FINISHING THE PHARAOH FASHION
The International Sunday School Lesson For Janu
ary 5 Is "Pharaoh Oppresses Israel"
—Exodus 1:1-14; 2:1-25
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
This is more than a new year; it
is a new era! Our grandchildren
will understand more clearly than
we the vast meanings of the present
months. To us it has been given to
see the passing of an old order of
life. We have lived through the
Great Emancipation. Some things as
old as history have come to an end
I before our eyes. As twenty million
members of the Sunday school, and
other millions of newspaper readers
besides, begirt another year of Les
sons they find themselves called upon
to con the profound significance of a
time that is Anly partially paralleled
in the past.
Nowadays we have to read the
newspapers in the light of the llible,
if wo would catch the meaning of
both. No alert person, for instance,
would think of studying the present
lesson upon the oppression of Jews
in Egypt without interpreting it from
the standpoint of the latest tidings
from the Near East and the world.
Pharaohism, in fact and in symbol,
is as deadas the mummies that adorn
the Cairo Museum.
There is the tug of Turkey upon
our interest as well as the pull of
pharaoh. Events are moving apace in
the lands where the Bible stories
were enacted. A new epoch has
dawned for these old regions of ro
mance. There are living questions
clamoring for.the world's attention in
Egypt and Palestine and all about
the Mediterranean; yet most of the
popular knowledge of these lands re
flects the Bible. No figure exists
within the confines of what was un
til lately the Ottoman Empire who
fills the eye like Joseph and Moses.
As a matter of spiritual reality, they
are still playing a part in present
events.
Farewell Pharaoh!
The pharaoh fashion is finished.
That is lesson number one of the
war. Whatever form the conclusion
of the peace conference, take this
decision is sure; for it was the ani
mating purpose of the men who
fought and of the nations which sus
tained them. For long and bitter cen
turies and milleniums, humanity en
dured the evils of absolutism and
autocracy. When we try to visual
ize the ages of the irresponsible rule
of the king we behold countless mul
titudes of men,,women and children
writhing under the lash or strug
gling with the load, screaming and.
groaning or submitting in dumb
agony. What millions have cursed
God and died, all over the world,
under the blight of tyranny!
Old beyond reckoning is the
monotonous tale. Atrocities in Bel
gium and Armenia are no new fash
ion. In the latest issue of "The
Journal of A e AmCrlcal Oriental
Society" I find a long article by Pro
fessor Olmsteatl upon "The Calcu
lated Frightfulness of Ahur Nasir
Apal," king of Assyria and a proto
type of the Kaiser of Germany. Bis
"kultur" included systematic looting
and burning; and the enemies ha did
not capture he exterminated. One of
his favoriate devices was to flay
leading men alive, and spread their
skins on the walls of their towns.
Or he would build memorial pillars,
with enemies entombed alive inside,
and the skins of other covering the
outside. He also liked to impale his
foe on stakes, outside of the city
gates.
That is but one of the vagaries of
the old king fashion. The autocrat 1
could do as he pleased. The com- i
mon people had no rights but those
which he saw fit to bestow. But ".hat
fashion has passed away with the
kaiser, and his company of scurry
ing kings. The first great division '
of this present lesson upon Pharaoh's
oppression of the Israelites should be ,
a thanksiving that this sort of thing
is now in the past tense. The world
is through with Pharaohs and Phar- ,
aohlsm, political, commercial, indus
trial and social. Some do not know
this; but the law of Moses and the
Spirit of Christ have doomed them.
A new, high and resolute purpose in
the heart of humanity has toppled
over the old thrones that represented
injustice.
Forgettcrs of the Past
Short memories are saidto be char- !
acteristic of rulers. Pharaoh wus a
good forgetter. lie took no thought
of the men of former days, the deliv
erers of his people, the friends of
his fathers. He was of that largo
class which the New Testament de
scribes as "blind, seeing only that
which is near." Children and unedu
cated perons take into account only
what they can see and hear, th 3 pres
ent thing and the present moment
dominate them. Only the wise have
a historical sense, seeking over to
hold all of life In proportion and in
relationship.
Not always, though, is the cynical
apothegam concerning the short
memories of the people warranted
by the facts. Because America has
not forgotten France and Lafayette
and Hochambeau of a hundred and
forty years ago the German hordes
have been beaten back from the land
of the lily and their power broken
and their plans utterly confounded.
Whatever men do, God remem
bers. His cycles swing sure, though
slowly. Consider what vindications
of the past there have been within
a twelve month—Bohemia freed and
honored of all men; Finland given
her opportunity. Armenia emanci
pated; the Jews afforded an open
door in the Land of Promise; Alsace-
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[ is a year of Jubilee, upon which the
i world Is entering; and it has need
| to recall the days that are gone, and
gone forever. God forbid that we
should be among those who, Pharaoh
fashion, forget their friends and de
liverers and allies.
