AHBWEOLB
Dr. Talmnge Acts as a
Footman
tKD CLEARS THE WAY TOWARD
SALVATION.
th Ehqaeut Brooulyi Divine
PrHCu.8 of Those Jlistorls
Day When the Jw w.is
Oppressed in Kgypt.
The vast throng which assembled to
ear Dr. Tri-lmago, the famous Brooklyn
.readier, filled , the tabornacle to " an
verflowlng point and many were turned
.way. The subject of tho sermon was
, 'Bricks without straw," it being a on
Inuation of the series on the confirma-
ion of Holy Scripture which Dr. Tal-
- jiadge found in his journey from the
'yramlds to the Acropolis. IItoxt
vas Isaiah .xlx, 1. "The Harden of
4gypt ' The eloquent preacher said:
What is all this excitement about in
.he streets of Cairo, Egypt, this Decom
lor morning In 1889? Stand back. We
tear loud voices and see the crowds of
people retreating to the sides of 'the
.treot The excitement of , others bo
tome our own excitement. Footmen
-.orae in sight They have a rod In the
land and tasseled cap on head, and tlioir
' trnis and feet aro bare. Their garb is
ilack to the waist, oxcept as threaded
vlth gold, and the rc?t is white. They
jre clearing the way for an official di mili
ary in a chariot or carriage. They are
wlft, and sometimes run thirty or forty
lilies at a stretch in front of an equip.
,ge. ' Make way! They aro tho fleet
est men on earth, but soon die, for tho
, luman-rraine was not maae ior sucn en
durance. ....
I asked all around me who tho man
n the carriage was, but no one seemed
" k know. Yet as I fell back with tho rest
iO tho wall I said, This is the old custom
found all up and down tho Bible, foot
non running beforo the rulers, Cemand
ng obeisance, as in Geucsis before Jo
leph's char'ot the people were com-nauded,-
"Bow the knee," and as I see
tho swift '.feet of the men followed by
ho swift fftet of the horses, how thoso
' .ld words of Jeremiah rushed through
iy mind, "If thou bast run with the
'oottnon and they have wearied thee, how
tanst thou contend with horses?"
UK 8EI1VE3 AS A FOOTMAN.
Iow, my hearers, in this course of
. sermons I am only serving you as foot-
nan, and eleariug the way for your
:oming Into the wonders of Egyptology,
i subject that I would have you study
' !ar beyond anything that can be said In
ihe brevity of - pulpit utterance. Two
iiiudrod and eighty-uino times docs tho
lilblo refer to Egypt and Egyptians.
N'o wonder,! for Egypt was tho mother
f nations. Egypt, tho mother of Greece;
ircocethe mother of Romo; Roino, tho
notbor of England; Eugiand, the mother
f our own land. According to that,
Sgypt is our great-grcat-grandmother.
On other Sabbaths I left you studying .
vhat thoy must have boon Jn tlioir glory;
.he Hypostyle hall of Karnactno archi-
ctural miracles at Luxor, the Colonnade
f Horemheb, the cemeteries of Mem
phis, the aJue . of a kingdom in one
udnument, the Sphinx, which with lips
if atone speaks loud enough to be heard
icross the centuries, Ileliopolis and
to&a, tho conundrum of archaeologists,
iiut all that extravagance, of palaco
nd temple and monument was the cause
)f an oppression high as heaven and
. laep as hell. Tho weight of those blocks
f . stone, heavier than any modern
' Machinery could lift, camo down upo
he IJebrow slaves, and their blood
" nixed tho mortar for tho trowels.
" -Wo saw again and again on and along
tho Nile a boss workman roughly smite a
"a no rare occurrence to see long lines of
non under heavy burdens passing by
taskmasters at short distances, lashing
" ihem as they go by into greater speed,
ind then these workmen, exhausted with
jho Masting heats of the day, lying down
; aron tho baro ground, suddenly chilled
with the night air, crying out in prayer:
"Ya, Allah!" "Ya, Allah!" which means
0 -God! O Uod! But what must havo
"jocn the olden times cruelty shown by
the Egyptians toward their .Israeli tish
ilaves is indicated by a picture in tho
Itnni-lfassan tombs, whom n man l lmM
lown on his face by two men and an
Jthor holds up the victim's font while the
sfficlals beat tho bare back of the victim,
ivery stroke, I hare no doubt, fetching
-.tho blood. ,
BOW THEY COUU) AFFORD IT.
