HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-06-17, Page 3.JOSEPH'S KINDNESS To HIS
KINDRED
Printed Text --- Genesis 46;1-7, 23-
30 : .50 : 24.26.
Golden Text — "Be ye kind one to an•
other; tenderhearted, forgiving each
other, even as Cod also in Christ
forgave you.' — Sphesians 4:32.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
TIME — According to the common
chronology, Jacob went down with his
family into Egypt B.C. 1715; he died
B. C. 1698. Joseph died B.C. 1643e -
Piece — Joseph's 'residence in
Egypt was at Zoan, the capital of the
kingdom at that time, located on the
eastern part of the Nile Delta. The
Hebrew people settled in the land of
Goshen in the eastern part of Egypt
and north of the southern part of the
Delta. Hebron is nineteen miles to
the northwest of Jersualem.
"And Israel took his journey with
all that he had, and came to Beer-
sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the
God of his father Issac." Israel, who
is, as we have seen before, the same
as Jaeob, knew that be and his en-
tire family, the chosen people of God,
were on the threshold of a great ex-
perience, were at a turning -point in
their history, and, coming to know
through his long years of experience,
that great ventures undertaken with-
out God are doomed to failure, tar-
ries at Beer -Sheba on his way down
into Egypt, to offer sacrifice to God.
(See 21.33; 26:24; 28:10).
"And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob. And he said, Here am I." 3.
"And he said, I am God, the God of
thy father; fear not to go down into
Egypt; for I will there make of thee
a great nation." 4. "I will go down
with thee into Egypt; and I will also
surely bring thee up again; and Jos-
eph shall p..t his hand upon thine
eyes.' Here is the fulfillment of the
oft -repeated promise — "They that
seek Jehovah shall .not want any
good thing" (Psalm 34:10). Four
things are promised — God's permis-
sion to go down into Egypt; Gocl's
presence as they go into Egypt; God's
promise to make of them in Egypt
a great nation, and God's purpose to
bring them back again to Canaan.
And probably God's assurance that
Jacob's descendants would come back
to Canaan in the future wus the most
reassuring of all God's gracious pro-
mises to Jacob this day.
"And Jacob rose up from Beer -She-
ba; and the sons of Israel carried Ja-
cob their father, and their little ones
and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And
they took their cattle and their goods
which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and' came into Egypt, Jacob,
and all his seed with him.. His sons,
and his sons' sons with him, his dau-
ghters, and his sons' daughters, and
all his seed brought ho with him into
Egypt." The wagons which Jose2h
sent were certainly four -wheeled con-
veyances. In such wagons, drawn by
oxen, did the women and children of
the patriarchal family travel. The
cattle were driven and the rest of the
goods packed upon asses and camels.
— F. Delitzsch.
While the carefully enumerated list
of nanses of those who went down
into Egypt is important in a minute
discussion of Hebrew history, we do
need here spend but a moment with
it. We must not identify this list with
another contained in Numbers 26,
written two hundred and fifty years
later. Jacob, himself, at this time, was
one hundred and thirty years old (47:
9), and Joseph approximately forty
years old, while Reuben, the oldest,
was about forty-six, and Benjamin,
the youngest, about twenty-six. The
sons of Ieah are first enumerated in
9-15), then the sons of Zilpath, Leah's
handmaid (16:15), then the sons of
Rachael, who alone is here called the
wife of Jacob (19-22), and finally, the
sons of Bilhah, Rachaol's handmaid
(23-35). All the souls that went with
Jacob into Egypt that came out of his
loins were eleven sons, one daughter,
fifty grandchildreu, and four great-
grandsons; in all, sixty-six. Jaeob, Jo-
seph, and his two sons are four, and
thus all the souls belonging to the fa-
mily of Jacob which went into the val-
ley of Egypt wore seventy. The Sep-
tuagint gives seventy-five as the sum
total, which is made out of inserting
five names not found in this list.
