The Lucknow Sentinel, 1937-06-17, Page 2•
JOSE$II''S' IKINDNESS; TQ HI,S
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Printed Text Genesis 46 17 .28-
"'Ili ti': ,W.. J,.: S•
:hoiden;rText ..`f Bc yef_kind one to an= Jacob into Egypt, that came out of• his •
other,: tenderhearted, forgiving each -
other,., even; as Geo.' also• in • Chri t
•forgave you."—,.Ephesians, 4:32;
TFJE' LESSON IN.,ITS • SETTING'
TIMES . , According: to.` the Common-
chr"onologv. Jaepb•went• down with, iris
itami into l; t• B.r. 1715; he• died•
4, ly.,.i .•gryp-
1:69,8;,Joseph'died TIC.- 1693.
Place Joseph's residence in
'Egypt was. at Zoan, :the capital of the .
kingdom' at that . time„ 'located on.: the
eastern partMof the Nile Delta,.' The •
Hebrew people. settled in the land of
;Goshen in • the eastern' part =of Egypt
• and 'north ot••the southern part of the
..,Delta. ;Hebron: is nineteen miles to
he
_soltih• we st .:ot.-J'm
ersuale, •
"And 'Isra l took "his journey with'.
al• that he had, and came,
o `Beer.
1,_ ,. .a.,t.
pheba�• and=•.oftered. sifices'unto;the .
God q!t • his',• father Issac. "' •, Israel, 'Who.
Is, as. we have seen before„ the same
• as Jacob; knew that ;he and-en-
tire,'family, the chosen people of God,
were on :the threshold of • a•. great ex-
.perience, . were at a,_turning-point • hf
their' ;history, ,and;' coming to know'
through his • long years of 'experience,
that •great ventures undertaken • with- '
' out• God are, doomed to failure, • tare
ries. at• peer -Sheba •.on•'his:.way down.
• into. Egypt,,, to offer,'sacrifice to : God:
'..:(See,.21:.38';'• 26124;. 28;10).
'!'An} God. snake' :unto Israel in, the
+° vieions 'of the night; and tsaid, acob, •
Jacob. And he: said, Herelam I -.3.•
"And' he .said, I am•. God,`the • God of
thy -.father; 'fear not''to go "down into'.
• y Egypt; for.J will theroo matte ,of , ee
a•great nation." •4.' I will '.:go .down
with thee into Egypt; and I' Will' also
;sur.ely bring thee up -again;, and Jos-
eph shall ;pat' his hand upon thine
eyes.':Here, is' the fulfillment • of the
• oft -repeated . promise. 'They that.
'''11s ` seek: `Jehovah; -shall -'not'' want any
:good.' thing",; -:•-(Psalm ' 34:10) Four.
things2 are promised. `..God's , permis-
ion 'to•'go,•:down intg.:Egypt; God's
'presence; as .they, go into. Egypt Go d
's
promise to, makeof,: the
min EgYP
t
.
a reat.nation, and-. god's purpose to
bring.. them ;back again to Canaan.
And 'probably, God's e' ,assuranc,that.
,'Jacob's descendants . would coni°back
•to"Canaan in "the' future was the most
• reassuring of all .God's gracious 'pro
ides, `to; Jacob this ;day
"And • Jacob rose 'up from Beer•She•
-
ba;.—and •the sons 'of -lsrael:carri1ed""Ja
Cob' their, -father, and,, their little -ones
;reed their .wives,. n the: wagons which
P. r:oh had an.t.tocarry' him:: 'And.
t] -:y ;tock their cattle. and :their goods
jv✓l;,ich theykhad gotten in :the Iand- of
C +lagan,$"and %came into' Egypt,`, Jacob,
and. all his seed with Iilm.`:'His sons;
and ,his Mn;'ssons.; with hirer, his•
• •g'tt.rs, and :his sons' daughters,'' and
„ all. his • seod'.brouglit :he' with him irate•
E,gypt." 'The,. ;wagons which -Joseph
sent wet e' certainlyR'four •wheeled :con-
veyane.es 'In 'sncli Wagons,''drarr•'by.•
encu, ;'did • the' wereen. and; .children of
•tha,:patriarchai family' travel: • Tl e ,
t cattle •were driven and:the rest of the.:
•eizthfs packed••upon apse"'s and :camels,
F. "Delitzsch• .
tdlitIe the; ,carefully, enumerated list 3
of iitimes • cf, phone,, who' went • clovVf
• in`•o• Lrypt 'in important 'in a. minute
•diacusoion` :f'•:1=leb: w history, we ;do
..;:need; here 'b' •' pend
sp ut. a , nionient with •
must not identify this' lis wit '
t... h
ai:o°he
. r contained;, • in Nr:m er
b u.62,.
Written' n' to t . w
o ,hundred' and' 'fifty years•
' later. Jacob `him.'e.lf
_, at this time; was ,.
ono 11! :.red and : '9 Joseph 9 anal. thirty, years old (47:
) a s p approxi.mate] , fort
y y
yta:'s''old' *rile fouben, the oiliest;.