Now you see how the Pharaohs could
ifford to build such costly works. It
Vj ntn "r. rit ) I n fF fni" tr o rraa nAiliintt
50 1 the tears and blood of the toilers,
and tears and blood aro a cheap drinlc
tor devils. "Bricks without straw" may
-not suggest so much hardship until you
know that tho bricks were usually made
with 'crushed straw," straw crushed by
the feet of the oxen in the threshing,
and, this crushod straw denied to the
workmen, they had to pick up here and
there a piece ot stubble or gather rushes
from theNratersido. This story of the
Bible is confirmed by the fact that many
of tho brick walls of Ejpt have on the
lower layers brick made with straw, but
tho higher layers of brick made out of
rough straw or rushes from tho river
' bank, the truth of the book of Exodus
thus written In tho brick walls discov
ered by tho modern explorers.
That governmental outrage has al
ways beens characteristic of Egyptian
rulers. Taxation to the point of starva
tion was tho Egyptian rule in tho Biblo
times as well as it Is in our own tlmo.
A modern traveler gives tho figures con
scrniug the cultivation of seventeen
acres, the value of the yield of the field
stated In plasters:
Produce ...... ,...1,909
LvpeiibCS 4, W.i)
Clear produce fcusjj
I'.txes .491
Amnitit cleared by tbe farmer.... SI",
Or, a-) my authority declares, setH
per cent of what the Egyptian farmei
makes is paid for taxes to the govern
ment. Now, that Is not so much taxa
tion as assassination. What think yon
of that, you who groan under heavy
taxes in America? I have heard that ir
Egypt the working people have a song
like this, "They starve us, they marvt
us, they beat us, they beat us; but there
Js so mo one above, there's sorao on
.above, who will punish them we,l, whe
will punish them well." But seventy
per cent of government-tax In Egypt li
a mercy as. com pared to what the He
brew slaves suffered there fn Blble limes.
They got nothing but food hardly fit foi
a dog, and their clothing was of one rag.
and their roof a burniufr sky by day and
the stars of heaven by night v
You say, "Why did they stand it?''
Boca use they had to stand it You ec
along back In the world's twilight tber
was a famine In Canaan, and old Jacob
and his sons came into Egypt for bread.
The old man's boy, "Joseph, was prim
minister, aud Joseph I suppose th
father and tho brothers called him Joe,
for It does not make any difference how
much a boy is advanced In worldly suc
cess, his father and brothers and sistert
always call him by the same name iha',
ho was called by when two years 1d
Joseph, by Pharaoh's permission gave It
his family, who bad Just arrived. th
richest part of Egypt, the Westchcstet
farms or the. Lancaster farms of the an
cients. Jacob's descendants rapidly mul
tiplied. After awhile Egypt took a turn a
famine, and those descendants of Jccob,
the Israelites, came to a great storehous
which Joseph had "provided, and pale
in money for corn. But after awhile th
money gave out and then they paid ir
cattle. After awhile the cattle were al
in possession of the government and ihet
the Hebrews bought corn from tho"g"irv
eminent by surrendering themselves at
slaves.
BEOrNNINQ OF SLAVERY I3T KOYPT.
Then began slavery in Egypt - Th
government owned all the Hebrew
And let modern lunatics who, in Amor
ica, proposo handing over telegrapt
companies and railroads and other thingi
to be run by government see the folly o:
letting government get its hand on every
thing. I would rather trust the people
than any government the United State.1
ever had or will 1 have. Woe worth tin
day when legislators and-congresses anc
administrations get possession of- any
thing more than it is necessary for then
.to have.
That would be the revival in this land
of that old Egyptian tyranny for whicr
God has never had anything but red ho'
thunderbolts. But through such un
wise processes Israel was enslaved it
Egypt, and the long lino of agonies bo
gan all up and down the Nile. Heavloi
and sharper fell the lash, hungrier anc
gastlier grew the workmen, louder an(
longer went up the prayer, until tjirei
millions of tho enslaved were crying
"Ya, Allah! Ya, Allah!" O God! C
God!
Where was help to come from?
Not
tho throne, Pharaoh sat upon that No'
the army, Pharaoh's officers coinmaudcc
that Not surrounding stations.
