Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-07


regions of Africa to barren2ess. one OF
the deserts three thousand miles long
and thousand miles wide. But all
those deserts will yet be flooded, and SO
made fertile. DE Lesscps says it ca.
be done, and he who planned the Suez
canal. which lnarries the Red sea and
the Mediterranean. knows what he is
talking about. The human race is SO
multiplied that it must have more cul-
+ivatel land, and the world must abol-
ISL it's deserts Eight hundred millions
of the human race are now living on
lands not bIest with rains. but depend.
emit on irrigation. and we want by irri,
gation to make room for eight hundred
millions more. BY irrigation the proph.
ecy will be fulfilled, and 1.-THE desert
will blossom as the rose" So from
Egypt the burden of sand WILDE lifted.
Another burden of Egypt to sbs
lifted is the burd lens Of NO hainme dan
ism, although there are some good
things about that religion. It's dis
ciples must always wash before they
pray, and that is five times day. A
eommendable grace is cleanliness.
Strong drink is positively forbidden by
Mohamlnedanisln, and though some
may have seen drunken Mohan.ne.
dan, never saw one. 1t /; religion
of sobriety. Then they are not ashamed
of their devotions When the call fol-
prayers is sounded from the minarets
the Mohammedan Immediately unrolls
the rug on tile ground and falls on hh
knees, and crowds OF spectators are te
him no Inbarrassrnent-reproof tc
many Christian who olnts his pray
ers if people are looking.
But MohaInmedanisln. with its Pc.
lyganiy, blights everything it touches.
Mohammed. its founder, had foul
wives, and his followers are the eneln;e.
OF good wonanhood. Nlohammedan.
ism puts its curse on all Egypt, and BY
setting up a sinful Arab higher than
the immaculate Christ, is an over.
whelming blaspheiny. May God help
the brave and consecrated missionarie:
who are spending their lives in combat
ing it.
But before 1 forget it l must put
more emphasis upon the fact that the
last outrage that resulted in the liberia
ton of the Hebrews was their being
compelled to make bricks without
straw. That was the last straw that
broke the calnel's back. God would
allow the despotisln against his people
to go no further. Making bricks with.
out straw!
That oppression still goes on. De
mand of your wife appropriate ward.
robe and bountiful table without pro
viding the means necessary-bricll
without straw. Cities demanding in
the public school faithful and success
full instruction without giving the teach
ers competent liyelihood-briclzs with.
out straw. UNITED States government
demanding Of senators and congress
men, at. Washington fuil-attendan to,
the interests Of the people, but on coin
pensation Which may have done well
enough when twenty-five cents wenl
as far us q dollar now, but in these
Times not sufficient to preserve theil
influence and respectability-brick.
without straw.
In many parts of the land churche.
demanding Of pastors vigorous sermon:
and sympathetic service on starvation
salary, sanctifed Ciceros on four hun
dred dollars year. Bricks without
straw. That is one reason why there
are so many poor bricks. In all de
partments, bricks not even, or brick.
that crulnble, OF bricks that are moi
bricks at all. Work adequately paid
for is worth more than work not paid
for More straw and then better
bricks.
PHARAoHs OF TO-DAY.
But in all departments there are
Pharaohs. Sometimes Capital Pha.
raoh and sometimes Labor Pharaoh.
When Capital prospers and makes large
percentage on its investment and do
clines to consider the needs of the op.
eratives and treats them as so many
human machines, their nerves no mora
than the bands on the factory wheel
then Capital is a Pharaoh. On til,
other hand, when worlimen, not re-
garding the anxieties and business struG
giles of the firm employing them, and
at time when the firm are doing theil
best to meet an important contract and
heed all hands busy to accomplish it.
It such time to have his employees
make a strike and put their employers
INTO extreme perplexity and severe loss
then Labor becomes a Pharaoh of
The worst oppression, and must look
put for the judgments of God.
When in December of 1889, at the
museum at Boulac, Egypt. looked at
he mulnlnies of the Pharaohs, the very
niscreants who diabolized centuries,
and saw their teeth and hair and fin.
ger nails and the flesh drawn tight over
their cheek bones, the sarcophagi of
these dead lnonarchs side by side, and
was so fascinated could only with
set away from the spot, I
was not looking upon the last of the
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 min
lsters playing the Pharaoh over young
ministers.
Let all oppressors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores, in Offices, in fac