Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-06


in the possession of the Government, ant
then the Hebrews bought corn from the
Government by surrcndering themselve:
us slaves.
Then began slavery in Egypt. The
Government owned all the Hebrews
And let modern lunatics, who in Amcri
ca propose handing over telegraph com
panies and railroads and other things tc
be run by Government see the folly OF
letting Government get its hands on
everything. l would rather trust the
people than any government the United
States ever had or will have. Woe
worth the day when legislators and con.
crosses and administrations get posses.
sion of anything more than it is neces.
sary for them to have. That would be
the revival in this land of that old
Egyptian tyranny for which God has
never had anything but red hot thunder
bolts.
But through such upwise processes
Israel was enslaved in Egypt, and the
long line OF agonies began all up and
down the Nile Heavier and sharper
fell the lash hungrier and g!lastlier
grew the workmeD, louder and longer
went up the prayer, until three millions
of the enslaved were CRYING: Iva, AL
| d,
Where was help to come from? Not
the throne, Pharaoh sat upon that
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers COM
manded that. Not surrounding nations;
Pharaoh's threat made them tremble.
Not the gods Ammon and Osiris or the
goddess Isis, for Pharaoh built their
temples out of this diaboical servitudc.
But one hot day the Princess Thonors,
the daughter of Pharaoh, while in her
bathing house on the banks OF the Nile,
has word brought her that there is a
baby atloat on the river in a cradle made
out Of big leaves.
OF course there is excitement all up
and down the banks, for an ordinary
baby in an ordinary cradle attracts
smiling attention, but an infant in a
cradle of papyrus rocking on a river
arouscs not only admiration but curiosity.
Who made that boat? Who made it
watertight with bitumen? Who launched
it? Reckless of the crocodiles who lay
basking themselves in the sun, the
madcns wade in and snatch up the
| child, and first one carries HIM and then
another carries him, and all the way up
the bank he runs a gauntlet of caresses.
| till Thonoris rushes out of the bathing
house and says: ''Beautiful founding,
will adopt you as my own. You shall
yet wear the Egyptian crown and sit on
the Egyptian throne"
No! No! No! He is to be the eman-
cipator of the Hebrews. Tell it in all
the brick kilns Tell it among all those
who are writhing under the lash. Tell
it among all the castles of Memphis and
Heliopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Be-
fore him sea will part. On a mountain
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Almighty law that is to be the foun-
dation of all good law while the world
lasts. When he is dead, God will come
down on Nebo and alone bury him, no
man or woman or angel worthy to at
tend the obsequica.
The child grows up and goes out al d
studies the horrors of Egyptian oppres-
sion and suppressas his Indignation, for
the right time has not come, although
once for minute he let fly, and when
he saw taskmastcr put the whip on
the back of a workman who was doing
his best, and heard the poor fellow cry
and saw the blood squirt, Moses doubled
up hls fist and struck him Oh the temple
till the cruel william rolled over in the
Sand exanimate and never swung the
las, again. Served him right!
Bnt, Moses, are you going to under
take the impossibilities? You feel that
you are going to free the Hebrews from
bondage. But where is your army?
Whore is your navy? Not a sword have
You, not a spear, not a chariot, not a
horse. All! God was on his side and He
has an army of his own. The snowstorms
are on Gods Side-witness the snow
banks in which the French army of in
vasion were barred on their way back
from Moscow. The lain is on His side
witness the 18th of June at Waterloo,
when the temrest so saturated the. road
that the attack could not be made On
Wcllington's forces until Ii O'Clock and
he was strong enough to hold out until
reiaforcements arrived.
Had that battle been opened at s
o'clock in the morning instead of at 1,
tho 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 Amanda with $50 ships, @.
$50 guns, and 5000 sailors, aud 10000
soldiers sent out by Philip IL. of Spain tC
conquer England.
What becSme of those men aud that
shipping? Ask the wind and the waves
all along the English and Irish coasts
The men and the ships all wrecked OF
drowned or scattered. So expect tina,
Moses will be helped in rescuing the Is
raelites by special weaponry. To tho
Egyptian the Nile was Il deity. It,
waters were then as now very delicious
1t was the finest natural beverage of al
the earth. We have no such love for tn,
; Hudson, and Germans have no such low
for the Rhine and Russians have ns
: such love for the Volga, as the Egyptian
r have love for the Nile.
r But one DAY, when Pharaoh come
down to this river, Moses takes sticl
and whips the waters, and they turn int,
l the cores of slaughter house. an,
7 through the sluices and fish ponds tn
! incarnadinad liquid backs up into tn
, land, and the malodor whelms every
3 thing from mud howell to throne room
t Then came the frogs with horrible croal
3 all over everything. Then this people
clearly almost to fastidiousness, wer
D infested with insects that belong to TIL
Y filthy and unkempt, and the air buzze
$ and buzzcd with flies, and then the dis
t temper started COWS to believing an
horses to neighing and camels to groan
I inr &c tl,nv rO)ln1 over and aNpirnd