Connecticut western news., 1891-11-05

horse. An God was on his side and he las an army of his own. The snowstCrms are on Gods side-witness the snowbanks in which tke French army of invasion were buried on their way back from Moscow. The rain is on his side-witness the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tempest so satu- rated the road that the attack could not be made on Wellingtons forces until eleven o'clock and he was strong enough to hold out until re-enforce- 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 shipping! 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 I expect that Moses will be helped in rescuing the Israelites by a special weaponry. To the Egyptian the Nile was deity. Its waters were then as now very de- licious. It was the finest natural bev- craze 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 stick and whips the waters, and they turn into the gore of a slaughter house, and through the sluices and fish ponds the incarnadined liquid backs up into the land, and the malodor whelms every thing from mud hovel to throne room. Then came the frogs with horrible croak all over everything. Then this people, cleanly almost to fastidiousness, were infested with insects that belong to the filthy and unkempt, and the air buzzed and buzzed with flies, and then the distelnper started COWS to below ing and horses to neighing and camels to grooming, as they rolled over and ex- pired.
 And then boils, one of which will put a man in wretchedness, came in clus- ters from the top of the head to the sole of the foot And then the clouds dropped hail and lightning. And then locusts came in, swarms of them, worse than the grasshoppers ever 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 an gel sweeps past; and hear it all night long, the flap! flap! flap! of his awful 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 pal ace and all along the streets of Mem phis and Heliopolis and all up and down the Nile there was funeral vail that would have rent the fold of the unnatural darkness if it had not been impenetrable.
 LED BY TORCH FROM GOD.
 The Israelitish homes, however, were untouched. But these homes were full of preparation, for now is your chance, o ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what pieces of food you can and to the desert! It's sinooms are better than the bondage you have suffered. Its scorpions will not sting so sharply as the wrongs that have stung you all your lives. Away! The man who was cradled in the basket of papyrus on the Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is the night of your rescue. They gather together at a signal. Alexander's armies and all the armies of olden time were led by torches on high poles, great crests of fire; and the Lord Al mighty kindles torch not held by hu- man 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. It reached from the earth unto the heaven, pill lar of fire, that pillar practically say ing: "This way! March this way" On that supernatural flambeau more than million refugees set their eyes. Moses and Aaron lead on. Then come the families of Israel. Then come the herds and focks moving on across the sands to what is the beach of waters now called Bahr- -Kulzum, but called in the Bible the Red sea. And when l 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 the shadows begin to fall, in the distance is seen the host of Pharaoh in pursuit. There were six hundred finest war char iots followed by common chariots roll ing at full speed And the glittering of the wheels and the curse of infuri- ated Egyptians came down with the darkness But the Lord opened the crystal gates of Bahr-el el-Kulzum and the enslaved Israalites passed into lib erty. and t:ien the crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against the Egyptian pursuers.
 It was about two o'clock in the morn ing when the interlocked axletrees of the Egyptian chariots could not move an inch either way. But the Red sea un hitched the horses and unhellneted the warriors and left the proud host wreck on the Arabian sands. Then