The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-11-10
roof "a burning sky by day and the st .rs
ol heaven by night.

along back iu the worlds twilight there
was iamine III Capaan. aud old Jacob
and his sons came to Egyp. for bread.
The old mans boy, Joseph, was prime
minister, and Joseph-I suppose the
father and the brothers called HIM Joe,
FOR 1t does not make any difference how
much boy Is advanced in worldly sue
cess, his father and brothers and sisters
always cali him by the same name that
he was called by when two yeaA Old
Joseph, by Pharaoh's permission gave
To his ia nily, who had just arrived. the
richest part of Egypt, The Westchester
farms or the Lancaster farms OF the an l.
clients. 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, aud
paid in money for corn. But after awhile
the noney gave out and then they paid
in cattle. After awhile tho cattle were
all in possession OF the government and
then the Hebrews bought corn from the
government by surrendering themselves
as slaves.
BEGINNING OF SLAVERY ~ EGYPT.
Then began slavery in Egypt. The
government owned all the Hebrews.
Aud let modern lunatics who, in Amer.
lea. propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads ana other thugs
to be run by government sec the folly OF
letting government get its hand on every =
thing. would rather trust the people
than any government the United States
ever mad or will have. Woe worth tho
day when legislators and contresses aud
administrations get possession of any
thing 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 III Egypt,
and the long line of agonies begau all
up and down the Nile. Heavier and
sharper fell the lash, hupgrer and ghast-
lier grew the work"en, louder and Ion
ger went up the prayer, until three mil
lions of the enslaved were crying: "Ya,
Allah! va, Allah" o God! o God!
Where was help to come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not
the army, Pharaoh's officers commanded
that. Not surrounding nations, Phar-
aoh's threat made them all tremble.
Not the gods Ammon and OSIRIS or the
goddess Isis, for Pharaoh built their
temples out of the groans of this daboli-
cal scrvitudc. But one hot day the
princess Thonoris. the daughter of Phar-
aoh, while in her bathing house on the
banks OF the Nile, has word brought her
that there is baby afloat on the river
in cradle made out Of big leaves.
or course there Is excitement all up
and down the banks, for an ordinary
baby in an ordinary cradle attracts smil-
ing attention, but an infant in q cradle
OF papyrus rocking on river arouscs
not only admiration, but curiosity.
| Who made that boat? Who made it
water tight with bitumen? Who launched
il? Reckless of the crocodiIcs, who lay
basklng themselves in the sun, the maid
ems wade in and snatch up the child, and
first one carries him and then another
carries HIM, and all the way up the bank
he runs santlct Of carcsscs, till Thon.
oris rushes out of the bathing house and
says: Beautiful ioundling, l will adopt
you as my own. You shall yet wear
the Egyptian crown and sit on the Egyp-
tian throne"
No! No! No! lie is to be the
emancipator Of the Hebrews. Tell it in
all the brick kilns. Tell it among all
those who arc writhing under the lash,
.ell 1t among ali the castles of Memphis
and Hellopolis and Zoan and Thebes.
Before him sea will part. On noun
tain top, alone, this one will receive
from the Almighty n law that is to be
tho foundation of all good law while the
world lasts. When he is dead, God will
come down on Ncbo and alone barry
him, no man or woman or angel worthy
to attend the obseques.
The Child grows up and goes out and
studies the horrors of Egyptian oppres-
sion and suppresscs his indignation, for
The right time has not come, although
once Tor minute h. let fly, and when
he saw q taskmaster put the whip Oh the
back OF workman who was doing his
best, and heard the poor fellow cry aud
saw the blood srurL, Moses doubled up
lis fist and snuck him on the temple
till the cruel villain rolled over in the
sand eXanimatc aud never swung the
lash again. Served Inn right!
GOD WAS ON Ills SIDE
| But, Moses, are You going to under.
take the possibilities? You feel
that you are goin 20 free the Hebrews
from bondage. But where Is your
army? Where Is your navy2 Not a
| sword have you, not a spear, not a
chariot, not a horse. An! God was on
Ms side, and he has an army of his own.
The sDowstorms are on Gods side;
| witness The SnowUaDks in which the
French army Of invasion were buried
on their WAY back from Moscow. The
rain Is on his side; witness the 18Th of
June at Waterloo, when the tempests
so saturated the road that the attack
| could lot lie made on Wellington's
forces until eleven o'clock, and he was
strong enough to hold out until rc.en-
totcemcnt5 arrived.
| Had that battle been opened at five
O'Clock III the morning instead Of at
eleven 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 cne
hundred and fifty ships and twenty.six
hundred and fifty guns and eight thou
sand sailors and twenty thousand SOL
diers sent out by Phiip L Of Spain to
conquer England.
| What became of those men and that
shipping? 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
L expect that Moses viii he helped in
rescuin9 the Israrlitcs by a special
weapohry. To the Egyptians the Nile
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