Pharaoh's threat made them all tremble
Noj, the gdds Ammon and Ostris or th
goddess Isis,for Pharaoh built their tem
ples out of the groans of this diabolica
servitude. But one hot day the ptln-esi
Thonoris, the daughter of Pharaoh,
while in her bathing house on the banki
of the Nile, lias word brought her tha
there is a baby afloat on tho rlvor in t
cradle made out of big loaves.
Of course there is excitement all torr
up and down the banks, for an ordinar;
baby in an ordinary cradle attract)
smiling attention, but an infant in 1
cradle of papyrus rocking on a rive
arouses not only admiration, bu'
curiosity. Who made' that boat? Wh
made it water tight with bltument? Whc
launched it? Reckless of the croqpdiles
who lay .basking themselves in the sun.
tho maidens wade in and snatch up th
child, and first one carries him aud tliot
another carries him. and all the way uj
the bank he runs a gauntlet of caresses
till Thonoris rushes out of the bathlnf
house and says! ''Beautiful foundling, 1
will adopt you as my own. You shai
yet wear the Fgvptlan crown r.nd sit or
the Egyptian throne." "
No! No! No! He is to be the emanci
pator of the Hebrews. Tell It in all th
brick kilns. Tell it among all thost
who are writhing under tho iash. tell li
among all the castles of Memphis and
Ileliopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Before
him a sea will part On a mountain top.
alone, this ono will receive from th
Almighty a law that is to be the founda
tion of all good law while the world
lasts. JWlien he is dead, God will com
-down on Nebo and alone bury him, no
manor women or angel
worthy to at-
tend the obsequies.
The child grows np and goes out and
studies the horrors of Egyptian oppres
sion and suppresses his indignation, fot
the right time has not como, although
once for a minute he let fly, and when
he saw a taskmaster put the whip on
the back of a workman who was doing
his best, and heard the poor follow cry
and saw the blood spurt, Moses doublec
up his fist and struck htm on the tem
ple till tho cruel villain rollod over ir'
the sand exanimate ana never swun
the lash again.' Served blm right!
OOD WA8 OX HIS SIDE."
But, Moses, are you going to under
take tho impossibilities? You feel' thai,
you are going to free the Hebrews from
bondage. But whore .is your army;
Where Is your navy? Not a sword have
yon, not a spear, not a chariot, not a
horse. Ah! God was on his side, and he
has an army of his own. The snow-,
storms are on God's side; witness the
snowbanks in which the French army o.
invasion were boried on their way bai.-V
from Moscow. Tho rain (sou his side: -witness
the 18th of June at Waterloo,
when the tempest so saturated the road
that the attack could not be -made 011
Wellington's forces until eleven o'clock,
and he was strong enough to hold ou
until re-enforcements arrived.
Had, that battle been opened at flvt I
.0' click iu tho morning instead of al :
! tand miles wide. But ail those lcs"rli
will yet be flooded, and so made fertile
De Lesseps says it can bo done, and h
who planned the Sues canal, which mar,
rles tho Red Sea and tho Mediterranean,
konws what he Is talking about.
The human race is so multiplied that
it must havo more cultivated laud, nnj
the world must abolish Its 'desnrta.'
Eight hundred millions of the human
race are now living on lands not Mo six.'
' wlty rains, bul depeudout on irriga
tion,' but wo want by tirigatior,
to mafio room for eight hundred mil'luiu'
more. By Irrigation the prophecy will
be fulfilled, and "ttfe dosort will blotiso n
as the rose." So from Egypt tho burton
of sand will be lifted.
illR BVRPKV OF MOIIAMMKDAKIf M.
Another burden of Egypt tobo lifto?
Is the burdon, of Mohammedanism, al
though there aro some good things about
that religion. Its disciples must al.vr.yf,
wash before thoy pray, and that is live
times a day. A comtnondable grace li
cleanliness. Strong driuk Is positively
forbidden , by Mohammedanism, ami.
though some may have seen a drunki-i:
Mohammedan, I never saw one.. It i :
religion (.f sobriety. - Then .they aro no;
ashamed of their devotions. When th
call for prayers is sounded from th
minarets the Mohammedan Immediate!;
anrolls the rug on the ground and fall
n his knees, and crowds of spectator.
are to him -no embarrassment reproot
to many a Christian who omits his pray
srs if people are looking. ..
