The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-05
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poa are g1ng - nee rho Hebrews from
ko0dase. Bat where Is your armyf
Where Ia your Eavyl Not sword have
poa, not specr, not chariot, not
Aorss Ali God VS. on his side and
be has an army of his own. The
E1owstorlDs arc on Gods slde-witness
he snowbaniss In which the French
army OF invasion were buried on their
way back from Moscow. The rain Is
IN his sidc-wft:less the 19th Of June at
Waterloo, when the tempest SO satu-
sted the road that the attack could not
be made on Wellington's forces until
sscvnn o'clock and he was strong
snouzh 10 hold out until REINFORCE
ments arrived.
Had that baltic been opened at five
o'clock In the morning instead Of at
heven, 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 and twenty
bu hundred and fifty guns and eight
thousand sailors and twenty thousand
soldiers sent out by Philip ii of Spain
10 conquer England.
What became of those men and that
shippingi Ask the wind and the waves
all 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 q special weaponry.
TO the Egyptian the Nile was deity.
Its waters were then as now very de-
hcious- It was the finest natural bev-
erage 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 stick
and whips the waters, and they turn
into the gore of q slaughter house, and
Through the sluices and fish ponds tho
tncarnadined liquid backs up into the
land, and the malodor whelms every
IL.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
n over everything. Then this people,
almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to
he filthy and unkempt, and the air
buzzed and buzzed with flies, and then
Elo 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 pat
man In wretchedness, came in clus-
ters from the top OF the head to the
cole Of the foot. And then the clouds
dropped han and lightning. And then
loo sts came In swarms of them worse
thin the grasshoppers ever were in
KANSAS. And then darkness dropped
for three days, go that the people could
hot see their hand before their face,
great surges Of midnight covering them.
And last OF an, on the night of the
18th Of April, about eighteen hundred
years before Christ, the destroying an
gel sweeps past; and hear it all night
long, the flapl hapi flap! of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, grea
hearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son O
Pharaoh expired that night in the pal
ace and all along the streets of Mem
phis and Heliopolis and all up ant
down the Nile there was q funeral wal
that would have rent the fold of TIL
unnatural darkness II 1t had not beeI
impenetrsble.
LED By TORCH FROM GOD.
The Israelitish homes, however, wer
untouched. But these homes were ful
of preparation, for now is your chance
o ye wronged Hebrews Snatch u
what pieces of food you can and to tn
DESERT Its sinooms are better tina
the bondage you have suffered. II
scorpions will not sting so sharply Q
the wrongs that have stung you a
your lives. Away The man who we
graded In the basket Of papyrus on til
Nile will lead you. Upl Up! This
the night of your rescue. They gatht
together at a signal. Alexander
armies and all the armies of oiden tin
were led by torches on high pole
great crests of fire; and the Lord A
mighty kindles torch not held by h,
man hands, but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, bl
kindled out of the atmosphere, such
torch as the world never saw befo
and never will see again. 1t reache
from the earth unto the heaven, p
lar of fire, that pillar practically sa
ing: "This wayl March this way
On that supernatural flambeau mo
than a million refugees set their eye
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then con
the families of Israel. Then come Il
herds and fiocks moving on across tt
now called Bahr- -Kulzum, but call
in the Bible the Red sea- And when
dipped my hands In its blue waters t
heroics of the Mosaic passage roll
over me.
After three days march the Isra
itish refugees encamped for the mig
on the bank of the Red sea. As
shadows begin to fall, IN tho distan
Is seen the host of Pharaoh In pursu
There were six hundred finest war Oh;
lots followed by common chariots re
ing at full speed. And the glitteri
6f-the wheels and the curse of fnfu
ated Egyptians came down with
dafAness, But the Lord opened
crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kulzum a
the snsiaved IsraeIftes passed into
crty, and then the crystal gates of I
10 rolled shut against the Egypti
3rrsuers.
Itwns about two o'clock in the mo,
ng when the interlocked axletrees Of t
Egyptian chariots could not move
inch either way. But the Red sea I
ditcf1ed the horses and unhelmeted t
warriors and left the proud host
Rrarsx nm thu him sands Th