Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20


gantlet of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out
of the bathing house and says: Beautiful
founding. I will adopt you as my own. You
shall yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne"
Mol No! No! He is to be the emancipation
of the Hebrews. Tell it 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 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 I'D and goes out and stud
les the horrors of Egyptian oppression and
suppresses his indignation, for the right
time has not come. although once for min
ute he let fly, and when he saw taskmaster
put ths whip on the back Of a workman who
was doing his best, and heard the poor fell
low cry and saw the blood squirt Moses
doubled up his fist tsld struck him on the
temple till the cruel villain rolled over in the
SaHu exammare ana never swung rne TaSn
again. Served him right!
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossibilities? You feel that you are
going to free the Hebrews from bondage.
But where is your army? Where is your
navy? Not sword, have you, not spear.
not chariot, not 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 was buried on their way back from
Moscow. The rain is on His side; witness
the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tenn
pests so saturated 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 re-inforcements ar
rived.
Had that battle been opened at five o'clock
in the morning instead of at eleven the des-
tiny of Europe would have been turned the
wrong way. The heavy rain decided every
thing. So also are the winds and the waves
on Gods side. 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 Ct those men and that ship
ping? Ask the wind and the waves all
along the English and Irish coasts. The
men and ships all wrecked or drowned or
scattered. SO | expect that Moses will be
helped in rescuing the lsraelites by a
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was deity. Its waters were then as
now every delicious. 1t was the finest nat
ural beverage of ali the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Germans have
no snch love for the Rhine. and Russians
have no such love for the Volga as the Egyp-
ClaQS nave love UQ0 N1le.
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
fshponds the incarnadined liquid backs up
into the land and the maledor whelms every
thing, from mud howell to throne room. Then
came the frogs, with horrible croak, all over
everything. Then this people, clearly al
most to fastidiousness, were infested with
insects that belong to the filthy and I'M
kempt, and the air buzzed and buzZed with
flies, and then the distemper started COWS to
believing and horses to neighing, and camels
to grooming, as they rolled over and ex-
pired.
And then boils, one of which will put a
man in wretchedness, came in clusters from
the top of the head to the sole of the foot
And then the clouds dropped hail and light
ming. And then lOcusts came in, swarms Of
them, worse than the grasshoppers even were
in Kansas and then darkness dropped for
three days so that the people could not see
band before their tb face great gd @ g Of
on the night of the 18th of April. about
eighteen hundred years before Christ the
Destroying Angel sweeps past; and hear it
III night long. the flap flap! flap! of his wings
until Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the
Oldest child dead in every Egyptian home.
The eldest son of Pharaoh expired that night
IL the palace and all along the streets Of
Memphis and Heliopoiis, and all up and down
the Nile there was funeral wall that would
have rent the fold of the unnatural darkness
if it had not been inlpenetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however, were I'M
touched. But these homes were full OF prep
aration, for now is your chance 0 ye
wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and to the desertl It's
simoons are better than the bondage you
have suffered Its scorpions will not sting
so sharply as the wrongs that have stung
you all your lives. Awayi 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 a signal Alexander's armies and all the
armies of olden time were lei by torches on
high poles, great crests Of fire; and the
Lord Almighty kindles a 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. It reached from the earth unto the
heaven, pillar Of fire, that pillar practi-
cally saying, This way! March this wayr'
On that supernatural fambeau more than a
million refugees set their eyes. Moses and
Aaron lead on. Then come the families Of
Israel. Then come the herds and flocks
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 it's blue waters,
the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over
me.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees encamped for the night on the
banks of the Red Sea. AS the shadows be-
gin to fall, in the distance is seen the host of
+ :sraoh in pursuit. There were six hun
ared finest war chariots, followed by com
mon chariots, rolling at full speed. And the
glittering of the wheels and the curses of in
turiated Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the crystal
gates of Bahr-e kulzum and the enslaved
Israelites passed into liberty. and then the
crystal gates Of the sea rolled shut against
the EgyDtian pursuers