The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-06

| Vi Hppo WoiudIhood.
Ism puts It's curse ON all Egypt, and by
setting up sinful Arab higher than
the immaculate Christ, is an over
whelming blaspheny. May God help
the brave and consecrated missionaries
who are spending their lives In combat
ing It.
But before forget 1t l must put
more emphasis upon the fact that the
last outrage that resulted in the liberia.
ton of the Hebrews 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 people
to go no further. Making bricks with
out straw
That oppression still goes on. De-
mand of your wife appropriate ward
robe and bountiful table without pro-
viding the means necessary-bricks
without straw. Cities demanding In
the public school faithful and success
full instruction without giving the teach
ers competent Observation-Disclosures with
out straw United States government
demanding of senators and congress-
men at Washington full attendance to
the interests of the people, but on CON-
pensation which may have done well
enough when twenty-five cents went
as far as a dollar now, but in these
times not sufficient to preserve their
influence and responsibility
! without straw.
In many parts of the land churches
demanding of pastors vigorous sermons
and sympathetic service ON starvation
salary, sanctified Ciceros on four hun
dred dollars year. Bricks without
straw. That is one reason why there
are SO many poor bricks In all de-
partments, 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
PHARAOHs OF TODAY.
But in all departments there are
Pharaohs. Sometimes Capital Pha-
raoh and sometimes Labor Pharaoh.
When Capital prospers and makes large
percentage on its investment and de-
clines to consider the needs of the OPP
eratives and treats them as so many
human machines, their nerves no more
than the bands on the factory wheel
then Capital is Pharaoh. On the
other hand, when workmen, not re-
garding the anxieties and business strug-
giles Of the firm employing them, and
at time when the firm are doing their
best to meet an important contract and
need all hands busy to accomplish it,
1t such time to have his employees
make strike and put their employers
into extreme perplexity and severe loss
then Labor becomes Pharaoh of
the worst oppression, and must look
out for the judgments of God.
When in December of 1889, at the
museum at Boulac, Egypt, looked at
the mummies of the Pharaohs, the very
miscreants who diabolized centuries,
and saw their teeth and hair and fin
rer nails and the flesh drawn tight over
their cheek bones, the sarcophagi OF
these dead monarchs side by side, and
| was so fascinated l could only with
difficulty get away from the spot, |
was not looking upon the last of the
Pharaohs. All over the world old
merchants playing the Pharaoh over
yanng merchants, old lawyers playing
the Pharaoh over young lawyers, old
doctors playing the Pharaoh over
young doctors, old artists playing the
Pharaoh over young artists, old min
listers playing the Pharaoh over young
ministers.
Let all oppressors, whether in homes,
in churches, in stores, in offices, in fac
tories, in social life or political life, in
private life or public life know that
God hates oppressors, and they will all
come to grief here or hereafter Pha-
raoh thought he did a fine thing, cum
ming thing, decisive thing when for
the complete extinction of the Hebrews
in Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew
boys massacred, but he did not find it
so fine a thing when his own first born
that night of the destroying 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 a small scale in households as
when man, because his arm is strong
and his voice loud, dominates his poor
wife into domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cases
where the wife is a lifetime serf, her
opinion disregarded, her tastes insulted,
and her existence a Indebtedness,
though the world may not know it. 1t
is a Pharaoh that sits at the head of
that table, and Pharaoh that tyran-
nizes that home There is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than domestic Pha-
raoh. There are thousands of women
to whom death is passage from Egypt
to Canaan, because they get rid OF
cruel taskmaster
What an accursed monster is that
man who keeps his wife in dread about
family expenses, and must be cautious
how she introduces an article of mil
lincry or womanly wardrobe without
humiliating consultation and apology.
Who is that man acting so2 For six
months-in order to win that woman's
heart, he sent her every few days
bouquet wound with white ribbon, and
an endearing couplet, and took her to
concerts and theaters, and helped her
into carriages us though she were
princess, and ran across the room to
pick up her pocket handkerchief with
the speed of an antelope, and on the
marriage day promised all that the lit
urgy required, saying, Il willF with
an emphasis that excited the admira-
ton of all spectators.
But now he begrudges her two cents
for postage stamp, and wonders why
she rides across Brooklyn bridge when
tba foot ,,,cco1a costs NOTHING He