The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip., December 01, 1925, Page 15, Image 15

DECEMBER 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
them over with mistletoes, heaping a mound upon their
breasts.
Hushed in tense silence was now the throng which
was gathered about. Grasping his golden dagger the
prince of the Druids with strong and certain stroke
slew the two white bullocks, and turned toward the
altar. Beneath their covering of mistletoe the youth
and the maid awaited death without a murmur. In
another moment they knew they would be sent into
the Great Beyond to appease the wrath of the gods.
The hand of the maid sought that of the youth and
was tightly clasped. Both turned their heads to look
into each other’s eyes. Their lips met. The prince
of the Druids approached; two swift strokes with the
golden dagger and a crimson stream flowed from the
hearts of the youth and the maid, but they stirred not.
The high priest dipped his fingers into the life-blood
and sprinkled it over the white raiment of the priest
and upon the breasts and garments of the Britons
who, having received evidence of worthiness, turned
homeward one by one. The sacred rite had been per­
formed and the sacrifice made. On the first of the
new year the mistletoe which had covered the youth
and the maid on the altar was divided by the priests
and distributed among the people amid cries of “The
Mistletoe for the New Year!”
And from this piteous offering on the altar of
ignominy in the name of religion, those who have delved
deep into the gruesome past tell us, arose the Christmas
significance of the mistletoe.
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the regent, died suddenly in early manhood, which
parallels the Biblical account of the death of the first
born of Egypt. These records indicate however that
he inherited the fighting qualities of his grandfather
and was a conqueror of great renown. The boasts of
the triumphal hymn of Mernephtah strikingly con­
trasts with the following text from Miriam’s hymn of
thanksgiving, as transcribed in the poem of Thomas
Moore :
Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea.
Jehovah has triumphed — His people are free.
Sing — for pride of the tyrant is broken,
His chariots and horsemen, all splendid and brave,
How vain was their boasting! the Lord hath but spoken
And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave.
Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed — His people are free.
A CAUSE FOR THE MOTHERS OF AMERICA
<lWAR CANNOT be abolished and permanent peace
assured without a thorough change in the
minds of the people.”
This quotation from a speech delivered fifteen
years ago by Ellen Key, the eminent Swedish author,
before the Stockholm Peace Conference, contains the
most wholesome suggestion ever offered to abolish war
permanently and cause the swords to be turned into
plow-shares.
Since Ellen Key delivered this speech, the world
has seen wars, more terrible than any preceding con­
flict. Statesmen have used high sounding phrases,
staged one international conference after another foi'
UNTOLD CHAPTERS OF THE ANCIENT STORY the purpose of devising means to end the holocaust
OF ISRAEL
and establish permanent peace.
LARGE engraved stone monument containing
The futility of treaties and terms of peace clothed
inscriptions which point directly to the sojourn in language of vague and doubtful meaning, leaving
of the Israelites in Egypt and the use to which their room for endless explanation,, speculation, suspicion
Egyptian oppressors put their Hebrew slaves, was and distrust, doesn’t seem to bother the captains of
recently unearthed in Beth-Shan in Palestine. It is modern statescraft any more than it bothered their
thought that the monument was erected by Rameses predecessors in any previous age.
II, Pharaoh of the Oppression, who built his cities by
The war cry is still on the air, the scenes have only
slave labor furnished by the Israelites. The recent been shifted about. France and Spain are now en­
discovery sustains the inscriptions found traced upon gaged in war beyond the European border and the
a stela of Mernephtah, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and Moslem world is fanning into flame every hostile senti­
la son of Rameses II, which was unearthed some time ment that can be utilized against the Christian world,
ago. The stela tracings contained the information from Turkey to India. China is engaged in a serious
that “Israel is desolated; his seed is not.”
internal warfare, with Soviet Russia a factor behind
This ancient Egyptian hymn, inscribed some three one of the waring factions of that country, while
thousand five hundred years ago upon this block of Bolshevism is gaining menacing ground among the
stone, by workmen of Mernephtah, includes the first ignorant and gullable masses of China. The British
direct reference in ancient Egyptian records regarding mandates are anything but satisfactory to the Turks
Israel’s plight. The last strophe of the hymn, which who by degree are being fed up on Bolshevism.
contains twenty-eight lines, read as follows:
Meanwhile certain selfish financial interests in this
The kings are overthrown, saying: “Sakam!”
country, with an eye for Russian business, are secretly
Not one holds up his head among the Nine B ws.
banqueting emissaries of Bolshevist Russia, evidently
Wasted is Tehenu. Kheta is pacified.
in the hopes of organizing for business pressure on
Plundered is Pekanan (Canaan) with every evil.
our government to obtain recognition of the Soviet
[Carried off is Askalon. Seized upon is Gezer.
lYenoam is made as a thing not existing.
regeme.
I Israel is desolated, his seed is not.
That that recognition would render it almost im­
Palestine has become as a widow for Egypt.
possible for America openly to counteract the spread
[All lands are united, they are pacified.
[Everyone that is turbulent is bound by King Mernephtah,
of Bolshevism in this country is undeniable. The
given life, like Re, every day.
possibility of coming to a world show-down on Bolshe­
The Pharaoh of the Exodus had not inherited the vism would then have a brighter outlook, sufficient to
[military ambitions of his immediate prodecessor, satisfy those who entertain secret désirés for more
¡Rameses II. Egyptian records have it that his son, warfare, inasmuch as revolutions and wars of any