Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

q thousand miles wide. But all those deserts
will yet be flooded, and so made fertile. De
Lesseps says it can be done, and he who plan
ned the SueZ canal. which marries the Red
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what he
is taking about
Another burden of Egypt to be lifted is
the burden of Mohammedanisn, although
there are some good things about that re-
hgion. Its disciples must always wash be-
fore they pray, and that Is five times a day.
a commendable grace is cleanliness Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamune-
dan1stn, and though some may have seen u
drunken Mohammedan, I never saw one. 1t
is religion of sobriety. Then they are not
ashamed of their devotions. When the call
for prayers is sounded from the minarets the
Mohammedan Immediately unrolls the rug
on the ground and falls on his kn eeS, and
crowds Of spectators are to him no enbar-
acknowledgement to many a Christian who
omits his prayers if people are looking.
But Mohammedanism, with its polyg-
amy, bfights everything it touches. Mo-
manned, its founder. had four wives. and
his followers are the enemies of good
womanhood. Mohammedanism puts its
curse on all Egypt and by setting up sim
full Arab higher than the immaculate Christ,
is an overwhelming blasphemy. May God
help the brave and conSecrated mlSslonar-
les who are spending their lives in combating
it.
But before I forget it must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage
that resulted in the liberation Of the He
brews was their being compelled to make
bricks without straw. That was the last
straw that broke the cancels back. God
would allow the despotism against his peo-
pie to go no farther. Making bricks without
straw!
That oppression still goes on. Demand of
your wife appropriate wardrobe and
if,,l &aH
necessary-bricks without straw. Cities de-
manding in the public school faithful and
successful instruction without giving the
teachers competent Observation-Disclosures with
out straw. United States government de-
1nanding Of senator's and congressman at
Washington full attendance to the interests
of the people, but on compensation which
may have done well enough when twenty
five cents went far as a dollar now, but
in these times not sufficient to preserve their
influence and ectability-bricks without
straw.
In many parts of the land churches de-
manding of pastors vigorous sermons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctifed Ciceros on four hundred dollars
year. Bricks without straw. That is one
reason why there are SO many poor bricks.
In all departments, bricks not even or
bricks that crumble or bricks that are not
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for is
worth more than work not paid for More
straw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are Pharaohs;
sometimes Capital Pharaoh and sometimes
Labor Pharaoh. When Capital prospers
and makes large percentage on its invest
ment, and declines to consider the needs of
the operatives, and treats them as SO many
human machines-their nerves no more than
the bands on the factory wneel-then Capt.
tai is Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
workmen, not regarding the anxieties and
h11c cfT Of {ho
them. and at the time when the firm are
doing their best, to meet an important con-
tract and need all hands busy to accomplish
it, at such time to have his employees make
a strike and put their employers into extreme
perplexity and severe loss-then Labor be-
comes Pharaoh of the worst oppression,
and must look for the judgments of God.
Let all oppressors whether in homes, in
churches, in stores, in offices, in factories in
social life or political life, in private life or
and they will all come to grief here or here
after. Pharaoh thought he did a fine thing,
a cunning thing, decisive thing when for
the complete extinction OF the Hebrews in
Egg pit he ordered all the Hebrew boys mas
sacred, but he did not find it SO fine thing
when his own first born that night of the de-
stroying angel dropped dead on the mosaic
floor at the foot of the porphyry pillar OF the
palace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning.
Some of the worst of them are on small
scale in households. as when man, because
his arm is strong and his voice loud, dom
mates his poor wife into domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases where
the wife is lifetime serf. her opinion disre-
garded her tastes insulted, and her existence
a Indebtedness, though the world may not
know it. It is q Pharaoh that sits at the
head of that table, and a Pharaoh that ty-
rannizes that home. There is no more ab-
horrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pharaoh.
But it rolls over on me- with great power
the thought that we have all been slaves
down in Egypt, and sin mas been our task
master. and again and again we have ielt 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 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 emancipating 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. Exc
dus! Instead of the brick kilns Of Egypt
come into the empurpled vineyards of God,
where one cluster Of grapes is bigger than
the one that the spies brought to the Israel
ties by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster
was so large that it was borne ''between two
upon staff"
Welcome all by sin oppressed,
Welcome to His sacred rest;
Nothing brought Him from above,
Nothing but rcdeeming owe.