The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-05
THE RrRpKNs OF EGYPT.

LliSEc anu yDE1Cft CO1AclhillS WASH
regions OF Africa TO barrenness, one of
the deserts three thousand miles long
and thousand miles wide. But all
those deserts will yet be flooded, and so
made fertile. De Lesseps says it can
be done, and lie who planned the Suez
canal, which narries the Red sea and
the Mediterranean, knows what he Is
talking about. The human race Is SO
multiplied that 1t must have more cul
tivated land, and the world must abol-
ish its deserts. Eight hundred millions
OF the human race are now living on
lands not blest with rains, bat depend
ent on irrigation, and we want by irri-
cation to make room for eight hundred
millions more. BY irrigation the proph
ecy will be fulfilled, and 1.-The desert
will blossom rs the rose" So from
Egypt the burden of sand will be lifted.
Another burden of Egypt to be
Fitted Is the burden Of Mohammedan
Ism, although there are some good
things about that religion. It's dis
Ciples must always wash before they
pray, and that is five times day. "A
commendable grace is cleanliness.
Strong drink is positively forbidden by
Mohanmedanisn, and though some
may have seen drunken Mohanme-
| dan, / never saw one. 1t is a religion
OF sobriety. Then they are not ashamed
Of their devotions When the call for
prayers is 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-repr to
many q Christian who onits his pray
ers If people are looking.
But MohaInmedanisln, with its pc
lygamy, blghts everything it touches
Mohammed, its founder, had four
wives, and his followers are the enemies
Of good womanhood. Mohammedan-
ism 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 it.
But before l forget it l must put
more emphasis upon the fact that the
last outrage that resulted In the liberia
ton of the Hebrews was their being
compelled to make bricks without
straw. That was the last straw that
broke the canels back. God would
allow the despotism against his people
to go no further. Making bricks with
out 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 success
full instruction without giving the teach
ers competent livelihood-bricIs with
out straw. United States government
demanding CT senators and congress
men at Washington full attendance tt
the interests of the people, but on com
pensation Which may have done vel
enough when twenty-five cents wen
as far as q dollar now, but in these
times not sufficient to preserve thei
influence and respectability-brick
without straw.
demanding of pastors vigorous sermon
and sympathetic service on starvation
salary, sanctified Ciceros on four hun
dred dollars O year. Bricks withou
, straw. That is one reason why Their
are so many poor bricks. In all de
partments, bricks not even, or brick
that crumble, or bricks that are no
bricks at all. Work adequately pai
, for Is worth more than work not PAL
for More straw and then bette
bricks.
, PHARAOHS OF TODAY.
But In all departments there ar
Pharaohs Sometimes Capital Phs
!, When Capital prospers and makes larg
u percentage on it's investment and d.
o clines to consider the needs of the OF
. eratives and treats them as SO man
human machines, their nerves no MOI
Il than the bands on the factory wheel
then Capital is o Pharaoh. On tt
. other hand, when worlmen, not r
= Sarding the anxieties and business stru
giles of the firm employing them, an
/ at time when the firm are doing the
best to meet an important contract an
- iced all hands busy to accomplish 1T
a It such time to have his employees
make q strike and put their employer
= nto extreme perplexity and severe los
: then Labor becomes a Pharaoh 0
I, he worst oppression, and must loo!
,ut for the judgments of God.
10 When in December of 1889, at tn
. museum at Boulac, Egypt, looked a
- he mummies of the Pharaohs, the yer
&c niscreants who diabolized centuries
10 md saw their teeth and hair and fir
10 ger nails and the flesh drawn tight owe
- heir cheek bones, the sarcophagi c
;hese dead monarchs side by side, an
10 [ was so fascinated l could only wit
- difficulty get away from the spot,
:, was not looking upon the last of tn
!. Pharaohs. All over the world oil
- merchants playing the Pharaoh owe
~ fOuDS LASlCllSshIS, OIu lawyers pay III
y the Pharaoh over young lawyers, oil
" doctors playing the Pharaoh owe
II. young doctors, old artists playing th
80 Pharaoh over young artists, old mil
e sters playing the Pharaoh over youn
- ministers.
he Let all oppresscrs, whether in home
nj N churches, in stores, in offices, in IA
n. tories, In social life or political life,
ha private life or public life know tia
~ God hates oppressors, and they will a
some to grief here or hereafter. PHI
raoh thought he did a fine thing, q cul
ba ming thing, a decisive thing when fl
:. the complete extinction of the Hebrew
- In Egypt he ordered all the Hebre
ha boys mastered, but he did not find
30 fine o thing when his own first boz
that night of the DESTROYING anp