The Forrest City times., 1891-11-06
LESSONS FROM PHARAOH
DR rALMAOE CONTINUES HIS SERIES ON EOYPT.
The Pharaohs of Modern Times Sometimes Capital and Sometimes Labor and often She wife Beaser.

BROOKLYN. N. Y., Nov. 1, 1891. 1.--The Tabernacle was thronged as usual this morning. The vast editice filled to it's utmost capacity with eager listeners shows how the popular preacher re- tains his power over the people. AL though he has been preaching in Brooklyn for more than twenty-four years, his audiences were never so large as now, and although the largest Protestant church in America has been built for him there never was a time when so many persons were turned away for lack of room. The subject of this mornings sermon was Bricks Without Straw" continuation of the series on the confirmation of Holy Scripture which Dr. Talmage found in his journey from the Pyramids to the Acropolis. His text was, Isaiah 10 {: :: ''The burden of Egypt"
 In thls course of sermons am only serving you as footman, and clearing the way for your coming into the won ders of Egyptology, a subject that would have you study far beyond any thing that can be said in the brevlty of pulpit utterances. Two hundred and eighty-nine times does tho bible refer to Egypt and the Egyptians No wonder, for Egypt was the mother of nations. Egypt, the mother Of Greece; Greece, the mother of Rome; Rome, the mother of England; England, the mother of our own land. According to that Egypt is our great-great-grand- mother. On other Sabbaths left you studying what they must have been in their glory; the Hy- postyle Hall of Karnac, the archi- facft,..al ,s....o al c< I x1o made of Horemheb, the cemeteries of Memphis, the value of kingdom in one monument, the sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks loud enough to be heard across the centuries. Helio- polls and Zoan, the conundrum of arch@ologistA But all that extrava- gance of palace and temple and monu- ment was the cause of an oppression high as heaven. and deep as hell. The weight of those blocks of stone heavier than any modern machinery could lift came down upon the Hebrew slaves, and their blood mixed the mortar for the trowels.
 We saw again and again on and along the Nile boss workman roughly smite subordinate who did not please him. It is no rare occur renee to see long lines of men under heavy burdens passing by task-masters at short distances. flashing them as they go by into greater speed and then these workmen. exhausted with the blasting heats of the day, lying down upon the bare ground, suddenly chilled with the night hir, crying out in prayer; .sYa Allah!'' "Ya! Allah!" which means Oh! God! Oh! God. But what must have been the olden times cruelty shown by the Egyptians to- wards their Israelitish slaves is in- dicated by picture in the Beni- Has, san tombs, where man is held down on his face by two men and another holds up the victims feet while the officials beat the bare back of the vic tim. every stroke, I have no doubt. fetching the blood.
 Now you see how the Pharaohs could afford to build such costly works It cost them nothing for wages, nothing but the tears ar.d blood of the toilers, and tears and blood are a cheap drink for devils. ..Bricks without straw" may not suggest so much hard- ship until you know that the bricks were usually made with "crushed straw" straw crushed by the feet of the oxen in the threshing and, this crushed straw denied to the workmen, they had to pick up here and there piece of stubble or gather rushes from the waterside. Tins story of the bible is confirmed " the fact that many of the brick walls of Egypt have on the lower layers brick made with straw, but tho higher layers of brick made out of rough straw, or rushcs from the river bank, the truth of the book of Exodus thus written in the brick walls dis covered by the modern explorers
 That governmental outrage has al- ways been characteristic of Egyptian rulers. Taxation to the point of starvation was the Egyptian rule in the bible times as well as it is in our own time. A modern traveller gives the figures concerning the cultivation of seventeen acres, the value of the yield of the field stated in piastres:
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