Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-11-05
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lions Of the enslaved were crying,
"Ial Allah! Ya! Allahw Oil Godl
Oh! God!
Where was help TO come fromp Not
the throne. Pharaoh sat upon that
Not the army, Pharaoh's officers com
manded that. Not surrounding ma
tions, Pharaohs threat made them ali
tremble. Not the gods Ammon and
Osiris, or tho goddess Isis, for Pharaoh
built thcir temples out of the groans
of this diaboiical servitude. But ono
hot day the Princess Thonoris. the
daughter OF Pharaoh, while In her
bathing house on tile banks OF tho Nile
has word brought her that there is n
baby atloat on the river In cradle
made out of big leaves OF course
there is excitement all mp and down
the banks, for an ordinary baby In an
ordinary cradle attracts smiling Mt.
tention, but an infant In n cradle OF
papyrus rocking on river arouses not
only admiration but curiosity. Who
made that boat? What made IL water
tight with bitumenP Who launched 1t?
Reckless OF the crocodilcs who lay pask-
ing themselves In the sun, the maidens
wndo In and snatch M the child, and
first ono carries him and then another
carries him and all the way mp the
bank he runs n gauntlet of caresses-
till Thonoris PUSHES out OF tho bathing
house and says: beautiful founding,
l will adopt You as my own. You
shall vet wear tho Egyptian crown aud
sit on the Egyptian throne" No! MOI
No! lilo Is to DO tho emancipation OF
the Hebrews. Toll IL among all those
who are writing under the lash tail
IL among all the castles OF Memphis
and licliopolis and Zoan and Thebcs
Before him sea will part
but, Moses, are you going to under,
take tho impossi ilities2 You feel
that YOU are going TO free tho Hebrews
from bondage: But where Is your
army Where Il your navy? Not ~
sword have you, not spear, not q
chariot, not ahorsc. All God was on
his side ana he has an army of his
own. The snow storms arc on God =
side: witness the snow Tanks in
which the French army OF invasion
were buried ON their way back from
Moscow. The rain Is on his side: wit
ness the 18th OF june at Waterloo when
the temp SITS so saturated the road that
the attack could not bo made on Vol.
)ington's forces until II o'clock and
reinforcemcnls arrived. Had that
battle been opened ut o'clock
in the morning instead OF at
IL the destiny of Europe
would have been turned tho wrong
way, The heavy rain decided every.
thing SO also are tho winds aud tho
waves ON Gods side; witness tho
Armada with $50 ships and 2,050 guns
and 5000 sailors and 10000 soldiers
sent out by Philip H. OF Spain to con
quer England.
But in all departments thero are
Pharnohs; sometimes capital n Pharaoh
and sometimes labor Pharaoh.
When capital prospers, and makes
large percentage on its Investment,
and declines to consider the needs of
tho operatives, and treats them as SO
no more than the bands on tho fac
tory whecl--then capital Ia n
Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
worltmen, not regarding the anxietics
and business struggles OF the tlrm cm.
poying them, ana at time when tho
iirm are do .ng their best To meet an i'm.
por,unt contract and need all hands
busy to accomplish IL, at such "a time
TO have his employees make q strike
and put their employers into extreme
pcrplcxity and severe loss then labor
become Pharaoh OF the worst oLprcs.
sion, and must look out for tho Judg.
ments of God,
here In no more nbhorrent
Pharaoh than u domestic Pharaoh.
There are thousands OF women TO
whom death IL passage from Egypt Co
Canaan, because they get rid Of u cruel
task master. What an nccursed
monster is TINT man who keeps his
wifo In dread about family expenses,
and must be cautious how she iutro-
duccs an article OF millinery or woman
Nv wardrobe without humiliating con
sultaton and apology. Who is that
man acting so? For six months-in
order to win TINT woman's heart, no
sent her every few days bouquet
wound with white ribbon, and au en-.
dearing couplet, and took her to con-
certs and thoaters, and helped her into
carriages MS though she were Prin-
cess, and ran across the room TO pick
up her pocket-nandkerchief with tho
speed of IN antelope, and on the mar
riage day promised all that the liturgy
required, saying, ~ will" with an
emphasis that excited an admira-
ton OF all spectators But now
10 begrudges her two cents for
a postage stamp and wonders why she
rides across Brooklyn bridge when
the foot passage costs nothing lie
thinks now she Is awful plain, and no
acts like the devil, while he thunders
out, Where did you get that new hat
from? That's whore my money goes.
Where's my breakfast Do you call
A. talI 70
on that button? Want to soc your
mother, do you? You are always going
TO see our motherl What are you
whimpering about? Hurry up now and
get my sir persl Where's the news
paper" The tone, the look.
tho impotence cruelty of phar-
aoh. That is what gives so many wo-
men cowed-down look. Pharaohl
you had better take your iron heol off
that woman neck, or God will help
You remove your heel. She says moth
ing. For the sake of avoiding "a scan
dial she keeps silent; but her tears and
wrongs have gone into record that
you will have To meet as certainly as
Pharaoh had TO meet hail, and light
ming, and darkness, and the
death angel God never yet
gave to any man the right to tyrannizo
a woman, and what q sneak you are TO
take advantage of the marriage vow
and because she cannot help herself
and under the shelter of your own
home out-pharaoh the Egyptian OPP
pressor There is something awfuliy
wrong in household where tho woman
is not considered of as much import
ance as the man. No room in this
world for any more Pharaohs!
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 taskmastcr, and again and
again we have felt its lash. But Christ
has been our Moses to lead us out OF
bondage, and we are forever free. The
Red sea of q Saviour's sacrifice rolls
deep and wide between us and our
aforetime bondage. and though there
may be deserts yet for MS to cross we
are on the way 10 the promised land.
Thanks be unto God for this
emancipating gospell Como up
ont of Egypt all We who are yet en-.
shaved. What Christ did for MS he viii
do for you. Exodus" is the word
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