Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-11-26
LESSONS FROM PHARAOH
M. rALMACE CONTINUES '@
SERIES ON EGYPT.
The rbaraols of Modern
sometime. capital and s"heni"e"
Labor and Often the WIG neA'''

DpoogryS, \. V, Nov. !, lsel.-lhe
Tabernacle was thronged as usua. 't's
morning. The vast euitce hiIed 10 its
utmost capacity with eager listeners
shows how the popular preacher re-
tains his power over the people. AZ
though he has been preaeilihe -.
brooklyn for more than t"entv-io"l
/ wears. his audiences were never 80
i,rge as now. and although the largest
| protestaut church in America mas oeeh
! built for him there never was .l"iS
when so many persons were turneo
away for lack OF room. Tie subject OF
| this mornings sermon was bri.ns
Without Straw, continuation OF .ne
series on the confirmation OF Ho!s
/ SCRIPTURE which Dr. Talmage found IN
/ his Journey from the pyramids to the
Acropolis His text was, Isaiah ~ "a
The burden Of Egypt
In this course of sermons am oniy
serving you rs footman, ana clearing
the way for your coming into the won.
ders of Egyptoiogy, subject that l
vould have YOU study far beyond any
thinsr that can be said in the brevlty
OF pulpit utterances. Two hundred
and e;rhtv-nine times does the blple
refer to Egypt and the Egyptians, NO
wonder. for Egypt was the mother oil
nations. Egypt the mother or Greece
Greece. the mother of Rome: Rome,tho
mother of England; England, the
mother OF our own land. According to
that Egypt is our great-great grano-
mother. On other Sabbaths LETT
you studying what they must nave
teen in their glory; the ny
postyle Hall of karnac, the arehi-
tectilral miracles al Luxor, the colon
rade of Horemheb, the cemeteries OF
Memphis. the value OF kingdom IN
one monument, the :phinX, which
with lips of stone speaks loud enough
TO be heard across the centuries Helio-
polls and Zoan. the conundrum oil
i.rchaolopists But all that eNtrava-
ganee of palace and temple and mona
ment was the cause OF an oppression
high as heaven, and deep as he'll Inc
weight of those blocks of stone
heavier than any modern machinery
could lift came down upon the Hebrew
slaves, and their Hood mixed the
mortar for the trowels.
We saw again and again on and
along the Nile toss workman
roughly smite a subordinate who did
renee to see long lines Of men under
heavy burdens passing by task masters
Mt short distances. lashing them as
they go by into greater speed and then
these workmen. exhausted with the
blasting heats OF the day. lying down
upon the bare ground, suddenly chilled
with the night hir, crying out in
PRAYER: "Ya Allah 'Yn. Allah!
which means Oh. God! Oh! God, But
what must have been the olden times
cruelty shown by the Egyptians to
wards their lsraelitisll slaves is in
dicated by q picture in the Beni-Has
san tombs, where a man is held dowr
on his face by two men and another
holds up the victims feet while the
officials beat the bare back of the vic
tim. every stroke. have no doubt
= fetching the blood.
. Now you see how the Pharaoh
9 could afford to build such cost.
,, works. 1t cost them nothing for wages
) nothing but the tears and blood of thu
Il toilers, and tears and blood are chea]
drink for devils bricks withou
- straw" may not suggest SO much hard
ship until you know that the brick
> were usually made with ''crushe
g straw straw crushed by the feet Of tn
n oxen in the threshing. and, this crushe
t. straw denied to the workmei, the
of stubble or gather rushes from tn
. waterside. This story OF the bible
g confirmed by the fact that many of tn
n brick walls of Egypt have on the lowe
: layers brick made with straw. ut tn
:, higher layers o. brick made out {
~ rough straw, or rushes from the rive
Il bank, the truth of the book of EXoar
thus written in the brick walls di.
III covered by the modern explorers.
That governmental outrage has u
, ways been characteristic of Egyptia
n rulers. Taxation TO the point
,g starvation was the Egyptian rule
lv the bible times as well as it is in o,
:, own time. A modern traveller Civ,
I'll the figures concerning the cultivatio
On of seventeen acres, the value of Il
tn yield of the field stated in piastres.
ed IApe"SeS'''''''.'''' '''''''''''. 'o0'
Clear prod uce. ................. HSi
nd | taxes. .........'...... AM
De Amount cleared by the farmer..... 1851
Or, as my authority declares, 20 p
te cent. of what the Egyptian farm
a. makes, is paid for taxes to the cover
ment. Now, that is not so much tax
ne ton as assassination. What think v,
on of that? You who groan under hea'
as taxes in America? l heard that
nd Egypt the working people have sol
"a like this: They starve us, they star
.iu us, they beat us, they beat us, b
In there's some one above, there's sol
If one above, who will punish them we
is who will punish them Well" Il
~. 70 per cent. of government I
'0' in Egypt is a mercy as compar
to what the Hebrew slaves suffer
there in bible times. They got not
ing but food hardly fit for dog a
=, their clothing was Of one rag and tn
LII roof burning sky by day and t
stars of heaven by night. You S
the ''why did they stand it?" Because tn
had to stand it. You sec along ba
in the worlds twilight there was
famine in Canaan, and old Jacob a
his sons came to Egypt for bre;
The old mans boy Jose
the was Prime Minister and JOSEPH
30. ! suppose the father and the broth,
''"' called him Joe. for 1t does not MA
any difference how much boy is
vy.v, /, .ifNit, -