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

vet wear the Egyptian crownand slt on
the Egyptian throne" No! No! No!
He is 10 be the emancipation OF the He
brews.
But. Moses, are you going to under
take The impossibilties? 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 a chariot, not a
horse. All! God was on his side and he
has an army of his own. The snow
storms are on Gods side; witness the
snow banks 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 Water
loo when the tempests so saturated the
road that the attack could not be made
on Wellington's forces until IL o'clock
and he was strong enough to hold out
until reinforcements arrived. HAD
that battle been opened at hve
O'Clock in the morning instead OF
at eleven the destiny OF Europe
would have been turned the wrong wey.
The heavy rain decided everything. 80
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
thoustnd sailors and twenty thousand
soldiers sent out by Philip II. OF Spain
TO conquer England.
To the Egyptians
THE NILE WAS A DEITY.
Its waters were then as now very dell
cious. 1t was the finest natural bever-
age of all the earth. We have no SUCH
love for the Hudson, ard Germans have
no such love for the Rhine, and Rus
slams have no such love for the Volga,
as the Egyptians have love Tor the
Nile. But one dBY when Pharaoh
comes down to this river, Moses
takes stick and whips the waters ana
they turn into the gore of slaughter
house, and through the sluices and fish-
ponds the incarnadined liquid backs up
into the land and the malodor whelms
everything from mud howell to throne
room. Then came the frogs with horrl-
BILE croak all over everything. Then
this people, clearly almost to fastdi-
BUSINESS, were infested with insects that
belong to the filthy and unkept, and
the air buzzed and buzzed with flies,
and then the distemper started cows to
believing and horses to neighing, ana
camels to grooming, as they rolled over
and expired. And then boils. one OF
which will put 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 lightning. Then locusts came in
swarms of them, worse than the grass
hoppers ever were in Kansas, and then
darkness dropped for three days so that
the people could not see their hand be-
fore their face, great surges OF mid
night covering them. And last of all,
on the night Of the 18th OF April, about
1900 before Christ, the Destroying
Angels sweep past, and hear it all night
long, the flap! flap! flap! of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, q great
hearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son of
Pharoah expired that night In the pal
ace and all along the streets OF Memphis
and Heliopolis and all up and down the
Nile there was q funeral wall that
would have rent the fold Of the I'M
natural darkness if it had not been i'm
THE IsRAELITISH 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 so the desert Rnt tho Red SAa m
hitched the horses, and unhelmeted
the warriors, and left the proud host
wreck on the Arabian sands. Then
two choruses arose, and Moses led the
men in the one, and Miriam led the wo-
men 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
We to the Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea"
What thrilling story OF endurance and
victory. The greatest triumph OF Han
del's genius was shown in his i'm
mortal dramatic oratorio, '1srael in
Egypt" He had given to the world the
oratorio OF Esther and Deborah" and
"Athaliah," but reserved for his might
lest exertion at the full height Of his
powers the marshalling of all musical
instruments to the description in har-
mony of the scenes on which we this
morning dwell. He gave twenty-seven
days TO this production, with its TWEEN
ty-eight choruses, enthralling his own
time and all after-time with his
'IsRAEL IN EGYPT"
So the burden Of oppression was
lifted, but another burden Of Egypt Is
made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa is
a great continent for deserts, Libyan
desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and
there, and yonder, condemning vast
regions OF Africa TO barrenness, one Of
the deserts 5000 miles long and 1000
miles wide. But all those deserts will
yet be flooded, and so made fertile. De
Lesseps says it can be done, and ne who
planned the Suez Canal, which marries
the Red Sea and the Mediterranean,
knows what he is talking about. The
human race is so multiplied that 10