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until eleven o'clock, and he was strong
enough to hold out until re:inforcements AZ
rived. ,-
Had that battle been opened at five o'clock
in the morning instead Of at eleven the des-
tiny Of Europe would have been turned the
wrong way. The heavy rain decided every
thing. So also are the winds and the waves
on Gods side. Witness the Armada with
one hundred and fifty ships and twenty-sl3
hundred and fifty guns and eight thousand
sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent ou5
by Philip II. of Spain to conquer England.
What became Of those men and that ship.
ping? Ask the wind and the waves all
along the English and Irish coasts. Inc
men and ships all wrecked or drowned OF
scattered. So expect that Moses viii be
helped in rescuing the lsraelites by q
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was a deity. Its waters were then as
now every delicious. 1t was the finest nat
ural beverage Of all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Germans have
no snch love for the Rhine. and Russians
have no such love for the Volga as the Egyp-
tians have love for the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh m down
to this river, Moses takes q stick and WHIPS
the waters, and they turn into the gore OF q
slaughter house. and through the sluices and
Hshponds the incarnadined liquid backs up
into the land and the maledor whelms every
thing. from mud howell to throne room. Then
came the frogs, with horrible croak, all over
everything. Then this people, clearly al
most to fastidiousness, were infested with
insects that belong TO the filthy and IN
kempt, and the air buzzed and buzzed with
flies. and then the distemper started COWS to
believing and horses to neighing, aud camels
to grooming, as they rolled over and e1-
pired.
And then boils, one Of which will put a
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 light,
ming. And then locusts came in, swarms OF
them, worsethan the grasshoppsrs even 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 Angel sweeps past; and hear it
all nightlong, the flap! flap! flap! ofhis 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 n down
the Nile there was a funeral wall that would
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if it had not been impenetrable.
The Israelitish homes, however, were un-
touched. But these homes were full Of prep
aration, for now is your chance, Y ye
wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and to the desertl Its
simoons are better tnan 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! Upl This is the
night of your rescue. They gather together
at a signal. Alexander's armies and all the
armies of olden time were led by torches on
high poles, great crests Of fire; n the
Lord Almighty kindleS q torch not held by
human hands but by o~mnipotent 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. It reached from the earth unto the
heaven, a pillar of fire. that pillar practi.
On that supernatural fambeau more than q
million refugees set their eyes. Moses and
Aaron lead on. Then come the families OF
Israel. Then come the herds and hocks
moving on across the sands to what is the
teach of waters now callet Bahr-al- Kulzum,
but called in the Bible the Red Sea. And
when I dipped my hands in its blue waters,
the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over
me.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees encampei for the night IN the
banks Of the Red Sea. As the shadows be-
gin to fall, in the distance is seen the host Of
Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hun
dred finest wal chariots, followed by COM
mon chariots, rolling at full speed. And the
glitteriug of the wheels and the curses of in
furiated Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the crystal
gates Of Bahr.el-Kulzum and the enslaved
1sraelites passed into liberty. and then the
crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against
the Egyptian pursuers. d
1t was about two o'clock in the morning
when the interlocked axle trees Of the
Egyptian chariots could not move an inch
either way. But the Red sea unhitched the
horses and unhelmeted the warriors and
left the proud host q wreck on the Arabian
sands. Then two choruses arose, and Moses
led the men in one, and Miriam led the
women in the other, and the women beat
time with their feet. The record says: "Au
the women went out after her with timbrels
them, Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea-" What
q thrilling story Of endurance and victory.
So the burden of oppression was lifted, but
another burden Of Egypt is made up of des.
erts. Indeed, Africa is a great continent
for deserts, Libyap, desert, Sahara desert,
deserts here and there and yonder, condemn
ing vast regions of Africa to %barrenness, on
OF the deserts three thousand miles long ar {
a thousand miles wide. But all those deserts
will yet be flooded, and so made fertile. De
Lesseps says it can be done, and he who plan
nod tho S,,ao canal which marriac tho Rod
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what he
Is taking about.
Another burden Of Egypt to be lifted Is
the burden of Mohammedanism, although
there are some good things about that re-
ligion. Its disciples must always wash be-
fore they pray, and that is five times a day.
A commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamme-
dauism, and though some may have seen q
Is a religion Of sobriety. Then they are not
ashamed of their devotions. When the call
for prayers is sounded from the minarets the
Mohammedan Immediately unrolls the rug
on the ground and falls on his knees, and
crowds Of spectators are to him no embar.
rassment-reproof to many a Christian who
omits his prayers if people are looking.
But Mohammedanism, with its polyg.
amy, blights everything it touches. Mo-
manned, its founder. had four wives. and
his followers are the enemies Of good
~womanhood. Mohammedanism puts its
curse On all Egypt, and by setting up a sim
full Arab higher than the immaculate Christ,
is an overwhelming blasphemy. May God
help the brave and consecrated missionar.
les who are spending their lives in combating
it.
But before I forget it I must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage
that resulted in the liberation of the He.
brews was their being compelled to make