The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-06
IsRAELITEs IN EGYPT.
DR.. Taimage Draws Lessons From
the Land Of Pharaoh
Egypt the Mother OF ClVrfzatiOn-Aneient
TaxstiOn-AIosss - the Great DelfveFsE
Tho E-HaraOIls Not All GOne-2Iade
Free BY the Gospel

IN continuation of his dtscGur8es on
his late journey, Rev. I. Dewitt Tai
mage in a late sermon at Brooklyn,
took his text from Isaiah xix. !: THE
Burden of Egypt" He said:
What is all this excitement about in
the streets of Cairo, Egypt. this Decem-
Der morning in 1889? Stand baclkl We
hear loud voices and see the crowds OF
people retreatinR to the sides Of the
street The excitement of others be-
comes our own excitement. Footmen
come in sight They have rod in the
hand and tasseled cap on head, and
their arms and feet are bare. Their
q garb is black to the waist. except as
threaded with gold, and the rest is
white. They are clearing the way for
q an official dignitaFy in a chariot or
carriage They are swift and some
times run thirty or forty miles at a
stretch in front of an squipage. Make
wayi They are the fee tsst footed men
on earth, but soon die, for the human
frame was not made for such sHdur-
Rnce. I asked all around me who the
man in the carriage was, but no one
seemed to know. Yet as I fell
back with the rest to the wall
said: This is the old custom found
all up and down the Bible. fOotmen
running before the rulers. demanding
obeisance, as in Genesis before Joseph s
chariot the people were commanded,
'.BoV the knee and as I see the swift
feet OF the men followed by the swift
feet of the horses, how these old words
Of jeremiah rush through my mind:
"If thou hast run with the footmen and
they have wearied thee, how canst thou
contend with horses?'
Now. my hearers, in this course of
sermons am only serving you as foot
man, and clearing the way for your
coming into the wonders of EgyPtoiogy,
subject that ! would have you study
far beyond anything that can be said
in the brevity of pulpit utterance.
Two hundred and eighty nine times
hoes the Bible refer to Egypt and the
Egyptians No wonder, for Egypt was
the mother of nations; Egypt the
mother of Greece; Greece, the mother
of Rome; Rome, the mother of En-
gland; England, the mother of our own
land. According to that Egypt is our
great-great-grandm
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile IA boss workman roughly smite
a subordinate who did not please him.
1t is no rare occurrence to see long
lines of men under heavy burdens pass
ing by taslzmasters at short distances,
lashing them as they go by into greater
speed and then these workmen, ex-
hausted with the blasting heats of the
day, lying down upon the bare ground,
suddenly chilled with the night air,
crying out in prayer: IVA Allah! va
Allah!" which means 0 God! o God!
Now you sec how the Pharaohs could
afford to build such costly works It
cost them nothing for wages, nothing
but the tears and blood of the tOilers
and tears and blood are a cheap drink
for devils Bricks without straw"
may not suggest so much hardship I'M
til you know that the bricks were usual
ly made with Crushed straw" straw
crushed by the feet Of the oxen in the
threshing, and, this crushed straw de-
MED the worlSmen, they had to pick up
here and there a piece of stubble or
gather PUSHES from the waterside. This
story OF the Bible is confined by the
fact that many of the brick walls of
Egypt have on the lower layers brick
made with straw. but the higher layers
of brick made out of rough straw, or
rushes from the river bank, the truth
of the book of Exodus thus written in
the brick walls discovered by the mod
ern explorers.
That governmental outrage has al
ways been a characteristic of Egyptian
rulers Taxation to the point of starv-
alton was the Egyptian rule in the
Bible times as well as it is in our own
time. Seventy per cent. of what the
Egyptian farmer makes is paid for
taxes to the government. Now, that
Is not so much taxation as assassina-
ton. What think you of that? You
who Rroau under heavy taxes in Amer
lea? I have heard that in Egypt the
working classes have a song like this:
They starve us. they starve US, they
beat us, they beat US, but there's some
one above, there's some one above, who
will punish them well, who will punish
them we'll" But seventy per cent of
government tax in Egypt is u mercy
compared to what the He brew slaves
suffered there in Bible times They
got nothing but food hardly fit for a
dog, and their clothing was of one rag,
and their roof a bUrning sky by day
and the stars of heaven by night
You say: ''Why did You stand it?''
Because they had to stand it You see.
along back in the worlds twilight there
was a famine in Canaan, and old Jacob
and his sons came to Egypt for bread.
The old mans boy Joseph was prime
minister, and Joseph, by Pharoah's per-
mission. gave to his family, who had
Just arrived, the richest part of Egypt
Jacobs descendants rapidly multiplied.
After awhile Egypt took a turn at
tamine, and those descendants of jacob
the Israelites, came to n 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 We're all in possession OF the gov
eminent and then the Hebre ws bought
sorn from the government by sur
rendering themselves as slaves.
Then began slavery in Egypt The
government owned all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunaties, who in Amer
lea propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads and other
things to be run by government see
the folly OF letting government get its
hand on everyt thing. I would rather
trust the people than any government
the United States ever had or viii have.
Woe worth the day when legislators
and congresses and administrations get
possession of anything more than it 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 anything but red
hot thunderbolts. Bat through such
unwise processes Israel was enslavsd In
Egypt, and the long line of agoniss be-
gan all up and down the Nile. Heavier
and sharper fell the lash. hungrier ana
ghastlier grew the Vvorlzmen. louder
and longer went mp the prayer. until