An Old Plinrnoli Crime
In Egypt the Jews had grown to
be a host. Tiiev throve and multi
plied. Their alertness and energy
and resourcefulness menaced the
dominance of the Egyptians, in the
opinion of Pharaoh. So he adopted
measures of extermination. His
Jnethod was followed, and improved
upon, by the Austrian government
in dealing with the Rumanians in
Transylvania, and with the South
ern Slavs; and by Turkey in her
treatment of Armenians and Greeks
and Jews. It is the old program of
power and suspicion, and has been
followed wherever men thought more
of economic interests than of jus
tice.
"They made their lives bitter."
So runs the story of the treatment of
the Israelites by the Egyptions. What
a fellowship of the oppressed and
the suffering the phrase calls to
mind! All through the ages we get
glimpses like this of the lot of the
so emerged and the downtrodden; w.to
were deemed too unimportant to de
mand extended mention; for histor
ians have been chiefly busy with the
affairs of kings.
Now, thank God, the world knows
better. Only the stupid and the left
overs from yesterday are heedless of
the bitter cries of the poor. Sensi
tiveness to the needs and to the
rights of the masses of mankind is
the mark of the civilized man to-day.
No other sort may hope ever to come
to leadership in modern life. We
have fought the world's greatest war
for the sake of the liberation of all
victims of injustice. It is unthink
able that the Pharaoh-Prussian state
of mind should again arise to power
amongst us.
We are freed by the enslaved. All
the progress made by mankind has
been at the price of the sufferings
of those whose wrongs became un
bearable. Had there not been op
pression endured there would not be
liberation achieved. We are debtors
to all who have undergone evil, for
by them we have come to good.
They ate the bitter and drank the
gall; and thereby our cup is sweet
ened. Every one of us owes an un
payable obligation to the nameless
sufferers of the past. Out of their
prisons has come our liberty; their
loads have lifted burdens from our
backs; their cruel treatment has
brought mercy and justice to us;
their pain has purchased our peace.
So if we prove worthy, they will
have not died in vain. In his last
poem, found shortly before he fell
in No Man's Land, with a German
bullet through his forehead, Joyce
Kilmer beautifully portrays this sol
dier whose torch is handed on to us;
and whom the poet calls "The Peace
maker."
"Upon his will he binds a radiant
chain.
For Freedom's sake he is no longer
free.
It is his task, the slave of Liberty,
With his own blood to wipe away
a stain.
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That pain may cease he yields his
flesh to pain.
To banish war he must a warrior
be.
He dwells in night, eternal dawn
to see.
And gladly dies abundant life to
gain.
"What matters death, if Freedom be
not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag
be furled.
Who fights for Freedom goes with
Joyful tread
To meet the fires of hell against
him hurled,
And has for Captain, Him whose
■\vhose thorn-wreathed head.
Smiles from the Cross upon a con
quered world."
Enter tlic Babe
From the standpoint of his own
business, Harod was one of the wis
est of tyrants, for he tried to kill the
Baby born to distribute his sway.
Turkish baby-killers in Armenia and
German baby-killers in Belgium and
occupied France were following the
fashion set by Pharaoh. Wrong is
always in terror of the child, for its
overthrow is somewhere in a cradle.
If it had only to do with the mature
and the cautious, the men of yester
day evil might hope to hold its
throne; but the babe, which spells
potentiality and incarnates to-mor
row, holds that doom of tyranny in
its infant hands. Destiny comes in
swaddling clothes.
A baby was born in Egypt, and
the event was of more importance to
the world than the building of the
Great Pyramids. That little boat of
bulrushes water-proofed with bitu
men, to which the mother of Moses
committed her babe, held more of
potential history for mankind than
all the palaces of the Pharaohs.
Danger both sharpened the wits and
quickened the love of the Hebrew
mother who saw—as if every other
mother did not see the same!—that
her son was favored above other
babes. All of us learned in child
hood the details of that beautiful
story of resourceful mother love,
which hid Moses for three months,
and then set him adrift, with u
daughter standing sentinel on the
bank, where the eye of a princess
would fall upon him—and her deep
mother wisdom told her that no
woman, be she princess or peasant,
can resist the appeal of a helpless,
■beautiful babe.
In that bit of strategy lay safety
for Moses, and an education in all
the wisdom of the Egyptions. God
has strange ways of providing the
discipline that is necessary for the
men He means to use. We wonder
to what unpredictable uses He de
signs to put the unique training that
has been given to our soldiers in
France? Already, they have ful
filled the work that Moses began, of
smiting to its extinction the Pharaoh
fashion of autocracy, cruelty and op
pression.
Among the boys now in khaki is
some modern Moses who will lead
the race on to a great deliverance
and destiny. A historian of a cen
tury hence rimy write of our time,
as we write of the time of Moses,
that God manifestly exerted Himself
to bring good out of evil, day out of
night, blessing out of bitterness.
