The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-04
ae. Il Is a religion Of sobr.ety Then

sounded from the minarets the
Mohammedan Immediately unrolls the
rug on the ground and falls on his knees,
and crowds Of spectators are to him no
embarrassment; reproofs to many a
Christian who omits his prayer II peo-
pie are looking. But Mohammedanism,
with its polygamy, blights everything
1t touches; Mohammed, its founder, had
four wives, and his followers are the
enemies Of good womanhood Moham-
mechanism puts its curse on all Egypt,
and by setting up sinful Arab higher
than the Immaculate Christ, is an over
whelming blasphemy. May God help
the brave and consecrated missionaries
who are spending their lives in combat
ing II.
But before forget it must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last
outrage that resulted in the liberation
of the Hebrews was their being com
PEELED 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 go no
further. Making bricks without straw!
That oppression still goes on. De-
mand Of your wife appropriate ward
robe and bountiful table without pro-
viding the means necessary: Bricks
without straw. Cities demanding in the
public school faithful and successful in
struction without giving the teachers
competent livelihood: Bricks without
straw United States government
demanding Of senators and congress-
men at Washington full attendance TO
the interests of the people, but on COM
pensation which may have done well
enough when twenty-five cents went as
far as dollar now, but in these times
not sufficient to preserve their influence
and respectability: Bricks without
straw. In many parts Of the land
churches demanding OF pastors vigorous
sermons and sympathetic service on
starvation salary, sanctifled Circeos on
s400 year: Bricks without straw.
That is one reason why there are so
many poor bricks in all departments;
bricks not even, or bricks that crumble,
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
Pharaohs. Sometimes Capital Pha-
roah, and sometimes Labor Pharaoh.
When Capital prospers, and makes a
large percentage on its investment, and
declines to consider the needs OF its
operatives, and treats them as so many
human machines, their nerves no more
than the bands on the factory wheel
then Capital is Pharaoh. On the other
hand, when workmen, not regarding
the anxieties and business struggles OF
the firm employing them, and at time
when the firm are doing their very best
to meet an important contract and need
| all hands busy TO accomplish It, at such
time to have his employees make q
strike and put their employers into ex'
treme perplexity and severe loss-then
Labor becomes Pharaoh Of the worst
oppression, and must look out for the
judgments OF God.
When in December Of 1859. at the
Museum OF Boulac Egypt looked al
the mummies of the old Pharaohs, the
very miscreants who diabolized centu'
ries, and saw their teeth and hair and
finger nails and the flesh drawn tight
over their cheek bones, the sarcophag
of these dead moparchs side by side, and
was so fascinated | could only with
difficulty get away from the spot, was
not looking upon the last OF the Phara
obs All over the world old merchants
playing the Pharaoh over young mer
chants, old lawyers playing The
Pharaoh over young lawyers, ole
doctors playing the Pharaoh oyel
young doctors, old artists playins
the Pharaoh over young artists, 81,
ministers playing the Pharaoh ovei
young minister's. Let ell oppressoIs
whether IN homes. In churches, IL
stores, In Offices, in factories, in socia
life or political life, In private life o'
public life. .;now thl. God hates op
prcs3ors. and they will all come to griet
here or hereafter Pharaoh thought ht
did fne thing. cunning thing, de
cisise hing when for the complete ex
tinction OF the Hebrews in Egypt h'
ordered all the Hebrew Ioys massacred
but he did not find It SO fine thinl
when his own frst-born that nigh
Of the destroying angel dropped deaf
on the mosaic floor at the foot o
the porphyry pillar OF the palace. LIE
all the Pharaohs taxe warning. Some o
the worst Of them are on a small scat
in households as when man, becausI
his arm Is strong and his voice loud
dominates his poor wife into domesti
slavery There are thousands OF sucl
cases where the wife Is life time sert
ber opinion disregarded, her tastes in
suited, her existen . wrechedness
though the world may not know it l
is Pharaoh that sits at the head o
that table, and Pharaoh that tyran
nizes that home. There Is no NOR
abhorrent Pharaoh than a domesti
, Pharaoh There are thousands Of VIC
men TO whom death is passage iron
Egypt TO Canaan, because they get RI
/ OF a cruel task-master. What n
I accursed monster is that man VIII
, Keeps his wife in dread about famil.
expenses. and must be cautious hoy
! she introduces an article Of millinery o
D womanly wardrobe without humiliatin
Z consultation and apology. Who is tina
I man acting so? For six months-i
s order to win that woman's heart b
0 sent her every few days a bouque
! | yyound Wit, white ribbon, and an en-