Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-11-05

mans boy, Joseph, was pr''.le minister, and
Joseph suppose the father and the broth
Frs called him Joe, for it does not make
any difference how much boy is advanced
in worldly success, his father and brothers
and sisters always call him by the same
name that he WAS called by when two
years old-Joseph. by Pharaoh's permits
sion gave to his family, who had just ar.
rived, the richest part of Egypt, the West
chester farms or the Lancaster farms Of
the ancients Jacobs descendants rapidly
multiplied.
After awhile Egypt took turn at fam.
he, and those descendants of Jacob, the
lsraelites, came to great storehouse
which Joseph had provided, and paid in
money for corn. But after awhile the
money gave out and then they paid in cat
tie. After awhile the cattle were all in
possession of the government and then the
Hebrews bought corn from the govern.
ment by surrenderiny themselves rs slaves.
BEGINNING OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
Then began slavery in Egypt. The gov
eminent owned all the Hebrews. And let
modern mnatics who, in America, propose
handing over telegraph companies and
railroads and other things to be run by
government see the folly of letting gov
would rather trust the people THAI any
government the United States ever had or
will have. Woe worth the day when leg
isators and congresses and administra-
tions get possession 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 thun-
derbolts. But through such unwise pro-
cesses Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and
TIE long line of agoues began all up and
down the Nile. Heavier and sharper fell
the lash, hungrier aud ghastlier grew the
workmen, louder and longer went up the
prayer, until three millions Of the en-
shaved were crying IVA. Allah! Va, AL
lah." o God O God!
Where was help to come from? Not the
| throne, Pharaoh sat upon that Not the
army, Pharaoh's officers commanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them all trembe. Not the gods Am
mon 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, tho
daughter of Pharaoh, While in her bathing
house on the banks OF the Nile, has word
brought her that there is a baby ahoat on
luc river III u CTallIt llldtIc Ol1G Vi DlH
OF course there is excitement all up and
down the banks, for an ordinary baby in
an ordinary cradle attracts smiling atten-
ton, but an infant in cradle of papyrus
rocking on river arouses not only adj
miration, but curiosity. Who made that
boati Who made it water tight with btu
men2 Who launched it, Reckless of the
crocodiles, who lay basking 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 gauntlet of caresses,
till Thonoris PUSHES out of the bathing
house and says; Beautiful founding, |
will adopt you rs my own You shall yet
wear the Egyptian crown and sit on the
Egyptian throne
mol No! No! He is to be the enamel
pator of the Hebrews Tell it in all the
brick kilns. Tell it among ali those who
are writhing under the lash, tell it among
all the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis
and Ioan and Thebes Before him q sea
will part. On n mountain top. alone this
one will receive from the Almighty law
that is to be the foundation of all good
law while the world lasts When he is
dead, God will come down on Nebo and
alone bury him, no man or woman or angel
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uop WAS On HIS SIDE
But Moses are you gong to undertake
the imposslDli'tes: You feel that you arc
Erlng 10 tree the Hebrews from bondage.
Eut where is your armyY Where is your
navy NOT sword nave you, not spear,
not chI!lot, not horse. An! God was
on his side, ana lie has an army Of his own.
The snowstorms are on Gods side; witness
the snoWb"nks In which the French army
OF Invasion were buried on their way back
from Moscow. The rain Is on bis side;
witness the 18Th OF June at Waterloo, when
the lempests so sal uraled the road mat the
attack could not be made on NeIhngton's