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suffered there In Bible times They
got nothing but food hardly ft for q
dog. and their clothing was Of one rag,
and their roof q burning sky by day
and the stars of heaven by night You
say, "Why did they stand it?" Be.
cause they had to stand It. You see
along back in the worlds twilight there
was famine in Canaan, and old Jacob
and his sons came to Egypt for bread
The old mans boy joseph was prime
minister, and Joseph-.I supposed the
fathers and the brothers called him Joe,
for it does not make any difference how
much boy is advanced in worldly sue
cess his father and brothers and sisters
always call him by the same name that
he was called by when two years old
Joseph, by Pharaoh's permission, gave
to his family, who had just arrived, the
richest part Of Egypt, the Westchester
farms or the Lancaster farms OF the
ancients Jacobs descendants rapidly
multiplied. After awhile Egypt took
turn at famine, and those descendants
of Jacob-the Israelites-came to a
great store house which Joseph had
provided. and paid in money for corn.
But after awhile the money gave out
and then they paid in cattle After
awhile the cattle were all in the posses
sion OF the government ind then the
Hebrews bought corn from the govern
ment by surrendering themselves as
slaves
Then began slavery in Egypt
The government owned all the He
brews Aud let the modern lunatics,
who, in America, propose handing over
telegraph companies and railroads and
other things to be run by the govern
ment, see the folly Of letting the go4
eminent get its hand on every thing!
I would rather trust the people than
any government the United States ever
had or will have. Woe with the day
when legislators and congresses and
administrations get possession Of any
thing more than is necessary for them
to have. That would be the revival in
this land of that old Egyptian tyranny
for which God has never had any thing
but red-hot thunder bolts But through
such unwise processes Israel was en-
shaved III Egypt, and the long line q
agonies began all up and down the
Nile. Heavier and sharper fell the
lash, hungrier and ghastlier grew the
workmen, louder and longer went up
the prayer until 100000 of the en-.
shaved were crying: "Ya! Allah! va!
Allah" Oh! God! Oh! God!
"Where was help to come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that Not the surrounding
nations, Pharaoh's threat made them
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris, or tho goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temples out Of the groans Of
this diabolical servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the daugh.
ter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks of the Nile, has
word brought to her that there is .
baby afoat on the river in cradle
made out of big leaves. OF course there
is excitement all up and down the
banks, for an ordinary baby in an oTfef
nary cradle attracts smiling attenEeHs
but an infant in q cradle Of papyrus
rocking on a river arouses not only ad-
miration but curiosity. Who made that
boat? Who made it water tight with
bitumen. Who launched it? Reckless
of the crocodiles who lay basking
themselves in the sun, the
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up the child and first one car.
ries him and then another
carries him, and all the way up the
bank he runs gauntlet OF caresses, till
Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: Beautiful founding,
1 will adopt you as my own. You
shall wear the Egyptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne" No! No!
Mol He is to be the emancipation of the
Hebrews Tell 1t in all brick kilns
Tell 1t among all those who are with
ing under the lash, tell it among oil the
castles of Memphis and Heliopolis and
Zoan and Thedes. Before him sea
will part. On mountain top, alone, this
one will receive from the Almighty q
law that is to be the foundation of all
good law while the world lasts When
he is dead God will come down on Ne.
DO and alone bury him. no man or
woman or angel worthy to attend the
obsequies.
The child grows up and goes out and
studies the horrors OF Egyptian oppres.
sion and suppresses his indignation, for
the right time has not come, although
once for a minute he let fly and when
he saw q task-master put the whip on
the back of workman who was doing
his best and heard the poor fellow cry
and saw the blood squirt. Moses doubled
up his fist and struck him on the temple
till the cruel villain rolled over in the
sand exanimate and never swung the
lash again. Served him right!
But Moses, are you going to under
take the impossibilities? You feel that
you are going to free the Hebrews from
bondage. But where is your army
, Where is your navy? Not a sword
have you. not a spear, not a chariot
not horse.
All! God was on his side, and he ha.
an army of his own. The snow-storm.
are on Gods side; witness the snow
banks in which the French army of in
vasion were buried on their way bach
from Moscow; the rain is on his side
witness the 18th of June at Waterloo
when the tempests 30 saturated the
road that the attack could not be made
on Wellington's forces until clever
o'clock, and he was strong enough
to hold out until reinforcement.