Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-11-05

were 1ull or preparatlOH, IOr now IS your
chance, We wronged Hebrews! Snatch
up what pieces of food you can and to
the desert! It's simooms are better than
the bondage you have suffered. It's
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! Upl This Is
the night Of your rescue. They gather
together at signal. Alexander's
armies and all the armies of olden
time were led by torches on nigh poles,
great crests Of fire; and the Lord Al
mighty kindles a torch not held by hui
man hands, but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but kin
died ont of the atmosphere, such a torch
as the world never saw before and never
will see again. 1t reached from the
earth into the Heaven, pillar of fire,
that pillar practically saying: This
way! March this way!' On that super
natural tambeau more than q 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
Cdlltu out CdllCN III WIG
Bible the Red Sea. And when / dipped
my hands in its blue waters the heroics
OF the Mosaic passage rolled over me.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees cncampcd for the night on the
bank Of the Red Sea. AS tho shadows
begin to fall, in the distance is seen the
host Of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were
600 finest war chariots followed by COM
mon chariots rolling at full speed. And
the glittering Of the wheels and the
curse Of Infatuated Egyptians came down
with the darkness. But the Lord opened
the crystal gates of Bahr-ol- KulZum and
the cnslavcd ISraclitcs passed into liber-
ty, and then the crystal gates Of the sea
rolled shut against the Egyptian pursu-
crS.
1t was about o'clock in the morning
when tho interIocked axletrccs of the
Egyptian ChariotS could not move an
inch either way. But the Red Sea I'M
hitchcd the horses and unhelmctcd the
warriors and left the proud host a wreck
on the Arabian sands. Then two
choruscs arose, and Moses led the men
in the one, and Miriam led the women
in the other, and the women beat timo
with their feet. The record says: 'All
the women went out after her with tim
brels and with dances. And Miriam an
SWcrod them, Sing yo to the Lord, for
lie hath triumphcd gloriously; the hcrSe
and his rider hath He thrown into the
sea-" What thrilling story of cndur-
ancc and victory!
The greatest triumph Of Han.cls &C.
MUS 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 mar
shalng of all musical instruments to the
description in harmony of the scenes on
which we this morning dwell. He gave
twcnty-seven days to this production,
with its twcnty-eight choruses, enthrall-
ing his own time and all aftcr-time with
his "Isracl in Egypt"
But in all the departments TO-DAY
there are Pharaohs. Sometimes Capt.
tai Pharaoh and sometimes Labor
Pharaoh. When Capital prospers and
makes large percentage on its invest
mcnt and declines to consider the needs
Of the operatives and treats them rs SO
many human machines, their nerves no
moro than the bands on the factory
whccl-thcn Capital is Il Pharaoh. On
the other hand, when Workmen, not re-
garding the anxictics and business
struggles Of the firm employing them,
and ut q time when the firm are doing
their best to meet an important contract
and need all hands busy to accomplish it,
at such Il time to have his employees
make u strike and put their employers
into extreme perplcXity and severe loss
then Labor becomes Pharaoh Of tho
worst oppression, and must look out for
the judgments of Cod
Let all opprcssors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores, in offices, in fac
tories, in social lifo or POLITICAL life, in
private life or public life know shat God
hates oppressors, and they will all come
to grief here or hereafter. Pharaoh
thought he did II fine Thing, q cunning
thing, u decisive thing when for the COM
plctc extinction of the Hebrews in Egypt
he ordered all the Hebrew boys massa-
cred, but he did not find it so fine u thing
when his own first born that night of
the destroying angel dropped dead ON the
mosaic floor at tho foot of the porphyry
pillar of the palace. Let all the Phar-
aohs take warning, Some of the worst
Of them are on small scale in house
holds rs when man, because his arm is
strong and his voice loud, dominates his
poor wife into domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife is lifetime serf, her
opinion disregardcd, her tastes insut@d,
and her existence Il wretchedness, though
the world may NOT know it. 1t is II
Pharaoh that sirs at the head fof that
table, and Pharaoh that tyranni2es
that home. There is no more abb orient
Pharaoh than domestic Pharaoh.
There are thousands of women to whom
death is passage from Egypt to Canaan,
because they get rid of u cruel task
master.
But it rolls over on mo with great
power the thought that we have all been
slaves down in Egypt, and sin has been
our taskmGster, and again and again we
have felt its lash But Christ has been
our Moses to lead Us out of bondage, and
we are forever free The Red Sea Of "
Saviour's sacrifice rolls deep and wide
&c. Il