Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-02

pie till the cruel villain rolled over
the sand exanimate aud never swun
the lash again Served him right
GOD WITH MOSES.
But, Moses, are you going 10 undel
take the inpossibilities7 You feel ths
you are going to free the Hebrews fror
bondage But whore is your army
Where is your navyi Not a sword hav
you. not a spear. not chariot, not
horse Ahi God was on his side an
he has an army Of his own. Tn
fnowstOrns are on Gods side-witnes
{ the snowbanks in which the Frencl
/ army of invasion were buried on thei
way back from Moscow. The rain j
on his side-witness the 18th of June a
I Waterloo, when the tempest so satu
rated the road that the attack could moi
be made on Wellington's forces unit
eleven o'clock and he was strong
enough to hold out until reinforce
ments arrived.
Had that battle been opened at five
o'clock in the morning instead of at
eleven, the destiny of Europe would
have been turned the wrong way. The
heavy rain decided everything. So
also are the winds and the waves on
Gods side-witness the Armada with
one hundred and fifty ships and twenty
six hundred and fifty guns and eight
thousand sailors and twenty thousand
soldiers sent out by Philip II of Spain
to conquer England.
What became of those men and that
shippingf Ask the wind and the waves
all along the English and Irish coasts.
The men and the ships all wrecked or
drowned or scattered. So | expect
that Moses will be helped in rescuing
the Israelites by a special weaponry.
To the Egyptian the Nile was a deity.
Its waters were then as now very de
iicious II was the finest natural bev-
srage of all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Ger
mans have no such love for the Rhine,
and Russians have no such love for the
volga. as the Egyptians have love for
the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh comes
down to this river, Moses takes a stick
and whips the waters, and they turn
nto the gore of a slaughter house, and
through the sluices and fish ponds the
ncarnadined liquid backs up into the
and, and the malodor whelms every
hing from mud hovel to throne room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
all over everything. Then this people,
,leanly almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to
he filthy and unkempt, and the air
1uzzed and buzzed with flies, and then
he distemper started cows TO below
ng and horses to neighing and camels
o groaning, as they rolled over and ex-
tired.
And then boils, one of which will put /
man in wretchedness, came in clus- /
ers from the top of the head to the I
ole of the foot And then the clouds I
ropped hail and lightning. And then
,custs came in, swarms of them, worse
nan the grasshoppers ever were in
.ansas. And then darkness dropped
Or three days, so that the people could
ot see their hand before their face,
reat surges of midnight covering them.
And last of all, on the night of the
Sth of April. about eighteen hundred
ears before Christ, the destroying an
el sweeps past; and hear it all night
ong, the fapl flap! flapl of his awful
wings until Egypt rolled on, great
iearse, the eldest child dead in every
Egyptian home. The eldest son of .
Pharaoh expired that night in the pal. /
zee and all along the streets of Mem
,his and Heliopolis and all up and
lown the Nile there was a funeral wall /
hat would have rent the fold of the .
darkness if it had not been
LED BY A TORCH FROM GOD.
The Israelitish homes, however, were
But these homes were full
( preparation, for now is your chance,
} ye wronged Hebrews Snatch up
That pieces of food you can and TO the
esert! Its simooms are better than
he bondage you have suffered. Its
corpions will not sting so sharply as
he wrongs that have stung you all
our lives. Away The man who was
iradled in the basket of papyrus on the I
Sile will lead you. Upl Up This ia
he night OF your rescue. They gather I
ogether at a signal. Alexander's /
Irmies and all the armies of olden time
we're led by torches on high poles,
;reat crests of fire; and the Lord Al
mighty kindles torch not held by hui
nan hands, but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, but /.
Nindled out of the atmosphere, such a
orch rs the world never saw before
and never win see again. Ii reached
rom the earth unto the heaven, pill
lar of fire, that pillar practically say
ing: This wayl March this way"
On that supernatural fiambeau more
than million refugees set their eyes.
Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come
the families of Israel Then come the
herds and hocks moving on across the
sands to what is the beach of waters
now called Bahr-el- KulEum, but called
In the Bible the Red sea- And when
dipped my hands in It's blue waters the
heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled
over me-
After three days march the Israel
itish refugees encamped for the night
on the bank of the Red sea. AS tn,
shadows begin TO fall, in the distanc,