The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-04

comes down to this river, Moses takes
stick and whips the waters, and they
turn into the gore of slaughter mousse
and through the sluices and fish ponds
the incarnadined liquid backs up into
the land and the malodor whelms
everything from mud howell to throne
room. Then came the frogs with horri-
BILE croak all overeverything. Then TINS
people, cleanly almost to fastidiousness'
were infested with insects that be-
long to the filthy and unkempt, and
the air buzzed and buzzed with flies,
and then the distemper started COWS 70
believing aud horses to neighing ana
camels to groaning, as they rolled over
and expired And then the boils, one
of which will put man in wretched-
ness, came in clusters from the top OF
the head TO the sole of the foot And
then the clouds dropped hail and light
ming. And then locusts came in, swarms
of them, worse than the grasshoppers
ever were in Kansas and then dark
ness 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 eigh-
teen hundred years before Christ, the
destroying angel sweeps past; and hear
1t all night long, the fap flapl 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
palace, and all along the streets OF
Memphis and Heliopolis and all up and
down the Nile there was funeral wall
that would have rent the fold Of the un-
natural darkness If it had not been inn
penetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however, were
untouched But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
o, ye wronged Hebrewsl Snatch up
what pieces Of food you con and TO the
DESERT It's simoons are better than the
bondage you have suffered. Its scor-
pions 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 payyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is
the night OF your rescue. They gather
together at signal. Alexanders
armies and all the armies OF olden time
were led by torches on high poles, great
I crests of fire, and the Lord Almighty
lsindles torch not held by hu'
man hands, but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out OF straw or oil, but kim
! died 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, a pill
lar Of fire, that practically saying:
This wayl March this wayT" On that
supernatural flambeau more than q
million refugees set their eyes. Moses
and Aaron led on. Then come the fami-
lies OF Israel Then come the herds
and foclss moving op 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 lsraelitish
refugees encampcd 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 chariots followed
by common chariots rolling at full
speed. And the rulnbliug Of the wheels
and the curse OF infuria.ed Egyptians
came down with the darkness. But
the Lord opened the crystal gates OF
Bahrel.Kulzum and the enslayed Israel
ties passed into liberty and then the
crystal gates of the sea rolled shu'
against the Egyptian pursuers. IL was
about two o'clock in the morning wher
| the interlocked axletrees Of the Egyp
tian chariots could not move an inch
either way. But the Red Sea unhitched
. the horses and unhelneted the warriors
and left the proud host n wreck on the
, Arabian sands. Then two choruses arose
and Moses led the meu in the one ant
! Miriam led the women in the other, ant
} the women beat time with their feet
The record says: "All the women wen
: out after her with timbrels and will
) dances. And Miriam answered them
] Sing yc TO the Lord, for He hath tri
t umphed gloriously; the horse and hi
! rider hath He thrown into the sea
1 What a thrilling story OF endurance ant
{ victory. The greatest triumph Of Han
I dele genius was shown In his immorta
' oratorio. Israel in Egypt" He haC
8 given TO the world the Oratio OF "Esthei
! and Deborah" 4" and "A.haliah," but re
! served for his mightiest excrtion at tn,
b full height OF his powors the marshal
ing OF all musical instrumental TO the de
b. scription IN harmony OF the scenes oi
I which we this morning dwell He gav'
q twenty-seven days TO this production
? with It's twenty eight choruses, enthral
Q ling his own time and all after tim
q with his 'Israel in Engpyt"
e So the burden Of oppression wa
v lifted, but another burden Of Egypt I
Q made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa !
y a great continent for deserts, Libyai
y desert, Sahara desert, deserts here AM
s there, and yonder, condemning vas
;. regions of Africa TO barrenness, ono o
= the deserts three thousand miles lon
K and thousand miles wide. But al
: those deserts viii yet be flooded, m
e 30 made fertile. DE Lesseps says IL ca
}. be done, and he who planned the Sue
Q canal which marries the Red Sea an
l. the Mediterranean known what he
l. talking about The human race is 5
O rnnlfinlied thnt Il must hnve more cult