Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-06

government owned Ill the lie DreWR
And let modern lunatics, who in Amer
lea propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads and other
things TO be run by the government,
see the folly of letting the government
get its hand on everything. i would
rather trust the people than any gov
eminent the United States ever had or
will have. Woe worth the day when
legislators and congresses and admin
istrations get possession of any
thing more than it is necessary for
them to have. That would be the re-
vival 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 mil
lions of the enslaved were crying,
"Yal Allah! Ya Allah" Oil Godl
Oh! God!
Where was help to come from? Not
the throne Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tions, Pharaoh'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 diabolical servitude. But one
hot day the Princess Thonoris, the
daughter of Pharaoh, while in her
bathing house on the banks of the Nile
has word brought her that there is a
baby atioat on the river in a cradle
made out of big leaves OF course
there is excitement all up and down
the ban for an ordinary baby In an
ordinary cradle attracts smiling at
tention, .ut an infant in a cradle of
papyrus rocking on a river arouses not
only admiration but curiosity. Who
made that boat? What made it water
tight with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless of the crocodiles who lay baslS-
ing themselves in the sun, the maidens
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 a gauntlet of caresses.
till Thonoris rushes ont of the bathing
house and says: Beautiful founding,
l will adopt you as my own. You
shall yet wear the Egyptian crown and
sit on the Egyptian throne" No! No!
No! He Is TO be the emancipation of
the Hebrews. Tell it among all those
who are writhing under the lash; tell
it among all the castles of Memphis
and Heliopolis and Zoan and Thebcs.
Before him a sea will part
But, Moses, are you going to under
take the impossibilities? You feel
that you are going TO free the Hebre VS.
from bondage: But where is your
army? Where IS your navy? Not a
sword have you, not a spear, not
chariot, not ahorse. All! God was on
his side and he has IN army of his
own. The snow storms are on God
side: witness the snow banks in
which the French army of invasion
were buried on their way back from
Moscow. The rain is on his side wit
ness the 18th of June at Waterloo when
the tempests SO saturated the road that
the attack could not be made on We'll
hngton's forces until / o'clock and
he was strong enough to hold out until
reinforcements arrived. Had that
battle been opened at o'clock
in the morning instead of at
IL the destiny of Europe
would have been turned the wrong
way. The heavy rain decided every
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waves on Gods side; witness the
Armada with $50 ships and 1850 guns
asld 5000 sailors and 10000 soldiers
sent out by Philip III. of Spain 10 con-
quer England.
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the banks of the Red sea- AS the
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit.
There were 600 finest war chariots
followed by common chariots rolling
at full speed. And the glttering of
of the wheels and the curse of infuri-
ated Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the
crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kulzum and
the enslaved Israelites passed into
liberty and then the crystal
against the Egyptian pursuers-
when the interlocked axle trees of the
Egyptian chariots could not movo an
inch either way. But the Red sea un-
hltched the horses, and unhelmeted
the warriors, and left the proud host
a wreck on the Arabian sands Then
two choruses arose, and Moses led the
men In the one. and Miriam led the
women in the other, and the women
beat time with their feet The record
says: "All the women went out after
her with timbiels and with dances
And Miriam answered them, Sing we to
the Lord, for he hath triumphed
gloriously; the horse and his rider
hath he thrown into the sea-"
But in all departments there are
Pharaohs; sometimes capital Pharaoh
and sometimes labor a Pharaoh.
When capital prospers, and makes
large percentage on its investment,
and declines % consider the needs of
the operatives, and treats them as SO
many human machines, their nerves
no more than the bands on the fac
tory wheel-then capital is a
Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
worlmen, not regarding the anxieties
and business struggles of the firm en-
ploying them, and at time when the
firm are doing their best to meet an i'm.
portant contract and need all hands
busy to accomplish it, at such a time
to have his employees make a strike
and put their employers into extreme
perplexity and severe loss-then labor
become a Pharaoh of the worst oppres-
sion, and must look out for the rudy
ments Of God