The advocate., 1895-05-15
Sydney Stone, Anti-EedeIaL.
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Whereupon his neighbors would take this money
and give it back to the man of money in exchange
for the things the other man had sold. This system
once fully established among foolish people, what
was wanting but that few men should control all
the money of the country and thus compel all the
industrious to seek them and do what they might
see proper to demand? Read the account of Jo
seph's management of matters in Egypt, and you
will see the whole scheme laid bare. Knowing that
after seven years of abundance would come years of
famine, Joseph as Pharaoh's prime minister, dur
ing the plentiful years bought up all the corn and
food that was for sale; then when the famine came
he sold corn and food until as the account in Gene
sis says Joseph gathered up all the money that
found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Ca
naan, for the corn which they bought But let me
get my old Bible and read you the rest. Here-We
begin with the fifteenth verse of the fortY-seVenth
chapter of Genesis. Nowlisten: And when money
failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Ca
man. all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said,
Give us bread for why should we die in thy pres
ence? for money faileth. And Joseph said, Give
your CATTLE and will give you for your cattle, if
money fail. And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange
for horses and for the Ocks and for the cattle of
the herds, and for the asses and he fed them with
bread for all their cattle for that year. When that
year was ended, they came unto him second year
and said unto him, We will not hide it from my
lord how that our money is SPENT my lord also hath
our herds Of catte there is not aught in the sight of
my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: wherefore
shall we die before thine eyes, both and our land
Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed,
that we may live and not die that the land be not
desolate. And Joseph bought all the land for Pha-
rsoh; for the Egyptians sold every his field be-
cause the famine prevailed over them; so the land
became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he re-
moved them to cities from one end Of the borders of
Egypt even to the other end thereof
"Pharaoh was wise enough however, to take good
care Of the priests. They could be highly useful in
subdung any turbulence of unreasonable Egyptians
who might find fault with this pous arrangement of
Joseph's for the benefit of the royal treasury Let
us read on:
"'Only the land of the priests bought he not; for
the priests had portion assigned them of Pharaoh,
and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them;
wherefore they sold not their lands Then Joseph
said unto the people, Behold, have bought you this
day and your land for Pharaoh: 10, here is seed for
you, and ye shall SOW the land And it shall come
to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your
own for seed of the field and for your food and for
them of your households and for food for your little
ones. And they said, Thou hast saved ourSlVes:
let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and"
"Oh, what idlotic groveling" exclaimed Syndey.
"The fools actually thanked the scoundrell And
we have just the same kind of people now. If the
rich man who has stolen their farms tells them they
may stay as his tenants for year or two, giving
him share of what they raise, the stupid FOOLS the
unmanly ignoramuses, are ready to fall down and
worship him. Well, have heard and read that Jo-
seph story ever since 1 was small lad and / have
always regarded Joseph as a remarkably righteous
man, the despicable tool of svaricel Never before
did Inotice the scheme of robbery revealed in those
verses"