The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-05-29

Lying in the burning sand, anaemic
and exhausted, they waited with the
same faith with which their ancestors
waited the celestial mama on those
same hot sands long ages ago."
The Biblical story, found in the
sixteenth chapter of Exodus. tells
how the children of Israel camped
in this same desert, began to muir
mur and complain when the food ran
short.
"And the whole congregation Of
the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and Aaron in the will
derness," says the Biblical account Of
it.
And the children of Israel said
unto them, Would to God we had
died by the hand of the Lord in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the
flesh pots, and when we did eat bread
to the full; for We have brought us
forth into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger.
''Then said the Lord unto Moses,
Behold, will rain bread from heaven
for you; and the people shall go out
and gather certain rate every day."
The Biblical account goes on to
tell how the children of Israel looked
toward the sky and "The glory of the
Lord appeared in a cloud" The
bread that fell from heaven was
small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the grounds.
"And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another: 1t
is mama; for they wist not what it
was. And Moses said unto them:
This is the bread which the Lord
hath given you to eat
The modern children of the desert
lineal descendants, it might be, OF
those very children of Israel, were
more courageous and patient than
they, for they did not murmur nor
despair, although they had only a
little hope of relief.
But, away off in the Red sea a
British fleet rode at anchor, and one
day from out the desert camel with |
an Arab upon it's back staggered to
the shore and fell exhausted, and the
messenger told Admiral Wemyss of
the plight of the little band of Arab
troops away back there in the desert.
The British admiral did not wait to
send relief by camel train; that
might be too slow. With the fleet
were several airplanes and the ad-
miral waited not minute, but,
gathering up few sacks of bread,
he sent it off in advance to try and
reach the beleaguered force and
cheer them with the news that an
other airplane would follow with food
for all. And so out across the desert,
and up over Mount Sinai scared a
British airman, and the very rocks |
of the mountain top upon which
Moses might have stood when he re-
ceived the tables of stone bearing the
ten commandments, the same rocky
heights that rolled back the thunders
of Jehovah, echoed the throbbing of
the engine and the whirring of the
propeller of British airplane.
The story of General Feysal's Off
Ger, who must have been a Bible stu
dent, tells of the arrival of this
modern, mama from the skies, as
follows:
And one day, in the blue heavens,
the mama appeared. 1t came in the
form of a huge airplane, sent high |
over the mountain and the desert |
and the Turkish lines by Admiral
Wemyss and much reinsurance, for
the pilot announced that another and
a bigger plane would follow with |
The next day it came, and |
oar men were saved, for this mamma
from the skies gave us strength to
hold out until General Allenby could |
send troops to drive off the surround
ing Turks" kansas City Star.