The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01

king trembles as he listens, and then
he recalls Moses words: Let dark
ness be upon all thy people" Slowly
upon his dazed brain there breaks a
sense of the calamity which has be-
fallen his nation. Darkness over all
the land! The light of their great sun
god shut out from every eye.
Again uncomfortable passion SEXES
him and he breaks forth into another
awful TRADE against Moses and Aaron,
but the curses are unheard, Tor the
latter have gone.
Terrible days followed. Three days
of painful, helpless blindness. Inc
wall of anguish swept the land. Cllll-
dren CRYING for bread. The sick ana
diving calling for the help when none
could give, Fathers and mothers alb
sent from home and unable to return
People fearful to move about IN theif
blindness, and pleading piteouSiy LOT
some one to lead them.
Even Pharaoh was deserted, with
none able to help, for his attchudn.'
were as helpless as he to make tlell
wav from the garden. At last, now
= ever, his cry for help reached the ear
c of a Hebrew who CHANGED to be pass
8 ing and he was persuaded to lead Tue
king and his helpless followers BACK 10
/. the palace. MI,
6 # was a piteous spectacle Inc
h nroud Pharaoh being led by desplSeo
Hebrew, and behind him training 'n'
h others of the royal company.
- GLOW comes it that thou mast
~ ascaned this condition." Pharaoh
# asked, as he touched his blinded eyes,
ID pathetcally
=. 81 am a Hebrew" was the quiet re-
I'd Spouse. aou
~ "A Hebrew" he exclaimed, anger
nc AGAIN rising within him. How long
&, is Eqvpt TO be afflicted with thy pesu-
~ ,ontial race? Be gone!' he shouted
10 hut the next instant as he realized MS
~ halnlesspess he called to the man &c
al return.
o. Blind people filled the roadway
- oroning helplessly about and tryln&
oh to find their way home. Hearing TN
,ot sound of the footsteps of the king ant
" his company, they shouted for help
ch and it being nosed about that II wa
the king and his attendants benz
ful helplessly led back to the palace on
oar of the bolder of the men cried:
lilo where are the gods OF Egypt
the Where is Osiris, the god of light tina
&C. the king and his people should be
md stricken? Moses God has trlumphe'
oar Even Pharaoh is brought low betol
its Him."
tor SILENCE" shouted one Of the atten'
rod ant priests. shame that you reVi
of YOUR king thus" but in his heIpie
cun blindness he could do nothing turthe
-. and the man turned and rallied up(
of him, saying:
dds "Where is thy power, now, prle'
.,,r1t saaine thou canst not help the king
,iiy- his distress? Where is thy intluen
tho with the gods of Egypt? They cam
mon stand before Moses God"
Shouts of approval from the peol
-. standing about showed the gene
bic feeling which prevailed throughc
the land, for people were grow
nth weary of the struggle with Moses a
had long been urging that Phara
.o,o LET the people go. And now that t
nor latest awful calamity had come ul
"a them they were more than ever Bit
During those days of darkness
';t.au only relief they knew was that afo
49, ed by numbers of the Hebrews v
his came from Goshen and mlnlstered
IT, their needs. And thus it came TO =
I,;o that the latter won great favor "
,;nn the people and were loaded down "
,onde gifts.
l ID In the palace, Also they were lie;
10. ingthe lesson that the God OF Moses
set a difference between the Egypt
- and the Hebrews. Every service
:. w formed there was rendered by the
nooO brews, who had been summoned I
Pharaoh was obliged to receive
AWAY, the hands of the despised people
49, food he ate and the raiment he v
o,,icb All Gay long as he sat in the imp
.ossod trable darkness, hearing footsteps,
;od ~ voices, but seeing naught, he hao
rnirg for meditation. And how terrible
,volon that meditation. How fearful ne
!, vain as he realized how fully he wa
An the power of the people he mad
them pressed so long and so cruelty. "
II, ga they turn upon him? Would they
Like against him and take his lie! +
ndants football near him made him start.
their the days were filled with an a
'pasms hensive horrer'
fierce On the third day, after the rep
their opportunities OF MS Coui'i0i'' ao
n, and scented to send for Moses, and
they the latter had come lie s"iu'
IS. AS go we, serve the Lord; oni
, their YOUR tiocks end your herds sta!
le gods YOUR little ones also 60 with you.
! their But thou must give us some