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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1936-04-17, Page 3i✓i',y 1`riil ra { rartli Fire Stories of .. srael (By Charles Mah o m) (Conti'nued from .lash weak) Chapter XXVII• PRISON'ER'S DREAMS At first Jloseph �wa`s: {bound in pri- on, hut he did not.. -,complain. He knew that he ought net- to tie there, .lout he did not get 'angry When' he titalkeid about it. He did''.-elvlerything that the jailor told him bo do. He was such a good prisoner that the jailor began to Wander why he 'was always bound.. One day the �jailo • .took the chains off 'his feet -then he unlbb,und his hands. But. he kept the door lacked very carefully . Then one day h'e• left the door unlocked where 'Joseph was, but ,he watched Joseph to see .if he would try to get away. Of course Jsseph did not try to gel -4.1&0511 'The . jailor grew very 'fond of Joseph. One mourning when he was very busy Joseph offered to i1el{p• The jailor •wa very 5 'e Lad of the offer, J Y g ,.- It was not Long till they became regu- lar partners in tjhe..,business{ of look- ing after the other prisoners. And ?naturally they became fast friends. Now as Joseph was willing to do the work inside the tower prison, it 'soon became the: 'hiaabit of the real jailor to come in only once in -a while to •. inspect the work that Joseph was do- iing-'and if was always so well done that instead Of inspecting the work ]Td':.woudd...have'a t'al'k- With •J'oserph...... "New prisoners were 'being sent in- to the r'oun'd house every few days, and it was Joseph who put them in- to their pri's'on. cells. • And it was . Joseeph who ;looked after • .them'. 'One day there was a plot discover- ed in 'Phar+oah's 'palace -somebody -was going to p'ois'on the Pharoah. And they suspected that there were Only two men who could do ,Ithat very we'll! So 'they sent those two men to the prison where Joseph' was• The two men were the ,head cook and the gupbearer. •Pharoah's ,o,r'd,ers were that they should be put in 'the dun- •gelon 'and' carefully guarded. So Joseph did ale Pharoah ordered. Two or three times each day Joseph went do them taking food to them. ,Ile 'tried to make thein comfortable as, .possible He talked with. them and 'they told him all about themselivies. :Jo'sep'h knew that they were not :guilty of the:thing they were put in prison for, and he was • sorry for them,. (But What ',could he do? One morning after both -of these seen had a d're'aam,. Joseph noticed their sad faces. Joseph laid :their breal:fast down and,.standing in _rthe open door of their dell heas'ke'd tih'e'm why they were so very gloomy. One 'of them answered that they both had a dream last night, and that neither of them could -Understand what either of the dreams meant, and they could not go to anybody else to find . out . 'what the dr'earms could mean, since they were (b'o'th in° prison.. Joseph sat down beside the men and said, "Do not i'nterpr'etations be- long . to elong.to God? Tell me your dr'e'ams; perhaps. the interpre'tat'ion may be given to me?" Th'e cupbearer told his dream. "In my • dream, behold a • c i n e .grew up • 'before rne, and there ';were -.three branches on it. The three branches 'seemed to have bud's, and the 'birds , became blos'som's while I iodoked and " the bliossbms• 'became grape's, fine clutters of rich ripe grapes! • In 'my hand 1 had Pharloah's ens), slo 'I took the grapes and press - "ed them out into the cup and gave the clip to Pharoah. Th b wa'ken'ed." ... Joseph Said, "Th 'three branches are three • days. •In three days Phar- oah Will call you back • again • :to • be 'his cuplbearer, and You shall indeed g'i've the cup to Pliare h again".Then when Joseph had ;finished .his inter- lpretation'of` the dieiam., he went on to, say 'to th'e 'cupbearer: "When you tem The) walgen044.'