The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-11-12
die's sent out by Philip Ii of Spain to

conquer England.
What became of those men and that
shipping? Ask the wind and the
waves all along the English and Irisl
coasts. The men and the ships al
wrecked or drowned or scattered. So
l expect that Moses will be helped in
rescuing the Israelites by special
weaponry. TO the Egyptians the Nile
was deity. Its waters were then as
now very delicious. 1t was the finest
natural beverage Of all the earth. We
have no such love for the Hudson, and
germans rav3 no such love for the
kline, and russians have no such love
Tor the VOlga as the Egyptians have
love for the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh comes
down to this river, Moses takes stick
and whips the waters, and they turn
into the gore of a slaughter house, and
through the sluices and fishponds the
lncarnadined liquid backs up into the
land and the malodor whelmS every.
thing from mud hoVel to throne room
fhen came the frogs, with horrible
creak, all over everything. Then this
people, cleanly almost to fastidiOusness.
were infested with insects that belong
to the filthy and unkempt, and the air
buZzed and buZZed with flies, and then
the distemper started COWS to believing
and horses to neighing, and came)s TO
groanlng, as they rolled over and eX-
pired.
And then boils, one Of which Will pat
man in wretchedness, came in clusters
from the top of the head to the sole OF
the foot. AMI then the clouds dropped
hail and lightning. And then locns,s
came i'll, Swarms of them, worse than
the grasshoppers ever were 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 al, 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 wings until
Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the
eldest child dead in every Egyptian
home, The eldest son Of Pharaoh cx-
pired that night in the palace and all
along the streets of Memphis and IIe-
liopolis, and all up and down the Nile
there was funeral wall that would
have rent the fold of the unnatural
darkness if it had not been impenetra
ble.
| NOW is ISRAEL S CHANCE.
The Isrealitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
o ye wronged Hebrews. Snatch up
what pieces of food you can aud to the
desert. Its simooms 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
2radled in the basket of papyrus on the
| la wi loo T ~ T,,i l.:
the night of your rescue. They gather
together at signal. Alexander S
armies and all the armies of olden time
wei Ie led by torches on high poles, great
crests of fire; and the Lord Almighty y
llindles Il torch not held by human
hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out OF straw or Oil, but
kindled out Of the atmosphere, such il
torch as the world never saw before
and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, pillar
of fire, that pillar practically saying
"rhis way! March this way" On that
supernatural tlambeau more than a
milliol refugees set their eyes. Moses
herds and tlockS moving on across the
sands to what Is the beach of waters
now called Bahr- ell -Kulzum, but called
in the Bible the Red sea. And when |
dipped my hands in its blue waters, the
heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled
over me.
ON TIE RED SEAS SHORE.
After three days march the Israel.
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the banks of the Red sea. Az the
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit
There were six hundred finest war
chariots, followed by common chariots
rolling at full speed And the glitter,
ing of the wheels and the curse Of IN
furiated Egyptians came down with
the darkness. But the Lord opened
the crystal gates of Bahr- el-KnlZum
liberty, and then the crystal gates of
the sea rolled shut against the Exyp-
tian pursuers.
1t was about two o'clock in the morn
ing when the interlockcd axle trees Of
the Egyptian Chariots could not move
an inch either way. But the Red sea
unhitchcd the horses and unhelmttcd
the warriors, and left the proud no, st Il
wreck on the Arabian sands. Then
| two chOruSeS arose, and Moses Jed the
men in one, and Miriam led the women
in the other and the women beat tim"
with their feet. The record says: "AI
| lnc women went ont aIjer nGr WIN
timbrels and with dances. And Miriam
answered them, Sing ye to the LORD
for he hath triumphed gloriously; the
horse and his rider hath he thrown into
the sea v What a thrilling story of en-
durance and victory.
The geatest triumph Of Handlers
genius was shown in his immortal dra-
matte Oratorio, Israel in Egypt" lie
had given to the world the oratorio of
ESTHER and Deborah" and Athaliah,
| but reserved for his mightiest cxertion
at the full height of his powers the
| marshallng Of all musical instruments
to Tie description in harmony Of the
scenes on which we this morning dwell
lie gave twenty seven days to this pro-
duction, with its tWenty-eiGht choruSrs,
enthralling his own time and all after
time with his "Israel in Egypt"
SO the burden Of oppression was lift
ed, but another burden of Egypt is
made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa is
great continent for deserts, Libyan
desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and
| there and yonder, cOndemning vast re.