The Brookhaven leader., 1891-11-12

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the throne; Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army; Pharaoh's officers COM
mandcd u at. Not surrounding ma
tions; Pharaohs threat made them all
trcmble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris, or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temple out of the groans of
this diabOlical servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the daugh-
ter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks of the Nile, has
word brought to her that there Is a
baby a6Gat 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 atten-
ton, but an infant in a cradle of papy
rus rocking on river arOuSes not
only admiration, but curiosity. Who
made that boat? Who made it water
tight with bitumen? Who launched
it? Reckless of the crocodilcs who lay
baslling themselves in the sun, the
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries and then an
other carries him, and all the way up
the bank he runs a gantlet of carcsses,
till ThonOris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: "Beautiful fOundling,
| will adopt you as my own. GOu shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit an
the Egyptian throne" No, No! No!
He is to be the emancipator of the He
brews. Tell it in all the briclI-kilns.
Tell it among all those who are writh.
ing under the lash, tell it among all
the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis
and Xoan and ThebeS. Before him a
sea will part. On 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 oppression and suppresses
his indignation for the right time has
not come, although once for minute
he let fly; and when he saw tasll-mas-
ter put the whip on the back of a
workman who was doing his best, and
heard the poor fellow cry. and saw the
blood squirt, Moses doubled up his fist
and struck him on the temple till the
cruel villain rolled over in the sand ex-
animate and never swung the lash
again. Served him right
TO the Egyptians the Nile was a
deity. Its waters We're then, as now.
very delicious. 1t was the finest natural
beverage of all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, aud Germans
have no such love for the Rhine, 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 aslaughter-hOuse,
and through the Sluiccs and fish-ponds
the incarnadined liquid backs up into
the land and the malodCr whelmS every
thing from mud hovel TO throne-room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croall
all over everything. Then this people.
cleanlv almost to fastidiousueSS, were
infested with insects that belong to the
filthy aud unkempt, and the air buzZed
and buZzed with flies, and then the dis
temper started cows to believing, and
horses to neighing, and camcls to
grOaning, as they rolled over and eE-
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 Lightning. And
then locustS came in, SWarms of them,
worse than the grasshOppers ever We're
in Kansas, and then darkness dropped
for three days so that the people could
not see their hand before their face,
great surges of midnight covering them.
And last of all on the night of the 18th
of April, about eighteen hundred years
before Christ, the Destroying Angel
sweeps past, and hear it all night long,
the flap. flap! flap! of his awful wings
until Egypt rolled on, a great hearse,
the eldest child dead in every Egyptian
home. The eldest son of Pharaoh eX
pired last night in the palace, and all
along the streets of Memphis and
Heliopolis, and all up and down the
Nile, there was a funeral wall that
would have rent the fold of the un-
natural darkness if it had not been i'm
penetrable.
The Israelitrsh homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes We're full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
0 We wronged Hebrews! Snatch mp
what pieces of food you can, and to
the desert! Its 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. Away! 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 signal. Alexander's arm
les of olden time were led 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
torch as the world never saw before
and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, a pill
lar of fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This way! March this way!"
On that supernatural f1ambeau more
than million refugees set their eyes.
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then came
the families of Israel. Then came the
herds and flocks moving on across the
sands to what is the beach of waters
now called Bahr-el-Kulzum, but called