"And he sent Judah before him up
to Joseph, to show the way before
him unto Goshen; and they came unto
the land of Goshen." Joseph had pre-
viously promised his brethren that
they should dwell in the land of Go-
shen (45-10), and the region in Lower
Egypt east of the 13ubastic,branch of
the Nile, a region not of any great ex-
tent, having an area of approximately
nine hundred square miles, but ex-
ceedingly fertile, and which allowed
the Israelites more or less of a life of
separation from the contaminating in-
fluences of great Egyptian cities..
"And Joseph made ready his char-
iot, and went up to meet Israel, his
father, to Goshen; and he presented
himself unto him, and fell on his neck
and wept on his neck a good while.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen thy face,
that thou art yet alive." The meaning
of the patriarch is that, since with
his own eyes he was now assured of
Joseph's happiness, he had nothing
more to live for, the last earthly long-
ing of his heart having been com-
pletely satisfied and was perfectly
prepared for the last scene of all, rea-
dy, whenever God willed, to be called
to his fathers.
"And Joseph said unto his brethren
I die; but God will surely visit you, I
bring you up out of this land unto the
land which he sware to Abraham, to
Issac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took
an oath of the children of Israel, say-
ing, God will surely visit you, and ye
shall carry up my bones from hence."
Through all the terrible .bondage they
were destined to suffer, the bones of
Joseph, or rather, bis embalmed body,
stood as the raost eloquent advocate
of God's faithfulness, ceaselessly re-
minding the despondent generations
of the oath which God would yet en-
able them to fulfill. And thus, as Jo-
seph had been their pioneer, who
broke a way for them into Egypt, so
did he continue to hold open the gate
and point the way back to Canaan.
"So Joseph died, being a hundred
and ten years old; and they embalm-
ed him, and he was put in a coffin in,
Egypt' The book opens with life; it
ends with death, because in between
had come sin which brings forth the
death. And yet that coffin spoke of
life as well as death. It was a symbol
of hope, a message of patience, and
a guarantee of life everlasting. Gene-
sis, with its coffin in Egypt, was fol-
lowed by Exodus, which means de-
parture, deliverance. There is nothing
finer to remember in all this lesson
than the five worde: "I die, but God
will."
The same writer whose books on
Genesis are so valuable, gives the fol-
lowing qualities of the life of Joseph:
(1) Guilelessne a, (2) frankness, (3)
tactfulness, (4) sensitiveness to evil,
(5) purity of heart and life, (6) hum-
ility of word and deed, (7) wisdom,
(8) executive ability, (9) filial affec-
tion, (10) manly energy, (11) resolute
adherence to duty, (12) prudence, (13
self-control, (14) sympathy, (15) hope-
fulness, (16) considerateness, (17) eq-
uanimity, (18) courage, (19) patience,
(20 large hearted generosity. These
are perhaps the most important feat-
ures, though there are doubtless a
lot of others that can be found.
Ali IVenr0.1. t fr,ri ve
Writes, the Kingston Whig-Stand-
ard:—Why is traffic, after all these
years, getting constantly more dan-
gerous instead of safer? Perhaps the
chief reason is that a far greater
number and range of persons now
drive. Not merely are there more
ear -owners and in direct consequence
more car drivers, but also more per-
sons within an owning family drive.
The handling of a car is not left to
the one, or perhaps two, members of
the fainly assumed in pursuance of
the ways of horse -driving days to
be specially skilled or adapted to the
task. Nowadays almost everyone
feels that he or she is able and has
the right to drive. Put another way
the reason maybe that we have tried
to fit the auto into the system of
democratic individualism. We have
assumed that it is every person's
right to drive a car. It is probable
that a far greater proportion of per-
sons drive cars today than ever
drove horses. In the days when the
horse was dominant everybody did
iant feel competent to drive. As yet
w have hardly begun to tackle the
problem of ruling incompetent and
dangerous drivers off the road.
