The Bossier banner., 1892-01-07
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage Contin-
ues to Talk on Egypt.
The Expressions of the Children of Israel
by the Pharaohs of Old Find Pa
rallel in the Methods of
Modtrn Egypt.

AAN OlSCOuTSc ny htV. L
Dewitt Talmage, delivered in the Brook
lyn tabernacle, is the third of his serie
on what he saw From the Pyramids t,
the Acropolis." His text was:
The burden of Egypt-Isaiah xix, /.
What is all this excitement about i,
the streets of Cairo, Egypt, this Decem
Der morning in 1889? Stand back We
hear loud voices and see the crowds O.
people retreating to the sides of the
street. The excitement of others be
comes our own excitement. Footmer
come in sight. They have rod in the
hand and tasseled cap on head, and
their arms and feet are bare. THEFT
garb is black to the waist. except as
threaded with gold, and the rest is
white. They are clearing the way for
an official dignitary in chariot or car.
rage. They are swift and sometimes
run thirty or forty miles at stretch in
front of an equipage. Make way!
They are the feetest-footed men on
earth, but soon die, for the human
frame was not made for such endur-
ance. asked all around me who the
man in the carriage was, but no one
seemed to know. Yet as l fell back
with the rest to the wall | said: This
Is the old custom found all up and
down the Bible, footmen running be-
fore the rulers. demanding obeisance,
as In Gennesis before Joseph's chariot
the people were commanded, Bow the
knee" and as 1 see the swift feet of
the men followed by the swift feet of
the horses, how those old words of
jeremiah rushed through my mind:
IF thou hast run with the footmen
and they have wearied thee, how canst
thou contend with horses?"
We saw again and again on and along
the Nile q boss workman roughly snite
subordinate who did not please him.
1t is no rare occurrence to see long
lines OF men under heavy burdens pass
ing by task-masters at short distances,
lashing them as they go by into greater
speed, and then these workmen. ex.
hausted with the blasting heats of the
day, lying down upon the bare ground,
suddenly chilled with the night air,
crying out in prayer: "Ya! Allahr'
"Ya! Allah!" which means, Oh! God!
But what must have been the olden
times cruelty shown by the Egyptians
toward their Israelitish slaves is in
dlcated by a picture in the Beni-Has-
san tombs, where man is held down
on his face by two men and another
holds up the victims feet while the
officials beat the bare back of the vic
tim, every stroke, l have no doubt,
fetching the blood
The governmental outrage has al
ways been characteristic of Egyptian
rulers Taxation to the point of starya-
ton was the Egyptian rule in the
Bible times as well as it is in our time.
"A modern traveller gives the figures
concerning the cultivation of seventeen
acres, the value of the yield of the field
states in piastres:
Produce. ce.................. .......... 1902
-
Uiear produce..... ..................... sO8Is
"Aes'....-........ .............. .......... 493
amount cleared by the farmer... 3l5la
Or, as my authority declares, seventy
per cent of what the Egyptian farmer
makes is paid for taxes to the govern
ment' Now that is not SO much taxa
ton as assassination. What think Won
OF that? You who groan under heavy
taxes In America? | have heard that
In Egypt the working people have a
song like this: 'They starve us, thew
'tarve us, they beat us, but there's
some one above, there's some ono
above, who will punish them we'll
who will punish them we'll" But sew
,nty per cent of government tax in
Egypt is mercy as compared to what
he Hebrew slaves suffered there in
5lble times. They got nothing but food
hardly MT for dog, and their clothing
vas OF one rag, and their roof a
burning sky by day and the stars of
ieaven by night. You say: "Why did
hey stand it?" Because they had to
tand 1t. You see, along back In the
'orld's twilight there was famine in
anaan, and old Jacob and his sons
anne to Egypt for bread. The old
lan's boy Joseph was prime minister.
nd Joseph suppose the father and ,
ne brothers called him Joe, for it does
OF make any difference how mucb n ,
oy is advanced in worldly success. his I
Ither and brothers and sisters ALWAYS :
Ill him by the same name that he was :
alled by when two years old-Joseph :
= Pharoh's permission, gave to his =
'mily, who had just arrived, the rich .
1t part of Egypt, the Westchester ;
rms or the Lancaster farms of the >
,cients. Jacobs descendants ranidly
ultiplied. After awhile Egypt tooI !,
turn at famine, and those descendants =
Jacob, the Israelites, came to a great =
ore-house which Joseph had provided +,
I'd paid in money for corn. But after h
While the money gave out and then ~
ey paid in cattle. After awhile the |,
tile were all in possession of the rov. =,
ent and then the Hebrews bonobt :.
rn from the government by surren- 4,
ring themselves as slaves. L.
Then began slavery in Egypt, The ir
vernment owned all the Hebrews @
I'd let modern lunatics, who in Amer II
propose handing over telegram NJ
npanies and railroads and Other th
ngs to be run by government see he
folly of letting government get its 81