Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06

cnance, o We wrongcd Hebrews! Snatch
up what pieces of food you can and TO
the desert! Its simooms are better than
the bondage you have suffered It's
scorpions will not sting so sharply as
tho wrongs that have stung You all
YOUR lives. Away! The man who was
Graded 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
armies and all the armies of olQen
time were led by torches on nigh poles,
great crests of fire; and the Lord AL
mighty kindles torch not held by hu-
man hands, but by omnipotent hand
Not made out of straw or oil, but kin
died out of the atmosphere such a torch
as the world never saw before and never
will see again. 1t reached from the
earth into the Heaven, pillar OF ire,
that pillar practically saying: This
way! March this wayn' On that super
natural tiambeau more than million
refugees set their eyes. Moses and Aaron
lead on. Then come the families
of Israel. Then come the herds and
tlocks moving on across the sands to
what is the beach of waters now
called Bahr-el- Kulzum, but called in the
Bible the Red Sea. And when dipped
my hands in its blue waters the beroics
of the Mosaic passage rolled over me.
| After three days march the Israelitish
refugees cncamped for the night on the
bank of the Red Sea. AS the shadows
begin to fall, in the distance is seen the
| host of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were
| GOO finest war chariots followed by COM
mon chariots rolling at full speed. And
the glittering of the wheels and the
curse of Infatuated Egyptians came down
with the darkness. But the Lord opened
the crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kuzum and
the enslaved Israelitcs passed into liber-
ty, and then the crystal gates of the sea
rolled shut against the Egyptian pursu-
ers.
1t was about o'clock in the morning
when the interlocked aSletrces of the
Egyptian ohariots could not move an
inch either way. But the Red Sea I'M
hitched the horses and unhelmeted the
warriors and left the proud host a wreck
on the Arabian sands. Then two
choruses arose, and Moses led the men
in the 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 tim
brels and with dances. And Miriam an
swcred Them, Sing ye to the Lord, for
He hath triumphcd glorously; the horse
and his rider hath He thrown into the
sea- What thrilling story of endur-
ance and victory!
The greatest triumph of Handel's ge-
Mus 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 mightest exertion, at
the full height of his powers, the mar
shaling of all musical instruments to the
description in harmony OF the scenes on
which we this morning dwell. He gave
twenly-seven days to. this production,
with its twenty-cight choruses enthrall-
ing his own time and all after-time with
his "Israel in Egypt
But in all the departments, To-Day
there are Pharaohs. Sometimes Capt.
tai a Pharaoh and sometimes Labor a
Pharaoh. When Capital prospers- and
makes large percentage on its invest
ment and declines to consider the needs
of the operatives, and treats them as so
many human machines, their nerves no
more than the bands on the factory
wheel--then Capital is q Pharaoh. On
the other hand, when worInon, not re-
garding the anXietes and business
struggles Of the firm employing them,
and at a time when the firm arc doing
their best to meet an important contract
and need all hands busy to accomplish 1t,
at such a time to. have his employees
make a strike and put THEM employers
into extreme perplexity and, severe loss
| them Labor becomes a Pharaoh of the
worst oppression, and must look, out for
the judgments of God.
Let all oppressors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores, in offices, in fac
tories, in social life or POLITICAL life, in
private life or public life know that God
hates oppressors, and they will all come
to grief here or hereafter Pharaoh
thought he did a fine thing, a cunning
thing, a decisive thing when for the COM
plete extinction Of the Hebrews in Egypt
he ordered all the Hebrew boys massa-
cred, but he dad not find it SO fine a thing
when his own first born that night of
the destroying angel dropped dead on the
mosaic floor at the foot OF the porphyry
pillar of the palace. Let all the Phar-
aohs take warning, Some Of the worst
of them are Oh small scale in house.
holds as when man, because his arm is
strong and his voice loud, dominates his
poor wife into domestic. slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife is lifetime serf, he1
opinion disrcgarded, her tastes insulted,
and her existence a wretehedness, though
the world may not know it. 1t is 8
Pharaoh that sits at the head Eof that
table, and Pharaoh that tyrannizes
) that home. There is no more abhorrent
, Pharaoh than domestic Pharaoh
There are thousands of women to whom
) death is passage from Egypt to Canaan
because they get rid of cruel task
master.
But it rolls over on me with greA,
} power the thought that we have all beer
slaves down ill Egypt, and sin has beef
, our taskmaster, and again ana again VIZ
} have felt its lash. But Christ has beer
our Moses to lead us out of bondage, ant
we are forever free. The Bed Sea OF
< Saviour's sacrifice rolls daep and wild,
between us and our aforetime bondage
3 and though there may he desserts yet fo
3 Us to cross we are on The way 10 tn,
| Promised Land. Thanks be unto Coz
: FOR this cmancipating Gospel! Come vi
/ out of Egyps. all We who are yet en-
: shaved. What Christ did for us He will
do fnr &c M