The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-13
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DR.. Talmage Draws Lessons From
the Land Of Pharaoh.
Egypt the Mother OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
f.1at'on-Mo..s. s.Ae Great n~eii.sr.r
Tho 1harsehs Not All G~oSSSe1s6ss
Free y tho Gospskj ~
elimination Of his diseoursesoo,

burden OF Egypt" He said: .
What is all this excitement about IL
the streets Of Cairo. Egypt this Deem
Der morning in 1892 Stand back. W.
hear loud voices and see the crowds O,
people ~retreating to the sides. OF tb,
street The excitement Of 6thers be
m our own excitement. Footmer
come in sight They have a rod in the
hand and tasseled cap on, head, ADD
their arms and feet are bare. Theis
garb is black To the waist, except as
threaded with gold, and the rsst /,
white. They are clearing ,he way for
an official dignitary in a chariot OF
carriage. They are swift and some.
times run thirty or forty miles at q
stretch in front of an equipage. Make
way! They are the fleetest footed men
on earth, but soon die, for the human
frame was not made for such endur-
ance. ! asked all around me who the
man in the carriage was, but no one
seemed 70 know. Yet rs l. fell
back =. with the rest to the wall
said: This is the old custom found
all up and down the bible, foootmen
running before the rulers demanding
obeisance, as in Gepe}is, b@fusc fssekhta
chariot the people Iefel cSmtn<u&e4.
BOW the knee" and as I ses Che swift
feet of the men followed by the swift
feet of tt,e horses, hoy tbeses olJ words
Of jeremiah rhah ehs6ae&+ my mind:
"If thou hast run with the footmen and
they have wearied thee. how canst thou
contend with hnfscsfCls fmI1i
Now. my hearers. in this course of
sermons Yah onlSlerVng you asioot-
man, and clearing The WAY fpr. yQyl
coming into the wonders of EgyptolOgy,
n subjectthnt Eiwoutd BAyeI.y6u study
far beyond anything thahr can Jbe said
in the bEerity, hf pulpit I~utteyahce.'
Two hundred and ,eightyrnfne times
hoes the Bible refer 70, Egypt AID the
Egyptians NJ wonder. fof,EgKpt was
the mother Of nations;' Egyjk; ihe
mother OF Greece Greeoe!l thsnp dther
of Rome; ROME, the. nothaE, udf En-
gland; England the mother Bfour own
land. According to that Egypt rs our
neutrality-suspicious.. ,,-cJ
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile a boss roughly srIite
a subordinate who did not please him.
IL is no rzsre occurrence to M lbOnk
lines of men under heavy burdens pass
ing by taskmasters ut short distances,
flashing them rs they 20 by into greater
speed and then these workbench, ex-
hausted with the blasting heats Of the
day, lying down upon the hare ground,
suddenly chilled with the night air,
crying out in prayer; "Ya Allah va
Allah!" which means o God! o Godi nGi
Now you see how the Pharaohs could
afford 10 build such costly works. 1t
cost them nothing for wages. nothing
but the tears and blood of the toilers,
and tears and blood are o cheap drink
for devils. tricks without straw"
may not suggest so much hardship nn-
til you know that the bricks were usuaiut
ly made with ''crushed straw" straw
by the feet OF the oxenia.xS
threshing. and, this c-=. 80, Ia.
~ straw dc;
MED thS <SufRmen. they had TO pick up
here and there a piece Of stubble Or
gather rus3ies frou the waterside. This
story of the Bible is ,cpRimed by the
fact that many OF the brick walls or
Egypt have On the bower layers brisk
made with straw. but the higher layers
of brick made out OF rough straw, or
rushes from the river bank, the truth
OF the book Of Exodus thus written ip,
the brick wallis discovered by the mod
ern explorers. !jfi"i-"s
That governmental outrage has. al
WAYS been a characteristic Of Egyptian
rulers Taxation to the point Of starN:
alton was the.: Egypliasss rule in the
Bible tunes as.WeH asitiS Jig; our 9wn
time. Seventy, PCT sSe.9t al what ttlhS
Egyptian farmer makes rs lpaAald Tor
axes TO the government Now, khxt
is not so much taxation rs ~assassjna1
ton. What thihk you bf that? You
who groau undef hearty taxes in Amer
lea? have heard that in Egypt,,tRe
working classes have a song like thfs.
"They starve ma they ~starve MS, thsy
beat us, thsy bent rs, bat there's som$
one abo&e,sssers'ssome one above, who
will pu6ishl them wosll, kho will punish
them weltsj RatA.~enty Per cent ~
covcrntnantNtax Egypt is a mercy
comparSasseSASk tbS Hebrew slaves
suffered there In Bible simes They
got nashinE but food hardly fit for a
dog. ANA their clothing was of one rag,
and their roof q burning sky by day
and the stars of heaven by night.
You saw: "Why did you stand to-
Because they had to stand it Yousrc.
along back in the worlds twilight there
was . famine in Canaan. and old Jacob
and Me sons came to Egypt for bread,
The Old mans boy Joseph was prime
minister, and Joseph, by Pharoah's per-
mission. gave to his family. who had
Just arrived, the richest part of Egypt
Jacobs descendants rapidly multiplied
After awhile Egypt took a turn at
famine, and those descendants of Jacob
the Israelites. came to a great store
house which Joseph had provided and
paid in money for corn But aetsr
awhile the money ga<k Sut and then
they paid in cattle. After awhile the
Cattle were all in pcsessiopsf She gov
ernment and then the Hebrews bought
rorn from the government BY sur
rendering themselves rs slayes.
Then began slavery IN iBgypt The
government owned !all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunatics, who in Amer
icn handing r. OWEN telegraph
companiss'% and Failroaas,s.aud other
things to,o,!be ran by Eovefnneut see
the folly Of letting government got its
hand on everything. would rather
trust the people AhSn any government
the United Statea~r had or will have.
Woe wdEE~3ae d when Legislators
and congresses NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. get
possessiouof anything o than IL is
nccessar1Aor them to have. That
would be the rcvnsl in this land OF
tina. old Egyptian fysapSs Yer which
God<hss never Nod vspttHYH bat red
hot thundertolk But thf1REh such
unwae PROCESSES Fsrael was enslared IN
Rrypti anA 1ae long linz of hfs be-
Fan AT up anddoYutne Nites 4issvisr
Isha hAsrpeSR1)f&1h hp0B risr- and
'gfxstEer agraw 30t SvH0RWI toader
ana hunger went up thssffpfAsr. Until
s. eo0Oe0 Of the ensisvedgwersctying:
IVA! Allahl T'Yat Aiiahrf tsOh! tod!
Oh, Godr'-tuI - .'ai"g1.'oo 81 -li
Where WAS help to cu,4e from? Not
the throne; Pharaoh sat upon mat Not