Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-07

and 5000 sailors and 10000 soldiers
sent out by Philip II OF Spain TO con-
ouer England. What became OF those
mer and that shipping? Ask the wind
and the waves all along the English
and the Irish coasts. The men and the
ships oil wrecked or drowned or scat
tered. So expect that Moses Will Do
helped in rescuing the Israelites by q
special weaponry.
10 the Egyptians the Nile was q de-
ity. It's waters were then as now very
delicious. II was the finest natural bev-
erage OF all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Germans
have no such love for the Rhine. and
Russians have no such love for the Vol
ga. Us the Egyptians have for the Nile.
But one day when Pharoah 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 incarna--
dined liquid backs up into the land and
the malojor whems everything from
mud havel to throne room. Then came
the frog with horrible croak oil over
everything.
Then this people, clearly almost to
fastidiousness, were infested with in
sects that belong to the filthy and un-
kempt. ard the air buzze1 and ruzzed
with flies, and then the dis'emper
started COWS to believing and horses to
neighing, and camels to groaning as
they rolled over ana expired. And
then boils, Que OF which will put man
in wretchedness. 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 locusts came in,
swarms OF them, worse than the grass
hoppers ever were in Kansas, and then
darkness dropped for three days so that
the people could not see their hand be-
fore their face, great surges Of midnight
covering them And last OF all, on the
night OF April Is, about 1900 years be-
fore Christ the destroying Angel
sweeps past and hear il all night long,
the flap. flap. flap! OF his awfu! wings,
until Egypt rolled on great hearse,
the eldest child dead in every Egyptian
home. The eldest son OF Pharaoh ex-
pired that night in the palace and all
along the streets OF Memphis and He'll
opolis, and all up and down the Nile
there was funeral wall that would
have rent the fold OF the unnatural
darkness II 1t had not been impenetra-
BILE.
The Israelitish homes. however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
OF preparation, for now Is your chazca.
o We wronged Hebrews! Snatch I'D
what pieces OF food you can and to the
desert! Its simoons are better than the
bondage you have suffered. Its scor-
pions will no; sting so sharply as the
wrongs that have stung you all your
lives. Away! The man who was
Graded in the basket OF papyrus or the
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is
the night OF your rescue. They gather
together at signal. Alexander's
armies and all the armies Of olden times
were led by torches on high poles,
great crests OF fire: and the Lord Al.
mig hty kindles q torch not held BY
human hands, but by onmipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but
kindled out OF the atmosphere, such q
torch as the world never saw before
and never will see again. It reached
from the earth into the heaven, a pill
lar OF fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This way! March this way"
On that supernatural fambeau more
than 1000, 900 refugees set their eyes.
Moses and Aaron led on. Then came
the families OF Israel. Then came the
herds and hocks 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 l
dipped my hand in its blue waters he
heroics Of the Mosaic passages rolled
over me.
After three days march the Israel.
itish refugees encamped 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 900
finest war charlots followed by common
chariots rolling at full speed. And the
rambling OF the wheel and the curse OF
Infatuated Egyptians came down with
the darkness. But the Lord opened
the crystal gates OF Bahr-el-Kulzum
and the enslaved Israelites passed into
liberty and then the crystal gates
OF the sea rolled shut against the
Egyptian pursuers. 1t was about
2 o'clock in the morning when
the interlocked axe trees OF
the Egyptian chariots could not
move an inch either way. But the Red
sea unhitched the horses. and unhelm-
ed the warriors, and left the proud host
q wreck on the Arabian sands. Then
two choruses arouse, 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
says: "All the women went out after
her with timbrels and with dances.
Aud Miriam answered them, Sing ye
to the Lord, for He hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea-" What o
thrilling story Of endurance and vic
tory. The greatest triumph Of Han
del's genius was shown in immortal
dramatic oratorio. Israel in Egypt"
A. 81 -.-lI Az .~nA1-f.