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SERMON PREACHED DY THE REV.
T. DE WITT TALMAQE.
Although (lie I'opnlnr IMtlnr lint
t'rrMrlirit Twrriitjr.foiir Yrnr In llrniik
Ijn, III Aiiilli-ne. Were Nnter Larger.
"Th lliinlrn i.f Ki)il" Hit Trit.
HltooKLVN, Nov. I. Tho Tibcnmclo wiu
throiiKotl am usiiiil this iiHirnliiK, Thu vast
cdlflco MUci) to It utmost cnpnclty with
rnRvr llntriiofM shows how tlin populur
preacher rvtulun lili power over tlio cople.,
AlthmiKh ho Iwik Ihoii prcMchliiK In llrook.
Ijrn for moru tliiin twenty-four yenn, hln
amllcnre were inner o lnro m now, ami
nlthnuKli tlm Inrwt I'rotostnnt churcli In
America hn In-en liullt for li tin, there nuvir
wni n time when no niiiny persons were
turned nwny for luck of room. Tlio hiiI
jrtof tills innrnliiK' senium wm "Ilrlckn
Without Straw," n contlnuutlon of thu
cries on tho conflrnmtlon of Holy Scrip
turn which Dr. TiiIiiimko foiiiul In hN Jotir
nry from thu l'yriinihl to tlm Aornpoll.
Ill text wm Isuliih xl.x, 1, "Thu burden of
Kmt.
I -U lint In nil thin excitement nbout In tho
tri-cta of Cairo, Kuypt, this December
inornliiK in IbMiJ Stand Imckl Wo hear
loud voice nnd see thu crowd nf people
rrtreatltiK to the Hides of thu street. The
excitement of other become our own ex
citement, KoMmeu comu In slight. Thuy
linvo rod In tho hand and tunneled cap on
head, and their arms and feet are burn.
Their Karl) In black to thu wntst, except ai
threaded with Kohl, and tho rest In white.
They nrti clearing tho way for tin olllclal
dlunltary In a chariot or carrliiRe. They
arc swift, and sometime run thirty or
forty miles at it stretch In front of an iviut
page. Mnko wiiyl Thoy nro tho fleetest
footed men on earth, hut soon die, for tho
human frame was not itiudo for such en
durance I nuked nit around mo who tho man In
tho carrlno wan, hut no one Ncomcd to
know. Vet as I fell hack with tho rent to
tho wnll I said, This Is tho old custom
found nil up and down tho lllblo, footmen
running before tho rulers, demnudlng
obelsnnce, as In Genesis boforo Joseph's
chariot the people were, commnnded, "Dow
tho knee;" and ns I sco tho swift feet of
the men followed by tho swift feet of tho
horses, Iiow those, old words of Jeremiah
rushod throuirli my mind, "If thou hiut
run with tho footmen nod they linvo
wearied thee, how canst thou contend with
horses)"
IIK BKIIVK8 AB A FOOTMAN.
Now, my hearers, In this courso of ser
mons I nm only serving you as footman,
mid clearing the way for your coming Into
tho wonder of Egyptology, n subject that
I would have you study fur lieyond any
thing that can losnId tn thu brevity of
pulpit utterance. Two hundred nnd
olghty-ulno time doe tho Dlblo refer to
Egypt nnd tho Egyptians. No wonder, for
Egypt wns thu mother of nations. Egypt,
the mother of Greece; Greece, tho mother
of Home; Home, tho mother of Euglund;
England, thu mother of our own land. Ac
cording to that, Egypt Is our great-great-grandmother.
On other Sabbaths 1 loft you studying
what thoy must hi wo been in their glory;
the Hypostylo hall of Karnac, tho archi
tectural miracles nt Luxor, tho Colonundo
of lloremheb, tho cemeteries of Memphis,
the value of n kingdom In one monument,
the Sphinx, which with lips of stouo
speaks loud enough to bo heard across tho
centuries, Hellopolls nnd Zoau, tho conun
drum of nrchiixiloglstfl. Dut nil that ex
travagance of palace and temple nnd mon
ument wns thu cause of an oppression high
as heaven nnd deep ns hell. Thu weight of
those blocks of stone, heavier than any
modern machinery could lift, enmu down
upon tho llebruw slnvcs, und their blood
mixed tho mortar for thu trowels.
