The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-06
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,

Into the gore of q slaughter house, and
through the sluices and fish ponds the
lncarnadined 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
NIL over everything. Then this people,
clearly almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to
the filthy and unkempt, and the air
buzzed and buzzed with flies, and then
the distemper started cows to below
Ing and horses to neighing and camels
to grooming, as they rolled over and ex-
PRED.
And then boils, one of which will put
q man in wretchedness, came In clus-
tiers 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 an
gel sweeps past; and hear 1t all night
long, the flap! flap! flap! of his awful
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 pal.
nee and all along the streets of Mem
phis and Heliopolis and all up and
down the Nile there was funeral wall
that would have rent the fold of the
unnatural darkness if it had not been
impenetrable.
LED BY A TORCH FROM GOD.
The Israelitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
o We wronged Hebrewsl Snatch up
what pieces of food you can and to the
DESERT Its simooms are better than
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! Up! 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; and the Lord Al
mighty kindles torch not held by hui
man hands, but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but
kindled out of the atmosphere, such a
torch as the world never saw Def re
and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, pill
lar of fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This way! March this way"
On that supernatural flambeau more
than million refugees set their eyes.
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come
the families of Israel. Then come the
herds and flocks moving on across the
sands to what is the beach of waters
now called Bahr-el- Kulzum, but called
in the Bible the Red sea. And when l
dipped my hands in its blue waters the
heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled
over me.
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the bank of the Red sea. AS the
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
Is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit
There were six hundred finest war char
lots followed by common chariots roll
ing at full speed. And the glittering
of the wheels and the curse of infuri-
ated Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the
crystal gates OF hr-el-Kulzum and
the enslaved IsraeGtes passed into lib
erty, and then the crystal gates of the
sea rolled shut against the Egyptian
pursuers.
1t was about two o'clock in the morn
Ing when the interlocked axletrees of the
Egyptian chariots could not move an
inch either way But the Red sea I'M
hitched the horses and unhelmeted the
warriors and left the proud host a
wreck on the Arabian sands. Then
two choruses arose, and Moses led the
men in the one, and Miriam led the
women in the other, and the women
beat time with their feet. The record
says "All the women went out after
her with timbrels and with dances.
And Miriam answered them, Sing ye
to the Lord, for he hath triuInphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea-" What thrill
ing story OF endurance and victory
The greatest triumph of Handel's
genius was shown in his immortal dra-
matte oratorio, Israel in Egypt" He
had given to the world the oratorio OF
Esther and Deborah" and Athaliah,
but reserved for his mightiest exertion,
at the full height of his powers, the
marshaling of all musical instruments
to the description in harmony of the
scenes on which we this morning dwell.
He gave twenty seven days to this pro
duction, with its twenty eight choruses,
enthralling his own time and all after
time with his Israel in Egypt"
THE BURDENS OF EGYPT.
So the burden Of oppression was
lifted but another burden of Egypt is
made up of deserts. Indeed, Africa Is
great continent for deserts, Libyan
desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and
there and yonder, condemning vast
regions of Africa to barrenness, one of
the deserts three thousand miles long
and thousand miles wide. But all
those deserts will yet be flooded, and SO
made fertile De Lesseps says 1t can
be done, and he who planned the Suez
canal, which marries the Red sea and
the Mediterranean, knows what he is
talking about. The human race is SC
multiplied that it must have more cul
tivated land, and the world must abol-
ish its deserts. Eight hundred millions
of the human race are now living on
lands not blest with rains, but depend
ent on irrigation, and we want by irri-