News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-11-05

bread The old mans boy, Joseph,
was prime minister, and Joseph sup
pose the father and the brothers called
ference how much a boy is advanced
! in worldly success, his father and broth
ers and sisters always call him by the
same name that he was called by when
two years old-Joseph, by Pharaoh's
permission, gave to his family, who
had Just arrived the richest part of
! Egypt-the Westchester farms or the
Lancaster farms of the ancients.
Jacobs descendants rapidly multi
piled. After awhile Egypt took a turn
at famine, and those descendants of
Jacob, the Israelites, came to great
storehouse which Joseph had provided,
and paid in money for corn. But af
ter awhile the money gave out and
then they paid in cattle. After awhile
the cattle were all in possession of the
| government, and then the Hebrews
bought corn from the government by
surrendering themselves as slaves.
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
| L D6l Dc9tIl SIetNGIy III ILSy Hl' LIZ
government owned all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunatics, who in Amer
lea propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads and other
things to be run by government see
| the folly of letting government get its
hand on everything. | would rather
| trust the people than any government
the United States ever had or will
have. Woe worth the day when legis-
lators and congresses and administra-
tions get possession of anything more
than it is necessary 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 thunderbolts.
But through such unwise processes
Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and thu
long line of agonies began all up and
down the Nile Heavier and sharper
fell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier
grew the workmen, louder and longer
went up the prayer, until three millions
of the enslaved were crying: ~, Al
lahl va, Allahl" 0 God o God!
Where was help to come from? Mo-
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers com
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tions, Pharaoh's threat made them
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temples out of the groans of
this diabolical servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the daughter
of Pharaoh, while in her bathing house
on the banks of the Nile, has word
brought her that there is baby atioat
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 Curl
osity. Who made that boat? Who
made it watertight with bitumen? Who
| launched it? Reckless of the croco-
dies 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 a gauntlet
of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out of
| the bathing house and says: ''Beauti
full founding, l will adopt you as my
own. You shall yet wear the Egyptian
crown and sit on the Egyptian throne"
mol No! MOI He is to be the
e ho IIalN
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. Before him a sea will part.
On a mountain top, alone, this one
will receive from the Almighty a law
that is to be the foundation of all good
| law while the world lasts. When he is
| dead, God will come down on Nebo and
| alone bury him, no man or woman or
! angel worthy to attend the Obsequies.
The child grows up and goes out and
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 taskmaster put the whip on
the back of a workman who was doing
his best, and heard the poor fellow cry
Dnd saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
TIP his fist and struck him on the tenn
pie till the cruel villain rolled over in
the sand exanimate and never swung
the lash again. Served him right!
GOD WITH MOSES.
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 army2
Where is your navy2 Not a sword have
tou, not spear, not a chariot, not a
| horse. All! God was on his side and
he has an army of his own The
snowstorms are on Gods side-witness
the snowbanks in which the French
army of invasion were buried on their
way back from Moscow. The rain is
on his side-witness the 18th of June at
Waterloo, when the tempest SO satu-
rated the road that the attack could not
be made on Wellington's forces until
| eleven o'clock and he was strong
| enough to hold out until reinforce
| nents arrived.
Had that battle been opened at five
o'clock in the morning instead of at
eleven, 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
| God sSside-witness the Armada with
one hundred and fifty ships and twenty
six hundred and fifty guns and eight
| thousand sailors and twenty thousand
soldiers sent out by Philip II of Spain
to conquer England
What became of those men and that
shipping2 Ask the wind and the waves
all along the English and Irish coasts.
The men and the ships all wrecked or
drowned or scattered. So | expect
that Moses will be helped in rescuing
the Israelites by a special weaponry
To the Egyptian the Nile was deity.
Its waters were then as now very de-
lcious. 1t was the finest natural bev-
erage of all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Ger
and Russians have no such love for the
Volga, as the Egyptians have love for
the Nile
But one day, when Pharaoh comes
down to this river Moses takes a stick
and whips the waters, and they turn
into the gore of a slaughter house, and
through the sluices and fish ponds the