Milford chronicle., 1891-11-06

ment hy surrenderlng themselves as slaves
i BEGINNING OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
Then began slavery in Egypt. The gov
ernment owned all the Hebrews. And let
modern lunatics who, in America, propose
handing over telegraph companies and
railroads and other things to be run by
| government see the folly Of letting gov
ernment get its hand on everything. ]
! would rather trust the people than any
! government the United States ever had or
/ will have. Woe worth the day when leg
islators and congresses and administra-
| tions get possession Of anything more than
! it is necessary for them to have.
That would be the revival iRt this land Of
that old Egyptian tyranny for which God
has never had anything but red hot thun-
derbolts. But through such unwise pro
cesses Israel was enslayed in Egypt, and
the long liue of 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 three millions of the en-
slaved were crying; VA, Allah va, Al
lahr o Godl o GOd
Where was help to come from? Not the
throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the
army, Pharaoh's officers cocJnanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pnaraoh's threat
made them all tremble Not the gods Am
mon and Osiris or the goddess Isis, for
Pharaoh built their temples out Of the
groans of this diabolical servitude But
one hot day the princess Thonoris, the
daughter of Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks of the Nile, has word
brought her that there is Il baby ailOat 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 Rtten-
ton, but an infant in cradle of papyrus
rocking on river arOuses not only ad-
miration, but curiosity Who made that
boat? Who made it water tight with btu
meng Who launched it? Reck less OF the
crocodilcs. who lay basling themselves in
the sun, the maidens wade in and snatch
up the cllild. and first one carries him and
then another carries him, and all the way
up the bank he runs Il gantlet of caresses,
till ThonOris rushes ont Of the bathing
house and says; Beautiful fOundling, l
will adopt you rs my own. You shall yet
wear the Egyptian crown and sit on the
Egyptian throne"
No! MOI No! He is to be the emanci
pator of the Hebrews. Tell it in all the
brick kilus. Tell it among ali those who
are writhing under the lash, tell il among
all the castles of Memphis and HeliopOlis
and Zoan and Thebcs. Before him sea
will part On mountain top. alone, this
one will receive from the Almighty n law
that is to be 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 Ob3cIGies.
Thechild grows up ana goes ont and stud
les the hOrrjrs Of Egyptian oppression and
suDpressps his Indignation, for the right
time has not come, although once fora min
ute he let ny, and when he saw a tasNmaster
put the whip on the back Of workman
vino WAS doing his best, and heard the poor
fellow cry and saw the blood squirt, Moses
doubled up his fist uad struck him on the
temple till the cruel vilain rolled over in
the sand exanimate and never swung the
lash again. Served him right
GOD WAS ON HIS SIDE.
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossihilities? You feel that you are
goingto free the Hebrews from bondage.
But where is your army? Where is your
navy? Not a sword have you, not u spear,
not IL chariot, not horse All God was
on his side. and he has an army of his own.
The snowstopms are on Gods side; witness
the snowbanks in which the French army
of invasion were buried on their way back
from Moscow. The rain IS on his side;
witness the 18th of june AZ Waterloo, when
tho tempests so saturated the rOal that the
attack could not be made on Wellington's
forces until eleven o'clock, and he was
strong enough to hold out until REINFORCE |
ments arrived
Had that battle been opened at five
o'clock in the morning instead Of at eleven
the destiny of Europe would have been
turned the wrong way. The heavy rain
decided everything. So also are the winds
and the waves on Gods side. Witness the
Armada with one hundred and fifty ships
ana twepty-siX hundred aud fifty guns
and eight thousand sailors and twenty
thousand soldiers sent out by Philip II of
Spain to conquer England
What became of those men and that ship
ping? Ask the wind and the waves ali
along the English and Irish coasts. The
men and the ships all wrecked or drowned
or scattered. So / expect that Moses will
be helped in rescuing the Israelites by a
special weaponry. 10 the Egyptians the
Nile was a deity. Its waters were then rs
now very delicious. It was the finest nat
ural beverage of all the earth. We have
no such love for the Hudson, and Germans
have no such love fer the Rhine, and Rus
SLAMS have no suph love for the Yolga as
the Egyptians haye love for the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh comes down
to this river, Moses takes stick and whips
the waters, aud they turn into the gore OF
a slaughter house, and through the slulees
and 6shponds the incaTnadined liquid
backs up into the land and the malodOr
whelms everything from mud hOvel to
throne room. Then came the frogs, with
horrible croak, all over everything Then
this people, clcanly almost to fastidious-
ness. were infested with insects that be-
long to the filthy and unkempt, and the
air buZzed and buzzed with flies, and then
tha dlstemper started cows 70 believing
and horses to neighing, and eamels to
groaning, as they rolled over and expired.
Aud then hoils, one of which will put
man i'm wretGhedness. 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,
swarnss Of them, worse than the grass
hoppers ever were in Kansas, and then
darkness dropped for three days 50 that
the people could not see their hand before
their face, great surges Of midnight cover
ing them. And last Of all, on the night OF
the 18th of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ, the Destroying Angel
,weers past; and bear It all night long,
las lepi flag! TAP. OF h.s wings until
Fqvpt rolled on gEsat hearae the eldest
child dead n every Egyptian home. The
eldest son OF Pharaoh expired that night
IN the palace aud all along the streets q
Memphis nnd Heliopolis, and ell up and
down the Nile there was q funeral wall
that woald EGye rent the fold ct the I'M
natural darkness if it had not been i'm
penetrable.
NOW IS IsRAEL's cHAScE
Whe Isrselltlsh homes, however, were
untouched But thess homes were full Of
preparation, for now Is your chance, o
ye wronged Hebrews. Snatch mp what
pieces Of food you can and to the desert
It's simoqms ave better tliRH tho bondage
you have suffered. Its Scorpions will not
sting so sharply rs the wrongs that have
stung YOU ali your lives. Away The
man who WINS cradled in the basket Of