The Globe-republican., 1891-11-19

were untouched. But these homes
were full of preparation, for now is your
chance, o We wronged Hebrews! Snatch
up what pieces of food you can and to
the desert! Its simO0ms 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
the night of your rescue. They gather
armies and all the armies Of olden
time were led by torches on nigh poles,
great crests of fire; and the Lord Al
mighty kindles torch not held by hui
man hands. but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but kin
died out of the atmosphere. such torch
as the world never saw before and never
will see again. 1t reached from the
earth into the Heaven, pillar of fire,
that pillar practically saying: This
way! March this way!" On that super
natural flambeau more than a million
refugees set their eyes. Moses and Aaron
lead on. Then come the families
of Israel. Then come the herds and
1ocks 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 its blue waters the beroics
of the Mosaic passage rolled over ME.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees encamped for the night on the
bank of the Red Sea- As the shadows
begin to fall, in the distance is seen the
host of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were
600 finest war chariots followed by com.
mon chariots rolling at full speed. And
the glittering of the wheels and the
curse of Infatuated Egyptians came down
with the darkness But the Lord opened
the crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kulzum and
the enslaved Israelites passed into liber-
ty, and then the crystal gates of the sea
rolled shut against the Egyptian pursu-
erS.
1t was about o'clock in the morning
when the interlOcked axletrees of the
Egyptian Chariots could not move an
inch either way. But the Red Sea un-
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 women
in the other, and the women beat time
with their feet The record says: "All
the women went out after her with tim
brels and with dances. And Miriam an
swered 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 endur-
ance and victory!
The greatest triumph of Handel's &C.
MUS was shown in his immortal 'dra-
matte oratorio, Israel in Egypt" He
had given to the world the oratorio of
ESTHER and Deborah" and Athaliah, but
reserved for his mightiest exertion, at
the full height of his powers, the mar
shaling 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, enthrall.
ing his own time and all after-time with
his ''Israel in Egypt"
But in all the departments to-oay
there are Pharaohs. Sometimes Capt.
tai Pharaoh and sometimes Labor a
Pharaoh. When Capital prospers and
makes large percentage On its invest
ment 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 Pharaoh. On
the other hand, when workmen, not re.
garding the anxietieS and business
struggles of the firm employing them,
and at a time when the firm are doing
their best to meet an important contract
and need all hands busy to accomplish it,
at such a time to have his employees
make a strike and put their employers
into extreme perplexity and severe loss
then Labor becomes Pharf )h of the
worst oppression, and must look out for
the judgments of God.
Let all Oppressors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores. in Offices, in fac
tories, in social life or political life, in
private life or public life know that God
hates oppressors, and they will all come
to grief here or hereafter Pharaoh
thought he did fine thing. a cunning
thing, decisive thing when for the COM
plete extinction of the Hebrews in Egypt
he ordered all the Hebrew boys massa-
cred, but he did not find it so fine a thing
when his own first born that night of
mosaic floor at the foot of the porphyry
pillar of the palace. Let all the Phar-
aOhs take warning. Some Of the worst
Of them are on small scale in house
holds as when man, because his arm is
strong and his voice loud, dominates his
poor wife into domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife is a lifetime serf. her
opinion disregarded, her tastes insulted,
and her existence wretchedness, though
the world may not know it. 1t is a
Pharaoh that sits at the head kof that
table, and Pharaoh that tyrannizes
that home. There is no more abhorrent
than domestic Pharaoh.
There are thousands of women to whom
death is passage from Egypt to Canaan,
because they get rid of cruel task
master.
But it rolls over on me with great
power the thought that we have all been |
slaves down in Egypt and sin has been
our taskmaster, and again and again we |
have felt its lash. But Christ has been |
our Moses to lead US out of bondage, and |
We are forever free. The Red Sea of a |
Saviour's sacrifice rolls deep and wide |
between US and our aforetime bondage,
Ind though there NAV he desserts vet for