The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-20
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE LESSONS.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1880.
JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.
GENERAL sTATENENT.

now the dearth spreads lis dark curtain over
the lands. While the opened granaries of
Joseph supply the millions of Egypt with
bread, there comes up the cry of famine from
Beersbeba, on the borders of the desert
where the tents of Israel are pitched. The
aged patriarch, hearing that there is corn in
Egypt, sends his sons down thither for food,
ana little caravan threads Its way through
the desert and along the sea. The heart OF
Joseph leaps up as he beholds his ten brothers
kneeling befole him, who, more than twenty
years before. had sold him as slave. To test
their character and learn the truth concern
ing his home, he denls with them as a stran-
ger and lets them taste for three days the
bitterness of the prison, which their cruelty
had compelled him to suffer as man. years.
Then he sends tilems baek 70 Capasn. laden
will provisions, and bids them bring down
to him the younger broiber, whom he longs
ia embrace once more but rs hostage jc
their letuin holds one of their number a
prisoner still. A season passes once more
the brothers bow before Joseph's throne, and
am, ng them Benjamin, now young man of
twenty-five years. Their brother Simeon is
bi ought forth Fl ON his pli~on, and now, for
the first time in ne,'t'y quart er of a century
the Twelve sohs of Jacob sit down to q meal
together. Joseph's heaiv is Iuil. but he holds
his emotions in check, and calmly inquiries
as stranger, aftec toe old man whom they
lie / in the te 1t at Eeera neba weeping over The
separation from his youngest son. and d. cad
Ing lest o lother lamb may be lost from bis
fold. The met', w,i1 lis bewiIder ng Surprise
is e lded a. last, and tbe even bi iotOers are
once MOI on their jolrIeV homewaid id, their
beasts laden with &. aiu, and ali UNCONSCIOUS
that each mans money is In h s sack, and in
De ia ni5s the governors 81 yer cup. SUD
de0'y, tney a.e arres,ed. and iagged back
with slame to meet the eccu ;tion of iheIt,
W lose s.drs pg pioof can be met by no de-
ia:. Then cones scene on one side of wop-
deriu self euunciation. foJ,Owed by wonder
ful forgiveness on ine orher. BeIjamin is
lent, but Judah pIeads for Isr3e S sake TO
spai lie the youngest son, he son of The oari-
al chs old age. the sole Iemaiu;ng child of his
tenderly loved Rachel, now doubly precious
since Joseph is no more. At last, he whose
counsel had caused one brother TO be sold in
to slavery, now offers himself 10 become a
slave that another brotbe may go free. The
heart of the ruler can no longer restain lis
tide of feeling: the words, II am Joseph p
burst upon the amazed ears of the brothers.
While they sink before him in terror, he
calns theit feaPs assures them of a iull pardon
and shows them how God has overruled heir
wrong for his own glory and made it the
means of their own preservation.
Gen. Al. 30-35. s.
Memory Verses, Ia.
10 Now. therefore, when I come TO thy SER
want. my father, and the lad be not with us
seeing that his life is bound up in the lads
life;
81 1t shall come to pass, when he seeih that
the lad is not with us d. that he will die: snd
thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs
of thy servant our father with sorrow 10 the
grave.
. For thy servant became surely for the lad
unoo my father, saying, II l bring him not
unto thee, then shall bear the blame of my
father forever.
So Now there fore, play ihee, let thy serv-
ant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my
loi and let the lad go up with his brethern.
81 For how shall 1 go up to my father, and
the lad be not with me lest peradventure 1
see the evil that shall come on my father
Then Joseph could not restraln himself
before all them that stood by him and he
cried, Cause every man to go Out flom me.
And there stood no man with him wb lie Jo-
seph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud and the Egyptians
and he house of Pha aoh he;. ii.
And Joseph said uufo his brethren am
Joseph doth my father vet live? and his
b. eli ben could not alswer him: for ,hey
were troubled at his presence.
A And Joseph said un,o his brethren, Come
near to me, play you. And they came near
And be said, 1 am Joseph yoor bIoher,
whom We sold in o E3ypt.
5 Now toe efo e be not afieveG, nor angry
with you selves thai ye sold me hi her; for
God did sead me 5e;o you preserve Ii C.
For he.e two years hath the famine been
IN the la nd and YET there a,e five years in
The which there snail neithe: be ca ing nor
baryesi.
A nd God se3L me befo' { you to pIeee We
you posse v in the eaI tn, and 10 s.. ve yorr
lives by ;redt delivers ance.
So row, 1t was noS you that sent me
h.the' bat cd; and he ha.h mece me a fP
ther TO pb;,coah, aud 10 u all his sbouse nd
a rule: throughout all the land OF Esyot.
HOME READINGS.
N. Joseph and his brethren. Gen. H. Coils
tn. The unknown brotber. Gen. 4. LIZ.
w The returned money. Gen A.. ,S-cG.
tn. The second journey. Gel. 20. III.
r. The din 1ef with Joseph. Gen. %. a.
g. The cup found. Gen. 4. l-i3.
s. The prayer of Judah. Gen. q. 1870.
GOLDEN TEXT.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil
with good. Rom. 70. q.
LESSON HYMN. s. NJ.
Workman OF God o lose moi heat,
But learn what God is like:
Aud in the da. kesi paft,e-fie'd
Thou SHAFT X cow whe.e to STRIKE
Blest too is he who cal d vioe
Wnere real right doth lie,
And AaIes to take the side thas seems
Wrong to man's blind;old eye.
Then learn to scorn the praise of men,
And learn to lose with God;
For Jesus won the world through shame
A0d beckons thee his roed,
OUTLINES AND QUESTIONS.
l. JUDAHs GRIEF. v. 30-3/; Exod. 32. 80.
Who was Judah ? What evil deed had he
suggested? Gen. 81. %, "a, How we've Jo-
seph's brothers led TO EgyptP Acts I. IL.
What took place on their first visit See Gen.
AZ. Who came with them on the second Wis
it? Gen. AZ. 20. What took place ct the Sec
ond visit? See Gen. "A. LII. Why did Jo-
seph treat his brothers thus g? What led Jo-
seph 20 plead for Benjamin? What diu Ju-