•' Theta 1 said.: "'MA. e ' . a.r. 444,aa+e dire vya. OOT til( n+d I.110 ash obal'L• h t u1►. your:: ileac r7,- lour off Aar s die ', And: be e41a11 place Y01144, body where -the birds. oast tonne and eat • your flesh. '.For Pharlaah believes 'fit are guilty of the -plot, and he its' .a . aid that your soul may con back s'om'e time 'to enter into your body again, and then, poiision him,, .so- he will ','ra'v'e, it 'scat- =tered by the Unit," 'Neat a 'very good dmalny.,, for the 'balker! But in three days, , Phareah had a . bir'thd'ay. He was eating and drinking with all his servants around him. Thera ho—thought atblout •hots old cook and 'cixpbearer.. So he, 'sent for them. When they camp into 'the .feast Pharoah called gladly to the cup - bearer, and told him •to take his old place and hand him his cup of wine. But he '1'o'oke'd1 at the 'backer • with a frown •and called his soldiers' to take him ,away and hang him... Lb all hap- p'ened just as ' Jo'seph..had said it wo'u'ld. (We would 'expect -that ....the cup - •bearer would tell Pharoah Tight away about the Hebrew pri's'oner, in the round ,house, who had told him his !'ream' aright. But he' forgot. For a long, long tfae he n'ev'er said a ,wlord, about Joseph to. the, King • And t Jo..C e h p was in the prison help- ing the jailor; making the pri'son'ers asI comfortalble as poss'itbd{e,•-Ibut all the tine he was• wondering why the cupbearer forgot! . . . However, God did not forget' BRUSSELS Intended for last week Following an illness of four months' duratGbr;, .LAle kandl:r ilf, ,Macdonald, prominent b'usliness man and beloved resident of Brussels, passed away .on Thursday morning, in ..his 70'th year. Dorn in Galtt in, 1867, Ma'._ 'Macdlon- ald t'au'ght school in ,P'rin'ce Albert, Sask., and at rWiiarton, marrying Miss Margaret C. Rarity in 1907 and com- ing to Ethel where he taught achlbbl for t'hr'ee years. He was then Clerk of Grey Township for 12 years 'he - fore moving to Brussels where he fill- ed the 'positions of Clerk •o'f tlse vil- lage, secretary-tr'easnirer of the school board and. secretary -treasurer" of the Hydro Electric Co., and manager and oe'cretary,-treurer Of the Brussels, Morris' and Grey Municipal Telephone Sysi'em. He ,was: Elder in Melville Presbyterian 'Church, and Past 'Mas- ter•• of St. John's Lod'g1e A. F & A.. M. and's'eeretary of the Can'ad'ian Order... of Foresters. Ile is survived' by his wife -and one son, Burton 0.„ and two grandsons and four sisters, Mrs. 'Wim. J. Arkies and Mfrs: Hattie Hahn, of C -.n Sound, and Mrs. 'Mary Ruther- ford and Miss Jessie Macdonald, ' of Marton, and :on'e 'bro'the'r, John A. --Ma-cd'ona'ld; of--Car'ruduff, ISask. • came to - P'haroa11„ remember me and tell Pharoah about Me. For .I was stolen' away from my home in the Land of the 'He'bre'ws, and I have 'done nothing to ,deserve to be put in this prison Slower'." It was a pretlty good dream for Ilhe cupbearer. 'So the chief baker .told what he had dreamed, "In my. dream, 1thleri were three . baskets of' bread 'on my -head. I1v the top bas- ket there was all manner' of baked food far {Pharoah. But the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my*. Snow in April, . Winter lin 'the lap of s'prin'g; jay, to (boys and girls •you bring. :Roller 'skates are stored away; 'Sleighs again are in the play. 'Robin thinks he came too soon; Stays ,inf'sllielter until noon. Worms are hidden 'heath the snow; -"Where {tla breakfast 1 don't know." hop's around our kitchen door. '"Gi'v'e Me s'o et ing fporm,your• store." 'lyparirows' dant 'lilinfg .sip, his sleeve'; :Rolbin;, you hacy11'better`1'eave" ISnawdaioipts, - you •fwltfi'l ', Tovr' name ; 'Cryn'bal1-'blanket, Vs, a shame. Cheer up; clouds wi'iI roll away, ;Sol will brihllg a beiglhter day: J. B. LOBE. - 101intoriti 'Ont. R the )(.ilico>Rie Froin Titers is Ener o I;, _ But mid King . R irseS4(,)y-._ ' A Part o It. 'The ineanie. f' ttirn the Bri.tis'h =,Cno•wx I,arids and. p(asselssions 'aniounts to 01,2510,000 a year,. and the King yields l'ai his c'm 'ta that,slim for a much smalher 'snahiu' of { inril List - money, '£470,000. This 'state'ment is made by C. A. Lyon in The -"Sunday Express (London), aftetr'which the author con • - tin'ues He (KingEdward VIII) is the own- er of im'm'ense London properties, the .ground landlord of His Majesty's - Theatre, of ail -those najes!tic stucco mansions in 'Carlton House Terrace, of the Carlton Rotel, of ''the Royal Opera Arcade, of the •Holborn Res- taurant. Of Viner Street pollee sta- ili•cnt,: of Pall 'Mall; and of the criter- ion block at Piccadilly Circus that yields '£8,000 a- year. Of that mod 'ern ,gild chine;'^Regeait Street, that has multiplied its rent roll seven tilmej since it has been rebuilt, from £44,000. Ito• £310,000. Of large bl'o'cks of prolpeirty'=