But Mohammedanism, with its polyg- '
amy, blights everything it touches. Mo
hammed, its founder, had four wives '
ind his followers are the enemies of goo-:
wemanhood. Mohammedanism puts 't;
cures on all Egypt, and by setting up
iluful Arab higher than the ,immacuiat
Cairist is an overwhelming blasplievny
May God help the brave and consetratec
missionaries who aro spending their livei
In combating It
But bffore I forget it I must put tnois
emphasis upon tho fact that the list out
rage that resulted In the liberation 0:
the Hebrews was their being coin pollei
to make -bricks without straw. Tha'
was the last straw that broke the camel'
back. God would allow the despotism
against his people to go no farther. MaU
lng bricks without straw!
THE OPPIIESSION BTILI. GOES OX.
That oppression still goes on. Demanc ,
of your wife appropriate wardrobe anc
bountiful table without providing tlx
means necessary bricks without straw
Cities demanding In the public schoo
faithful and successful instruction wl;h
nnt giving the teachers competent liveli
hood bricks without straw. -.United
States -government demanding of sen
ators and congressmen at Washingtor.
full attendance to the interest of the
peoplo, but on compensation which niaj
have done well enough when twenty-tm
ennts went as far as a dollar now, but it
theso times not sufficient to preservi
their influence and respectability brlcici
without straw.
In many parts of the land churches de
manding of pastors vigorous sbrmoni
and sympathetic service on starvation'
salary; sanctified Ciceros ou four hun
dred dollars a year. Bricks without
straw. That Is one reason why there
are so many poor bricks.- In all de
partments, bricks not even or bricks
that crumble or bricks that aro not
bricks at all. Work adequately pal I fui
is worth more than work not paid for.
More straw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are
Pharaoh's; sometimes Capital a Pharaot
nnd sometimes Labor a Pharaoh. Then
Capital prospers, apd makes7 large per
centage on its fn vestment, and decline
to consider the needs of the 'epratives
and treats them as so many bumanyrn.v
chines their nerves no more than th.
bands on the factory wheel then Capi
tal is a Pharaoh. On the other hand,
when workmen, not regarding thi
anxieties and business struggles of tb
firm employing them, and at a time when
the firm are doing their best to moot at
Important contract and need all hncU
busy to accomplish it, at such a time U
have his' employees make a strike ami
put their employers inter extromo per
plexity and severe loss thou labor be
comes a Pharaoh of -tho worst oppres
sion, and must look out for tho juJg
ment of God.
TlifcKK ABK STILT. riTARAOIIS.
When in December of 1833, at th
Museum of Boulac, Egypt. I looked &t
the mummies of tho old Pharaohi, tht
very miscreants who diaboli.ed centuries,
and I saw their teeth and hair and Hiia '
nails and the flesh drawn tlghtover tin!
cheek bones, the sarcophagi of th?M
dead monarchs side by side, aud 1 wn c
fascinated I could only with difficulty g '
away from the spot, I was not I00M1.9
upon the last of the Pharaohs. A!) ovr
'ho world old merchants playing tl
Pharaoh over young merchants, old law
yors playing tne rnaraoh over younv
lawyera, old doctors playing the Pharaol.
over young doctors, old artists pjayinjt
tho Pharaoh over young artists, old min
isters playing the Pharaoh over your.
ministers. s
Let all rppressors whether In hornet-,
In churches, in offices, in" factories, it
social life or political life, In private lift
or public life know that God hates op
pressors, and they will alt come to gri. t .
here or hereafter. Pharaoh thought (
did a fine thing, a cunning thing, a de
cisive thing whon for tho complete ex
Unction of the Hebrews In Egypt ho 01
Jerod all tho Hebrew boys massacre:',
but he did not find it so fine a th!:-
when his own first born that uight of thi
destroying angel dropped dead on the
mosaic floor at the foot of tho porphyt y .
pillar of tho palace. Let al! the I'ha-.v
ohs take warning. Some of tha , worst
of them are on a small scale in houu
holds, as when a man, because his am
is strong and his voice loud, doml'niu.i
bis poor wife Into domestic slavery.
There are thousands of such cajet
where the 'wife is a lifetime serf, t u
opinion disregarded, her tastes Insult 0.
and her existence a wretchedness, though
tho world may not know it It J
Pharaoh that sits at tho hoad of t 'j at
table, and a Pharaoh that tyrannize
that home. There Is no more sbhorri-ni
Pharaoh thau a domestic l'ha:a.h.
Ieven the destiny of Europe would have
been turned the wrong way. Tho heavy
rain decided everything. So also are Uie
winds and waves on God's side. . Witness
the Armada with one hundred and lifty
ships and twenty-six "hundred auJtirvy
ituns and eight thousand sai'ors and
twenty thousand soldiers Sent, out by
Philip II of Spain to conquer Eugiand.
What became of those men ard that
chipping? Ask the wind and the waves
all along the English and Irish coasts.
Tho men and the .ships all wrecked or
Jrowncd or scattered. So I "expect that
Moses will bo helped In rescuing tho
Israelites by a ffpeclal weaponry. To tho
Egyptians tho Nile was a deity. It was
the finest ttatural beverage of all "the
M.rth. . Wo have no such love for the
Hudson, and Germans have no such love
: for the Rhine, and Russians havo no
! iiich lovofor the Volga as the Egyptians
have lovo for the Nile.
But one day, when Pharaoh comes ;
jown to this river, Moses takes a stick
and whips the waters, and thoy turn luto
. Ihe gore of a slaughter house, aud
.through the sluices and fish ponds 4h
Incarnadined liquid backs up into the
land and the malador whelms everything
from mud hovel to throne room. Then
came tho frogs, with horrible croak, al!
ever everything. Thon this people,
cleanly almost to fastidiousness, were in-
fostod with insects that belong to the
filthy and unkempt, and the air buzzed
and buzzed with lliei, and then the dis
temper started cows to bellowing and
'horses to neighing, and canaels to groan
ing, as they rolled over and expired.
Aud then boilsTono of which will put :
a man lrvwrctchedness, canie lri clusters
from tho lop of tho head to the sqIo of
tho foot And then the clouds droppc.l
hail and lightnirg.V -And then locusts
came in, swarms of them, worse than tho
grasshoppers ever were in Kansas, and
then .darkness dropped for three dajs so
that tho people could not see their hand
beforo their face, great surges of mid-"
night covering them. And last of all,
on the night of the 18th of April, about
eighteen hundred years before Christ,
theDestroying Angel sweeps past and
hear It "all night long, the flap! flap!
flap! of his wings until Egypt rolled on
a great hearse, tho eldest child dead it.
every Egyptian homo. The eldest son r
of Pharaoh expired that night in tha
palace and all along the8treol3 of Mera
vphis and Ileliopolis, and all up and dow n
the Nile there was a funeral wall that i
would have rent the fold of tho un
natural darkness If it had not been im
penetrable. . " .. I
' now is Israel's wiajth. j
" The Israelitlsh homes, however, were
untouched. But these homes were full
of preparation, for now is your chance,
'O jo wronged Hebrows! Snatch up
'what pieces of food you can and. to the
desert! Its simoons are better than the
bondage you have suffered. Its scor-
plons will' not sting so sharply as tho
wrongs that have stung you all your
lives. Away! Tho man who was cra
dled In the basket of papyrus on the
NHo will lead you. Up! Up! This is
'ho night of your rescue. They gathor
igether at a. signal Alexander's
armies and all tho armies of olden time -
were led by torches on high poles, great
crosts of fire; and , tho Lord Almighty
kindles a torch not held . by human-
, hands but by omnipotent hand.
Not made out of straw or oil, bul
kindled out off the atmosphere, mob
a torch as Ihe world never saw before
and never, wiir see again, It reacheJ
from the earth unto the heaven, a pillar
of fire, that-pillar practically saying
"This way! March this way!" Ou that
supernatural flambeau more than a mil
. Hon refugees set their eyes. .. - Mose
and Aaron lead on. Then come tin
families of Israel. : Then come th
herds and flocks moviug on across the
sands to what Is the beach of waters
now called Bahr-el-Kulzum, but called
in the Bible the Red sea. And when .
dipped my hands in its blue waters, th
heroics, of the Mosiac passage rolled ovui
me. ; ' . '
CM Thic 11KD SEA'S SHORE.
After three days' march tlie Israelitis-rs
refugees encamped for the night on the
banks of the Red sea. As the shadow
begin to fall, in tho distance is seen the
host of Pharabh In pursuit. There wor-
six hundred finest war chariots, followed
by common chariots, rolling at full spooc.
And the gljttcrin of the wheels and the
curse of Infuriated Egyptians" came
down with tho darkness. ' But the lord :
openod the crystal gates of Bahr-el-Kul-
zum and the enslaved Israelites passed
into liberty, and then the crystal gates ol
mo sea ronea buus againsi ine ligyptlau'
pursuers. .
It was about two o'clock in the morn,
; ing when the interlocked axle trees of tae
.Egyptian chariots could not move, ac
inch either way. But the Red sea un
hitched tho horses and unhclmeted tl.
warriors, and left the proud host, a wreck
. on the Arabian sands. Then two choruses
arose and Mososlodthe men in one, and
Miriam led tho women In the other, and
the women beat tlmo " with their feet
Tho record says: A11 the women wen!
-out after her willi timbrels and will,
daneos. And Miriam answered them.
SIng ye to tho Lord, for bo halt
triumphed gloriously; tho horo and hit
-rider . hath he thrown Into the sea.'
What a thrilling story of endurance am!
victory. v
The greatest triumph of IlandcPi
genius was shown in his immortal dra
matie oratorio, "Israel Jn Egypt." II
had given to the world the oratorio rj
'Esther "and Deborah," and Atheliah
but reserved for his mightiest exertlu:,
at the full height of his powers tho m.ir
tshaling of all musical instruments to the
description in harmony of the scene? )
which we this morning dwell. lie gav
twenty-seven days to this production
with its twenty-eight choruses, enthrall
ing his own time and all aftortimo witt
his "Israel in Egypt"
So the burden of oppression was lifted
but another burden of Egypt is made n't
of deserts. Indeed, Africa is 'a gr'oa
continent for" dc-scrts, Libyan desert
Sahara desert, deserts here aud then .
and yonder, condemning vast regions o .
Africa to barrenness, one of the desert
thico thousand miles long and a thuu 1
There aro thousands of women to whom
daath .Is passage from Egypt to Canaan,
bocauso thoy get rid of a cruel task
master. Whatiwr-accused ' monster Is
that man who' koops his wlfo In-dread
about family, expenses,; and . must be
cautious, bow Ishe introduces an article
of mfllinery 'or womanly wardrobe with-
out humiliating consultation or aputegr.
Who Is that mad acting so?.' For sli
mouths In order to win that woman'
..heart hOa sent her every few days a7
bouquet wound with whito ribbon and
an endearing couplet, aud : took her ia
concerts and theatres, and helped her
into carriages as though she were . a
princess, aud ran across tho room to.plck
up her pocket handkerchief with the
' spoed of an antelope. aud on the marri
age day promised all that the Uturgy re
quired, saying "I will!" with an emphasis .
that excited the admiration of ail specta
tors. But now he bogrndgos her twe
cents for a postage stamp, and wonders
why, she rides across' Brooklyn bridge
when the foot passage costs nothing.
Ito thinks now sho is awful plain, and
ho acts like the devil, while ho thunder
out: "Whore did you get that hat from?
That's where my monoy goes. Where's
J wi wwfiiaev. ; ; u;i vu-a oww x,vmv. ,. . A lllliurrilllll-., rtVUVMivrUUt agUlUlUUU
Didn't I tell you to bow on that button? tions are lamentably deficient.' '' '
Want to eo your mother, do you? You Columbia College is trie richest institu
aro always going to see your mother! tlonof the kind in existencee.V" Its landed
hat aro you whimpering about? Hurry
up now and get my sllppors? : Whero'a
tho newspaper?" The tone, the look,
tho Impatience tho cruelty of a Pha
raoh. That is what glvos so many
women' a cowed 'down 1 iok. Pharaoh!
yon had better take your Iron hoel oil
that woman's neck or God will help you
remove your heel. . v '
She says nothing. For tho Bake of
avoiding a scandal she keeps silent, but
her tears and wrongs have gone into a,
record that you will havo to meet as cer
tainly as Pharaoh had to meet hail aud
lightning and darkness aud the death
angel. God never yet gave to any man
the right to tyrannize a woman, and
what a sneak you are to take advantuge
of the marriage vow, and .' bocttnxo she
cannot holp herself, aud under, the shel
ter of your own home out-Pharaoluthe
Egyptian oppressor. There is something
awfully wrong in a household where the
woman is not considered of as 'much im
portance as the man. No room in lit b
world for any more Pharaohs!
' 'ail IIAn'hKEM OVU TASK..! STKR. ..
But it rolls ovt-r on mo with great
power tho thought that, we have all beet,
(.laves down iu Egypt, aiyl sin has leet
our task 111 aster, and again and atralu wi
have seen its lash. But Christ has beet:
o
ur Moses to JeTtd us out of bondage.,
nd we are forever freer The Hod; sea
an
or a Saviour s sacrilico rolls ueep ane
wide botwecn us and our aforetime bond
age,iiud though thero may b deserts yc
for us to cross, we aro on the way to the.
