all, on the night OF the 18th
of April. about eighteen hundred years
before Christ, the Destroying Angel
sweeps past; and hear IT all night long,
the flap! flap! flap! Of his wings until
Egypt rolled on great hearse, the
eldest child dead in everv Egyptian
home, The eldest son of Pharaoh ex-
pired that night In the palace and all
along the streets of Memphis and IIe-
liopolis, and all up aud down the Nile
there Sas funeral wall that would
have rent the fold of the unnatural
darkness If 1t had not been impenetra.
BILE.
NOW is ISRAEL CHANCE.
The !srealitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
o ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up
what pieces Of food you can and to the
desert! Its simeoms are better than
the bondage you haye suffered. Its
scorpions will not sting 80 sharply as
the wrongs that have stung YOU all
your lives. Away The man who was
2radled in the basket of papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is
the night of your rescue. They gather
together at signal. Alexander's 8
armies and all the armies of olden time
wele led by torches on high poles, great
crests Of fire; aud the Lord Almighty
kindles torch not held by human
hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but
kindled out of the atmosphere, such a
torch as the world never saw before
and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, pillar
of fire, that pillar practically Reying
"This way! March this wayw On that
supernatural tlambeau more than a
million refugees set their eyes. Moses
and Aaron lead on. Then come the
herds and flocks moving on across the
sands to what Is the beach of waters
now called Bahr- ell -KulZum, but called
dipped my hands in its blue waters, the
heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled
over me.
ON TIE RED SEAS SHORE.
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the banks of the Red sea. As the
shadows begin to fail, in the distance
is seen the host Of Pharaoh in pursuit.
| There were six hundred finest war
chariots, followed by common chariots,
rolling at full speed And the glitter
ing of the wheels and the curse Of In.
| furiated Egyptians came down with
the darkness. But the Lord opened
| the crystal gates of Bahr. el-Kulzum
and the enslayed IsTaelites passed into
liberty, and then the crystal gates of
hn 1aI Oh, nf
tian pursuers.
1t was about two o'clock in the morn
ing when tho interlocked axle trees of
the Egyptian chariots could not move
an inch either way. But the Red sea
unhitched the horses and unhelmeted
the warriors, and left the proud host a
wreck on the Arabian sands. Then
| two choruseB arose, and Moses led the
| men In one, and Miriam led the women
| in the other, and the women beat time
| with their feet. The record SAYS: "All
the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances. And Miriam
| answered them, Sing ye to the Lord,
for he hash triumphed gloriously; the
horse and his rider hath he thrown into
the sea-" What a thrilling story of en-
durance and victory.
Tho geatest triumph of Handels
genius was shown in his immortal dra-
matte oratorio, Israel In Egypt" He
had given to the world the oratorio of
Esther and Deborah" and Athaliah,
but reserved for his mightiest exertion
at the full height of his powers the
marshalng Of all musical instruments
to the description in harmony Of the
scenes on which we this morning dwell.
He gave twenty-seven days to this pro-
duction, with its twenty-eight choruses,
enthralling his own time and all after
time with his Israel In Egypt"
SO the burden of oppression was lift
ed, but another burden Of EGYPT Is
made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa is
great continent for deserts, Libyan
desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and
there and yonder, condemning vast re.
gions of Africa to barrenness, one of
the deserts three thousand miles long
those deserts will yet be flooded. and so
made fertile. De Lesseps says it can be
done, and he who planned the Suez Ca
nal, which marrieS the Red sea, and
tho Mediterranean, knows whaS he Is
talking about.
The human race is so multiplied that
1T must have more cultivated land, and
the world must abolish its deserts.
Eight hundred millions of the human
race are now living on lands not blessed
with rains but dependent on irriga-
ton, and we want by irrigation to
make room Tor eight hundred millions
more. by irrigation the prophecy will
be fulfilled, and "the desert will blossom
as the rose" SO from Egypt the bur-
den of sand Will be lifted.
THE BURDEN OF MOIIAMMEDANISM
Another burden of Egypt TO he lifted
is the burden Of NlOhammedism, al
though there are seme good things
about that religion. a cOmmendable
grace is cleanliness. Strong drink Is
positively forbidden by Mohammedau-
ism, and though some may have seen
q drunken Mohammedan, / never saw
ono. 1t is religion of sobriety. Then
they are not ashamed of their deyo-
tions. When the call for prayers Is
sounded from the minarets the Moham.
medan Immediately unrols the rug
on the ground and falls on his
knees. and crowds Of spectators are to
him no embarrassment-repr to
many Christian who omits his pray
ers If people are looking.
But Mohammedanism with its poly
gamy, blights everything 1t touches.
Mohammed, Its founder, had four
wives, and his followers are the enc.
mics of good womanhood. Moham-
mechanism puts its curse on all Egypt,
and by setting up sinful Arab higher
than the immaculate Christ, is an over
whelming blasphemy. May God help
the brave and consecrated missionaries
who ara sDpndiDo IN air iyoa In onn,hot