The Penn's Grove record., 1891-11-13

Texts "1As Burden Of Egypt" Isaiah
dix, ].
What IL all this sxcitsmsnt about in the
rtreets Of Cairo, Egypt this Decsmber
morning in 1882 Stand backi W. hear
treating 70 The sides Of the street. tbs sz-
pitement Of others becomes our v excttet
ment. Footmen come tn tight. They hays
; rod In the hand and tasseled cap IN head
md their rms and feet are bare. Their
Earb 10 black to the waist, except - Threaded
with gold, and the rest h white. They are
, chariot or carriage. They arc swift and
sometimes run thirty or forty miles At
! stretch In front Of IN equipage. Mako
wayi They are the fieetest footed men on
earth, but soon die, for the human frams
was not made for such endurance.
I asked ali around me who the man In the
carriage was, but no one seemed to know:
Yet as / fell back with the rest to the wall !
nid, This is the old custom found all up and
down the Bible footmen running before the
rulers, demanding obeasance, ~ In 0euesia
before Josepb's chariot the people were com
handed, Bow the knee" and a. 4 see the
wift feet of the mon followed BY b swift
feet Of the horses, how those old words Of
Jeremiah rushed through my mind, III thou
hast run with the footmen and they have
weariod thee, how cans thou contend with
horsesf'
Now, my hearers, In this course Of sermons
{ am only serving gu asfootunan, and clear
Ing the way for your coming into the
wonders Of Esypsology: : nubsecs tnas !
that can be said in the brevity Of pa[
pit u~tterance. Two hundred and eighty
| nine times does the Bible refer 10 Egypt anil
the Egyptians. No wonder, for Egypt was
the mother Of nations. Egypt the mother
Of Greece; Greece, the mother OF Rome;
Rome, the mother Of England, the mother
II our land. According to that Egypt Il
bur great-great-grandmother.
| On other Sabbaths / left you studying
| what they must have been In their glory;
| the Hypostyle hall Of Karnac, the archi-
| tecturaI miracles of Luxor, the Colonnade
Of Horemheb, the cemeter1es OF Memphis,
| the Sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks
ries, Heliopolis and Zoan, the ~conundrum OF
Psychologists. But all that extraysgance
n palace and temple n monument was
| the cause Of an oppression high a. heaven
| md deep as hell. The weight It those
blocks Of stone, heavier than any modern
machinery could lift, came down UPON he
Hebrew slaves and their blood mixed p
We saw again and again on and along The
| Nilea boss workman roughly smits z sub
| ordinate who did not please him. it's no
rare occurrences to see long Lines OF meu
| under heavy burdens passing by tAskmas-
ters at short d-istAnces, flashing them - they
- nv into Greater speed, and then thess
Worfmep. Exhausted With the blasting hsats
| of the day. lying down upon b bare
rround. suddenly chilled with ths night air,
irving out in PRAYER: .sYa. AllAhrs "Ya.
AIahr' which means o GodtO Godi But
That must have bsen the olden times
cruelty shown BY the Egyptians towards
thelr fsraelitish slaves II indicated BY : PIC
ture I'm he Beni-Hassan tombs, wherea man
Is held down on his face by ~ men and
another holds up victims feet while The
officials beat the bare back Of IT, victsms
every stroke, ! have no doubt. fetching b
blood.
Now you see how the Pharaohs could AZ
| ford to build such costly work.. Itcost them
| nothing for wages-nothing but the tears
and blood of the toilers and tears and blood
| are cheap drink for devils. sBricks without
| straw" may not suggest % much hardship
nntil you know that the bricks wsrs usually
| made with 'scrushed straw straw crushed
by the feet Of the oxen In the thrashine, and,
| this crushed straw denied to the workmen.
| thew had to pick up here and there . piece
| Of stubble or gather rushes from the water
| tide. This story Of the Bible h confirmed
Nv the fact that many Of the brick walls Of
Ervpt have on the lower lsyers brick made
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