The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-06


was of one rag, and their roof burn
ing sky by day and the stars Of heaven
by night,
You say, "Why did they stand itr
Because they had to stand 1t. You
see, along back in the worlds twilight,
there was a famine In Canaan, and old
Jacob and his sons came to Egypt for
bread, The old mans boy, Joseph,
was prime minister, and Joseph sup
pose the father and the brothers called
him Joe, for it does not make any diff
ference how much a boy is advanced
n worldly success, his father and broth
ers and sisters always call him by the
came 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 Westminster farms or the
Lancaster farms of the ancients.
Jacobs descendants rapidly multi,
Piled. After awhile Egypt took a turn
Mt famine, and those descendants of
Jacob, the Israelites, came to great
ttorehouse which Joseph had provided,
md 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
surrenderin8 themselves as slaves.
SLAVERY IN EGYPT,
Then began slavery in Egypt. The
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. Iwould 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-
tons 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 th,
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: "Ya, Al
lah! va, Allah" o Godl O God!
Where was help to come from9 Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaohs officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tons, 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 afoat
on the river in 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 river
arouses not only admiration but curl
osity. Who made that boat9 Who
| ~, 4 1, ~ ,r,%ort;pbt with b;tup,apo Who
launched it2 Reckless of the croco-
dies who lay basking themselves in the
sun, the maidens wade in and snatch
up the chill and first one carries him
and then another carries him, and all
the way up the bank he runs 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. !"
No! No! No! He is to be the
rmancipator of the Hebrews. Tell it
in all the brick kilns. Tell it among
NIL 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 mountain top, alone, this one
will receive from the Almighty 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 workman who was doing
pis best, and heard the poor fellow cry
ind saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
ip his fist and struck him on the tenn
de till the cruel villain rolled over in
he sand exanimate and never swung
Sie lash again. Served him right!
GOD WITH MOSES.
Bot, Moses are you going to under.
take the impossibilties9 You feel that
lon are going to free the Hebrews from
bondage. But where is your arIny1
Where is your navy2 Not a sword have
Tou, not a spear not chariot, not n
)orsc. Ali. God was on his side and
he has an army of his own. The
IIlowstorms are on Gods side-witness
i tlc snowba.,ks in which the French
lriny 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 Welington's forces until
I;cvcn o'clock and he was strong
enough to hold out until REINFORCE
ments 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
ESQ are the winds and the waves on
Gods side-witness the Armada with
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