The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-18

raj beverage of all the earth We have |
no such love for the Hudson, and Ger.
mans have no such love for the Rhine,
and Russians have no such love for tho
volga, as the Egyptians have love for
the Nile. But one day when Pharaoh
comes down to this river. Moses takes
a stick and whips the waters and they
turn into the gore of slaughter.house,
and through the sluices and fish
ponds the incarnafned squid backs
up into the land and the malodor
whelms everything from mud hov.
eli to throne room. Then came
frogs with horrible croak all
over everything. Then this people,
clearly almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to tho
filthy and unkempt, and the air buzzed
and buzzed with flies, and then the dis
temper started cows to believing and
hbrses to neighing, and camels to
roaning, as they rolled over and ex-
pired. And then boils, one OF which
will put man in wretchedness, came
in clusters from the top Of the head to
the sole of the foot And then the
clouds dropped hail and lightning. And
then locusts came in: swarms of them,
worse than the grasshoppers ever were
in Kansas, and then darkness dropped
for three days SO that the people
could not see their hand before their
face, great surges of midnight covering
them. And last of all, on the night Of
the 18th Of April, about 1900 years be.
fore Christ the Destroying Angel
sweeps past; and hear it all night long,
the flap! flap! fap Of his awful wings
until Egypt rolled on, great hearse,
|the eldest child dead in every Egyptian
pme. The eldest son of Pharaoh ex.
red that night in the palace, and all
long the streets Of Memphis and He'll.
opolis and all up and down the Nile
there was funeral wall that would
have rent the fold of the unnatural
darkness if it had not been impene.
trable.
The Israelitish homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
l OF preparation. for now is your chance
To We wronged Hebrews! Snatch up
What pieces Of food you can and to the
desert! Its simoons are better than the
bondage you have suffered. Its scor-
pions will not sting so sharply as the
wrongs that have stung you all your
lives. Away! The man who was era
died in the basket Of papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Upl Up! This is
the night of your rescue. They gather
together at a signal.
Alexander's armies and all the armies
of olden time were led by torches on
high poles, great crests Of fire; and the
Lord Almighty kindles torch not held
by human hands, but by omnlpotent
hands. Not made out of straw or oil,
but kindled out of the atmosphere,
such torch Us the world never saw be-
fore and never will see again. 1t reached
from the earth unto the heaven, a pill.
lar Of fire, that pillar practically say.
ing: "This way! March this wayv'
On that supernatural fambeau more
than million refugees set their eyes.
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come
VIC 1dA1llCS VI 1SIdSl. HCH COIuc tu0
herds and 1ocks, moving on across the
| sands 70 what is the beach of waters
now called Bahr.el- Kulzum, but called
in the Bible the Red sea. And when I
dipped my hands in its blue waters the
heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled
over me.
After three days march the Israelit.
ish refugees encamped for the night on
the bank of the Red Sea. As the shad.
ows begin to fall in the distance is seen
the host of Pharaoh in pursuit There
were six hundred finest war chariots
followed by common chariots at full
speed. And the rumbling of the wheels
and the curse of infuriated 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
gates of the sea rolled shut against
the Egyptian pursuers. 1t was about
2 o'clock in the morning when the in
terlocked axletrees of the Egyptian
chariots could not move an inch either
way. But the Red sea unhitched the
horses, and unhelmeted the warriors
and left the proud host a wreck on tho
Arabian sands. Then two choruses
arose, and Moses led the men in one,
and Miriam led the women in the other,
and the women beat time with their
feet The record says: "All the won.
en- went out after her with timbrels and
with dances. And Miriam an
swered them: Sing We to the Lord,
for He hath triumped gloriously;
the horse and his rider hath He
thrown into the sea-" What thrill
ing story of endurance and victory.
The greatest triumph of Handel's
genius was shown in his immortal dra-
matte oratorio, Israel in Egypt" He
had given to the world the oratorio of
esther and Deborah" and "Atha-
liah," but reserved for his mightiest OK.
ertion, at the full height of his powers,
the marshaling of all musical instru.
ments to the description in harmony OF
the scenes on which we this morning
dwell. He gave twenty-scven days to
this production with its twenty.eigh,
choruses, enthraliing his own time and
all after time with his "Israel in
Egypt"
So the burden of oppression was
lifted, but another burden .of Egypt is
made up of deserts Indeed, Africa is
a great continent for deserts-Libyan
desert, Sahara desert, deserts here and
there and yonder condemning vast re.
gions of Africa to barrenness-one OF
the deserts 5000 miles long and 1,uo(
miles wide. But all those deserts will
vet be flooded and SO made fertile. he