Wo saw again nnd ngain on and nlong
the Nile "n boss workman roughly smlto n
subordinate who did not nleaso him, It is
no rare occurrence to see long Hues of men
under heavy burdens passing by taskmas
ters nt short distances, hushing them us
thoy go by Into greater speed, nnd then
theso workmen, exhausted with tho blast
ing hents of tho day, lying down upon the
bnro ground, suddenly chilled with tho
night nlr, crying out in prayer: "Yn,
Allnhl" "Yn, Allahl" which means O
Godl O Godl Dut what must hnvo been
the olden times cruelty shown by the
Egyptians toward their Isrnelltish slaves
is indicated by n plcturo in tlio IJenl
Hassan tombs, where u man is held down
on his face by two men and nuothcr holds
up thu victim's feet while the olllclals bent
tho bare bnck of thu victim, everv stroke,
I have no doubt, fetching the blood.
HOW THKV COULD AFFOUD IT.
Now you see Iiow the Pharaohs could af
ford to build such costly works. It cost
them nothing for wages uothtug but ttie
tears and blood of thu tollers, nnd tears nnd
blood are achenpdrluk fordevtls. "Brick
without straw" may uot suggest so much
hardship until you know that the bricks
were usually tunde with "crushed straw,"
straw crushed by the feet of the oxen in
the thrashing, and, this crushed straw de
nied to tho workmen, they had to pick up
here nnd there a piece of stubble or gather
rushes from tho waterside. Tills story of
the Dlble is confirmed by tho fact that
many of the brick walls of Egypt have on
the lower .layers brick made with straw.
but the higher layers of brick mnde out of
rough straw or rushes from the river
bank, the truth of the Hook of Exodus
thus written in the brick walls discovered
by tho modern explorers.
That governmental outrage has always
been a characteristic of Egyptian ruler.
Taxation to the point of starvation wns the
fcgyptlnn rule In the initio times as well as
tt is In our own tlmu. A modern traveler
gives tho llgures concerning tho cultiva
tion of seventeen ncres, the value of the
yield of the field stated in piasters:
Produce 1,803
Expenses M(li
Clear produce HK)$
Taxes , K)
Amount cleared by the farmer 81JM
Or, ns my authority declares, seventy per
cent, of what the Egyptian farmer makes
la paid for taxes to tho government. Now,
that is not so much taxation as assassina
tion. What thluk you of that, you who
groau under heavy taxes in America? I
have heard that iu Egypt the working
people have a song like this, "They starve
us, they starve us, they bent us, they beat
us; but there's some one above, there's
some one above, who will punish them
well, who will punish them well." Dut
seventy per cent, of government tax In
Egypt is a mercy as compared to what
the Hebrew slaves suffered there iu Dlble
tfj&rti. 11. i,iK WiL.'.i.z Itil Ml hardly
flt for n dog, nnd their clothing was of one
rag, and their roof a burning sky by day
and the stars of heaven by night.
You say, "Why did they stand itf" Be
mum they hail to stand It. You see aloug
back l the world's twilight there was a
ftssiM 1b Canaan, and old Jacob and his
sonscauiii to Knjpt for bread. Tim ol.l
man's Imy, Joseph, was prime minister, and
Joseph -I xtiiipose the father and tho broth
ers rnllol him Joe, for It does not niiikj
any difference how much it lioy Isndvmircd
In worldly surces, his father nnd brothers
snd sisters always call him by the samii
nnmn thnt he was called by when tun
year old .Joseph, by Pharaoh's Permis
sion gavu to his family, who had just ar
rived, thu richest part of Egypt, tho West
chester farms -or tlio IancMster farms of
tho (indents. Jacob's descendant rapidly
multiplied.
After awhile Egypt took a turn at fam
ine, and thoso descendants of Jacob, t lis
Israelites, enmo to a great storehouse
which Joseph had provided, nnd paid In
money for corn. Dut after awhile tho
money gave out and then they paid In cat
tle. After aw hllu the cattlu were nil In
possession of the government nnd then tho
Hebrew bought corn from thu govern
ment I')' sitrrvlidcrliiir themselves as slaves.
