| Show bi bible bl e st story ory of locusts retold recent plague of bf insects repetition of scourge related in exodus basra ago long ions before christ a swarm of locusts descended upon agypt ravi lavished ravished shed the land and was waa later inter swept into the red sen the biblical historian responsible p po isible for the book of exodus re ported the locusts as a plague sent bent by the lord to punish pharnol for lying to the children of israel pharaoh repented and tile locusts were destroyed writes ernest slain in the chicago tribune now comes n repetition of the plague and tile the loc locusts lists destruction for weeks ru millions illions of locusts exceeding in numbers liny any ever eve r seen by arabs here had been making a steady advance against all efforts to stop their progress natives of basra almost lint had resigned therus themselves elves to the ever increasing sw swarms arnis pests peats blown into gulf then suddenly when almost all hope of stopping tile the destruction had left UP op catao a strong wind which blew the ravenous posts pests into the per stun sinn gulf where they vero were drowned scriptural scholars note the parallel between the present day plague and the deliverance and the plague and deliverance of the israelites cent ago they read in nolus exodus E tiow tile the lord visited hla his wrath on tile the egyptians because pharaoh Ihara oh had broken a promise to to free the children of israel and the locusts locust went up over all the land of egypt for or they covered the race face of the whole earth so EO that he be land was waa darkened and 11 they did eat every halb herb of the land exi exa x 1416 1415 14 16 15 1 reading heading on the scriptural student learns that pharaoh repented of hla his false falsehood hool besought moses forgiveness and moses interceded intercedes Inter ceded with the lord and the lord turned turned a mighty a trong west w e t wind which took away the I 1 locusta locus ua t tB and cast at them into the red sea EX x r 19 magazines for protection one curious result of the present locust Inva invasion slon Is that american magazines have been sold tit at high prices to the arabs who were unable to read them hut but who bought them because the smooth surfaces of the colored pictures formed an wall to the tumbling masses of in sects nut but the hie lelda fields hove have lain unprotected for nille mlle on mile under the oncoming sw swanna artus one olle camel driver who journeyed 12 lays from king ibn stronghold in central arabia reported that his camel walked on grasshoppers throughout the trip and that his saddle sandals and nebs ess were consumed by tile the hungry pests arak is now perturbed however because the tigris and euphrates river hoods on which agriculture de depends tire are the lowest this spring that they havo been in 25 years |
