The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-11-10
In many parts of the land churches

lars q year. Bricks without straw.
That Is one reason why there are so
many poor bricks. In all departments,
bricks are not bricks at all. Work ade-
quately paid for Is worth more than
work not paid for. More straw and
then better bricks.
But in all departments there are
Pharaohs; sometimes Capital Pharaoh
sometimes Labor Paraoh. When
Capital prospers, and makes large per.
centage on Its investment, and declines
to consider the needs of the operatives,
and treats them as so many human ma
chines-their nerves no more than the
bands on the factory wheel-then Capt.
tai is Pharaoh. On the other hand,
when workmen, not regarding the anx-
ietleS and business struggles of the firm
the firm are doing their best to meet an
important contract and need all hands
busy to accomplish 1t, at such a time to
nave his employees make strike and
put their employers into extreme per-
plexity and severe loss-then Labor be-
comes a Pharaoh of the worst oppes.
sion, and must look out for the judg.
ments of God.
THERE ARE STILL PIIARAOHS.
When in December of 1889, at the
Musium at Boulac, Egypt, l looked at
o.,
very miscreants who diaboliZed ctntu-
ries, and saw their teeth and hair and
finger nails and the flesh drawn tight
over their cheek bones, the sarcophagi
of these dead monarchs side by side,
ana L was so fascinated l could only
with difficulty get away from the spot,
l was not looking upon the last of the
Pharaohs. All over the world old mer.
chants playing the Pharaoh over young
merchants, old lawyers playing Pha-
raoh over young Lawyers, old doctors
playing tho Pharaoh over young doc.
tors, old artists playing the Pharaoh
over young artists, Old ministers play
ing the Pharaoh over young ministers.
Let all oppressors whether in homes
In churches, in stores, in offices, III fac
tories, in social life or political life, in
private life or public life know that God
hates oppressors, and they will come to
grief here or hereafter. Pharaoh
thought he did fine thing, cunning
thing. decisive thing when for the
complete extention of the Hebre ws in
Egypt he ordered ali the Hebrew boys
massacred, but he did not find it so fine
a thing when his own first born that
night Of the destroying angel dropped
dead on the mosaic floor at the foot of
the porphyry pillar Of the palace. Let
all the Pharaohs take warning. Some
of the worst of them are on small scale
In households, as when man. because
his arm is strong and his voice loud DOM
mates his poor wife into a domestic
slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife Is a lifetime serf, her
opinion disregarded, her tastes insulted.
and her existence wretchedness,
though the world may not know it. 1t
Pharaoh oil of In >f
that table, and Pharaoh that tyran-
nizes that home. There is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than domestic Pha-
roah. There are thousands of women to
whom death is passage from Egypt to
canaan, because they get rid Of cruel
taskmaster. What an accutsed mon
ster is that man who keeps his wife in
dread about family expenses and must
be cautious how she introduces an ar.
ticle of millinery or womanly wardrobe
without Illuminating consultation or
apology.
Who is that man acting so? For six
months-In order to win that woman's
heart-he sent her every few days q bou-
quet wound with white ribbon and an
endearing couplet, and took her to con-
certs and theaters. and helped her into
carriages as though she were princess,
and ran across the room to pick up her
handkerchief with the speed of AN an
telope, and on the marriage day promis-
ed all that the liturgy required, saying
II Wilt with an emphasis that excited
the dmiration Of all spectators. But
now he begrudges her two cents for a
postage stamp, and wonders why she
rides across Brooklyn bridge when the
loot passage costs nothing.
He thinks now she is awful plain,
and he acts like the devil, while he
thunders out: "Where did you get that
new hat from? That's where my money
goes. Where's my breakfast? Do you
call that coffee? Didn't tell you to
sew on that button? Want to see your
we'll enough when twenty-five cents
went as far as dollar now, but In
these times not sufficient to preserve
their influence and respectability-
bricks without straw.
mother, do you? You are always 60
ing to see your mother! What are you
get my slippers! Where's the newspa-
per?" lhe tone, the look, the imp;-
tience-the cruelty Of q Pharaoh. That
Is what gives SO many women acOwed
down look. Pharaohi you had better
take your iron heel off that woman's
neck or God will help you remove your
heel.
She says nothing. For the sake Of
avoiding scandal she keeps silent, but
her tears and wrongs have gone into a
Te0ord that you will have to meet as
certainly as Pharaoh had to meet hail
and lightning and darkness and the
death angel. God never yet gave 10
any man the rightto tyrsnnize a woman
and what a sneak you are to take ad-
vantage of the marriage vow, and be.
cause she cannot help herself, and uu-
der the shelter Of your own home ont
Pharoah the Egytian opprossor. There
Is something awfully wrong In house
hold where the woman Is not consider
ed of as much Importance as the man.
No room in this world for any more
Pharaohs!
SIN HAS BEEN OUR TAsKMAsTER.
But 1t rolls over on me with great
power the thought that We have all
been slaves down in Egypt, and sin has
been our tnskmaFter, 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 a Saviour's sacrifice rolls
deep and wide between us and our
atoretime bondage, and though there
may be deserts yet for us to cross, we
are on the way to the Promised Land.
Thanks he unto God for this emanci-
pating Gospel!
Come up out of Egypt all ye who are
yet enslaved. What Christ did for us
he will do for you. "Exodus!" is the
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