IIMIINNINO OK Hl.AVKIIV IN ICOYI'T.
Then began slavery In Egypt The gov
ernment owned all tho Hehrows. And let
modem lunatic who, In Amerlra, prnpnso
handing over telegraph companies nnd
railroads ami other things to ho run by
government see tho folly of letting gov
ernment get Its hand on everything. 1
would rather trust thu peoplo than any
government thu United Slate over had or
will have, Woo woith thu day when leg
islator nnd congresses nnd administra
tions get possession of nnythlngmoru than
It U necessary fur them to have.
That would ho thu revival In this land of
that old Egyptian tyranny for which God
has never had anything but red hot thun
derbolts. Dut through such uuwlsu pro
cesses Israel was enslaved In Egypt, and
tin' long Iliiu of agonies began nil up unci
down thu Nile. Heavier nnd sharper fell
thu lash, hungrier mid ghastllor gruw thu
workmen, louder and longer went up thu
prayer, until threo millions of thu en
slaved weru crying: "Yn, Allnhl Yn, Al
lahl" OGodl OGodl
Where wns help to como fromf Not tho
throne, Pharaoh sat upon that. Not tho
army, Pharaoh' ulllcur commanded that.
Not surrounding nations, Pharaoh's threat
made them nil tremble. Not thu gods Am
nion nnd Osiris or thu goddess Isis, for
Pharaoh built their temples out of thu
gonu of this dlultollciil servitude. Dut
one hot day thu princes Thouorl, thu
daughter of Pharaoh, while In her bathing
house on thu bank of thu Nile, has word
brought her thnt there Is a baby afloat on
tho river Iu n cradlo made out of big leaves.
Of courso there I excitement nil up nnd
down thu banks, fur nu ordinary baby Iu
an ordinary cradlo attracts smiling atten
tion, but nu Infant In a cradlu of papyrus
rocking on a river arouses uot only ad
miration, but curiosity. Who made that
bontf Who miido It wnter tight with bitu
men? Who launched It? Reckless of thu
crocodile, who lay basking themselves in
thu sun, tho maidens wade In and snatch
up thu child, nml first ouu carries him und
then another carries him, und all tho way
up tho bank hu run n gantlet of caresses,
till Thonorl rushes out of thu bathing
house nud says: "Deautlful foundling, I
will adopt you as my own. You shall yet
wear thu Egyptian crown nnd sit on tho
Egyptian throne."
Not Not Not Ho is to lo thu emanci
pator of thu Hubruw. Tell It Iu nil tho
brick kilns. Tell it among nil thoso who
nro writhing under tho hush, tell It among
all thu castles of Memphis nml Hellopolls
and Zonn and Thebes. Deforu him n sea
will part. On n mountain top, alone, this
onu will vecelvu from thu Almighty a law
that Is to Iki tho foundation of all good
law while thu world lasts. When hu Is
dead, God will como down on No bo and
i.louo bury hi in, no man or woman or angel
worthy to attend thu obsequies.
Thcchlhl grows upnnd goes out ami stud
ies thu horror of Egyptian oppression and
suppresses his Indignation, for tho right
tlmu has nntcome,althoughuncu lorn tnln
utu he let lly, and when hu saw a taskmaster
put thu whip on thu back of n workman
who wiih doing his lest,und heard thu poor
fellow cry nnd biiw tho blood spurt, Moses
doubled up his fist and struck him on tho
tumplu till thu cruel villain rolled over In
thu sand exanimate and never swung the
lash again. Served him right!
OOD WA8 ON HIS BIDE.
Dut, Moses, nro you going to undertake
tho Impossibilities! You feel that you nro
going to freo tho Ik-brews from bondage.
Dut where In your nnnyl Whero Is your
navyr Not u sword Imvo you, not it spear,
uot a chariot, not n horso. Ah! God was
on his side, and hu has an nrmy of his own.
Tho snowstorms nro on God's side; witness
tho snowbanks In which tho French nrmy
of Invasion weru burled on their way back
from Moscow. Tho rain Is on his side:
witness tho ISthof June at Waterloo, when
tho tempests so saturated thu road that thu
attack could not bo made on Wellington'
forces until eleven o'clock, ami he was
strong enough to hold out until re-en forco
meiiU arrived.
