Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-11-05
LESSONS FROM PHARAOH
DR. rALMAGE CONTINUES HIS
SERIES ON EGYPT.
Tho Phsraohs OF Modern Times
Sometimes Capital and Sometimes
Labor aud OfIen the wife heater.

Sometimes Capital and Sometimes
Labor aud Orlen the VITO heater
BROOKLYN, N. ", Nov. ], 1891. Tho
Tabernacle was thronged as usual this
morning. The vast editce filled to Its
utmost capacity with eager listeners
shows how the popular preacher re-
tains his power over tho people. AL
though he has been preaching in
brooklyn for more than twenty-four
years, his audiences were never so
large rs now, and although the largest
Protestant church in America has been
built for him there never was n time
when so many persons were turned
away for lack of room. The subject of
this mornings sermon was Bricks
Without Straw" q continuation OF the
| series on the coniirmatio OF Holy
Scripture which DR.. Talmage found in
has journey from the Pyramids To the
Acropolis, His text was, Isaiah ~ ; :;
"The burden Of Egypt"
In tins course of sermons ! am only
serving you as footman, and clearing
tho way for your coming into the won.
ders of Egyptology, n subject that
would have you study far beyond any
thing that can be said in tho hrcvity
of pulpit utterances Two hundred
and eighty-nino times does the bible
refer To Egypt aud the Egyptians. No
wonder, for Egypt was tho mother of
nations Egypt, tho mother OF Greece;
Greece, the mother of Rome; Rome, tho
mother OF England; England, the
mother OF our own land. According to
that Egypt Is our greatgreat grard-
mother On other Sabbaths lett
you studying what they must have
been In their glory; tho lly-
postylc Hall OF Karnac, the nrchi-
tectural miracles ut Luxor, the colon
made OF lioremheb, the cemeteries OF
Memphis, tho value Of Kingdom In
one monument tho Sphinx, which
with lips OF stone sponl,s loud enough
To 10 heard across the &C hturics, Hello
polls and Zoan, the conundrum of
archwologists but all that extravn-
ganco of palace and temple and monu.
ment was the cause of an oppression
high rs heaven, and deep as he'll The
weight of those blocks of stone
heavier than any modern machinery
could lit cane down upon the Hebrew
slaves, aud their blood mixed tho
mortar for the trowels.
We saw again and again on and
along the Nile boss workman
roughly smite subordinate who did
not please him. II la no rare occur
renee to see long lines of men under
heavy burdens passing by task. masters
ut short distances, lashing them IA
they go by into greater speed and then
these worlsmen, exhausted with tho
blasting heats of tho day, lying down
upon the bare ground, suddenly chilled
with the night hir, crying out in
prayer; "Ya Allahp' "Yal Allah!'
which means Oh! Godl Oh! Godl But
what must have been the olden times
cruelty shown by tho Egyptians to-
wards their Israelitish slaves Is In
1icated by picture In the Benz Has
san tombs, where man is held down
on his face by two men and another
nolds up the victims feet while the
officials beat the bare back Of the vie.
tim, every stroke, j have no doubt,
fetching tho blood.
Now you see how the Pharaohs
could afford TO build sucn costly
works II cost them nothing for wages,
nothing but tho tears and blood of the
toilers, and tears and blood are cheap
drink for devils ''Iiricka without
ship until you know that the bricks
we're usually made with "crushod
straw, straw crushed by the feet OF tho
oxen In the threshing. aud, this crushed
straw denied TO the worlSmep, they
had TO pi k up here and there piece
OF stubble or gather PUSHES from tho
watcrside. Tins story Of the bible Is
confirmed by the fact that many OF the
I.I. la, 4 l.,,r
layers brick made with straw, Lut the
higher layers OF brick made out of
rough straw, or rushes from the river
bank, tho truth OF the book of Exodus
thus written in the brick walls dis
covered by the modern explorers.
That governmental outrage has al
ways been characteristic Of Egyptian
rulers. Taxation to the point Of
starvation was the Egyptian rule in
the bible times as well as it Is in our
own time A modern traveller gives
the figures concerning the cultivation
Of seventeen acres, the value Of the
yield of the field stated In piantres;
Produce. .............,,..,.....lo 1907
Expenses, .,......,'....,,.'''.''.. se3I
Clear produce. .....,............ Nls1i
IaAcs'' '''''''''''''''''''''''' w"
Amount cleared by tho fHrmcr...... ass
Or, as my authority declares, 20 per
cent. OF what the Egyptian farmer
makes, is paid for taxes TO the govern
ment Now, that Is not SO much taxa
ton as assassination. What think you
of that? You who groan under heavy
taxes in America? heard that In
Egypt the working people have a song
like this: 'They starve us, they starve
us, they beat us, they beat us, but
| there's some one above, there's some
one above, who will punish them well,
| who will punish them we'll" But
| 20 per cent. of government tax
in Egypt is mercy as compared
| TO what the Hebrew slaves suffered
| there In bible times. They got moth.
| ing but food hardly fit for dog and
their clothing was Of one rag aud their
roof u burning sky by day and the
stars of heaven by night, You say
| "why did they stand III" Because they
had TO stand IL. You sec along back
| In the worlds twilight there was q
famine in Canaan, and old Jacob and
his sons came TO Egypt for bread.
| Tho old mans boy Joseph
was Prime Minister and Joseph
| [ suppose the father and the brothers
called him Joe. for 1t does not make
any difference how much boy is nd
yanced in worldly success, his father
and brothers and sisters always call
him by the same name that he was
called by when 3 years oid-Joseph,
by Pharaohs permission, gave to his
family, who had just arrived, the
ri hest part of Egypt, the West
chester farms or the Lancaster farms
of the ancients- Jacobs descen-
dants rapidly multiplied. After
awhile Egypt took turn at famine.
and those descendants of Jacob, the
Israelites, came to a great store house
which 10 eph had provided, and paid
in money for corn. But after awhile
the money gave out and then they
paid in cattle. After awhile the cattle
were all in possession OF the govern
ment and then the Hebrews bought
corn from the government by surren-
dering themselves as slaves.
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
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