Tho largest window in England
as to be found in York Minster. It
fs seventy-five feet high and thirty-
two feet wide,
D--3
Believes Ctrs ts
Are Here Ts Stay
.Mauanfacturer Doesn't Think
Woman Will Take Seriously
Dieting •
General— MacDonald — June 3rd
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mrs. Blanche
Green, manufacturer of corsets, is
confident that "stays are here to
stay."
In Rochester to address a sales con-
ference of her representatives Mrs.
Green asserted she had no fears that
women would take up diet fads so
seriously that they wouldn't need cor-
sets.
"Women like ease of life too much,"
she said. "They won't make the sac-
rifice that makes for curvoiess figures.
Besides protruding abdomens and full
diaphrams are not always corrected
by diet."
A store on wheels carrying a sup-
ply of groceries, soft drinks, bread,
toilet articles, medicines and crockery,
has been equipped by the Breekhovet-
sky village store In the Azov -Black
Sea Territory of Russia to serve the
collective farmers while in the fields.
Cotton is considered the only im-
portant part that was cultivated in-
dependently in both the Old Neeeelel
and the New, before 'white men cares
to America.
1.1
After telling 18 policemen to v •torn he awarded medals for bravery to shoot hoodlums first and then
ask questions, Mayor Fiorella ),Guardia of New Yorlc pins Medal of Honor on Mrs: Nora Gallagher,
widow of clam officer. Mrs. wean Pasquerella waits turn to receive posthumous honor to husband
killed on duty.
Scho Mist_.'ess
Respects Girls
Founder and Head Believes Es-
sential Chraacter of Women
Not Changed
GREENWICH, Conn. — Young wo-
men
of today are absolutely straight;.
but love to pretend to be very sophis-
ticated, says Miss Caroline Ruutz-'
founder and headmistress of
Rosemarry Hall for Girls. She has
seen many changes in the behavior of.,
young women since sho began teach
ing 47 years ago but few changes in'
essential character.
"They nosier today — more .like''
boys," she told a visitor. 'And 40r
years ago I can recall that a very-
famous New York ecclesiastic devote.'
ed his entire address in the school to;
a plea against smoking and playing .
cards. Today what we emphasize is (•.
social behavior — one's. relations to
the world about one, of which the es-
sence is helping carry the burden and'(,.
not wanting more than one's right.,.;
ful share. If they make a mistake""
they take the consequences, but to re ,'
sort to tears is an abomination. ,'i
"Twenty years ago," she continued,
"a speaker could play on the girls":
emotions, often moving them by a`%
fearfully sentimental talk. That woul4
leave them cold today. Nothing is e
more characteristic of . modern girls;
than their penetration in seeing
through insincere nonsense and their
immunity to anything meretricious."
Miss Ruutz-Rees has received a let-
ter which said, in. effect:
"Forty-five years ago I had my face
cut open, playing cricket, and I have
never forgotten your comment: 'I
trust you did not behave in too fem-
inine a manner'.'
Miss Ruutz-Rees was pleased. For a
long time she has been. teaching "fem-
•iuisin by indirection," training girls
to be unafraid, level-headed, to hate
,injustice and to despise dishonesty.
She has rejoiced when they showed a
Capacity for scholarship and has ap-
plauded their efforts to combine mat-
rimony and careers.
The letter from the erstwhile crick
et player was only one of the many
heart-warming messages which have
poured in upon Rosemarry Hall's
foender recently in connection with
the proposal of its graduate body to
buy the school and insure its perman-
ence in even of the founder's retire -
meat. '
CarttoW Trarras
Three years ago railroads began
running winter trains from New
York and Boston into the New Eng-
land mountains for the benefit of
week -end skiers.
Those trains were so well patroniz-
ed that last summer the roads tried
a new experiment with "bicycle
trains" which conveyed city cyclists
to regions where, free of urban per-
ils and restrictions, they could pedal
to their heart's content among the
hills and woods.
