Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-06

tians have love for the Nile
But one day. when Pharaoh comes down
to this river. Moses takes stick and whips
the waters, and they turn into the gore OF
slaughter house. and through the sluices and
hshponds the incarnadined liquid backs I'D
into the land aud the maledor whelms every
thing, from mud howell TO throne room. Then
came the frogs with horrible croak, all over
everything. Then this psople, clearly al
most to fastidiousness, were infested with
insects that belong 10 the filthy and un-
kempt, and the air buzzed and buzEel with
flies, and then the distemper started cows TO
believing and horses to neighing, aud cames
to groaning, as they rolled over and ex-
PRED.
And then boils one OF which will put a
man ia wretche1nsss, came in clusters from
the top of the head TO the sole of ths foot
And then the clouds droppsd hail aud light
ming. And then locustS came In, swarms Of
them. worse than the grasshoppers even were
in Kansas, and then darkness dropped for
three days so that the people could not see
their hand before their face, great surges Of
midnight covering them. And last Of all,
on the night of the 18th of April, about
eighteen hundred years before Christ the
Destroying Angel sweeps past, and hear it
alInight long. the flap flap! flap of his wings
until Egypt rolled on a great hearse, the
eldest child dead in every Egyptian home.
The eldest son of Pharaoh expired that night
In the palace and all along the streets OF
Memphis and Heliopolis and all up and down
the Nile there was funeral wall that would
haverent the fold of the unnatural darkness
II it had not been impenetrabie.
The lsraelitish homes, however were I'M
touched But these homes were full of prep
aration for now Is your chance, o We
wrongel Hebrews Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and 10 the desert Its
simoons are better tnau the bondage You
have suffered. Its scorpions will not sting
so sharply as the wrongs that have stung
you all your lives. Awayl The man who
was Graded in the basket of papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Up Up! This is the
night of your rescue. They gather together
at signal Alexanders armies and all the
armies of olden time were led by torches on
high poles, great crests of fire; and the
Lord Almighty kindles a torch not held by
human hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out Of straw or oil, but kindled
out of the atmosphere, such a torch as the
world never saw before and never will see
again. 1t reached from the earth unto the
heaven a pillar of fire, that pillar pract-
cally saying, This way March this way
On that supernatural hambeau more than a
million refugees set their eyes. Moses aud
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 calle1 Bahr-el-K ulzum
but called in the B bic the Red Sea. Aud
when dipped my hands in its blue waterA
the heroics of the Mosaic passage rolled over
me.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees encampei for the night on the
banks of the Red Sea As the shadows be.
gin to fall, in the distance is seen the hest of
Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hun
dred finest war chariots, followed by com
mon chsriots. rolling at full speed. Aud the
glttering OF the wheels and the curses Of in
furiated Egyptians cane down with the
darkness. But the Lord opened the crystal
gates of Bahr-el.Kulzum and the ensave1
1sraelites passed into liberty and then the
crystal gates Of the sea rolled shut against
the Egyptian pursuers.
Ii was about two O'Clock in tue morning
when the interocked axle trees of the
Egyptian chariots could not move au inch
either way. But the Red sea unhitched the
horses and unhelmets1 the warriors aud
left the proud host a wreck on the Arabian
sands Then two choruses arose aud Moses
led the men in one. and Miriam led the
women in the other aud the women beat
time with their feet Therecori saw: "All
the women went out after her with timbrels
and with dances. Aud Miriam answered
them, Sing We 70 the Lord, for He hath
triumphed gloriOusly; the horse and hi,
rider hath he thrown into the set What
n thrilling story of endurance and victory
SO the burden Of oppression wa lifted, but
another burden Of Egypt is made up Of de-
erts. Indeed Africa - grca co1tln n
for deserts, LibyaD, desert Sllara de'er'.
deserts here and there aud yOn1sr COZ ieuu'
ing vast regions of Africa 70 blrrcnlgs,. on
of the deserts three thousand miles lon2 an
a thousand miles wide But ali those deserts
will yet be flooded, and 50 made fertile Do
Lesseps says it can BE- done and he who plan
ned the Suoz canal. which marries the Red
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what he
Is taking about.
Another burden of Egypt to ba lifted Is
the burden of Mohammsdalism. although
there are some good things about that re-
ligion. lis disciples must always wash be-
fore they pray. ami that is five times a day
a cOmmendabie grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by MOhamme-
danism. and though some may have seen a
drunken MohammeIan, ] never saw one. It
is a religion Of sobreiy. Then they are not
ashame Of their devotjons. When the call
for prayers is sounded from the minarets TIE
Immediately unrolls the rug
on the ground AMI falls on his knees. and
crowds of spectators are to him no embar.
10 many a Christian who
omits his prayers If people are looking.
But Mohamme1anisn, with its polyg.
amy, 5ligh,s everything it touches Mo.
its founder. had four wives. and
his followers ara the enemies of gooi
womauhoO1 Mohammadanism puts its
curse on all Egypt, and by setting up sin
full Arab higher than the immaculate Christ,
is an overwhelming blasphemy. May God
help the brave aud consscrated missionar.
les who are spending their lives in combating
it,
But before forget it must put mora
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 Gamers back God
would allow the despotism against his PEG.
pie 10 go no farther. Making bricks without
straw
That oppression still goes on. Demand Ut
your wife appropriate wardrobe aLl
Dountfu table without providing the means
without straw. Cities de
handing in the public school faithful and
SUCCESSFUL luStIucJlON WITHOUT giving Tue
teachers competent Observation-Disclosures with
out straw United States government de-
handing OF senator's and congressman at
Washington full atten lance to the interests
# the people, but on compensation which
nay have done well enough when twenty
i've cents went as far as a dollar now, but
n these times not sufficient to preserve their
influence and spectabiity--bricks without
traw.
IN many parts OF the land CHURCHES de-
handing of pastors vigorous sermons and
service on starvation salary;
anc,ifsd Ciceros on four hundred dollars
year Bricks without straw. That is one
eason why there are 50 many poor bricGs.
n all departments bricks not even OF
bricks that crumble or bricks that are not
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for IS
worth more than work not paid for. More
traw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there arePharaoas;
ometimes Capital Pharaoh and sometimes
Labor q Pharaoh When Capital prospers,
md makes a large percentage on its invest.
nent. and declines to consider the needs OF
he operatives and treats them as so many