The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-22
IN The RELIGIOUS WORLD
OF What the Church People arc Th;.,4--
About, Talking About and Do;ng "'''"'"
BY T. EIy,S

upon q hendishly vindictiv.
I,Lsieit Of the weaLna.s
.nesc ambassadors on bebalf
aves' ana confident Of his ew, ror
I've. re held the rod ana 800.
panish at his pleasure. o'"io
ms answer was tho,
through all the ages. - tiiNIleSe
po"tr' the people be cursed. u
~ouio break any who d,re1 ;,A
for -. me incident except
y us trappings, is almost con,aa
pu'aheons. IN the insolent fashion ui,h
blow. '07eoe win a
NoSai Might aud Peoples Right.
M taie IS nc new. 1t was old in
a."oh , gay. 1t was repeated IN
lliate Judgment hall. 1t was en-
ana again at Runnymede. Boston
ana Philadelphia saw il in r.vohn
tionary guise. The mast 49,
months has witnessed somethir. ~
- M poiItlcs. West Virginia's exne-
alehce with " has lately come to ,iph,
Inc incredible Intolerance of vested
might which denies the rights Of tho
peop.e IS one Of the oldest episode.
,. history, and one OF the stupi.sst
ro'he working people strike: Let
'hem De answered by a still further
cur IN & or by the shutting down
OF the ~actorie or by the jmportation
Oh armed guards, or as is son,etmac
unquestlohably the case, does labor
drung with the sight of power" de-
mand OF capital more than IS cont
apie. both make the cardinal, mis-
axe OF answering reason with might.
in"Iaon' and ten thousand other Pha-
rdohs since have tried to apply he
ioglc OF force to social. political and
moral questions. If any ma. Of tho
haraoh type-whether it be in his
own nome. in a factory. in politics. or
anywhere else cad these lines. let
MN beware of the Pharaoh fate.
ferhaps as Gamaliel later gges
81, ne IS nghtlnE against the eternal
COO n has had the habit, through
out history. Of identifying himself
with the despised and the weak of
eartn. Lost causes HAYES hown a
curious way Of winning in the long
run. Temporal power, which at the
monen seems iEvincible, has times
beyond counting written it's essential
weakness LUMINOSITY On history.s
page.
careless seems the great Avenser:
history's pages but record
one d~eath-grapple in the
l. twist cid syste ms and the Word;
Truth forever on the cafold.
Wrong forever on the throne
SV1N Ia taI
And, behind the dim unknown.
StanOeth God Within the shadow.
heeping watch above His own"
Bricks Without Straw.
No downtown ward politician an
American city ever showed more inso-
lent and cunning power in dealing
with a refOrmer than Pharaoh dis
played in answering the plea Of these
4 ~ q 0nI ~ 49, .-:-l
Young Solomon's similar rejoinder
when he took the throne of Israel
seems Grass beside it. Pharaoh sim
ply commanded the tasknlasters to
give n people no more straw for
their brick making. and yet to com
pei them to gather their own straw.
all Without any decrease in the daily
tale of bricks. Let heavie work be
laid upon the men, that they may la
Dor therein. and let them not regard
lying words" The slaves would have
NO time to listen to the reformers now.
Heavier was the blow, and kneerer
was the hurt of this decree. than one
swift stroke Of brutality. Had Pha-
raeh ordered a hundred iashes for
every Hebrew slave, hat suffering
would have been owe in a few days
with but a few eaths
The present punishment continued
hourly. It meant repeated beatings
day by day. 1t would make the heart
of the laborers sick and cause them to
turn again. their emancipators and
curse them. Pharaoh thought he had
found a sure and terrible way to end
lany danger of a reform. or a strike
among his labOrers.
Making bricks without straw" has
passed into proverb. yet few Of US
understand it, for we think Of bricks
in the terms Of h little oblong, kiln
dried bricks which our civilization
knows. If we go to Egypt today, and
especially up into Asia Minor. we will
find that the great square fiat bricks,
eight to twelve inches wide, and about
two inches thick. are still made with
straw and dried in the sun. The clay
is kept together by the straw. The
fashion has not changed in five thou
sand years. Not until l saw those
bricks made with straw still being
used In the mud buildings of the Near
East did l realize the exact meaning
of these words from the Exodus story.
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