The Dickinson press., 1891-11-14

then the Hebrews bought corn from
the government by surrenderingthem-
selves as slaves.
Then began
SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
The government owned all the He
brews. Where was help to come
from? Not the throne, Pharaoh sat
upon that. Not the army, Pharaoh's
officers commanded that. Not sur
rounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them all tremble. Not the gods
Ammon and Osiris. or the goddess
Isis, for Pharaoh built their temples
out OF the groans of this diabolical
servitude. But one hot day the
Princess Thonorls, the daughter Of
Pharaoh, while in her bathing house
on the banks OF the Nile has word
brought to her that there is u baby
afloat on the river in q cradle made
out OF big leaves. OF course
there is excitement all up and down
the banks, for an ordinary baby in an
ordinary cradle attracts smiling at.
tention, but an infant in a
cradle OF papyrus rocking on
O river arouses not only adj
miration but curiosity. Who made
that boat? Who made it water-tight
with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless OF the crocodilies who lay
basking themselves in the sun, the
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries him,
then another carries him, and
all the way up the bank he runs a
gauntlet OF caresses, till Thonoris
rushes out OF the bathing house and
says: beautiful founding, ] s1ll
adopt you as my own. You shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne. No! No!
No! He is to be the emancipation Of
the Hebrews.
To the Egyptians the Nile was q
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 Hud,
son, and Germans have no such love
for the Rhine, and Russians have no
such love for the Nolga, as the
Egyptians have love for the Nile. But
one day when Pharaoh comes down
this river, Moses takes q stick and
they turn into the gore of a slaughter
house, and through the sluices and
ish-ponds the incarnadined liquid
backs up into the land and the
malodor whelms everything from
mud novels to thronerroom. 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 distemper started cows to
believing, and horses to neighing, and
camels to grooming, as they rolled
over and expired. And then boils,
one OF which will put a man in wretch
edness, came in clusters from the top
of the head to the sole OF the foot.
And then the clouds dropped hail and
lightning. And then the locusts came
in, swarms of them, worse then the
grasshoppers eve were in Kansas,
and then darkness dropped for three
days so that the people could not
see their hands 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 ANGEL
sweeps past; and hear it all night
long, the flap! flap. flap! of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, u great
hearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son OF
Pharaoh expired that night in the
palacea and along the streets OF Mem
phis and Heliopolis and all up and
down the Nile there was a funeral
wall that would have rent the fold OF
the unnatural darkness if it had not
been impenetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however,
were untouched. But these homes
were full OF preparation, for now is
your chance, o We wronged Hebrews!
Snatch up what pieces OF food you
can and to the desert! Its simoons
are better than the bondage you have
suffered. Its scorpions will not sting
so sharply us 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.
Upl Up! This is the night of your
rescue. They gather together at asig-
nal. Alexunder's armies and all the
armies of olden times were led by
torches on high poles; great crests OF
fire; and the Lord Almighty kindled q
fire not held by human hands but by
omnipotent hand. Not made out OF
straw or oil but kindled out OF the at
mosphere, such q torch as the world
never saw before and never will see
again. 1t reached from the earth un-
to the heaven, a pillar of fire, that
pillar practically saying, "This wayl
March this way!" On that supernat.
ural tlambeau more thar q million
refugees set their eyes. Moses and
Aaron lead on. Theme ONE the fami
lies of Israel. Then come the herds
and flocks moving on acrossthe sands
to what is the beach OF waters now
called Bahr-el-kulzum but called ii
the Bible the Red Sea. And when ]
dipped my hands in its blue waters
the heloics OF the Mosaic passage roll
ed over me.
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
On the bank OF the Red Sea. AS thu
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
is seen the host OF Pharaoh in pursuit
There We're 600 finest war chariots
followed by common chariots rolling
at full speed. And the rumbling 9th,
wheels and the curse OF infuriate6
Egyptians came down with the dark
ness. But the Lord opened the crys
tai gates of Bahr-el-Kuizum and tn,
enslaved Israelites passed into liberty
and then the crystal gates OF the SCI
rolled shut against the Egyptian pur
suers. 1t was about 2 o'clock in TIN
morning when the interlocked All,
trees OF the Egyptian chariots could
not move an inch either way. But TIL,
Red Sea unhitched the horses, andu n
helmed the warriors, and left tn,
proud host a wreck on the Arabian
sands. Then
TWO CHORUSES AROSE,
and Moses led the men in the one, an
Miriamled the women in the other, an,
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