The Bossier banner., 1892-01-07

sIaVeo were crying; "1a Allah va
Allah ~ Oh God Oh God!
Where was help to come from? No
the throne; Pharaoh sat upon that
Not the army: Pharaoh's officers com
raanded that > Not surrounding ma
tlons; Pharaoh's threat made them al
tremble. Not the gods Ammon ant
Osiris, or the goddess Isis, for Pharaol
oullt their temple out of the groans o
this iabolical servitude. But one ho
DAY the Princess Thonoris, the daugh
Ter OF Pharaoh, while in her bathing
house on the banks of the Nile, ha.
word brought to her that there is &
oaby atoat on the river in a cradle
made out of big leaves. Of course
there is excitement all up and dow1
the banks, for an ordinary baby in ar
ordinary cradle attracts smiling atten
ton, but an infant in cradle of papy-
rus rocking on river arouses not
only admiration, but curiosity. Who
made that boat? Who made it water.
tight with bitumen? Who launched
II? Reckless of the crocodiles who Law
basklng themselves. in tie sun, the
maldens wade in and snatch up the
enid, and first one carries ard hen an
other carries him, and all the way up
the bank he runs gantlet OF caresses,
I'LL Ihonoris rushes out of the bathing
mousse 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,
lie is to be the emancipator of the He
brews. Tell it in all the brick kilns.
Tell Il among all those who are writh-
ing under the lash, tell it among all
the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis
and Zoan and Thebes. Before him a
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 obsequies. The child grows up
and goes out and studies the horrors of
Egyptian oppression and suppresses
MS indignation for the right time has
not come, although once for a minute
he let fly; and when he saw a task-mas-
ter put the whip on the back of p
workman who was doing his best, and
heard the poor fellow cry, and saw the
blood spurt, Moses doubled up his fist
and struck him on the temple till the
cruel villain rolled over in the sand ex-
and never swung the lash
again. Served him right!
To the Egyptians the Nile was a
deity. Its waters were then, as now,
very delicious. 1t was the finest natural
beverage OF all the earth. We have no
such love for the Hudson, and Germans
have no such love for the Rhine. and
Russians 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, Moses takes a
stick and whips the waters and they
turn into the gore of slaughter house, j
and through the sluices and fish-ponds
the lncarnadined liquid backs up into
the land and the malodor whelms everv-
thing from mud hovel to throne-room.
Then came the frogs with horrible croak
Ri over everything. Then this people,
,leanly almost to fastidiousness, were
infested with insects that belong to the |
1lthy aud unkempt, and the air buzzed |
md buzzed with flies, and then the dis
emper started cows to believing, and
lorses to neighing, and camels to
Eroaning, as they rolled over and ex-
bred. And then boils, one of which
viii put man in wretchedness came
n clusters from the top of the head to
he sole OF the foot. And then the
LIQUIDS dropped hail and lightning. And
hen locusts came in, swarms of them.
worse than the grasshoppers ever were
Kansas, and then darkness dropped
or three days so that the people could
ot see their hand before their face,
reat surges of midnight covering them.
md last of all, on the night of the 18th
April, about eighteen hundred wears
efore Christ. the Destroying Angel
weeps past, and hear it all night long
ne flap! flap! flap! of his awful wings
ntil Egypt rolled on, a great hearse.
ne eldest child dead in every Egyptian
ONE. The eldest son of Pharaoh ex-
red last night in the palace, and all
long the streets of Memphis and
eilopolis, and all up and down, the
lie, there was funeral wall that
ould have rent the fold of the nm.
atural darkness if it had not been i'm {
enetrable. {
The lsraelitish homes, however, wera {
ntouched. But these homes were fnll c
preparation, for now is your chance.
ye wronged Hebrews! Snatch nm
hat pieces of food you can, and to
e desert! Its simoons are better than
e bondage you have suffered. It's q
orpions will not sting so sharply as
e wrongs that have stung Won all l
'ur lives. Away! The man who was ?
aided in the basket of papyrus on the !
lie will lead you. Up! Up! This is =
c night of your rescue They gather "
gether at a signal Alexander's arm. d
of olden time were led by torches t
high poles, great crests of fire: aud n
e Lord Almighty kindles h
rch not held by human hands o
t by Omnipotent hand. Not b
ide out of straw or oil. but ii
1dled out Of the atmosphere. such a n
'ch as the world never saw before N
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