The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-04
VA! ALLAH!
Or. Talmage's Sermon on "Brick
Without Straws."



DIR. Talmage found in his journey from
the Pyramids to the hcropolis His
text was Isaiah XIX, /: "rhe burden of
Egypt"
What is all this excitement about in
the streets Of Cairo, Egypt, this Dcccm-
Der morning in 1889? Stand back!
we hear loud voices and see the
crowds Of people retrcating TO the
sides of the street, The excitement of
others becomes our own excitement.
Foo,mcn come IN sight They have q
rod in the hand and tasscled cap on
head, and their arms and feet arc bare.
Their garb is black to the waist except
rs threaded with gold, and the rest is
white. They are clearing the way for
an official dignitary In chariot or car
riagc They are swift and sometimes
run thirty or forty miles at a stretch in
front Of an cquipagc. They are the
fcctcst footed men on earth, but soon
die, for the human frame was not made
for such endurance.
| asked all around me who tho man
In the carriage was, but no one seemed
to know. Yet as fell back with the
rest 90 the wall | said, this is the old
custom found all up and down the
Bible, footmcn running before the
rulers, demanding obcisaucc, as in
Genesis before 'Joscph's chariot the
people were commanded Bow the
knee" and as sec the swift feet OF the
men. followed by the swift feet OF the
horses, how those old words OF Jere-
D. miuh rushed through my mind, Thou
hast run with the footmen and they
have wcaricd thee, how canst thou con-
tend with horscs?"
Now, my hearers, In this course of
sermons am only serving you as foot
man. and clearing the way for your
coming into the wonders Of Egyptology,
n subject ! would have you study far
Beyond any thing that can be said in
thc brcviiy Of pulpit uttcrancc.
Two hundred and cighty-nine times
does the Bible refer to Egypt and the
Egvptians No wonder, for Egypt was
tho mother of nations. Egypt the
mother Of Greece; Greece, the mother
of Rome; Rome, the mother Of Eng
land: England, the mother Of our own
laud. According TO that Egypt is our
rcat.grcat-gr grandmother ON other
Sabbaths left you studying what
they must have been in their
glory: the Hypostylc Hall of Kar-
nae. the architectural miracles of Lux
or, the Colonnadc of lIoremheb, the
cemeteries Of Memphis, the value OF
KINGDOM in one monument, the sphinx
which with lips of stone speaks loud
enough To be heard across the ccn'u'
rics. ncljopolis and Xoan the connn'
drum Of archwologist2 But all that
cxtravagance of palace and temple and
monument was the cause of an opprcH'
sion hirh as Heaven and deep as he'll,
The wciuht Of those blocks OF stone
heavier than any modern machinery
could lift camc down upon the Hebrew
slaves, AMI ,hcir blood mixed the NOR
tar FOR the trOwels.
We see again and again on ana
alone the Mic a boss workman rough-
~ sfnitc n subordinate who did not
nlcase him. II Is no rare occurrence
10 see long lines of men under
heavy burdens passing by task-mastcrS
at short distances flashing them as they
20 by into greater speed ana
then these worlemen, exhausted
with the blasting heats OF the
day. lying down upon the Rare
ground. suddenly chilled by the nigh,
air. crying out in prayer, VA Allah.
"yoi Allah" which means OH God! Oh
God! But what must have been INC
oldcn time cruelty shown by the Egyp
tiaus TO their Israelitish slaves rs lho''
Gated by picture in the Bcnl,hasser
tombs. where man is held down Oh
his face by two women and anothel
holds IN the victims feet while the Oh
Gcials beat the bare back of the victim
sverv .irolxe have no doubt, fetching
the blood. -,
Now YOU sec how the Pharoah could al
ford to build such costly works III cos
them nothing for wages, nothing ou
the tears and blood OF the toilers, AM
tears and blood are a cheap drink 10
devils. "Bricks without straw MAJ
not suggest so much hardship uhul yU'
know that the bricks were usua'i'
made with crushed straw -sra'
crushed by the feet OF oxen III III
thrcshing. and, this crushed straw de
MED To the workmcn, they had TO PIC
up here and there piece OF stuoole o
gather PUSHES from the watcr-side' I'M
story Of the Bible Is confirmed by Tn
fact that many OF tho brick walls
Egypt have on the lower layers oricS
made with straw, but the higher iayerse
brick made out of rough straw
PUSHES from the river bank the tru.
of the Book Of Exodus thus written
the brick walls discovered by the moo
ern explorers.
That governmental outrage has a