Connecticut western news., 1891-11-05

osliik, the truth Of the book of Exodus thus written in the brick walls discov
 cred by the modern explorers
 That governmental outrage has al 1 ways been d characteristic of Egyptian | rulers. Taxation to the point of star
 vation was the Egyptian rule in the Bible times as well as it is in our own time. A modern traveller gives the 1 figures concerning the cultivation of seventeen acres, tine value of the yield of the field stated in piastres:
 Produce. ......................... 1,SO2 Expenses 9a31A Clear produce. ........................ sOs1x Taxes ,....,........,,, 493 Amount cleared by the farmer....... 3l518 Or, as my authority declares, seventy
 per cent. of what the Egyptian farmer makes is paid for taxes to the govern ment. Now, that is not SO much taxa tion as assassination. What think you of that, you who groan under heavy taxes in America? I have heard that in Egypt the working people have a song like this, They starve us, they
 starve us, they beat us, they beat us; but there's some one above, there's some one above, who will punish them
 we'll, who will punish them we'll" But seventy per cent. of government tax is 8 mercy as compared to what the He brew slaves suffered there in Bible times. They got nothing but food
 hardly fit for a dog, and their clothing
 was of one rag, and their roof burn ing sky by day and the stars of heaven
 by night. ,-...
 You say, "Why did they stand it9"
 Because they had to stand it. You see, along back in the worlds twilight, there was a faminezm Canaan, and old
 Jacob and his sons came to Egypt for
 bread. The old mans boy, Joseph,
 was prime minister, and Joseph-I sup pose the father and the brothers called
 him Joe, for it does not make any diff ference how much a boy is advanced
 in worldly success, his father and broth CTS and sisters always call him by the
 same name that he was called by when
 two years old--Joseph, by Pharaoh's permission, gave to his family, who
 had just arrived, the richest part of Egypt-the Westchester farms or the
 Lancaster farms of the ancients.
 Jacobs descendants rapidly multi
 piled After awhile Egypt took turn
 at famine, and those descendants of
 Jacob, the Israelites, came to great
 storehouse which Joseph had provided, and paid in money for corn. But af ter awhile the money gave out and
 then they paid in cattle. After awhile the cattle were all in possession of the government and then the Hebrews
 bought corn from the government by 1 surrendering themselves as slaves.
 7. .4.' SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
 Then began slavery in Egypt. The 1 government owned all the Hebrews 1 And let modern lunatics, who in Amer l lea propose handing over telegraph l companies and railroads and other
 things to be run by government see the folly of letting government get its hand on everything would rather trust the people than any government the United States ever had or will have Woe worth the day when legis- lators and congresses and administra
 tions get possession of anything more l 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 1 hot thunderbolts.
 But through such unwise processes
 Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and th, | long line of agonies began all up and | down the Nile. Heavier and sharper l fell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier | grew the workmen, louder and longer
 went up the prayer, until three millions
 of the enslaved were crying: 'Ya, Al
 lah! Va, AIlah!" o God! o God! Where was help to come from2 No,
 the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that | Not the army, Pharaoh's officers com | manded that. Not surrounding na
 tions, Pharaoh's threat made them l tremble. Not the gods Ammon 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, the daughter | of Pharaoh, while in her bathing house 1 on the banks of the Nile, has word
 brought her that there is baby afloat | on the river ill a cradle made out o1 | big leaves.
 | Of course there is excitement all up
 aud down the banks, for an ordinary
 baby in an ordinary cradle attracts
 smiling attention, but an infant in a
 cradle of papyrus rocking on a river
 arouses not only admiration but curi-
 osity. Who made that boat? Who
 made it watertight with bitumen2 Who l launched it? Reckless of the croco
 diles who lay basking themselves in the
 sun, the 1naidens 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 a gantlet
 of caresses, till Thonoris rushes out o1
 the battling house and says: "Beauti-
 full foundling, will adopt you as my
 own. You shall yet wear the Egyptian
 crown and sit on the Egyptian throne 5
 No! No! No! He is to be the
 emancipator of the Hebrews. Tell it
 in all the brick kilns. Tell it among
 all those who are writhing under the
 lash. Tell it among all the castles of
 Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan and
 Thebes Before him sea will part.
 On a mountain top, alone, this one
 will receive from the Almighty a law
 that is to be the foundation of all good
 law while the world lasts. When he is l dead, God will come down on Nebo and
 alone bury him, no man or woman or
 angel worthy to attend the obsequies. The child grows up and goes out and
 studies the horrors of Egyptian oppres-