Sharp County record., 1891-11-19

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 surrounding ma
tions; Pharaoh's threat made them all
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temple out of the groans of
this diabolical servitude. But one hot
day the Princess Thonoris, the Gsugh-
ter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks of the Nile, has
word brought to her that there is a
baby aHoat 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
ordinary cradle attracts smiling atten-
ton, but an infant in cradle of papy-
rus rocking on river arouses not
only admiration, 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
maidens wade in and snatch up the
child, and first one carries and then an
other carries him. and all the way up
the bank he runs gantlet Of caresses,
till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: Beautiful founding,
! will adopt you as my own. You shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit on
the Egyptian throne" MOI No! No!
He is to be the emancipator of the He
brews Tell 1t in all the brick-kilns.
Tell it among all those who are writh-
ing under the lash, tell it among all
the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis
and Zoan and Thebes. Before him a
sea will part. On mountain top, alone,
this one will receive from the Almighty
a law that is to he the foundation
OF all good law while the world lasts.
When he is dead God will come down
on Nebo 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 oppression and suppresses
his indignation for the right time has
not come, although once for minute
he let fly; and when he saw a task-mas-
ter put the whip on the back of a
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 ex-
animate and never swung the lash
again. Served him right!
To the Egyptians the Nile was a
deity. Its waters were then, as now,
very delicious. 1t was the finest natural
beverage 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
Volga, as the Egyptians have love for
the Nile. But one day, when Pharaoh
comes down to this river, Moses takes a
stick and whips the waters and they
turn into the gore of a slaughter house,
and through the sluices and fsh-ponds
the incarnadined liquid backs up into
the land and the malodor whelms every
thing from mud hovel to throne-room
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
all over everything. Then this people,
cleanly almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to the
filthy aud unkempt, and the air buzzed
and buzzed with flies, and then the dis
temper started cows to believing, and
horses to neighing, and camels to
groaning, as they rolled over and ex-
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 lightning. And
then locusts came in, swarms of them,
worse than the grasshoppers ever 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 night long,
the flap! flap! flap! Of his awful wings
until Egypt rolled on, great hearse,
the eldest child dead in every Egyptian
home. The eldest son Of Pharaoh ex-
pired last night in the palace, and all
along the streets of Memphis and
Hcliopolis, and all up and down the
Nile, there was funeral wall that
would have rent the fold OF the un.
natural darkness II it had not been i'm
penetrabe
The lsraelitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
o ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up
what pieces OF food you can, and to
the DESERT Its simoons are better than
the bondage you have suffered. Its
scorpions will not sting so sharply an
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! Up! This is
the night Of your rescue. They gather
together att signal. Alexander's arm.
les of olden time were led by torches
on high poles, great crests OF fire; and
the Lord Almighty kindles n
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