Had thnt battle been opened at five
o'clock In the morning instead of atoloveu
tho destiny nf Europe would have been
turned tho wrong way. Tho heavy ruin
decided everything. So also are the winds
and the waves on God's Bide. Witness the
Armada with one hundred and fifty ships
and twenty-six hundred nud fifty gnus
nnd eight thousand sailor nnd twenty
thousand soldiers sent out by Philip II of
Spain to conquer England.
What became of those men nnd thnt ship
ping' ask tuo wind and tlio wave ali
nlong the English and Irish coast. The
men and the ships all wrecked or drowned
or scattered. So I expect that Moses will
bo helped In rescuing the Israelites bv n
speclnl weaponry. To the Egyptians tho
Nile wo n deity. Its waters were then us
now very delicious. It was tho finest nat
ural beverage of all the earth. We hnvo
no such love for the Hudson, nud Germans
have no such love for tho Ilhlue, nud Itus
shins have no such love for the Volga as
the Egyptlaus have love for the Nile.
Hut one day, when Pharaoh comes down
to this river, Moses takes a stick and whips
the waters, and they turn Into tho gore of
a slaughter hoiue, and through the sluice
and fWhpond the Incarnadined liquid
backs up Into the hind and tho mnlodor
whelms everything from mud hovel to
throne room. Then came the frogs, with
horrible croak, nil over everything. Then
this people, cleanly almost to fastidious
ness, were infested with insects that be
long to the filthy and unkempt, nnd the
air buxzed nud buzzed with files, nnd then
the distemper started cows to bellowing
nud horses to neighing, und camels to
groaning, as they rolled oyer nud expired.
And then bolls, onu of which will put n
mail In wretchedness, came In clusters
from the top of the head, to tho sole of the
loot. And then the clouds dropped hall
and lightning. And then locusts came In,
swarm of them, worse, than the gross
bopiier ever were Iu Kansas, and then
darkness dropped for three day so thnt
thu people could not see their hand before
their face, great surge of midnight cover
log them. And last of all, ou the night of
the 18th of April, about eighteen hundred
year before Christ, the Destroying Angel
sweeps past; and hear it all night long,
the flap! flap! flap! of Ills wings until
Egypt rolled on a great hearse, tho ohlet
child dead In every Egyptian home. The
eldest son of Pharanhexplred that night
in the palneennd all along thu street of
Memphis and Hellopolls, and all up and
down the Nile there was a funeral wall
that would have rent thu fold of tho un
natural darkness If It had not been Im
penetrable. NOW H lHIIAi:i.'8 CIIANCK.
Thu Isrnelltish homes, however, wrrf
untouched Dut these home weru full of
preparation, for now In your chance, O
)e wronged Hebrews! Snatch up what
pieces of food you can nud to tlio desert!
ItHslmooiiif are la-tter than thu Iximlago
you hnvo suffered. Its scorpions will not
sting so shai ply as thu wrong that hnvo
stung j on nil your lives. Awayl The
limn who was cradled Iu the banket of
papyrus on the Nilu will lead you. Up!
Upl This is tho night of your rescuii.
They gather together at a signal. Alex
ander' armies and nil the armle of olden
time weru led by torches on high pules,
peat crest of lire; and thu Lord Almighty
kindle a torch nut held by human hands
but by omnipotent hand.
Not iniide out of strawor oil, but kindled
out of the ntmospheie, such a torch ns the
world never saw iK-foru nnd never will see
again, It reached from thu earth unto the
heaven, a pillar of fire, that pillar pnic
tlcally saying "This wayl March this
wayl" Ou that supernatural flnmlieau
moru than a million lefugees set their
e)es. Moses and Aaron lead on. Then
come the families of Israel. Then come
the herds and Hocks moving on across thu
Kami to what Is thu beach of water now
culled Ilahr-cl-Kulzum, hut called In thu
Dlblu thu Iled sea. And when 1 dipped
my hand Iu it blue water, thu heroic of
thu Mosaic passagu rolled over mo.
on tiii: iii: sc.Vs suoiti:.
