The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-04

you are going 10 free the Hebrews from
bondage But where Is your army?
Where is your navy2 Not a sword
have you. not spear, not n chariot,
not horse
All! God was on his side, and he has
nm army of his own Tho snow.storms
are on Gods side; witness the snow
banks in which the French army of in
vnsion were buried on their way back
from Moscow; the rain Is on his side;
witness the 18th OF June Mt Waterloo,
when the tempests so saturated the
road that the attack could not be made
on Welliugtor's forces until eleven
o'clock, and he was strong enough
To- hold out until achievements
arrived. Had that battle been
opened ut : o'clock in the morning. in.
s.cad OF Mt H. tho destiny 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 Ar
NADIA. with one hundred and fifty ships
and 1850 guns and 5000 sailors and TO-
600 soldiers. sent out by Philip H., of
came of those men and that shipping?
Ask the wind and the waves all along
the English and the Irish coasts The
men and the ships all wrecked or
drowned or scattered. Sol expect that
Moses will be helped in rcscuing the
Israclites by IA special weaponry.
TO the Egyptians the Nile was a
deity. Its waters were then, as now,
very delicious. IL was the finest natu-
raj beverage of all the earth. We have
no such love for the Hudson. and Ger
mans have no such love for the Rhine,
and Russians have no such love for the
Volga, rs the Egyptians have love for
the Nile. But one day when Pharaoh
comes down to this river, Moses takes
n stick and whips the waters and they
turn into the gore of a slaughter-house,
and through the sluices and fish
ponds the incarnafned squid backs
up into the land and the malodor
whclms everything from mud how
cl to throne room. Then came
frogs with horrible croak oil
over everything. Then tins people,
clearly almost To- fastidiousncss were
| infested with insects that belong TO the
filthy and unkcmpt, and the air buzzcd
and buzzcd with flies, and then the dis
temper started cows to believing and
horses TO neighing, and camcls to
! grooming, rs they rolled over and cN-
PRED And then boils, one OF which
| will put man in wretchedneSs, came
| in clusters from the top of the head TO
/ 81 al. IT la
| clouds dropped hail and lightning And
then locusts came in, swarms of them,
worse than the Frasshoppcrs ever were
| in Kansas, and then darkness dropped
for three days so that the people
| could not see their hand before their
| face, great surgcs of midnight covering
| them. And last of all, on tn, night of
| the 18th Of April, about l,S0O years be-
| fore Christ, the Destroying Angel
sweeps past: and hear IL all night long,
| the flap! hapLnap! of his awful wings
until Egypt rolled on. great hcarse,
/ the eldest child dead in every Egyptian
/ home. The eldest son of Pharaoh eN-
PRED that night in the palace and all
/ along the streets of Memphis and He'll.
opolis and all up and down the Nile
| there was funeral wall that would
have rent the fold Of the unnatural
| darkness IL il had not been impcnc'
| trablC
The Israclitish homes, however, were
| untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance.
o We wrongcd Hebrews! Snatch mp
what pieces Of food you can and TO the
| desert. Its slmOOnS arc better than the
bondage you have suffered. Its scor-
pions viii not sting so sharply rs the
wrongs that have stung you all your
lives. Away, The man who was era
died in the basket of papyrus on the
! Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is
the night of your rescue. They gather
together at "A signal.
Alexandcr's armies and all the armies
OF oldcn time were led by torches on
high poles, grca: crcsts OF fire; and the
Lord Almighty kindles torch not held
by human hands, but by onnlpotcn'
hands Not made out Of straw or oil
but kindled out of the atmosphere,
such "A torch as the world never saw be
fore and never will see again. IL reached
from the earth unto the heaven, n pill
lar Of fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This way! March this way!
On that supernatural hambean moro
than n million refugees set their eyes
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come
the families OF Israel Then come the
herds and fiocks, moving ON across Tho
sands 10 what is the beach OF water
now called Bahr-el- Kulzum, but called
in the Bible the Red sea- And when
dipped my hands in it's blue waters thu
heroics OF the Mosaic passage ROLLED
over me.