The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-14


was worshfped in the form OF bull.
These bulls were allowed to live for
twenty years Then they were put
to death and their bodies embalmed
like those Of kings. Then, with great
ceremony, their bodies were carried
to magnificent tombs, which tombs
thereafter were looked upon as sacred
shrines Herodotus, the Greek histo-
rian. tells us that during the reign Of
Rameses II. the funeral Of one of the
bulls cost over $4,000. When you es-
innate that penny in olden times
would hire a laborer for whole day,
that funeral cost in modern money at
least half million of dollars. At SAX
kara the tombs for these sacred bulls
were cut out of the solid rock quar-
fter of mile long. The sarcophagi, or
huge collins, in which the embalmed
bodies of these bulls were placed were
cut out of one monster stone thirteen
feet long, seven feet wide and eleven
feet high
The Egyptian Temples.
Then, what beautiful temples were
erected for the worship of these Egyp-
tian animaIsI Never in all the wide
world have there been more beautiful
buildings than those ancient temples
of Kafdusseh and Philae and Aboo
Simbel and Kom Umboo and Adfoo
and Esnek and Karnak, where the
pharaohs worshiped, and Medeenet
Haboo and Luxor and Kurneh. Truly,
like Paul standing on Mars hill, when
we see these huge structures we can
exclaim. Eye men of old Egypt, ] per-
ceive that in all things We are too SUI
perstitiousv' Why, the great hall of
pillars" at Karnak looks as though the
pillars had been hewed out of the very
center of the earth and set up in long
rows for the dome of the heavens to
rest upon, so massive are they Each
one of those columns Is covered with
the most exquisite carvings. SO in
finite are these carvings that, like a
prairie full of wild flowers, their indi-
vidual beauties are lost in the multi
tude of the wonders. Do you wonder,
amid the pernicious influences of such
heather worship, that God said to
Moses, the adopted son of Pharaoh's
daughter: Come, my child-come to
INDIAN lands. Come into the quietude
of a desert exile. Come and learn of
me and hear the duty required Of
thee. Now; my friends, just as Moses
had his INDIAN exile to learn of Gods
thoughts and Gods ways, we, as Gods
children. should have our INDIAN ex-
Hes.
God had another purpose in arrang-
ling the events which eliminated in
driving forth Moses from Phara0h's
palace. The adopted son of Pharaoh's
daughter had to be Taught by bitter
experience what it was to suffer injus-
tlce before he was fitted to be the
emancipation of Hebrew race groan-
ing and suffering amid the tortures OF
Egyptian slavery. He had to lift to
his lips the chalice of woe filled with
his own scalding tears and drink the
lcup of sorrow to the dregs before he
was fitted to wipe away the tears from
the eyes Of his fellow men. No man
can truly sympathize with a sick man
unless he has first been sick himself.
No man can truly sympathize with the
poor unless, like John Howard Payne,
he has not place to call his home,
or unless in the winter night he has
gone to the rooms of tenement where
there was no fire in the cold stove be-
cause the coal bin was empty, or into
a hut where he hears his little ones
crying for something to eat and he
has not Eve cent piece to buy loaf
Of bread to ease the Cravings of their
hunger. All, yes, Moses IN that indian
exile, by bitter experience, learned
only too well the injustice which the
Hebrew people In Egyptian slavery
had to suffer! Let us study for little
while the bringing up of this marvel
Gus boy of the east.
Boyhood of Moses.
He was developed In his early days,
as some of Us were by our parents, as
a dollhouse plant No rough, sharp
wind was allowed to touch him. He
breathed no bad, vitiated air. His pal
ace bedroom overlooked the wonderful
river Nile. There during the long hot
months he saw the princes and prin-
cesses lounging in their boats, being pull
ed along by the slaves. Life seemed to be
made up, for the most part, of music
and dancing and merrymaking. The
palace grounds in which the lad Moses
used to play were dream of beauty.
Because he was well clothed all people
were well clothed. Because he was
kindly treated all people, If they be-,
have themselves. are kindly treated.
But one day he was disillusioned.
He was walking again by the river
Nile. Now, instead of being child,
he was a man in middle life, or about
forty years old. While he was walk
ing along the river bank he saw an
Egyptian overseer begin to abuse one
of the slaves Moses was noted for
his meekness, but he raised his staff
and smote the Egyptian and killed him
In his tracks. Then what happened?
Moses ceased to be prince AS
fugitive slave, he was tracked from
place to place. AS a Hebrew fugf-
tive, he had to fee death as rab-
bit runs from the sbaying of the
n. hitfay- :, .