After threu ilnjs' tiiiirch thu Isrnelltish
refugee encamped for the night ou tho
banks of tho Ited sea. A thu shadows be
gin to fall, In the distance Is seen the host
of Pharaoh In pursuit. There weru six
hundred (luest war chariots, followed by
common chariots, rolling at full speed.
And thu glittering of the wheels ami the
curt-oof Infuriated Egyptian camu down
with thu darkness. Dut the Iord opened
tho crystal gates of Dahr-el-Kulzum und
thu enslaved Israelites passed Into liberty,
and then thu crystal gate of thu sen rolled
.-ilfut against the Egyptian pursuer.
It was about two o'clock Iu tho morning
when thu Interlocked uxlu trees of the
Egyptian chariot could not move nu Inch
cither way. Dut thu Hed sea unhitched
thu horse unit uiihelmeted thu wnrrlor,
nud left the proud host u wreck on thu
Arabian sands. Then two choruses arose,
nud Muse led thu men in one, and Miriam
led thu women In the other, and thu wom
en lient tlmu with their feet. Thu record
way: "All thu women went out after her
with timbre Isand with dances. Ami Miriam
answered them, Slug yu to thu Iord, for hu
hath triumphed gloriously; tho horso and
his rider hath hu thrown Into thu sen."
What a thrilling story of endurance nnd
victory.
The greatest triumph of Handel' genius
wii shown In hi Immortal dramntlo ora
torio, "Israel In Egypt." Hu had given to
thu world tho oratorio of "Esther nnd Deb
orah," and Athallnh, but reserved for his
mightiest exertion at thu full height of hi
power thu marshaling of all musical In
struments to thu description iu harmony
of thu scene ou which wo this niornlnn
dwell. Hugavu twenty-seven day to this
production, with It twenty-eight choruses,
enthralling his own tlmu nud all uftertlmo
with his "Israel In Egypu"
So thu burden of oppression wns lifted,
but another burden of Egypt Is mado up of
desert. Indeed, Africa Is n great continent
for deserts, Libyan desert, Sahara desert,
deserts heru und theru and yonder, con
demning vast regions of Africa to barren
ness, onu of thu desert threu thousand
mile long and a thousand miles wide.
Dut all those ill-Herts will yet lw flooded,
nnd so made fertile. DoEesseps say It
can bu done, nud hu who planned thu Suez
canal, which marries thu Hed sea and thu
Mediterranean, knows what hu is taking
nbout.
Thu human race Is so multiplied thnt It
must linvu moru cultivated land, and the
world must abolish Its desert. Eight hun
dred millions of thu human raco aru now
living on lands not blessed with rains, but
dependent in. Irrigation, and wo want by
Irrigation to maku room for eight hundred
millions mote. Dy Irrigation tho prophecy
will be fulfilled, und "thu desert will blos
som ns thu rose." So from Egypt tho bur
den of sand will bo lifted.
THE UUIIUKN OF MOHAMMEDANISM.
Another buult-u of Egypt to Iki lifted Is
tho burden of Mohammedanism, although
theru are some good thinks about that re
llglou. It disciples must al ways wash be
(ore they pray, nud thnt I II vo times n
day. A commendable graco I cleanliness.
Strong drluk Is positively forbidden by
Mohammedanism, and though some may
have seen a drunken .Mohammedan, I never
saw one. It is a religion of sobriety. Then
thuy nro uot ashamed of their devotions.
When thu call for prayer is sounded from
thu minarets tho Mohammedan Immedi
ately unrolls thu rug ou thu ground and
falls ou hi knees, and crowd of spectator
arc to him no embarrassment reproof to
many a Christian who omit hi prayer if
peoplu are looking.
Dut Mohammedanism, witli its polyg
amy, blight everything It touches, Moham
med, Its founder, had four wives, and his
follower aru the enemies of good woman
hood. Mohammedanism puu tt curse ou
alt Egypt, ami by setting up a sinful Arab
I higher than thu immaculutu Christ, i in
overwhelming blasphemy. May God help
thu bmvuuud consecrated missionaries who
are spending their live iu combating it .
Dut before 1 forget it I must put more
emphasis upon the fact that tho last out
rugu that resulted iu thu liberation of the
Hebrews was their being compelled to
I make bricks without straw. That was the
last straw that broke tho camel' back.