That service also was enthusiastic-
ally welcomed by the public so this
summer witnesses still another ven-
ture—the "canoe train". Sports-
men with 40 -pound folding canoes
will be hauled into Connecticut to a
point on the Housatonic River, where
they may canoodle.
The Heal R,;11
In a country as young as Canada
one does not expect to find many
individual business enterprises with
a history going back as far as 1850.
Yet the Canadidan publication indus-
try -can boast of 10 daily newspa-
pers, 17 weekly newspapers, three
religious periodicals and one maga-
zine, all in active operation, that had
their beginnings earlier than the
middle of last century. That makes
21 publications, each of which is 87
years old or older.
And if the honor roll were to be-
gin at 60, there would be 204 publi-
cations that would qualify, 199 of
them being in Eastern Canada, the
part settled first. Today there are
many media available to advertis-
ers, but none with the long and dis-
tingu.shed record of useful service,
both to advertisers and the public,
One of .i?t" World's Greatest Ocean Ports
This view of the waterfront at Halifax covers only a portion of the vast extent of shipping but shows one
of the big sheds, where in fact most of Canada's o overseas contingents embarked on the way to war
and were royally greeted when they returned.
Annapolis Honor Man and Proud Parents
Mr and Mrs, H. P. Oberrneycr proudly pose with their son) Midshipman Jack Arthur Obermeyer, of
Drool:1yn, N.Y.,. Honor Man of the 1937 graduating class at U. S Naval Academy.
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By VIRGINIA. DALZ
The President of the 'United States,,
no less, is the new diction coach at'
the Selznick International studios ixt�
Hollywood. Whenever President'
Roosevelt makes an address over the°
radio, David Selznick has it recorded,
and these records are used daily in
the training of actors fro voice tests.'
Players memorize his speeches, and:
then play the records over and overs.
following his every intonation until;
they have mastered the art of perfect;
phrasing. Considering the great.
charm of the First Lady's recent;
broadcasts, studios might do well to
get records of her talks.
" In recent weeks Carole Lombard
has been the busiest young women in:
Hollywood, because
her Paramount con-
tract allows her to
make ono picture
for another comp-
any each year, and
all the companies
have been sending
scripts over to her
house for her ap-
proval. There were
such grand stories
in the lot that Car -
Carole ole wants to make
Lombard at least three of the
stories Her first'
flight away from the home studio'
will be at Selznick - International
where she will play in "Nothing Sac-
red" opposite Fredric March.
All of us who could not get to Lon-
don for the coronation can comfort'
ourselves by watching the long -ago'
coronation scenes in "The Prince and
the Pauper." This is a most likeable,
and refreshing picture and very ex-
citing too. The Mauch twins are a
grand. addition to the ranks of young
players.
Some weeks ago, you may recall,
Gloria Swanson's return to the screen
was all set. She was going to make
"Mazie Kenyon" for M -G -M. And then.
when Gloria arrived at the studio alle
read to go to work, the director look-
ed
ooked at her horror-stricken. She would;
not do at all; she looked too young.
Dashing over to London to coronation
festivities to forget her disappoint-
meet, Gloria had about decided that
her future lay in radio work, when Co-
lumbii pictures got her on the trans
atlantic phone and told her to hurry'
home, they had found the perfect
story for her. It sounds like a wonder- ,
ful break for Gloria.
LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—!More than
600 acres of irrigated land in this
district has been contracted by the
Associated Seed -Growers to grow
peas' and other garden seed. Thus
pea and bean acreage in Alberta has
been increased by about 135 per
cent. this year, with a total of 5,000
acres under contract throughout the
province.
More farmers tried to obtain con-
tracts for the year than companies
could possibly contract. Last year
peas were grown for $40 a ton, but
contracts for the coming crop set the
price at $60 a ton. Price for beans
is $90, or $40 higher than in 1936.
A Form of Relaxation
Joan Elondell looks up from the
springboard over the pool of her
Hollywood home as she lazily re-
lanes in the sun after a day on
the studio sets: