Milford chronicle., 1891-11-06

/ households, as when a man, because his
arm IS strong aud his voice loud, domi-
mates his poor wife into adOmestic slavery.
There are thousands Of such cases where
the wife is 4 lifetime serf, heropiniOn disre-
garded, her tastes insulted, and her exist
snce a wretchedness, though the world
may not know IT, It is n Pharaoh that sits
at the head OF that table, and Pharaoh
that tyrannizes that home. There is no
more abhorreut Pharaoh than domestic
Pharaoh. There are thousands Of women
to whom death is passage from Egypt to
Canaan, because they get rid OF cruel
taskmaster. What an accursed monsteris
that man who keeps his wife In dread
about family expenses, and must be eau
tious how she introduces an article Of mill
linery or womanly wardrobe without hu-
initiating consultation or apology.
! Who is that man acting sol For 1ix
months-in order to win that womans
heart-he sent her every few days a bouquet
wound with white ribbon and an endear-
lug codplet, and took her to concerts and
theaters, and helped her into carriages as
though she were princess, and ran across
the room to pick up her pocket handker-
chief with tie speed Of an antelope, aud on
the marriage day promised all that the
liturgy required saying Il willw with an
emphasis that excited the admiration of
all spectators. hut now he begrudges her
two cents for a postage stamp, and Won
ders why she rides across Brooklyn bridge
when the foot passage costs nothing.
lie thinks now she is awful plain, and he
acts like the devil, while he thunders out:
"WheFe did you get that new hat fromf
That's where my money goes, Where's
my breakfasti Do you call that coffeei
Didn't l tell you to sew on that buttOnf
Want to see your mother, do youf You
are always going to see your mOtherl
What are you whimpering about! Hurry
up now and get my slippers! Where's the
newspaper" The tone. the look, the inn
patienee-Jhe cruelty Of a Pharaoh. That
Is what gives so many women cowed
down look. Pharaohl 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 avoid
ing scandal she keeps silent, but her tears
and wrongs have gone into Il record that
you will have To meet as certainly as Pha-
raoh had to meet hail and lightning and
darkness and the death angel. God never
vet gave to any man the right to tyrannize
a woman, and what a sneak you are to take
advantage of the marriage vow, and be-
cause she cannot help herself and under
the shelter of your own home out-PharaUh
the Egyptian oppressor. There is some
thing Rwfully wrong in n household where
the woman is not considered Of as much
Importance as the man. No room in this
worll for any more Pharaohs!
SIN HAS BEEN OUR TAsKMAsTER.
But 10 rolls over on me with great power
the Thought that we have all been slayes
down in Egypt. and sin has been our task
master, and again and again we have felt
its lash. But Christ has been our Moses
TO lead us out OF bondage, and we are for
ever free. The Red sea Of Saviour's sac-
riiee rolls deep and wide between MS and
our aforetime bondage aud 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 emancipatTg Gospel
Come up out Of Egypt all We who are yet
enslaved. What Christ did for us he will
DO for you. "ExOdusr' is the word Ex-
odus! Instead Of the brick kilns Of Egypt
come into the empurpled vineyards Of God,
where one cluster of grapesiis bigger than
the one.siat the spies brought TO the Is
Taelites by the Brook Eshcol, though that
cluster was so large that it was borne "be-
tween two upon staff.
Welcome all by sin oppressed,
Welcome to his sacred rest;
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but Tedeeming love.