Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-11-13

The child grows uD and goes out and stud
les the horrors OF Egyptian oppression anG
suppresses his Indignation. for the righ
time has not come although once for min
ute he let fly, and when he saw a taskmastei
J put the whip on the back Of workman wht
was doing his best and heard the poor fe!
low cry AMI saw the blood squirt, Moses
doubled up his fist AMI struck him on the
temple TIL the cruel villain rolled over In tnf
sand exanimats and never swung the lash
again. Served him rI,ht!
but Moses, are YOU going 70 undertake
the impossibilities' You feel that you are
going TO free the Hebrews from bondage.
But where is your army' Where is your
nAvy' Not sword, have you, not spear,
not chariot not horse. All! Tod was
on his side, and lie has all army OF His own.
The snowstorms are on Gods side; witness
the snowbanks in which the French army OF
invasion was buried on their way back from
Moscow. The rain is on His side; witness
the 18th OF June at Waterloo, when the tenn
pests 50 saturated the road that the attack
sould not b, made on Wellington's forces
until eleven o'clock, and he was strong
enough TO hold out until reinforcements ar
rived.
Had that battle been opened at five o'clock
n the morning instead of at eleven tho des-
tiny of Europe would have been turned the
wrong way The heavy rain decided every
thing. So also are the winds ami the waves
IN Gods side. Witness the Armada with
)ue hundred and fifty ships AMI twenty six
hundred and fifty guns and eight thousand
aiprs and twenty thousand soldiers sent out
" Philip II. OF Spain to conquer England
What became of those men AMI that ship
oiuss Ask the wind and the waves all
llonE the English and Irish coasts. The
len ald ships all wrecked or drowned or
catered 80 expect that Moses will be
-. ,tv.ar
p-cial weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Sile was deity. It's waters were then as
low every delicious. 1t was the finest nat
I Iral beverage of all the earth. We have no
mch love for the Hudson, and Germans have
10 snch love for the Rhine, ami Russians
lavc no such love for the Volga as the Egyp-
.ians have love for the Nile
| But one day, when Pharaoh comes down
/ % this river, Moses takes a stick and who's
/ The waters, and they turn into the gore OF a
daughter house and through the sluces and
ishpouds the incarnadine1 liquid backs up
/ nto the land and the maledor whelms every
hing, from mud bovel TO throne room. Then
,ame the frogs with horrible croak, all over
Verything. Then this people, cleanly al
most to fastidiousness, were infested with
insects that belong 10 the filthy and un-
tempt, and the air buzzad and buzzei with
lies and then the distemper started cows to
following and horses to neigning, and cauels
o groaning, as they rolled over and ex-
| )ired
And then boils one OF which will put a
nan in wretchednesS, came in clusters from
he top OF the heal 70 the sole Of the foot.
! And then the clou Is dropped hail and light
! ling. And then locusts came in, swarms OF
( hem, worse than the grasshoppers even were
! II Kansas, and then darkness dropped for
hree days so that the people could not see
heir hand before their face, great surges OF
midnight covering them. And last OF all,
! IN the night of the 18th of April, about
! Eighteen hundred years before Christ the
! Destroying Angel sweeps past; and hear it
Ill night long. the dap! Zap Zap! of his wings
, Iutll Egypt rolled on great hearse the
oldest child dead in every Egyptian home
rhe eldest son of Pharaoh expired that night
n the palace and all along the streets Of
Memphis and Heliopolis, and all up and down
! she Nile there was funeral wall that would
aave rent the fold of the unnatural darkness
! Il it had not been impeDetrable.
The Israelitish homas, however, were un-
touched. But these homes we're full OF prep
arat.on, for now is your chance, o ye
EroIged Hebrewsl Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and to the desert Its
simoons are better tnan the bondage you
nave suffered. Its scorpions will not sting
| 30 sharply as the wrongs that have stuug
you all your lives. Away The man who
was Graded in the basket OF papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. upl Upl This is the
night of your rescue They gather together
at a signal. Alexauder's armies and all the
armies Of olden time were Led by torches on
high poles, great crests OF fire; and the
Lord Almighty kindes torch not held by
human hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out Of straw or oil, but kindled
out Of the atmosphere, such q torch as the
world never saw before and never will see
again. 1t reached from the earth unto the
heaven, a pillar Of fire that pillar practi-
cally saying, This way! March this way r
On that supernatural hambeau more than a
million refugees set their eyes. Moses and
Aaron lead on. TGen come the families oil
Israel Then come the herds and focks
moving on across the sands to what is the
beach of waters now called Bahr-el- hulZum,
but called in the 3 ble the Red Sea. And
when dipped my hands in It's blue waters
the herocs OF tho Mosaic passage rolled ovel
me.
After three days march the lsraelitisf
refugees encampe1 for the night on tn,
banks Of the Red Sea. As the shadows be
gin to fall, in the distance is seen the host OF
Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hun
dred finest war chariots followed by com
mon chariots, rolling at tull speed. And tn,
glitterng OF the wheels and the curses Of in
iuriated Egyptians came down with tn,
darkness. But the Lord opened the crysta
gates of Bahr-el- kulZum and the enSlave
lsraeltes passed into liberty, and then tbs
crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against
The Egyptian pursuers.
1t was about two O'Clock in the morning
when the interlockel axle trees of the
Egyptian chariots could not move an incl
either way. But the Red sea unhitched the
horses and unhelmetad the warriors, ant
left the proud host a wreck on the Arabian
sands. Then two choruses arose, and Nose
led the men in ono, and Miriam led The
women in the other, and the women beat
time with their feet. The record says: "Al
the women went out after her with ttmbrel'
and with dances And Miriam answered
them, Sing ye TO the Lord, for He hatl
triumphed gloriously; the horse and hi
rider hath he thrown irto the sea-" Wha
a thrilling story of endurance and victory
So the burden Of oppression was lifted, bu
another burden of Egypt is made up OF deS
erts. Indeed, Africa is a great contnen
for deserts, libyan, desert, Sahara desert
deserts here and there and yonder, condemn
ing vast regions of Africa to barrennesS, on,
of The deserts three thousand miles long auC
a thousand miles wide. But all those desert
will vet be flooded, and SO made fertile. d
Lessons saws it can be done, and he who pla>,
ned the Suez canal, which marries the Rec
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what ht
Is taking about.
Another burden of Egypt to be lifted
the burden of Mohammedauism although
there are some good things about that re
llgon. It's disciples must always wash be
fore they pray, and that is five times day
A commendable grace is cleanliness. Stroni
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamme
danism, and though some may have seen
drunken Mohammedan, never saw one.
is a religion of sobrety. Then they are no
ashamei of their devotions. When the cal
: -l.lf Il, .,a,aaV aV.nNn
for prayers is sounded from the mlnaretS tn
Mohammedan Immediately unrolls the ru
on the ground and falls on his knees, an