Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-07
TABEIlNAGLE PULPIT.
DIR. TALMAeE breaches ON BRICKS
WITHOUT STRAW.

W. IpOO y i5IlrNfss
/ Though the Hharaohs of Old Egypt Have
Been Dead for Many Centuries, There
|, Are Still Many P:,nr:.ohs who Are De.
mandIng Bricks without Straw.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1.-The Tabernacle
was throngcd as usual this morning.
tsThe vast e1ifice filled to its utmost
Iicapacity with eager listeners shows how
|8the popular preacher retains his power
|sover the people. Although lie has been
preaching in Brooklyn for more than
|stwenty-four years, his audiences were
never; SO large as now, and although
1.-THE largest Protestant churcEsi in Amer
|Eicashas been built for him, there never.
was a time .when:s SO many persons were
turned away for lack Of room. The
;subject Of. this mornings sermon was;
iss..Bricks Without Straw q continua-
ton of the series onthe confirmation of.
Holy Scripture which DR. Talmage
found in his journey from the Pyramids
ito the Acropolis. Els text was Isaiah
Xxx, /, The burden of Egypt"
What is all this excitement about in
sthe streets of Cairo, Egypt, this Decen-
,bermorning in 1882 Stand back! We
5hear loud voices and see the crowds of
people retreating to the sides of the
street The excitement of Others be-
Eeones our own excitement. Footmen
scome insight. They have rod in the
Inland and tasseled cap on head, and
their arms and feet are bare. Their
IIgarb is black to the waist, except as
threaded with gold, and the rest is
liwlite They are clearing the way for
IAN official dignitary in IL chariot or car
iitriage They are swift and sometimes
srun thirty or forty miles at stretch in
Ifront of All equipage. Make wayl
lsThey are the feetest footed men on
Iielrth, but soon die, for the human
frame was not made for such endur-
lance.
h | asked all around me who the man
Bin the carriage was, but no one seemed
yto know. Yet us fell back with the
rest to the wall said, This is the old
custom found ell up and down the
tBible, footlnen running before the rul-
ers. demanding obeisance, as in Genesis
before Joseph's chariot the people were
commanded, Bow the knee, and as
II see the swift feet Of the men, fol-
flowed by tile swift feet of the horses,
show those old words of jeremiah rushed
through my mind, "If thou hast run
with the footlnen and they have wearied
thee. how canst thou contend with
horses2"
Now, my hearers, in this course of
sermons Lam only serving you as foot
man, and clearing the way for your
coming into the wonders of Egyptology,
n subject that would have you study
far beyond anything that can be said
liz the brevity Of pulpit ,utterance: Two
hundred and eighty-nine times does the
Bible refer to Egypt and the Egyp-
tians. No wonder, for Egypt was the
mother Of nations Egypt, the mother
OF Greece; Greece, the mother OF
Rome; Rome, the mother of England;
England. the mother of our own land.
According to that. Egypt is our great
c,-oo cr,,,6n,otl,a-
On other Sabbaths left you study
ing what they must have been in their
glory; the Hypostye hall of Karnac,
the architectural miracles at Luxor, the
Colonnade of Horeiuheb, the Come
teries CT Memphis, the value of n king
dom in one monument, the Sphinx,
which with lips of stone speaks loud
enough to be heard across the centu-
ries, Heliopolis and Zoan, the conun-
drum of psychologists But all that
extravaganza of palace and temple and
monument was the cause of an oppres-
sion high as heaven and deep as hell.
The weight of those blocks of stone,
heavier than any modern machinery
could lift, came down upon the He
brew slaves, and their blood mixed the
mortar for the trowels.
THE ROUGH TAsKA1AsTERs.
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile boss workman roughly smite
n subordinate who did not please him.
1t is no rare occurrence to see long lines
of men under heavy burdens passing
by taskmasters at short distances, lash
ing them as they go by into greater
speed, and then these workInen, OK
hausted with the blasting heats of the
day, lying Gown upon the bare ground,
suddenly chilled with night air, crying
out in prayer: IVA, Allahr' "Ya,
Allahl" which means o Godl Q
God! But what must have been the
olden times cruelty shown by the
Egyptians toward their lsraelitish slaves
is indicated by a picture in the Benz
Hassan tonbs, where a man is held
down on his face by two lnen and an
other holds up the victims feet while
the officials beat the bare back of the
victim, every stroke, have no doubt.
fetching the hood. /.
Now you see how the Pharaohs could
afford to build such costly works. 1t
cost them nothing for wages, nothing
but the tears and blood of the toilers,
and tears and blood are cheap drink
for devils. Bricks without straw
may not suggest so much hardship
until you know that the bricks were
usually made with crushed straw, f"
straw crushed by the feet of the oxen
in the thr.shing. and, this crushed
straw denied to tile workmen, they had
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