• ,WAS.a6 ..
ut.fo�a"=six ::and o y an . Lenjamin,. •
the ..yo.angest;.about..wenty-six:. The •
- s..on;
s sof adeiiti . . , re fiirst'enumerated-n
then the sons of Zilgath Leah's
• 1'116
hah..ma]
• d .,).8
), then;'tlo• sons of,
Rachael, who .alone is :here called
Wife, of Jacob (19-22), and finally,: the
sons: of $fihah; Rachaers handmaid
�...:,i.n.;:..0✓Yt �W^..+.o..w.s .nab•.•. '..:...,.....:. .w K..•�.v
loins weie-`cleven.=sens,: one daughter,
-fifty, grandchildren, and: four great-
graacrsons;' in all, :•sixty -sir. Jacob, Jo
septi, • and his ',two.rsons are. four and
thus: all the souls belonging:"to the fa.
roily 6.f•Jacob which went into the.Val.;
ley' Of Egept .were seventy.; The';,Sep ; •
•tuagint• gives • oeventy five s as-: the. sum ,'
total, which is made •out of inserting:; t
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) „ andthe region .in Lower.,
Egypt 'east•et`the`Bubastic ranch 'of. , h .
•.the;Nile, a region not of any;•great ex ,
•• tent, •haeving •an.,area} of ':glint^ Lely
nine hundred°square miles,. but ex-
ceedingly fertiie,. and which allowed
the Israelites More, or less of a We of
separation from the contaminating In-
fluences of- grsat; Egyptian cities.
' "And : Joseph made ready •,his:char-
iot, 0,9.4.
a 'father, ,nd, went .up to meet Israel, ilia;
;'Y th ' "to. Goshen-... and .he. presented
d himself unto him, and :fell on, his neck e'
and. wept' en his neck a good •while..'
And ,Israel said 'unto Joseph, .Now, let
me die, .since .1 have; seen thy face,
that thou•;art yet..alive "; The meaning
of ,'the patriarch. is that,. 'since
.-his own, eyes he was now assured of,
Joseph's happiness, ;he had. ,nothing
• more to: jiye for,< the last earthly long. ?- a
ing;of-his"heart; having -been 'corn
pletelY sat1ai'i 'l s iritd» Y�1s.. n 'r eca1X
• prepared:for the','last scene: of all, reg
"dy, whenever .God witled`to be"called'.:
to his fathers ..'
• ' "And Joseph -said unto his brethren:
f die; but God will. surely visit' Siou, I i •
bring,•you;up ,out of this land unto the •
land . Which- he , sware to Abraham, to.
Is'sac;;an'd` to J•aeob And. Joseph took
• an' oath of the children . of, Israel,. say.
Ing, God: will surely visiuynu,,.and ye
shall carry Y lip . iri bones•.from 'hence.
.,
T1 rough'''all the, terrible bondage they
were destined. to.: suffer, the hones° of
• •Joseph, or rather,' his.' -embalmed body,
stood as ;the., most eloquent•;(advocate, '.
of God's, :faithfulness, eeasele'ssly re-
'minding 'the :,despondent generations:
of• the 'oath which'Clod would ,yet .en-
able ''them'. to fulfill. And thus; '.as'•Jo- •
seph had' µ 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.�be was put-'in_n,, Boffin in_;
E' ypt The book" opens with life, it '
ends with death,'tjecatfse .in :between •
,had$ comm sin ;which brings forth • the
death. And, yet "that coffin ' spoke, of
life as 'Well as death..It. was a symbol,
•'og.'hope„ a mer'sage, of patience, and ,7
a',guarantee of life everlasting. Gene
sis Withits coffin in -Egypt; wags fol.lowed' by .Exodus,, •which: means . 'de-
parture;
de-parture; deliverance: There •is 'nothing-,
•Einer. to :remember in all this:•lesson
'titan the:,five:words: "1 die, 'but•God;
-3f ?
•tel
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- Court Session In Wilderness
-To speed sPeed4uotice,:-'the judge ad the. jury'of the Pr ince Geor
g
e $elfish' Columbia A slies snt n o.
the'wilderness
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to take: the testunony of the Chief'•o £ the Siccaneus Indians: (seated), who was. quaran-•
tined in his cabin.,. ...•
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The same writer those 'books on
aluable 'gives he fol-`
Genesis ;are so, va. , g ... t. .
:.lowing qualities of the -life 'of Joseph
(;1)' Guilelessne.',s, (2) .frankn'ese, (3)
ta .tful ess ' (4) sensitiveness to evil
c n,
(5j p.urity of heart and life,(6),hum
i1i y of'.Word' :and "deed, 7: wisdom,::
(8) xecutiv bli.. 9 filia'. a ec
tion, (10,manly`,Ienergy;'(11) resolute :
•adherence, to •duty, (12_) prudence, (13
self-eo'ntro 14,•s'm'iath • (15)"--.o'
e--
•,fulness- 1� consideraten ess -
uanimity,: (1.8) courage,, (19) ,patience;
22 large heartedgenerosity. These
are perhaps the most important feat-
ures, though ' there are doubtless -a
,lot •of others that Can,., he found.
