The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-06

land churches demanding of pastors
vigorous sermons and sympathetic ser
/ vice on starvation salary. ssncti6sd
| Cieeros on four hundred dollars q year;
| bricks without straw. That Is one rea-
| son why there are so many poor bricks
/ But in all departments there are
| Pharaohs. Sometimes capital q Pha-
raoh and sometimes labor a Pharaoh
/ When capital prosPers and makes
! large percentage on its investments and
/ declines to consider the needs Of the
/ operatives and treats them as so many
| human machines then capital Is q
/ Pharaoh On the other hand, when
/ yyOrkmen, not regarding the anGietles
/ and business struggles Of the firm en-
| ploying them, and at n time when the
| firm are doing their best to meet an
! important contract and need all hands
| busy to accomplish it, at such time to
have his employees make strike aud
| put their employers into extreme per
/ plexity and severe loss-then labor be-
| comes a Pharaoh OF the worst OPP
preston and must look out for the
! Judgments OF God
When in December OF 1883. at the
museum at BOulae. Egypt, ] looked at
| the mummies of the old PhEroshs, the
very Iniscreants who diab9lized CEN
| turtles, 1 was not looking upon the
| iast of the PhaFOshs. All over the
world old merchants playing the
Pharoah over yonnR merchants, old
/ lawyers playing the PharOsh over
young lawyers, old doctors playing the
Pharoah over young doctors, old artists
playing the PharOah over young artists,
old ministers playing the Pharoah over
young ministers. Let all Oppressers,
whether in homes, in churches, in
stores, in Offices, in factories, in
social life or political life, in private
life or public life, know that God hath
oPPressors, and they will all come to
grief here or hereafter Pharaoh
thought he did fine thing. a cunning.
a decisive thing when for the complete
extinction of the Hebrews in Egypt he
ordered ali the Hebrew boys massacred,
but he did not find it 50 fine a thing
when his own first-born that night of
the destroying angel dropped dead on
the mosaic door at the foot of the
pOrphyry pillar of the palace. Let all
the Pharoahs take warning.
There are thousands of women to
whom death is passage from Egypt to
Canaan, because they get rid of cruel
taskmaster. What an aceursed mon
ster is that man who keeps his wife ia
dread about family expenses, and must
be cautious how she introduces an
article of millinery or wOmRnly ward
robe without humiliating consultation
and apology. Who Is that man acting
so? For six mouGhs-iu order to win
that wOmau's heart-he sent her every
few days a bouquet wound with white
ribbon, and an endearing cOuplet and
took her to concerts and theaters,
and helped her into carriages as though
she were a princess. But now he be-
grudges her two cents for q postage
stamp, and wonders why she rides
across Brooklyn bridge when the foot
passage costs nothing He thinks now
she is awful plain, and he acts like the
devil, while he thunders ont; ''Where
did you get that new hat fromP That's
where my money goes" The tone, the
look, the imPatience-the cruelty of
Pharaoh.
God never yet gave to any man the
right to tyrannize a woman, and what
sneak you are to take advantage of
the marriage vow, and because she can
not help herself, and under the shelter
of your own home Out-Pharaoh the
Egyptian oppressor. There is some
thing awfully wrong in q household
where the woman is not considered Of
as much Importance as the man
But it rolls over on me with great
power the thought that we have all
been slaves down in Egypt, and sin
has been our taskmsster, and again
and again we have felt its lash. But
Christ has been our Moses TO lead US
out of bondage, aud we are forever
free. The Red sea of a Saviour's sacri-
fee rolls deep and wide between us
and our afOretime bondage, and
though there may be deserts yet
for us TO cross we are on the
way to the Promised Land. Thanks
be unto God for this emancipating
gospel! Come up ont OF Egypt all ye
who are yet ensiaved. What Christ did
for us he will do for you. ''EzOdusl"
is the word. Exodus! Instead of the
brick lzilns of Egypt come into the en-
Purpled vineyards of God where one
cluster of grapes is bigger than the one
that the spies brought to the Israelites
by the brook Eshcol, though that clus-
ter was SO large that it was borne
between two upon a STAFF
Welcome all by sin oppressed,
Welcome TO his sacred rest;
Nothing brought him from above,
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