God would-ullowthu despotism against his
people to go no further Making bricks
without straw!
THK OlTItKSSION STILL GOES ON.
That oppression still goes ou. Demand
of your wife npproprlatu wardrobe and
t bountiful table without providing the
means necessary brick without straw.
j Cities demanding In the public school
faithful and successful Instruction with
out giving thu teacher competent liveli
hood bricks without straw. United Stated
government demnudlng of senator und
congressmen at Washington full attend
Aticu to the Interest df thu people, but on
compensation which may have douu well
enough when twenty-five cent went as
fsr as u dollar now, hut In these times not
siilllcli-ut to preserve their lulluencu and
respectability bricks without straw.
In many part of the laud churches de
manding of pastors vigorous sermons und
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sanctified Ciceros ou four hundred dollars
a year. Drlcks without straw. That Is
onu reason why theru nro so many poor
bricks. Iu all departments, bricks not
even or bricks that crumblu or bricks that
nro not bricks at all. Work adequately
paid for Is worth moru than work tut paid
for. Mure straw and then better brick.
Dut Iu nil d 'piirtuieut theru are Pha
raohs; sometimes Capital n Pharaoh nud
sometime Lalr a Pharaoh. When Cap
ital prospers, and make large percentage
on It Investment, und declines to consider
tho needs of tho operatives, und treats them
a so many human machines their nerve
no moru than thu bands on the factory
wheel then Capital Is a Pharaoh, On the
other hand, when workmen, uot regarding
thu anxieties and business struggles of tho
firm employing them, and atu time when
the linn are doing their best to meet an Im
portant contract and need all hand busy
to accomplish It, at such a tlmo to have hi
emploiees maku a strike and put their em
ploye) Into extreme perplexity unit severe
loss then lyibor becomes a Phnraoh ofjthc
worst oppression, nud must look out fur
thu Judgments of God,
TIIEIIK AUK STILL I'llAltAOItfl.
When In December oflBMi.nt thu Museum
nt Hoiilnc, Egypt, I looked at thu mum
mies of thu old Pharaoh, thu very mis
creant who dlabollzed centuries, nml 1
saw their teeth nud hair nml finger nails
and thu flesh drawn tight over their cheek
liout's, thu sarcophagi of these dead
monarch shin by side, and I was no fasci
nated I could only with difficulty get away
from the spot, I was not looking upon the
last of thu Pharaohs. All over thu world
old merchant playing thu Pharaoh over
voting merchants, old lawyer playing thu
Pharaoh over young lawyer, old doctors
playing the Pharaoh over young doctors,
old artist playing thu Pharaoh over young
artists, old minister playing thu Pharaoh
over young ministers.
I-t all oppressor whether In homes, In
churches, In stores, In offices, In factories,
In social life or political lire, In private lifu
or public llfu know that God hate oppres
sor, and they will all comu to grief heru
or hereafter. Pharaoh thought hu did a
line thing, u cunning thing, a decisive thing
when for thu complutu extinction of thu
Hubruw In Egypt hu ordered all thu He
brew boys massacred, but ho did not find
it so line a thing when hi own first born
that night of thu destroying angel drop
ped dead on thu mosaic floor at thu foot of
thu porphyry pillar of thu palace. Let nil
thu Pharaohs taku warning. Some of the
worst of them are ou a small scale in
household, ns when a man, because his
arm I strong and his voice loud, doml
nates his poor wife Into u domestic shivery.
Theru are thousands of such cases where
thu wlfu I u lifetime serf, heroplnloii disre
garded, her tastes Insulted, ami her exist
ence a wretchedness, though thu world
may uot know it. It Is n Pharaoh thatslts
at thu head of that table, and a Pharaoh
that tyrannizes that homo. Theru I no
moru abhorrent Pharaoh than n domestic
I Pharaoh. Theru are thousands of women
to whom death Is passage" from Egypt to
1 Canaan, because thuy get rid of n cruel
! taskmaster. What an accursed monster Is
that man who keeps bis wlfu In dread
t nbout family expenses, and must Iki can
j tlous how she Introduce an article of mil
linery or womanly wardrobe without hu-
miliailng consultation or nnolouv.