•
•l-lenorel:
•
Leigh Davis ;St'eintiardt, lv"ow'
Y _ 'YorkCity, fvho 'tb'olt -ilei"-1l6.6hcio�
, 4if Arta Qegtee,.:Snit mitCtim la4de,..
y' , �• . ith distinction
r n Mawr College. SYS wd''''se
e `red as alternate' sot huropeati
ellowship. • 4' •
Alll •a
� � n! toy.Dr:ve
Writes the Kingston', Wli'g-Stand
• and :t..Why' is traffic,: after all, these:
`years,, getting :constantly :more den.
'g°erous instead of safer? Perhaps• the
chief. reason• fs that 'a far. greater
number • and range of persons now.
i4
4 e Not --merely-•- re-rt-here�- nrnr
-
t,'xi, owrleiq and indirect consequence
more car ,drivers, •but`'also more' per
`sons within an owning family drive. •
The handling of a car is ;net left',td;:
the of e,^ or perhaps trio, imtnbers
Abe fnri lv r•:+'meil ,�r'r (� :':^n c of.i�.
the, ways ,,At .,h'o`rse-driving+ days: to
specially s?:ille(i or adapted to the •
task, . • Nowatlays4 _.almost,_ everyone''
• etij that he or she is. able, and .lits
the.right.to drive, I'ut another way
the reason may be•t)iat We iave tried
to fit, thea auto. into,. the, system of
democratio. ind;iviclaalsm. tVe have
afir,ta (d that It is every i er•son's
'right to dr vela ear,. ' IV is probable
that a far g.'eatet rr:Oortiirn ..of per-
•`sons chive (Ars, toit;'y t'{ia1..:ever
'�1iovS hol'i,,,� lin 1 '(*.•1/1 when the
horse was dominant' everybody •did°'
-,"..not feel competent to drive: As yet.,
We have: hardly begun to tackle the
problem of ruling, incom,iotent and„
angerous tl-r' veis ! 'the road. 4•
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A Horse Olt The House
"Silver
x..D.arBrady,Bradwestern ,fi ure whose a'.ntic s are' meant
earet t
oat
tract•attenaton
-`to;the -Golden Gate
Eosition in San.Fr n isco,show or e,.i'!Cicycone,"the s, ghiofNe* York
fro* roof of hotel.
•where both registered and wee accommodated
For Their ` Brave Dea
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fter tel - _ e -
1 ng 18 policemen to Whom he •awarded: medals .for bravery, .to shoot hoodlums first and then •
'ask'
_questions', M .or Fi rel' 11a her,
„ o a LaGuardia, of New York..pms. Medal of Honor on_Mrs. Nora Ga g 4,.
widow of claire office'r.�-Mrs.. Jean. Pas ueretla waits turn to receive. osthumous .honor" to. husband
•killed :on duty.
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Yf is : $cent
°Bad f olr Liv!r
The.' HQ norl?oll: '
In Xi.
aeo ate a ' ;oun
-- Y�sY-. �-g.-. glees:
.one does . not ex �ect 'to find=
P ,. . .many
individual'''business enterprises with
a
history -going ,lback as -far as 1850.
,
Yet'the Canadidan publication indus-
try,'', caq. boast 'of 10. .da`1y iiewspa-:
• per's,
17 weekly :newspapers, ;;three
'religious .periodieals'and` one :maga-
zine, all in active operation; that had'.
their
their , beginnings 'earlier than ° the
'capital bevy ids •Imposed fix
Etialaiid neatly 106 ' years ago, in
middle of last century. tury.
That, m.akes
21 publications each,of:w %ch.is 87
years old or older
:And if'"the "honor roll. were to be-,
gin. at 60, there would' be 204 publi-
cations •'cationis that would q ,u a a y,•199` of•
•
them being in Eastern' Canada,' the
part settled :first. Today there:' are
many media': available• to; advcrtis-
ers, but none'• with the:long'and .dis-
tingiiished record of `useful :service,'
both • to advertisers andthis ublic
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from �.A..seaplane can: rise fr m Blight1y
'rough Water' more
easily�t
an -from•
�1m •surfac
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The unseen •for es thatate ”
haecn-
db
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tatied in `t `e' min's rays aro. neces-
sary
s-
sary to'ali'Iife existing on the- earth.;
:The, largest •Window in : England
`.is'to''be fotind in York Minster: :Its
is seventy-fivefeet high and thirty:
'two feet wide.
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In spite of her ,'outstaying sac=
.cess ,ilio "Val:ant is the. Word . for.
Carrie", And: the forthcoming "They.
Gave ?Tim.'a.,Gun," which is: