REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
sermon.
®hijeot: “Bricks Without Straw."
Text: “The Burden of Egypt” Isaiah
xix. 1.
What is all this excitement about in the
streets of Cairo, Egypt, this December
morning in 1880? Stand back! We hear
joud voices and see the crowds of people re.
treating to the sides of the street. The ex |
eitement of others becomes our own excite. |
ment. Footmen come in sight, They have |
a rod in the hand and tasseled cap on head,
and their arms and feet are bare, Their
garb is black to the waist,except as threaded
with gold, and the rest is white, They are
clearing the way for an official dignitary in
a chariot or carriage. They are swift, and
sometimes run thirty forty miles at
a stretch in front of an equipase. Make
way! They are the fleetest footed men on
earth, but soon die the human frame
was not made [or such endurance,
1 asked all around me woo the man in the
earriage was, but no one seemed to know,
Yet as I fell back with the rest to the wail [
said, This is the old custom found all up and
down the Bible, footwen running before the
rulers, demanding obeisance, as in Genesis
before Joseph's chariot the people ware come
manded, ‘Bow the knea;” and as 1 ses the
swift feet of the men followed by the swilt
feet of the horses, how those old words of
Jeremiah rushed through my mind, “If thou
bast run with the footmen and they have
wearied thee, how canst thou contend with
horses?’
Now, my hearers, in this course of sermons
1 am only serving you as footman, and clear.
ing the way for your coming into the
wonders of Egyptology, a subject that I
would have vou study far beyond anything |
that can be said in the brevity of pul |
pit utterance. Two bundred and eighiy-
nine times does the Bible refer to Egypt and
the Egyotians. No wonder, for Egypt was
the mother of nations. Egypt, the mother
of Greece: Greece, the mother of Rome;
Rowe, the mother of England, the mother |
of our land. According to tuat, Egypt is |
our great-great-grandmolner
On other Sabbaths I lefts you studying
what they must have been in their glory;
the Hypostyle ball of haruae, the archi-
tectural miracles of Luxor, the Colonnade
of Horemheb, the of Memphis,
the Sphinx, whica wi of stone sj
Jona enough t i the ©
ries, Heliog conandrun
arcbeol extravag
of palace nonument was
she cause as heaven
and of those
any On
wn ug n
{i mixed
or
for
camelaries
1 3ps
Hr
iis and 2
ook
i ois
gasen “igus
irs
NADH ANA AMA DNry mm, no
pome down nn
or angel worthy to atiend
man or woman
thea OLBPQN 0%,
Tha oh'ld grows un and goes out and stud.
jos the horrors of Egy tian oppression and
sup hiz indi:nation, for the Te 1%
time has not coma, aithon rh once fora min
ute he let iv, and when he saw a tascmas.or
put the whip on the back of a wor<man wan
was doing his best, and hear i the poor fel
low ery ani saw the blood spurt, Moses
doubled up his fist an! struck him on tue
temp & till t= oruel villain rolls over in the
sand exanimate ani never swung the lash
again, Served him rivht!
But, Moses, are you going to undertake
the impossibilities? You feel that you are
goinz to free the Hebrews from bondage,
But where is your army?! Where is your
navy? Nota sword, have you, not a spear,
Ahl Gol was
on his side, and He has an army of His own,
The snowstorms are on (Go V's side; witness
the snowbanks in which the French army of
fnvasion was buried on their wav back from
Moscow. The rain ison His side: witusss
the 18th of June at Waterloo, when the tem-
resses
1
could not be made on Wellington's
unt! e even o'clock, and he was stro
enouzh to told out until re<daforcenents a
rived
Had that battle been opened at five o'clock
in the morning instead of at eleven
tiny of Europe wonld have been turne i tna
wrung way. I'he heavy rain decided every.
thing. So also are the winds ant the waves
on God's side. Witness the Armada with
one hunired and fifty sauips ani twenty-six
hundred and fifty guns and eizht thousand
sailors and twenty thousand soldiers sent out
by Philip IL of Spain to conquer Englani,
What became of those men and that shin-
ping? Ask the wind snd the waves all
Irish coasts, The
men and ships all wrecked or drowned or
soattered., Ho I expect that Moses will be
helped in rescuing the Israelites by a
special weaponry. To the Egyptians the
Nile was a deity. Its waters were then as
now every delicious. It was the finest nat.
ural beverage of sil the earth. We have no
fore
k
4
re
the dose
no snch love for the Rhine, and Russians
But one day. when Pharaoh comes down
to thisriver, Moses takes a stick and whins
the waters, and they turn into the gore oi a
slaughter house and through the sluices and
fishponds the incarnadined liquid backs up
into the land and the maledor whelms svery-
came the frogs, with horrible croak, all over
everything. Then this people, cleanly al-
most to fastidiousness, were infested with
insects that belong the filthy and un-
vir buzzed and buzzed with
f stamoer started cows
r and horses to neighing and camels
as they rolled over and ex-
0
kempt, and the
fies, and ti
ballowit
to groaning,
pired.
And then
0
RMS In
ts the sols of
tae
After three
STON
aya
Waar
the farmer ..cee
are: saventy per
y farmer makes is |
ernment. Now, |
hh tagation as assassination,
i they stand it™
ad it. You see along |
twilight thers was a |
old Jacob and his |
pt for bread. The old man’s i
vs prime minister, and Joseph
ather and the brothe s called |
{Par
dec
Hee
ok a turn at fami
the lara
s which Joseph
: oney for corn
money gave out and |
cattle, After awhile the |
1 sion of the govert
the ke Hebrews bought corn |
nment by surrendering thems
SIA Yes,
was help to come from? Not the |
s. Pharaoh sat upon that. Not the |
I k's offic commanded thal,
i1 Pharaok’s threat |
em atl tremble t the gods Am-
or the wn sie, for |
Praraot built their temples out of the groan |
of this diabolical servitude. But one hot |
day the Princess Thonorie, the daaghter of |
Puaraoh, while in her bathing house on the |
bake of the Nile, bas word brought her that |
there is a baby afloat on the river ina cra- |
dir made ost of big lenves,
Of course there 18 excitement all up and |
down the banks, for an ordinary baby in an
ordinary cradle attracts emiling attention,
but an infant in a cradle of panyrus rocking |
on A river arouses nob only admiration, but
euristity., Who made that boat? Who
made it water tight with bitumen? Who
: voekloss of the crocodiles, who |
my Unsiong themesivos in the sun, the maids |
ent wade in and snateh up the child, and
first one carries him and then another car
ris hita, and ail the way up the bank he rans
a gantiet of caraswes, tll Thonoria rushes out
of the bathing house and says: “Beautiful
founding, I will n'ont vou asmy own, You !
shall yet wear the Ervptian crown and sis |
on the BEgyntiaa throfe”
No! No! No! He is to be the emancipatory |
of the Hebwews, Toll it in wil the ok |
kilne. Teli it among all those who are !
writhing under the insh, tell it among ail |
the custom of Memphis and Heliopolis and
Yorn mud Thebes, Beiore him a ses will
pari, tin a mountain nlone, this one
wil! receive from the Alm
to be the foundation of all good
the world mets, Wher he is dead. God
ite of Jacob,
« tho
F par in
YO
from ¢
RIVES as
fie gOved
iva TH
nding nations
%
No
ma. oS
mon ang
ts
{iris goa
# is sean the Lom
pu Theres were six
war chariots, followed by com-
mon chariots ollir £ at full speed. And the
glittering of tas whea:s aud the curses of in-
tariated Egypt came down with the
t the Lord opened the crystal
ates of Babreel-Kulsum amd the ensiaved
lsraclites passed into liberiy, and then the
crystal gates of the sea rolled shut against
the Egyptian pursuers
it was about two o'clock in
when the interiocked axle
Egvptian chariots could not
sither way. Jat the Red sea
horses and unhelmeted the
left the pr vad host a wreck
snd, 1 two choruses
ied the toen In and
women in the other, and the
titne with their fost it
the women want
with
than, Ning yo to
triumphed riously; the horse
rider hath he thrown into the soa.’
a thrilling story of endurance and victory
Ko the burden of oppression was Hifted, but
another burden of Egypt is made up of des
erts. Indeed, Africa is a great continent
for deserts, Libyan, desert, Sanara desert,
deserts hore and there and yonder, condemn
ing vast regions of Africa to barrenness, o
of the deserts threes thons 1
But all those deserts
Da
says it can be dona, and be who pian-
zin to fall, in ti
hao
&
the morning
trea of the
move an inch
aniuicas] tas
warriors, aod
on the Arabian
SORE, BINA
Miriam Jed
woman
Moon
tin
tend
Lhe
on
ne,
And Miriam
the Lord, for
dances
hath
his
i
wt . . t
a thousand miles wide,
Laas
Sea and the Mediterranean, knows what he
is taking about,
Another burden of Egypt to be lifted is
the burden of Mohammedanism, sithough
there are some good things about that re
ligion. Its disciples must always wash bee
fore thoy pray, and that is five times a day.
A commendable grace is cleanliness. Strong
drink is positively forbidden by Mohamines
danism, and though some may have seen a
I never saw one, IS
is a religion of sobriety. Then they are not
ashamed of their devotions. When the eall
for prayers is sounded from the minarets the
Mohammedan immediately unrolls the mm
on the ground and falls on his knees, an
crowds of spectators are to him no embare
rassment—roproof to many a Christian who
omits his prayers if people are looking.
But Mohammedaniem, with its polye-
amy, blights everything it touches. On
hammed, its 1 sr, had four wives, and
followers are the enemies of good
womanhood, Mohammaedanissm puts |
ourse on ail and by setting up a sine
frail Arab higher than the immaculate Chri
fs an overwhelmning blasphemy. May God
help the brave and consecrated missonars
Jae who are spending their lives in combating
te apn Vo hat Sh a entra
om u .
thas revaived In the liberation of the He
brews was thelr being to make
bricks without straw, That was the lass
straw that broke *he camed's back.
would allow the despotlem against his peo.
ple to go no farther,
straw
Chat oppression still goes on,
your wife ap ropriste wardrobe
bountifu: table without providins tae me
necessary--oricks witaout straw, Cit
manding in the puolic school faithful aad
sucessful instruction without giving tas
t anchers competent Hvelihood--bricks wito-
our straw, United States government
manding of senavor. and congressmen
F118
ie oo
fh
ay
of the peop.s, but on compensa. on whica
may have done well enough when tweniy-
five cents went as for as a dollar now, ou
in these times not sufficient to preserve the
siraw,
in many parts of the land ohurches de-
manding of passors vigorous sernons and
svinpathetie service on starvation salury;
sanctified Ciceros on four hundred dollars
a year; Bricss without straw, [hat is one
renson why there ars §0 many poor ore
{a all depart nents, bricks not even or
pricks that erambis or bricks that are nos
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for is
worth more than work not paid tor, More
straw and then batter bricks.
Hut in all departments there ars Pharaohs;
sometimes Capital a Paarach and scmeti
La or a Pharaoh, Whea Capital prospers,
and makes a lar ze percentage on its invests
ment, and declives to consider the needs
tae operatives, and treats them as so
human machings—their gerves no more than
the bands on the factory wieel—then Capi-
tal is a Pasraon, On the other hand, when
workmen. not rezarding the anxieties and
Lusiness struzgies of the ure empioyinl
them, amd at the tine when ths firm are
doing their best to meet an important cone
tract and need all bands busy to accomplisn
it, at such a time to have hisemployes maxe
a strike and put their employersinto extrems
perplexity and severs loss—then Labor be
somes a Pharaoh of the worst oppression,
and must look for the judgments of God,
Let ail oppressors whetaer in homes, In
churches, in stores, in otices, in {actories, in
social life or political lite, in private life or
puolie life know that God bales oppressors,
and they will all come to grief hers or here
alter. Pharaoh thought be did a fine thing,
a cunning thing, a decisive thing waen for
the complete extinction of the Hebrews in
2g pt be ordere { all the Hebrew boys mas
sacred, but be did not find it 0 fine a thing
when his own first born that night of the de-
stroying angel dropped dead ou the mosait
floor at the foot of the porphyry plllarof the
alace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning.
ine of the worst of them are ou a small
scale in houssholds, as when a man, because
his arm is strong and his voice loud, d
fnates his poor wile into a d > slaver
There are thous as of wees whera
the wife is a lifetime ser?
garded, her tastes ir
a wretchadness, th
Hy
“8
many
fia
a RRR A
So ————
eons int
wh are
the cue
teen by
wn
wpa n
antelopish
known tof Americans a
and this animal yield \
fleeces, which msy weigh two
BORE B®
§
Aas
pounds
ence of the nation.
Father in Washington
gray blankets in which
| his red children.
he envelop
govarnment blanket, proceed to
| ravel it and wind the yarn on a native
¢ shuttle, It is dyed to suit the garish
f the lodiap-—red usoally--and
{aste of
when the yarn from five to fifteen
is ready to make a blanket,
{ He builds a large upright
| frame, like the frame of a slate,
is perhaps ten
wide. To this
stretching it
strings of a harp. This warp is set
very close, and when all is ready the
old squaw, armed with a long, narrow
rod of wood or steel, and her store of
shuttles, begins,
She runs the rod dextercusly through
she warp from one side to the other,
and, by a sort of sewing motion, ac
curately separates the strings, sending
every alternate ome to the left of the
rod and others to the right.
When the rod is clear through, she
sonds the shuttle along the same line
of march, leaving a trail of wooden
yarn behind to be seized on by the
warp as soon as the rod is withdrawn,
The rod insertion is then repeated,
taking care, however, to give the warp
the reverse side this time of the red.
The shuttle of wood then makes an.
other trip,
This is gone through, first roi, then
shuttle, several times; when the old
squaw panses with the rod, still sep-
arating the warp, and uses it to beat
the threads of yarn firmly down.
This goes on from day to day, at such
intervals ns the old ody ean spare,
from the fire-tending and cooking,
which makes up an Indian squaw's
dowestie life, until after several months
a blaiket is turned out,
The wool from fifteen government
blankets has been known to be woven
and whi and thrashed by the
Navajo process into one of the blankets
of that name.
They are astonishingly heavy, of
couse, aud woven so tightly they will
hold water, the skin of some
animal,
This
he fastens the war
'
SCIENTIFIC
Mierocidine is a new antiseptie,
sn
em———
There is no way to end wood better
or cheaper than by steaming.
messes Me —
Soient'fic men insist up 'n ib
Niger ta Falls are recediog
that
every
A So —
Recent experiments show that with
be used in making pholograpiis,
oa
The average «f the pulse in infanev
twenty beats per min
BixLy.
aa —
A new mineral has Leen discovered
ald to be reven Lime
tiffs
Fahrenheit at £1 8° used aleochol in
making his thera meters, He was led
to us mercury after experimenting wiih
boiling water.
cst AAS
By a recent appliance to kitchen
rang 8 the refuse rem the kitchen is
coal, aud used as fuel.
fe Mn —
batteries
nuveiLly
in many places Storage
used in them, although the
sumewhat expensive,
is
Ap Am—
It has been found after elaborate ex-
— A ——
At the naval exhibition In London
there is a colossal ¢lectinie lamp, ©
Afmirally, whic
s light equal to 5 000 000 cand
Al
It was 80
al, Cal. , recy!
claim 1
w¢ North
above the walters Was in a smail
iar 3, extending from Lhe
Lak nort sade
porthwest to
$4 .
PRIA © ATE
angu~
€31%
y firs
e of ul American «
01 10%
east to
Al
—- >
ti
.
She
at Rome,
ngof a re.in
of solders 150 vards away was reg
tered by the earthgnake apparatus
cated in the tower of the col at
Piofessor Tacchini,
1
ede
me stn—
The demand fur American screws is
80 great in England and Germany thal
a screw company of Providence has es
tablistied 8 branch factory in Leeds
England, and will put up arother ob
the Continent,
There are 1030 foreign students al
German universities: 831 of them a
irom Ruassia, 208 from Austria, 226
117 Euglish and 435
cans, mostly from the
States
Swiss,
Unitex
a -—
A scientific observer publishes a pam
narrowing through the lesser severity ol
its labors that accompanieseivilized food
The lower jaws of the later English are
even of Anstralians,
asians
SUNDAY =CHOO!, LESSON,
EUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 120.
Christ Betrayed.
LESSON TEXT
Memory verses
LESSON PLAN.
Toro {OV
Son of God,
T™HRE QUARTER: Jesus the
Gores Texr
1 hese are written,
that Jesus is
of God; and that
have life throvah
FOR THE
that ye might be-
the Christ, che Son
Lelicving
fils
Ouoanrey
lieve
i wright
Vac, John
1
Betrayal
ON On
Frduri rie)
vet of Betrayal, ve
14
I he Hest
vs
The
hands of
its of Betrayal
Gores Texr: Son of man is
betrayed into the
Mark 14 . 41.
BINNECT RB, we
Dany Hove BeEADixNGs:
M.- John 18 . 1-13,
during betrayal.
Matt, 26 36-56,
paraliel narrative,
W.—Mark 14: 32-52
allel narrative,
' 23 : 39-58,
lel narrative.
F.—Psa. 1-28,
shadowed.
Matt. 26: 1-
ned,
Matt, 27
of Judas.
The Bon en
T Matthew's
Mark's par-
MT —Lnke Luke's paral -
$58
Jetrayal fore-
16. Jetraval plan
N, The
remorse
LESSON ANALYSIS,
Whe nl
one
HAW
dead (Bev
iV. T
1{ theref:
their way
he Meek Surrender
re ve seek me, let these g
Ee)
Isa.
iH .
his mouth (lsa. 53: 7)
He humbled himeslf, becoming obe
ient unto death (Phil. 2 : 8),
V. The Loving Care!
Of thom
I lost not
whom thou hast
1
given
ne,
one
which he hath given
shonld lose nothing (John 6 ;
No one shall snateh them out of
hand (John 10
I guarded them, and
perished John 17
'
not one 1
12)
fl, THE BES
ULTS OF BETRAYAL.
I. Indi
nation
Peter... having a sword
the high
drew it,
priest's servant
(10),
moved with indignation
concerning the two brethren { Matt.
20: 24).
When the disciples saw it, they had
indignation (Matt. 26 : 8).
fiom matters of aniline, which contair
large quantities of antimoniac products,
When perspiring, this matter becomes
and produces a violent rash
IIIA
The Mexican Government has been
sxperimenting with a new machine fol
wasufacturing ramie,
wade one and a quarter tons per day
and the expense of oleamug the fibre
was only 4 7-10 cents per pound,
ington has received from China a pal
cotton stockings (being too rough fo
the naked skin), and under straw shoe,
48 8 protection against moisture.
To the inhabitants of the moon, ‘f
had bealed (Luke 13
I. Reproof:
14).
Put up the sword into
{ (11).
ish with the sword (Matt. 26 : 52).
| 18: 36).
. He touched
{Luke 22:
hi.
{| 11, Submission:
me, shall I not drink? (11).
about to drink? { Matt. 20 : 22).
26: 39).
Thy will be done (Matt, 26 : 42).
IV. Arrast:
80 the band....seized Jesus and
§
soars sixteen times larger $an “he sun
and of a blue color, That the
tail to comets, an™ as seen from to
moon stveams out “ind our globe lua
bright asd beautifu trall,
| As a lamb that is led to the slaughter
{ (len. BB : 7).
He .. was numbered with the trans
Lr wR od him
' Bim, an
Re eat: Oh away
:
:
“He went forth with hig
il
(2 The company; (3; The
4: The purpose,
Vere 2,—Jesus oft times resorted
thither with diciples.” (1) The
sacred resort: (2 The favored company;
{ The established custom; (4) The
holy aim.
