Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-11-06
corn from the government by surren-
dering themselves as slaves.

ana ict modern lunatlcS, who IN Amer
lea propose handing over telegraph
companies and railroads and other
things TO be run by the government
see the folly of letting the government
get its hand on everything. i would
rather trust the people than any gov
eminent the United States ever had or
will have. Woe worth the day when
legislators and congresses and admin
istrations get possession of any
thing more than it is necessary for
them to have. That would be the re-
vival in this land of that old Egyptian
tyranny for which God has never had
anything but red-hot thunderbolts.
But through such unwise processes
Israel was enslaved in Egypt. and the
long line of agonies began all up and
down the Nile. Heavier and sharper
fell theJash, hungrier and ghastlier
grew the workmen louder and longer
went up the prayer, until three mil
lions OF the enslaved were crying,
"Ia! Allah. va. Allah!" Oil God!
Oh! Cod
Where was help to come from? Not
the throne Pharaoh sat upon that.
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers com
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tions, Pharaoh's threat made them all
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris, or the goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built their temples out of the groans
of this diabolical servitude. But one
hot day the Princess Thonoris, the
daughter of Pharaoh, while in her
bathing house on the banks of the Nile
has word brought her that there is "a
baby atloat on the river in cradle
made out of big leaves OF course
there is excitement all up and down
the ban for an ordinary baby in an
ordinary cradle attracts smiling at
tention, .jdt an infant in cradle of
papyrus rocking on river arouses not
only admiration but curiosity. Who
made that boat? What made it water
tight with bitumen? Who launched it?
Reckless of the crocodiles who lay bask-
ing themselves in the sun, the maidens
wade in and snatch up the child, and
first one carries him and then another
carries him and all the way up the
bank he runs n gauntlet of caresses.
till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: Beautiful founding,
i will adopt you as my own. You
shall vet wear the Egyptian crown and
sit on the Egyptian throne" No! No.
No. He Is to be the emancipation of
the Hebrews Tell it among all those
who are writing under the lash: tell
1T among all the castles of Memphis
and Heliopolis and Zoan and The bes.
Before him a sea will part
But, Moses, are you going to under
take the impossibiliti You feel
that you are going TO free the Hebre US
from bondage: But where is your
army? Where j. your navy? Not a
sword have you. not spear. not Il
chariot, not ahorse All God was on
his side and he has an army of his |
own. The snow storms are on GOD S
side: witness the snow hanks in |
which the French army of invasion |
were buried on their way back from
Moscow. The rain is on his side: wit
ness the 18th of June at Waterloo when |
the tempcsts so saturated the road that |
the attack could not be made on Vel |
lington's forces until Il o'clock and |
he was strong enough TO hold out until |
reinforcements arrived. Had that |
battle been opened at o'clock |
N the morning instead of at
Ii the destiny of Europe |
would have been turned the wrong |
way The heavy rain decided every
thing. SO also are the winds and the
waves on Gods side; witness the
rmada with $50 ships and > $50 guns
rad 5000 sailors and 10000 soldiers
'ent out by Philip II. of Spain TO con
Iuer England.
After three DAYS march the Israel
fish refugees encamped for the night
IN the banks of the Red sea. AS the
shadows begin to fall, in the distance
S seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit.
There were 600 finest war chariots
followed by common chariots rolling
It full speed. And the entering of
II the wheels and the curse of infuri-
ited Egyptians came down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the
crystal gates OF Bahr-el- Kulzum and
he enslaved Israelites passed into
liberty and then the crystal
rates of the sea rolled shut
against the Egyptian pursuers.
was about o o'clock in the morning
When the interlocked axle trees of the
egyptian chariots could not NOV. an
nch either way. But the Red fea I'M
iltched the horses, and unhelmete
he warriors, and left the proud host
! wreck on the Ara ban sands Then
wo choruses arose. and Moses led the
men In the one. and Miriam led the
women in the other, aud the women
'eat time with their feet. The record
avs: "All the women went out after
Ter with timbiels and with dances
And Miriam answered them, Sing We to
he Lord, for he hath triumphed
the horse and his rider
iath he thrown into the sea-"
But in all departments there are
'haraohs; sometimes capital Pharaoh
nd sometimes labor Pharaoh.
When capital prospers, and makes
arge percentage on its investment,
nd declines to consider the needs Of
he operatives, and treats them AZ SO
many human machines, their nerves
20 more than the bands on the fac ,
Dry wheel-then capital is
'haraoh. On the other hand, when
vorknaen, not regarding the anxieties
nd business struggles of the trim EN-
Toying them, ana at time when the !
rm are dong their best to meet an i'm. {
ortant contract and need all hands
ussy TO accomplish IL, at such a time |
D have his employees make n strike ,
nd put their employers into extreme ,
erplexity and severe loss-then labor
acOme "a Pharaoh ~ tha xyo.ot ~, $3.50