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enough to hold out until REINFORCE.

eleven, the destiny of Europe would
have been turned tile wrong way. Tile
heavy rain decided everything. So
also are the winds and the waves on
Gods side-witness the Armada with
one hundred and fifty ships and twenty
six hundred and fifty guns and eight
thousand sailors and twenty thousand
soldiers sent out by Philip II of Spain
to conquer England.
What became of those men and that
sIippins2 Ask the wind and the waves
all along the English and Irish coasts.
! The men and the ships all wrecked or
drowned or scattered SO expect
that Moses will be helped in rescuing
the Israelites by special weaponry.
To the Egyptian the Nile was deity.
It's waters were then as now very de-
licious. It was the finest natural bev-
.erage of all the earth. we have no
lfsnehs love for Hud son, and Ger
iFinan's have no such love forthe Rhine,
and Russians have no such love for the
4 yolga. 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 slaughter house, and
through the sluices and fish ponds the
incarnadined liquid backs up into the
land, and the lnalodor whellns every
thing from mud howell to throne room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
all over everything. Then this people,
clearly 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 disternper started cows to below
ing and horses to neighing and calnels
to groaninS, as they rolled over and ex-
pired.
] And then boils, one of which will put
a man in wretchedness, came in clus-
tiers from the top of the head to the
sole of the foot. And then the clouds
dropped hail and lightning. And then
locusts came in, 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 all, on the night of the
18th of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ, the destroying an
gel sweeps past; and hear it all night
long, the tiapl flap! flap! Of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, a great
hearse. the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son Of
Pharaoh expired that night in the pal
ace and all along the streets of Mem
pills and Heliopolis 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
impenetrable.
LED By A TORCH FROM GOD.
The Israelitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
eoffpreparafion, for now is your chance,
o ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up
what pieces of food you can and to the
desertl It's sl1nooms 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
Graded in the basket of papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This IS
the night of your rescue. They gather
/ together at a signal. Alexander's
armies and I'LL the armies OF olden time
were led by torches on high poles,
| great crests of fire; and the Lord Al
mighty kindles u torch not held by hui
man hands, but by oinn;potcnt hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but
kindled out of the atmosphere, such a
torch as the world never saw before
and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, n pill
lar of fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This way March this way!"
On that supernatural 1anbeau more
than million refugees set their eyes,
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come
the families of Israel. Then come the
herds and focks moving on across the
sands to what is the beach of waters
now called Bahr-el-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.
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the bank of the Red sea. As the
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit.
There were six hundred finest war char
lots followed by common chariots roll
ing at full speed. And the glittering
of the wheels and the curse of infuri-
ated Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the
crystal gates Of Bahr-el-Kulzum and
the enslaved Israelites passed into lib
erty, and then the crystal gates of the
sea rolled shut against the Egyptian
pursuers.
1t was about two o'clock in the morn
ing when the interlocked axletrees Of the
Egyptian chariots could not move an
inch either way. But the Red sea I'M
hitched the horses and unhelIneted the
warriors and left the proud host
wreck on tine Arabian sands. Then
two choruses arose, and Moses led the
men in the one, and Miriam led the
women in the other, and the women
beat time with their feet. The record
saws: ,All the women went out after
her with tilnbrels and with dances.
And Miriam answered them, Sing We
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