Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

In Inc OUner, ana the women Dcau Il[ne WIFI
their feet. The record says: CAL the women
went out after her with timbrels and with
dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing
We to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glO-
riously; the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea-" What thrilling
story of endurance and victory! The great
est triumph of Handel'S genius was shown
in his immortal dramatic oratorio, 'Israel
in Egypt He had given to the world the
oratorio of esther and Debora," and Atha-
liah, but reserved for his mightiest exer-
ton at the full height of his powers the
marShaling 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 production, with
its twenty-eight choruses, enthralling his
own time and all aftertime 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 CONT
nent for deserts, Libyan desert, Sahara
desert, deserts here, an d there, and yonder,
condemning vast regions of Africa to bar
renness, 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 it must have more cul-
tiyated land, and the world must abolish
its deserts. Eight hundred million of the
human race are now living on lands
NOT BLEsT WITH RAINS,
but dependent on irrigation. and we want
by irrigation to make room for 500 600, 600
more. By irrigation the prophecy will be
fulfilled, land the desert will blossom as
the rose" So from Egypt the burden of
sand will be lifted.
Another burden of Egypt to be lifted is
the burden of Mohammedanism, although
there are some good things about that re-
igion. Its disciples must always wash be-
fore they pray, and that is five times day.
a commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mo
hammedanism, and though some may have
seen drunken Mohammedan, l never saw
one. 1t is a religion of sobriety. Then
they are not ashamed of their devotionS.
When the call for prayers is sounded from
the minarets the Mohammedan imme-
diately unrolls the rug on the ground and
falls on his knees, and crowds of spectators
are to him no embarrassment: reproof to
many Christian who omits his prayers if
people are looking. But Mohammedanism
with its polygamy blights everything it
touches. Mohammed, its founder, had four
wives, and his followers are the enemies of
good womanhood. Mohammedanism puts
its curse upon all Egypt, and by setting up
a sinful Arab higher than the immaculate
Christ, is an overwhelming blasphemy.
May God help the brave and consecrated
missionaries who are spending their lives
IN combating it.
But before forget it must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last out
rage that resulted in the liberation of the
Hebrews was their being compelled to
make bricks without straw. That was the
loo ct.oyt hot hrnly hn hna
God would allow the despotism against his
people to go no further. Making bricks
without straw
That oppression still goes on. Demand of
your wife appropriate wardrobe and bOun-
tiful table without providing the means
necessary: Bricks without straw. Cities
demanding in the public schools faithful
and successful instruction without giving
the teachers competent livelihood: Bricks
without straw. United States government
demanding of senators and congressman at
Washington full attendance to the interests
of the people, but on compensation which
may have done well enough when 25 cents
went as far as dollar now, but in these
times not sufficient to preserve their in
fuence and responsibility: Bricks with
out straw. In many parts of the land
churches demanding OF pastors vigorous
sermons ana sympathetic service on star
Walton salary, sanctified Cireros on
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR.
Bricks without straw. That is one rea-
son why there are so many poor bricks In
all departments. brick not even, or bricks
that crumble, or bricks that are not bricks
at all Work adequately paid for is worth
more than work not paid for. More straw
and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are Pha-
raohs: Sometimes capital n Pharaoh, and
,af.r 1nnN Thn,, ,t,1
proSpers, and makes large percentage on
its investment, 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 a Pharaoh. On the other
hand, when workmen, not regarding the
and business struggles of the firm
them, and at time when the
firm are doing their best to meet an import
ant contract and need all hands busy to ac-
complish ii, at such time to have his en-
pioyeS make strike and put their employ
er into extreme perpleXity and severe loss
then labor becomes a Pharaoh of the
worst oppression, and must look out for the
Judgments of God.
When in December of 1889, at the museum
at Boulac, Egypt, | looked at the mummies
of the old Pharaohs, the very miscreants
who diaDoliZed centuries, and l saw their
teeth and hair and finger nails, and the
flesh drawn tight over their cheek bones,
the sarcophagi of these dead monarchs side
by side, and l was so fascinated could only
with difficulty get away from the spot,
was not looking upon the last of the Pha-
raohS. All over the world old merchants
playing the Pharaoh over young merchants,
old lawyers playing the Pharaoh over young
lawyers, old doctors playing the Pharaoh
over young doctors, old artists playing the
Pharaoh over young artists, old ministers
playing the Pharaoh over young ministers
Let all oppreSSors. whether in homes, in
in stores, in offices, in factories,
in social life or political life, in private life
Dr. public life, know that God hates oppreS-
sors, and they will all come to grief here or
hereafter.
Pharaoh thought he did fine thing, a
cunning thing, decisive thing when for |
the complete extinction of the Hebrews in
Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew bows mas
sacred, but he did not find in so fine thing |
when his own first-born that night of the |
destroying angel dropped dead on the mo- |
sale floor at the foot of the porphyry pillar |
Of the palace. Let all the Pharaohs take |
Some of the worst of them are |
IN small scale in households, as when a |
man, because his arm is strong and his |
voice loud, dominates his poor wife into a |
domestic slavery. There are thousands of |
such cases where the wife is a lifetime |
serf, her opinion disregarded, her tastes in |
suited and her existence wretchedness, |
though the world may not know it. 1t is |
Pharaoh that sits at
THE HEAD OF THAT TABLE,
md Pharaoh that tyrannizes that home.
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