Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

modern lunatlcS, who In America propose
handing over telegraph companies and rail-
roads and other things to be run by gov
eminent, see the folly of letting government
get its hand 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 possession
of anything more than it is necessary 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 thunderbolts. But through such
unwise processes Israel was ensiaved in
Egypt, and the long line of agonies began
all up and down the Nile. Heavier and
sharper fell the lash, hungrier and ghastlier
grew the workmen, louder and longer went
up the prayer until three millions of the
enslaved were crying, va! Allah! va
Allahi' Oh! God! Oh! Godl
Where was help to come froml Not the
throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the
army, Pharaoh's officers commanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them all tremble. Not the gods Am
mon and Osiris. or the goddess Isis, for
Pharaoh built their temples out of the
groans of this diabolical servitude. But one
hot day the princess Thonoris. the daughter
of Pharaoh. while in her clearinghouse on
the banks of the Nile, has word brought her
that there is baby afioat on the river in
cradle made out of big leaves.
OF course there is excitement all
up and down the banks, for an
ordinary baby in an ordinary era lie at
tracts smiling attention, but an infant in
cradle of papyrus rocking on a river arouses
not only admiration but curiosity. Who
made that boat? Who made it water tight
with bitumenl Who launched it? Reckless
of the crocodiles who lay basking them
selves in the sum- the maidens wade in and
snatch up the child, ard first one carries
him and then another carries him, and all
the way up the bank he runs a gauntlet of
caresses, till Thonoris PUSHES out of the
clearinghouse and says: Beautiful
founding, l will adopt you as my own. You
shall yet wear the Z ,yptian crown and sit
on the Egyptian throne" No! No! No!
He is to be the emancipation of the He
brews. Tell it
N AL TUE BRICK KILNS.
Tell it among all those who are writing
under the lash, tell it among all the castles
of Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan and
Thebes Before him sea will part. On
mountain top, alone, this one will receive
from the Almighty a law that is to be the
foundation 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 attend the OBJ
seGuies. The child grows up and goes out
and studies the horrors of Egyptian OPP
preston and suppresses his Indignation,
for the right time has not come, although
once for a minute he let fly, and when he
saw task-master 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 his fist and
struck him on the temple till the cruel vii
lain rolled over in the sand eXanimate and
never swung the lash again. Served him
right.
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossibilities You feel that you are
going to free the Hebrews from bondage.
But where is your army! Where IS your
navys Not sword have you. not 4 spear,
not Il chariot. not Il horse. All. God was
on his side. and he has an army of his own.
The snow-suOrmS are on Gods side: wit
ness the snCwb banks in which the 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 saturated the road that
the attack could not be made on Yelling
toms forces until II o'clock and he was
strong enough to hold out until reinforce
meuts arrived. Had that battle been opened
at O'Clock in the morning instead of at
II, 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 $50 ships and 26j0 guns and
5000 sailors and 10000 soldiers sent out by
Phillip II. of Spain to conquer England.
What became of those men and that ship
ping? 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 | expect that Moses will
be helped in rescuing the IsraeliteS by a
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was deity. Its waters were then as
now very delicious. 1t was the finest
natural beverage of all the earth. We have
M g11.h low for 1n HnhS nd In,.,r1
have no such love for the Rhine, and Rus
SLAMS 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, Noses takes stick and whips the
waters and they turn into the gore of a
slaughter-house, and through the sluices
and hshpouds the incarnadined liquid backs
up into the land, and the maiodor whelms
everything from mud hovel to throne-room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
all over everything. Then this people, |
clean!y almost to fastidio uSness,
WE'RE INFESTED WITH INSECTS
that belong to the filthy and unkempt,
and the air buzzed and buzzed with flies, |
and then the distemper started cows TO bel |
lowing and horses to neighing, and
rolled over and expired, And then boils, |
one of which will put a man in wretched- |
ness, came in clusters 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 hands 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 Angel sweeps past; and hear it |
all night long, the flap! flap! flap! of his
awful wings until Egypt rolled on, great |
hearse, the eldest child dead in every Egyp-
tian home. The eldest son of Pharaoh eX-
pired that night in the palace and all along
the streets of Memphis and Hehopolis and |
all up and down the Nile there was fu-
neral wall that would have rent the fold of |
the unnatural darkness if it had not been |
The Israeitish homes, however, were
But these homes were full of |
preparation, for now is your chance. 0 We
wronged Hebrewsl Snatch up what pieces
of food you can and to the desertl It's |
simooms 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 Graded in the basket of papyrus on the
Nile will lead you. Up! Up! This is the
night of your rescue. They gather together
at Il 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
Almighty kindles torch not held'by human
hands but by omnipotent hand. Not made