Verse 4.— Whom seck ye?’ (1) The
nogod'y intruders; (2 The majestic
Lord; (3) The searching question,
Verse 5.—*T am he.” (1) He whom
they sought; (2) He whom they ha'el;
(#4) He whom they would kill
Verse 6. “They went backward, snd
fell to the ground.” (1) An ave-inspir-
ing presence; (2) A eouscience- stricken
Crow i.
Verse RB, “T,et these
13 Self surrendered; (2
Verge 9 I lot not
Lord i pow F, §% Ihe safe
Verse 10 “sYVeler Bruck tie high
priest’ servant.” (1) Tue '
Pp {2} ounded
The helping Lord
Verse 11. oo] g cap ich the
Father hath given me, I not
drink?” (1) The cup appointed by the
Father; (2) The eap nocepted by the
son,—(1) The enp given; The cup
drank,
Verre 12.-—*“Theband . . seized Je us
and bound hiz.” (1) The wicked band;
2) The holy Captive.—1} The captors;
(2) The eayptive; 3) The capture.
LESSON BIBLE READING.
JUDAS 1BCARIOT.
of Bimon (Joha 6 :
Verse 1.
1
+
iin
go their way,’
Others saved
One, I Fhe
Bait ty
mpetaons
er + Le pervant; (35)
wi
shall
(2)
The son 71:
26).
Called to the apostleship (Matt, 10 :
Mark 3 : 19.)
Foreknown as the betrayer (John 6:64;
13 ; 11, 18), i
Steward {. r the apostles
18 : 29).
' Bargsined to betray Jesus (Matt, 26:14-
16).
Gave access to Satan
70
i
)
John 12 : 6;
(Luke 22:3; John
13 : 27).
the arresting party (John
[Aa
Prise .
Judas, a be
flicers « w
i
5
gus and the
Boman
with a mixed or¢
5 to the other &
ter and Maslehus,
servant of the high priest; Annas.
I'he departure over Kid-
ron to the garden (Gethsemane), a fre-
quent resort of Jesus, known to Judas,
Judas, with the band of Boman sol-
diers and some of the temple watch
and others, comes to seek He
goes forth meet them, asks
whom they seek: they answer, *‘Jesus
of Nazareth;” when he answers, they
fall to the ground. He repeats his
juestion, and, receiving the same an-
wer, asks that his disciples be spared
At this point, Judas probably kisses
Jesus, — the preconserted signal for the
BO S|imon Peter ff the
ear of Malchus, apparently when the
attempt is made oO seize he
rebuked by our Lord, w according
to Luke) heals Malchus. The capture
then occurs, and Jesus is led to Annas,
Other details are given in the parallel
accounts,
Pagans
47-56 ; Mark
47-53,
soldi !
following, secording
counts), Mimon oe @
INCIDENTS,
Jesus
: .
to and
fliers smite «
Joesns: 18
0
Matthew
43-49 ;: Luke
26 :
»)
Rn
Passaous
14
—
To Obtain O11 ftom Flaxseed.
There are two processes used M0
paking linseed oil from flax, the cold
process and that mn which heat is used,
By the first the scod is ground in ite
raw stale, and the meal obtained is
subjected to powerful hvdeaulic pres
sure, which extracts the oil that ®
contalns. Im the second process the
seed in fiest roasted and ten grouml
in a mill in the same manner, snd i»
pressed at a steam Leat of 200 dogrees.
The resulting ois from these two
| processes have very different qualition,
The cold-pressed oil is of a golden
yellow color, almost tasteless, asad
quite sticky. It does wot keep very
well, but turns dark colored, and be.
| comes rancid, even if exposed to the
| air. The roasting process destroys
the gummy mailer in the inner coat.
ing of the seeds, and the vil obtained
ws less muciinginons, but it ig darker
colored and has a more sc: id taste than
tho fresh cold.prossed oil. The het
process oil is the kind most generally
used. «=| Boston Cultivator.