Promised Land. Thanks be ualo God
- for this emancipating Gospel.!. ,
Come up out of Eirypt all who aro yot
enslaved. What Christ did for ns he will
do for you. " "Exodus !" is the , word.
Exodus! Instead of tho brick kilns ot
Egypt comelnto thcemourpled vineyards
of God, where one cluster of grapess
bigger than the one that the spies brought
lo-tho Israelites by the Brook. Eschol,
though that cluster was so large that
it was borne "between two upon a staff."
Welcome a'l by a n oppre ,sel,
Welcome to bissa-Tei rest;
No hing bro'.ight him from above,
Nothing but rodeeuiing love.
; The Toledo Commercial says: ' "Xhe
Farmors Alliance has adopted the plan
of excluding all newspaper ; reporters
from Its tnoutinps. That means death to
any organization of a .political : nature."
In the first place, the Farmers' Alliauco
is not a political organization, thoiuli it
is frequently confounded with the Peo
ple's party movement The Commercial
would lead readers to belie vo that no-vs-papers
always attack and try to ruin
Association organizations that refuse to
admit reporters to their meetlngsr-As a
rule, wb believe that the newspaper) aro
perfectly willing to concedo'to privato
DrganiV.atlons tho right to hold secret
meotingj.; . They do, -however unani
mously oppose star chamber sessions of
government ofiicials, whother miini('lial,
county, state or national. Ther bolii-ve,
and so do m.'.ny others not engaged in
the ncs business, that tho people ought
to know wbataltd how the public officers,
their servants, are doing. !
The defense which Senator Quay has
made to the charge of complication with
Defaulter Bardsley, is rather peculiar
lie admits tuat the flac simile certiflcito
ivhlch has boon published, Is correct ex
jept as to 'the date. . This he charges is
1 forgery. It would soera to mako very
ilttlo difference whether tha cimcir. u
atod October or November. . The time
tt tho commission of a criirrs has littie to
lo with the crime. What the peoplo
rould like to know Is what business ro
iation existed botweon Bardsley: and
Quay about the time this certificate pass-
d botweon them. . Bardsley was in vury
tittd business at that timo. This' has
ouen proved in a court of justice. Tho
lucstion is, what business was Mr. Quay
lu at that time?.
The. East street ronpor shops in
Springfield have boon purchased by. a
Cincinnati syndicate for 200,000, and It
will begin at onco a general manufac
turing business," About tho first thing
the new company does will bo probably
to take down tho opprobrious notlco
that has hung over the big door for a
number of years, to the effoct" that no
uulon labor shal be employed In that
shop. " - v. '
If Iho governors of other states ap
point farmors of intelligence to tho Far
mers' National convention next month,
as Governor Campbell has dono. thero
will bo no ridiculously absurd resolutions
sdoptod by that body. Tho farmers have
little to fear more than bad leadership
tn their present battle.
The Cleveland Press says: "A dollar
that will buy asmuch'as any other dollar
s not; 'short,., nor 'degraded,' nor 'dis
honest,' nor 'inflated.' " That itrue,
hut a dollar that is likely at any time to
become any or all of these cannot bo
laid lo bo above suspicion.
EDUCATIONAL..
- It costs the teachers of Kansas (200,000
ft year to attend the normal institutes.
There are 230 normal schools, with an
nttondance of . 60,000 students, in the
United States. . , " : '.
The Kansas Agricultural College library
contains 11,000 volumes. For lack, of
room about 2,000 volumes are practically
inaccessible to the students.
, In the past 12 years the number of stu
dents in Chicago Theological .Seminary
(Congregational) has increased from 4) to
107 ; and tfie faculty from six to 14.
, In America we have 12,000,000 children
enrolled in the public shools alone. - Our
publio schools require 347,292 teachers,
and cost annually $122,455,252 or did
two years ago.
