Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-11-02

ten Labor becomes a Pharaoh or
lac worst oppression, and must look
III fsa the j.l.. >uants of God.
II in December of 1889, at the
a;t 5o2i3c, Egypt. ! looked at
j llt uInies oi the Pharaohs, the very
/ hi Its who diabolized centuries,
/ and 81" their teeth and hair and lin
= nails and the flesh drawn tight over
/ II check bones. the sarcopiagi Of
/ lIs@a dead monarclls side by side, and
/ WAS SO fls>>nated l could only with
/ difficulty get away from the spot,
was not looking upon the last OF the
! PiL.raolls. All over the world Old
merchants playing the Pharaoh over
young merchants, old lawyers playing
the Pharaoh over young lawyers, old
doctors playing the Pharaoh over
young doctors old artists playing tie
Pharaoh over young artists, old min
listers playing the Pharaoh over young
ministers.
Let all oppresSors. whether in homes
in churches. iii stores. in offices, in lac
tories in social life or political life. III
private life g public life know that
God hates Opprl. 3Ors. and they will all
come to grief here or hereafter. Pha-
raOh thought he did fine thing, Il cua-
ming thing. decisive thing when for
the complete extinction of tie Hebrews
II Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew
boys massacred, but he did not find it
so fine thing when his own first Oorn
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
warming. Some of the worst of them
are on q small scale in households as
when Il 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 a lifetime serf, her
opinion disregarded, her tastes insuIted,
and her existence a wretchedneSS,
though the world may not know it. 1t
is Il Pharaoh that sits at the head of
that table, and Pharaoh that tyran-
nizes that home. There is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pha-
raOh. There are thousands of women
to whom death is passage from Egypt
to Canaan, because they get rid of
cruel tasklnaster.
What an accursed monster is that
man who keeps his wife in dread about
family expenses, and must be cautious
how she introduces an article of mil
linery or wOmanly wardrobe without |
huniliating consultation and apology. |
Who is that man acting so? For six |
mOnths-in order to win that woman's |
heart, he sent her every few days a
bouquet wound with white ribbon, and |
an endearing couplet, and took her to |
concerts and theaters and helped her |
into carriages as though she were a |
princess, and ran across the room to |
pick up her pocket handkerchief with |
the speed Of an antelope, and on the
marriage day promised all that the lit
urgy required, saying, Il will!' with |
an emphasis that excited the admira
ton of all spectators.
But now he begrudges her two cents
for postage stamp, and wonders why
she rides across Brooklyn bridge when
the foot 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 breakfasts Do you call
that coffee? Didn't tell you to sew
on that button? Want to see your
mother, do your You are always 60
ing TO see your mother What are you
whimpering about? Hurry up, now.
and get my slippers! Where's the
newspaper The tone, the look, the
impatience-the cruelty of a Pharaoh
That is what gives SO many women
a cowed down look. Pharaoh, you had
better take your iron heel off that wom-
ans neck, or God will help you remove
your heel She says nothing. For the
sake of avoiding Il scandal she keeps
silent; but her tears and wrongs have
gone into a record 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 to any man the right to tyrannize
n woman, and what n sneak you are TO
take advantage OF the marriage VOW,
and because she cannot help herself,
and under the shelter of your own home
Pharaoh the Egyptian oppressor.
There is something awfully wrong in a
household where the woman is not con-
sidered of as much Importance as the
man. No room in this world for any
more PharaOhsl
SIN HAS BEEN OUR TASKMASTER.
But it rolls over on me with great
power the thought that we have all
been slaves down in Egypt. and sin
has been our taskmaster, 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 y
our aforetime bondage, and though
there may be deserts yet for us to cross
we are on the way to the Promised
Land Thanks be unto God for this ,
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 word. Exodus '
Instead of the brick kilns of Egypt l
come into the empurpled vineyards of
God, where one cluster of grapes is
bigger than the one that the spies
brought to the Israelites by the Brook
Eshcol, though that cluster was so
large that it was borne between two :
upon a staff"
Welcome all by sin oppressed, y
Welcome to his sacred rest; !.
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.
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EXhumed History.