Three Pairs of Twins
Cause Divorce Suit
Cleveland, Ohio.—Children usual
ly hold the home together, it is said.
But three pairs of twins, now aged
ten and seven years and three
months, respectively, failed to avert
a divorce suit filed here by Mrs.
Elsie Kuntz, their mother. She com
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neglected her and the twins and was
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HARRISBTJRO (ASA& TELEGRAPH!
38 STATE MEN ON
CASUALTY LISTS
Nine Killed Out of Twenty-
Five Made Public by the
War Department
Washington, Jan. 3.—Forty-eight
Pennsylvanians are mentioned in the
total of 377 casuals made public
through the War Department to-day.
Of the 25 reported killed in action,
nine are Pennsylvanians. The sum
mary follows:
Killed in action 25
Died of wounds 72
Died of accident and other causes 5
Died of disease 2 9
Wounded severely 198
Wounded (degree undetermined) 3
Missing in action 45
Total 377
Pennsylvanians reported yds af
ternoon follow:
KIDDED IN ACTION
Dieutcnant
George D. Montgomery, Dubois.
DIED PROM WOUNDS
Sergeant
Harry Charles Snyder, Pittsburgh.
Corporals
Rudolph Kovach, Bridgeville.
Fred M. Kuttler, Pittsburgh.
Philip P&tterson, Philadelphia.
Wagoner
Michael J. McCabe, Philadelphia.
DIED PROM ACCIDENT AND
OTHER CAUSES
Sergeant
William Harry Thorpe, Chester.
WOUNDED SEVEREDY
Chaplain
Harry Solomon Davidowitz, Phila
delphia.
Corporals
Fred J. Bonnert, Scranton.
Clarence C. Mansfield, Boston.
Frank Much, Pittsburgh.
Heasty S. Wehler, Coatesvllle.
Mechanic
James McNamara, Philadelphia.
Privates
Simon A. Bopp, Summerhill.
A "Mother" Sent This
If the sweetest little kiddies
Act like old and crabbed Biddies,
From the pain that's in their middies—
Cascarets !
When the child begins to ail,
Coated tongue and looking pale,
Spend two jitneys of your kale —
Cascarets /
You'd relieve your kiddie if you could
Of course you will—l knew you would.
Any druggist in your neighborhood—
Cascarets! 10 cents!
This wise mother knows that the best and safest way to relieve a
bilious, sick or constipated child is by giving candy Cascarets at the first
sign of a white tongue, a feverish breath or a sour stomach.
Children love Cascarets because of the candy taste. Nothing else
"works" the nasty bile, sour fermentations and poisons from the little
liver and bowels so gently —yet so thoroughly. Each 10 cent box of
Cascarets has directions for children aged one year old and upwards.
Peter Kumlnskie, Fort Griffith.
William J. Meyer, Philadelphia.
William W. Spratt, Pittsburgh.
Wagoner
Walter Humphrey Book, Slippery
Rock.
WOUNDED (DEGREE UNDETER
MINED)
Corporal
Fred Newell, Canton.
SUSSING IN ACTION
Dicutcnnnts
William E. Hare, Lansdale.
Harfy B. Mauger, Philadelphia.
Private V
John F. Kovaleskl, Philadelphia.
Pennsylvanians reported thiß
morning follow:
KIDDED IN ACTION
Privates
Ernesto Eugo, Ellwood City.
Donald T. Hlle, Pleasant Gap.
Clinton A. Hose, Dailastown.
DIED OF WOUNDS
Privates
William Richardson Patton, Ven
etla.
Joseph B. Sack, Philadelphia.
Edwin A. Spackman, Lancaster.
Franlf K. Stoll, Blossburg.
Nicholas Testo, West Pilston.
Roy A. Troup. Schenley.
Matthew Vanderpool, Towanda.
Albert D. Elliott, Grapeville.
Michael Dannelli, Philadelphia.
Basil T. Isherwood, Pittsburgh.
Frank Maciorowskl, Pittsburgh.
William D. Neilson, Pittsburgh.
WOUNDED SEVEREDY
Privates
John McDermott, Ashvllle.
Russel B. Means, Westmoreland
City.
Ralph W. Richards, Altoona.
James E. Smith, Philadelphia.
Norris J. Spencer, Philadelphia.
Henry Trau.tman, McKeesport.
Fred B. Trescher, Jeannette.
Giuseppe Di Benedietto. Philadel
phia.
Earl W. Gehringer. Nazareth.
Felix Hakaia, Glen Dale.
Daniel F. McDevltt, Slippery Rock.
CONVICTS FORGE PASSES
JcfTcrson City, Mo.—By cleverly
forged passes, Claude French and
Frank Parris, convicts of the Mis
souri penitentiary, made their es
cape from the big prison and secur
ed the possession of an automobile,
the property of Dr. Clark, prison
physician.
JANUARY 3, 1919.
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