' There is a falling off in the number of
young men entering the ministry of Eng
land, and it is said in explanation J.hat
the intellectual movement in the uni-
Tersities is unfriendly to the clerical pro-
fession.- . . -. . ', '
; Pennsylvania is to have a compulsory
educational law, but difficulty will be ex
perienced inputting it into full effect, for
in various parts of, the State, especially
cstate'includes about 20 acres of the' best
part of New York city the value being
now $10,000,000, with a prospect of
doubling during the next decade. " -
Coeducation has been in Jerce -at tha
Knn.uis TJniveraity for 25 years, and there
has never lwen"even a suspicion of scan
dal among the students. As for hazing
nud other forms of college ruffianism, it
in absolutely unknown. Kansas City
Star,
The Oxford Un; versity infcome Amount
ed to 65,000 last year, of which 30,000
came from fees and other internal
eerviees, degree fees alone coming to just
10,000. The university draws about
10,000 from various external sources,
13,000 from trust funds. 0,000 from the
c olleges, ami the profit from the Claren-
tlou press was 3,000.: It speaks well for
the administration of the university
property that," agency and management'
cost only; 250. Professors take about
rClO.CaO, university officers 5,000, ex
miners .",000, and readers 2,500.. Tho
Bodleian cost ,5i , the museum 4,300,
the Taylor institution 2,000, and the bo
tanical gardtMis, 1,100, while 6,000
vent in varhftis intt-rnal expenses, and
interest and sinking funds in loans ac
counted for .i00. The university in-t-oma
does not now vary from-yearto
j ear, except-in quite small amounts,
yiis Taluo f lUo; kindergarten 1
as. a
means of prepa ra tiou to schools Of manual
training has received interesting recog
nition in the recently announced bequest
the lato'.Erboklyn - philanthropist,
Charles Pratt. L Among schools of ia
c'astiial training the Pratt Institute in
. Krooklyn has long been renowned -for its
manual features, pursued in connection
witlj, the studies ordinarily earned on in
e-hoolsr Its agricultural department,
unique in city institutions, has been a
jwculiar characteristic, and this will bo
r.trengthened by a bequest for large green
houses and for flower gardens, to pe cul
tivated by institute students. Ojher
courses have An equally practical bearing.
Recognizing that the principle which
governs the institute is the application
to the pupils of mora advanced years of
the -ideas on which the kindergarten i3
based , the- founder deterni ined upon a
logical development of bjs system and
left a bequest fur JJie purchase aud im
provement of the FroebeL Academy. The
kindergarten will be a "feeder" to tho
institute, and will .prepare pupils, by a
ystematic course of study and niunual
training in the Froebel. , , ':'
CURIOSITIES
OF THE NEWS.
A hog recen tly killed in ; Perry, Ga. ; .
had three complete sets of lungs.
Two Manitoba catfish have been caught,
each with"a child's hand in its stomach.
An Englishman has invented an appa
ratus through which, he declares, he can
see the soul leave the body; v; " -
A 40 year old peacock struts proudly
on the farm -of Adam Bohn, in Penn
township, Berks county. Pa.
A Newark museum manager adver
tises a four armed man. This must bo
the one-lhat was forewarned. . ;
A fine pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., fam
ily jumped for a rat, caught its neck rib
bon on a nail, and strangled to death. '
Thero i3 now a character known "as
Jack the dude kicker who inhabits St.
IjOuis. lie assaulted a dozen fancifully
dressed young men during a recent week.
-A cow at Petersburg, Va., while in
ecarch of her 'calf , entered a house and
climbed a flight of 16 stairs. Hearing her .
calf outside, she descended without
tix)uble.
An oak log that was. recently sawed in
Henry Maley's mill, near, Franklin, Ind.,
had a hollow in which 127 blacksnakea
had nested. The largest is said to- .have
measured 78 inches in length, s2 ''
An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minn.,
which spouts both oil and water, often
changes the program, and "sends out a
Etream of small minnows, which are
wholly unlike any known species of fish
found in that vicinity. "
The proportions of the human figuro
nre six times the leuyhof the right foot;
the face, from the highest point of the
forehead, where the hair begins, to tha
end of the chin is one-tenth of the' whole
Btature; Jho hand, 'from the wrist to the
end of the middle finger, is. also one
tenth of the total leight ; from the crown
to the nape of thq neck is"bne-tsvelf th of
thestatui. ; "v. ' . .
The step recently taken' by the crown
priucess of Greece of uniting-with th
Greek Church has received the sanction
of the Empress' Frederick and,,; Queen
Victoria, the mother and grandmother of
the princess. They hold that she should
belong to the chureh in -yhich her chil
dren will be reared. .
Black Hawk's tomahawk is in the pos-.
reawion of a scientific society at Lewiston.
III.