Milford chronicle., 1891-11-06
1LFoRD. DEL. FRIDAY, NOVELBER 6. I89l.

] blDle bne lle9l SEA- Anu WucA NAbl'SV
my hands In its blue waters, the heroics Of
the Mosaic passage rolled over me.
ON THE RED SEAS SHORE.
After three days march the Israelitish
refugees encamped for the night on the
banks Of the Red sea. As the shadows be.
| gin to fall, in the distance Is seen the host
I OF Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six
1 hundred finest war chariOts, followed by
common chariots. rolling at full speed.
| And the glittering OF the wheels and the
curse OF infuriated Egyptians came down
with the darkness. But the Lord opened
! the crystal gates Of Bahr-el-kulzum and
the enslaved Israeiites passed into liberty.
and then the crystal gates OF the sea rolled
/ shut against the Egyptian pursuers.
IL was about two o'clock In the morning
! when the interlocked axle trees Of the
| Egyptian chariots could not move an inch
/ either way. But the Red sea unhifched
/ the horses and unhelmeted the warriors,
/ and left the proud host wreck on the
4 Arabian sands. Then two ehOruses arose,
and Moses led the men in one, aud Miriam
/ led the women in the other, and the won.
/ en- beat time with their feet. The record
/ says: "All the women went out after her
I with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam
answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he
1 hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and
his rider hath he thrown into the sea- y
! What a thrilling story Of endurance and
victory
The greatest triumph Of Handel's genius
was shown ia his immortal dramatic ora
torio, "lsrael in Egypt" He had given to
the world the OratoriO OF ESTHER and Deb
orah, aud Athaliah, but reserved for his
mightiest exertion at the full height Of his
powers the marshaling Of all musical in-
struments to the description in harmony
of the scenes on which we this morning
dwell He gave twenty-seven days to this
production, with its twenty-eight chOruses,
enthralling his own time and all aftertime
with his Israel in Egypt"
So the burden Of oppression WAS lifted,
but another burden OF Egypt is made up Of
deserts. Indeed, Africa is a great continent
for deserts, Libyan desert, Sahara desert,
deserts here and there and yonder, con
demning vast regions Of Africa to barren
ness, one of the deserts three thousand
miles long and thousand miles wide.
But all those deserts will yet be flooded,
and so made fertile. De I4esseps says il
can be done, and he who planned the Suez
canal, which marries the Red sea and the
Mediterranean, knows what he is taking
about.
The human race is so multiplied that it
must have more cultivated land, aud the
world must abolish its deserts. Eight hun
dred millions of the human race are now
living on lands not blessed with rains, but
dependent on irrigation, and we want by
irrigation to make room for eight hundred
millions more. Byirrigation the prophecy
will be fulfilled, and "the desert will bios
. . Ft,a hrrnt.
den of sand will he lifted,
THE BURDEN OF M0nANAiEDASIsN..
Another burden Of Egypt to be lifted Is
the burden of Mohammedanism. although
there are some good things about that re
ligon. It's disciples must always wash be
fore they pray, and that is five times q
day. A comnendable grace is cleanliness
Strong drink is positively forbidden by
Mohammedanism, and though some may
have seen drunken AohammedAn, never
saw one. It is religion Of sobriety. Theu
they are not ashamed of their deyOtions
When the call for prayers is sounded from
the minurets the Mohammedan immedi
stely unrols the rug on the ground and
falls on his knees, and crowds Of spectators
are to him no embarrassment-repr &c
many Christian who omits his prayers il
people are looking,
But MohRmmedanism, with Its pOlyg
amy, blights everything it touches. Moham
med, its founder, had four wives, and his
followers are the enemies Of good woman
hood. Mohamnedanism puts its curse on
all Egypt, and by setting up a sinful Arab
higher than the immaculate Christ, is an
overwhelming blasphemy May God help
the brave and consecrated missionaries who
arc spending their lives in combating 10.
But before forget it / must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last out
rage that resulted in the liberation of the
Hebrews was their being compelled TO
make bricks without straw. That was the
last straw that broke the camel's back.
God would allow the despotism against his
people to 90 no farther. Making bricks
without straw
THE OPPRESSION STILL GOES ON.
That oppression still goes on. Demand
of your wife appropriate wardrobe and
bountiful table without providing the
means necessary-bricks without straw.
Cities demanding in the public school
faithful and successful instruction with
out giving the teachers competent liyeli-
hood-bricks without straw. United states
government demanding Of senators and
congressman at Washington full attend
ance to the interests OF tue people, but on
compensation which may have done well
enough when twenty-five cents went as
far as a dollar now, but in these times not
sufficient to preserve their influence and
respectabllity-brlck without straw.
In many parts of the land churches 10
mandinR of pastors vigorous sermons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctiaed Clceros on four hundred dollars
year. Bricks without straw, That ls
one reason why there arc so many poor
bricks. In all departments, bricks not
even OF bricks that erumble or bricks that
are not bricks at ALL Work adequately
paid for Is worth more than work not paid
for, More straw and then better bricks
But IN all departments there are Pha-
taohs; sometimes Capital a Pharaoh and
tometimes Labor Pharaoh. When Cap
tai prospers, and makes large psroentage
IN its investment, aud declines to consider
.he needs Of the operatives, and treats them
IS so many human machines-their nerves
40 more than the bands on the factory
whesl-then Capital is a Pharaoh. on the
bther haud, when workmen, not regarding
lhe anxistias and business struggles Of the
irm employing them, and Mt time when
the firm are doing their best to meet an inns
portant contract aud need all hands busy
10 accomplish it, at such time TO have his
employees make q strike aud put their en-
ployera into extreme perpl~ .sity and severe
loss-then Labor becomes Pharaoh oilthe
worst oppression, and must look out for
the judgments Of God.
THERE ARE STILL PHARAoHs.
Whenin December f1ss0, vt the Museum
at Boulac Fgypt, I loaked at the mum
mics Of The old pharaohs, the very mis-
,reants who diaholized centuries, and
saw their teeth and hair aud finger nails
and the flesh drawn tight over their cheek
bones, the sarcophagi Of these dead
monapchs side by side, aud was so fasci'
mated could only with difficulty get away
from the spot, was not looking upon the
last Of the Pharaohs, All oyer tbs world
old merchaRta playing the Pharaoh over
young merchants, old lawyers playing, the
Pharaoh over young lawyers, old doctors
playing the Pharaoh over young doctors,
old artists playing the Pharaoh over yannq
artists, old ministers playing the Pharaoh