Who 1 that man acting not For six
months In ordur to win that woman'
heart husent heruvery fuw day a bouquet
wound with white ribbon nml an endear
ing couplet, nnd took her to concerts and
theater, nnd helped bur Into carriages as
though hIiu weru u princes, and run across
tho room to pick tip her pocket handker
chief with thu speed of an antelope, and on
thu mnrringu day promised all that the
liturgy required, saying "I willl" with nu
emphasis that excited thu admiration of
all spectators. Dut now hu begrudges her
two cent for a postage stamp, and won
der why sho rides across Drooklyu bridge
when the foot passagu cost nothing.
Hu think now shu is awful plain, nud hu
net llku thuduvll, whilu hu thunders out:
"Whero did you get thnt now hat fromf
Thnt' where my money goes. Where's
my brenkfnstf Do you call that coffee?
Didn't I tell you to suwon that buttonf
Want to seu your mother, do youf You
are nlwnys going to seu your mother!
What aru you whimpering about! Hurry
up now nud get my slipper! Wheru's tho
newspnperf" Tho tone, thu look, thu im
patience the cruelty of n Pharaoh. That
Is what gives so many women n cowed
I down look. Phnrnohl you had better tuko
your Iron heel oil" that woman's neck oi
I God will help you remove your heel,
i Shu say nothing. For tho sako of avoid
I lug a scandal shu keeps silent, but her tear
I nud wrongs huve gouu Into u record that
i you will hnvo to meet as certainly ns Phn
raoh hud to meet hall und lightning and
I darkness and tho death angel. God never
i yetgnvu to anj man thu right to tyrannize.
n woman, and what a sneak you aru to take
I advantage of tho marriage vow, and bo
causu shu cannot help herself, and under
! thu shelter of your own home out-Pharaoh
thu Egyptian oppressor. There I some
thing awfully wrong In a household where
thu woman Is uot considered of as much
Impnrtauco a thu niaij. No room In thl
world for any moru Pharaohs!
SIN HAS 1IEKN OOlt TASKMASTER
Dut It roll over on mo witli great power
tho thought that wo have nil been slaves
down in Egypt, and sin has been our tusk
master, and again and again wu have felt
Its lush. Dut Christ has Ihl-uii our Moses
to lead us out of bandage, and wo aru for
ever free. Tho Hed sea of a Saviour's hiio
rlllcu roll deep and wldu lietweeu us and
our aforetime bondage, and though there
may Iw deserts yet for u to cross, wu nre
on tho way to tho Promised Land. Thanks
bo unto God for thl emancipating Gospel!
Como up out of Egypt all yu who aru yet
enslaved. What Christ did for us he will
do for you. "Exodusl" I tho word. Ex
odusl Instead of thu brick kilns of Egypt
como into thu empurpled vineyards of God,
whero one cluster of grapes Is bigger than
thu ouo that thu spies brought to thu Is
raelites by the Drook Eshcol, though that
cluster was ho largo that It wns borno "be
tween two upon a stair."
Welcome all by sin oppressed.
Welcome to his siicred rest;
Xothluu brought him from above.
Nothing but redeeming love.
A ClinrvliicoliiK (irnlioir.
Some little amusement wns created in
onu of thu leading Presbyterian churchen
of this city by thu antics of a grasshopper,
which rodu triumphantly into church
perched upon tho shoulder of n staid nnd
worthy member. A tho gentleman sat
down thu insect, to avoid being crushed,
hopped up nearer his coat collar, aud at
once engaged tho attention of two little
girls who were sitting iu tlio pew behind,
and wlio found thu hopper Infinitely moru
lively tlmu anything from thu pulpit.
Several quiet but InelTectuul attempts to
ratch tho little fellow from tlio country re
sulted lu uinklug him skip twice, once Into
the l-ice nt thu buck of thu neck of a spin
ner, who would have shrieked had she
known It, and once somewhero out of
tight. His reappearance im tntiltfiial for
hearty and irrepressible glgglu on tho
uart nf thu little girls, for he clung to thu
rouser of the elder, who took up the col
ectlou, rldii.g the whole length of thu
.-litirch tw Ice, nud then sought safety Iu the
lowers grouped about thu pulpit. Koches
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