Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-02
WITHOUT STRAW.
TEE ACTS OF THB PBAR0LHS AND THEIR
PERSECUTION OF Tbs ISRAELIlES.
Dr. Talmagss Discourse in Brooklyn Tabernacle
Yssisrdsy-Ths PharOshs fha, Live To-
Day and the hissry and Torture
They IEAict.
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BROOKLYN, n. Y, November IL Tx
Tabernacle was thronged as usuai TINS
morning. The vast edifice f ed to Its
utmost capacity with eager listeners
shows how the popular preacher retains
his power over the people. Althougf
he has been preaching In Brooklyn loi
more than twenty-four years. his audi
ences were never so large as now, ano
although the largest Protestant Church
I'm America has been built for MIN
there never was time when so many
persons were turned away for lack o.
room. The subject of this mornings
sermon was "Bricks Without Straw" a
continuation of the series on the confir'
nation OF Holy Scripture which Dr.
Tafmage found in his journey from the
Pyramids to the Acropolis. His text
was, Isaiah 1871: "I'he Burden oil
Egypt"
What is all this excitement about In
the street of Cairo, Egypt, this Decem-
Der morning IN 1883? Stand back! we
hear loud voices and see the crowds OF
people retreating 10 the sides OF the
street. The excitement OF others be-
comes our own excitement. Footmen
come in sight. They have a rod in the
hand and tasseled cap on head, and
their arms aud feet are bare. Their
garO Is black TO the waist, except as
threaded with gold, and the rest Is
white. They are clearing the way Tor
an official dignitary in chariot or car
rage. They are swift and sometimes
run thirty or forty miles at stretch IN
front of an eQuippage. Make way!
They are the feetest-footed men on
earth, but soon die, for the human frame
was not made for such endurance.
NOW, MY HEARERS
in this course of sermons, am only
serving you as footman, and clearing
the way for your coming into the
wonders of Egyptology, a subject that
| would have you study far beyond
anything that can be said in the brevlty
Of pulpit utterance.
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile boss workman roughly smlte
q subordinate who did not please him.
1t is no rare occurrence TO see long lines
of men under heavy burdens passing by
task-masters st short distances, flashing
them as they go by into greater speed,
and then these workmen, exhausted
with the blasting heats OF the day, ly-
ing down upon the bare ground, sud-
denly chilled with the night air, cry
ing out in prayer:
''YA! ALLAH" "YA! ALLAH"
which means Oh! God! Oh! God! But
what must have been the olden times
cruelty shown by the Egyptians towards
their IsraelitiSh slaves is indicated by a
picture in the Benl-Hassau tombs, where
4 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 victim, every stroke, l have
DO doubt, fetching the blood.
sSNow you see how the Pharoahs could
afford to build such costly works. 1t
cost them nothing for wages, nothing
but the tears and blood OF the toilers,
and tears and blood are a cheap drink
Tor devils. bricks without straw"
may not suggest so much hardship until
you know that the bricks were u.s.
ually made with crushed straw" straw
crushed by the feet OF the oxen In the
and, this crushed straw de-
MED TO the workmen, they had to pick
up hear and there piece OF Stubole or
gather ruShes from the water-side.
This story OF tho Bible is confirmed by
the fact that many or the brick
walls OF Egypt have on the lower
layers brick made with straw, but the
higher layers Of brick made out OF
rough straw, or rushes 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
always been characteristic of Egyptian
rulers. Taxation TO the point of star
walton WAS the Egyptian rule In the
Bible times as we'll as 1t 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:
Produce. : W
.-..'-...''.-'.'... 40 ~
Clear produce. Observation-Disclosures. sos SU
Taxes..... ............. ,............. 493 %
Amount cleared by the farmer .......s Sl5 80
Or, as my authority declares, seventy
per cent. Of what the Egyptian farmer
makes, is paid for taxes TO the govern
ment. Now, that is not so much taxa
ton as assassination. What think you
of that? You who groan under heavy
taxes in America? have heard that in
Egypt the working people have a song
like this:
''THEY sTARvE Us,
they starve US, they beat US, they beat
US, but there's some one above, there's
some one above, who will punish them
well, who will punish them WE'LL"
The government owned all the He
brews. And let modern lunatics, who
In America propose handing over tele-
graph companies and railroads and other
things TO be run by government see the
folly of letting government get its hand
on everything. Iwould rather trust the
people than any government the United
States ever had or will have. Woe
worth the day when legislators and
Congresses and administrations get pos
session Of ANYTHING more than it is
necessary for them to have. That
would be the revival in this land OF that
old Egyptian tyranny for which God has
never had anything but red-hot thunder
bolts. But through such unwise pro-
cesses Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and
the long line of sgonies began sill up
and down the Nile. Heavier and
sharper fell the lash, hungrier and
ghastlier grew the workmen, louder and
longer went mp the prayer, until three
millions of the enslavsd were crying,
"Yai Allah! Va! Allah!" Oh! God! Oh!
God!
But one hot day the princess Thon-
oris, the daughter Of Pharoah, while in
her bathing house on the banks OF the
Nile, has word brought her that there