THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.
A good many years ago, Moses “spied ail Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, and he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian.” We are not told what tho Hebrew had done to be smitten, or whether, which is very probable, he was insisting upon the Egy tian paying high interest on money which he had never borrowed ; but we know that even the countrymen of Moses considered that his proceedings had been somewhat high handed, for we learn that shortly afterwards one of them said to him : “ Who made thee a prince and a judge over us ? Intendeßt thou to kill mo, as thou killedat the Egyp« tian ?’* It is curious how events repeat themselves* We have been killing Egyptians for the benefit of the foreign element in that country, and the foreign element is about as grateful as was the Hebrew to Moses. Would ft not. therefore, be well that we should follow the example of Moses, and withdraw from Egypt?
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2
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176THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 2
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