The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-04

ft for a dog and their clothing was OF
one rag. and their roof burning sky
by day and the stars OF heaven by
night You say, "Why did they stand
it?" Because they had to stand 1t. You
see along back in the worlds twilight
there was q famine in Canaan, and old
Jacob and his sons came to Egypt for
bread The old mans boy Joseph, was
prime minister, and Joseph-I suppose
the father and brothers called him Joe,
for II does not make any difference how
much boy is advanced In worldly sue
cess his brothers and his sisters always
call him by the same name that he was
called by when years old-Joseph, by
Pharaoh's permission, gave to his fami-
ly, who had Just arrived. the richest
part of Egypt the Westchester farms
or the Lancaster farms of the ancients.
Jacobs descendants rapidly multiplied.
After awhile Egypt took turn at
famine, and those descendants OF jacob,
the Israelites, came to 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 were all in possession Of the gov
ernment and then the Hebrews bought
corn from the government by surren-
dering themselves as slaves.
Then began slavery in Egypt The
government owned all the Hebrews.
And let modern lunatics, 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 everything would rather trust
the people than any government the
United States ever had or will have.
Woe unto the day when legislators and
congresses and administrations get pos
session 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.
But through such unwise processes
Israel was enslaved in Egypt and the
long line 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 enslaved were crying, "Ya! Al
lahl va! Allahw Oh! Godl o God!
Where was help TO come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, PharaQh's officers COM
manded that Not surrounding nations,
Pharaoh's threat made them all trem-
BILE. Net the gods Ammon 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 daugher OF
Pharaoh, while in her bathing house on
the banks Of the Nile, has word brought
her that there Is baby ailoat on the
river in the cradle made out Of big
leaves. OF couse there is excitement
all up and down the banks for an ordi
nary babyi IN on ordinary cradle attracts
smiling attention, but an infant in
cradle OF papyrus rocking ON riyei
arouses not only admiration but curl
osity. Who made that boat? Wh'
made II water-tight with bitumen'
Who launched 1t? Reckless OF thu
crocodiles who lay basking them
selves in the sun, the maiden
wade in and snatch up the child. ant
first one carries him and then anothe
carries him, and all the way up tn
bank he runs gauntlet Of caresses, I'll
Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: beautiful founding,
will adopt you as my own You shal
,, yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit Of
the Egyptian throne" No! No! No
He is to be the emancipator Of the He
brewA Tell Il among all those VIII
are not writhing under the lash, tell
among all the castles Of Memphis, an
Heliopolis, and Zoan, and Thebes he
, fore him sea will part On the noun
tain top, lone, this one will receiv
: from the Almighty law that Is TO b
: the foundation OF all good law Will
. the world lasts When he Is dead Go
: will come down on Nebo and alon
bury him, no man or woman or angC
' worthy 10 attend the obscquies Th
child grows up and goes out and studie
|. the horrors OF Egyptian oppression an
suppresses his Indignation, for the rigf
time has not come, although once for
y minute he let fly and when he saw
= task-master put the whip on the bac
$ of a workman who was doing his bei
and heard the poor fellow cry and sa'
the blood squirt, Moses doubled up h
fist and struck him on the temple u
the cruel villain rolled over in the san
y exanimate and never swung the las
again. Served him right
But, Moses, are you going to undei
: take the impossibiltie You feel thi
x you are going TO free the Hebrews frol
Y bondage. But whore is your army
. Where Is your navy? Not sword hav
!. you, not spear. not chariot, not
y horse. Ali God was ON his side, and
? had an army OF his own. The sno
. storms are on Gods side; witness u
= snow banlss In which the French arm
. Of invasion were buried on their wa
= back from Moscow. The rain is on II
J. side; witness the 18th OF June at Wate
loo when the tempests so sa
70 urated the road that the attaC
3 could not be made on Wellin
is toms forces until II o'clock, and
Is was strong enough to hold out until r
l. inforcements arrived. Had the bait
d been opened at o'clock In the NOR
5 ing instead Of at II the destiny Of e
~ | rnr,e .uni,ld hnue henn Turned the yYrnr