The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-14
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Dearly beloved brethren who are in
 politics, you will find the text in the
 fortieth chapter of the Book of Genesis,
 twenty-third verse. "Yet did not the
 chief butler remember Joseph, but for
 gat him." And it is interesting to mo-
 of the bible which tells of the begin
 nings of the human race. We shall
 see, as we go on, that the human race
 has not changed much in some respects
 since in its early days the chief butler
 forgat Joseph,
 Joseph, as you all know, or may know,
 was fine young man. He was such q fine young man that his brothers didn't like him. But in attempting to show him that they didn't like him they over reached themselves and made his ever lasting fortune. By means of their en- wy and hatred, and by means of the softness of one of them who declined to help kill him, he found himself in Egypt, the property of one of King Pharaoh's officers. Being smart and ambitious, goodly and well favored, and, above all, having the Lord on his side, he became prosperous. Then he got into what looked like woman scrape' on the face of it, but was really woman's plot, and as a result of her satanic skill he found himself in prison. Here he came across the chief butler of the king, who had perhaps not dealt with the kings wines as he ought to have done, and who had therefore been cast into prison. This butler being nat urally much disturbed in his mind by | his downfall didn't sleep very soundly, | and one night he had a queer dream. l Tn this dream there was vine with | three branches. The vine budded land | her blossoms shot forth and the clus- | ters thereof brought forth ripe grapes" King Pharaoh's cup was in the dream | CTS hand. He took the grapes, pressed | them into the cup and gave the cup | into Pharaoh's hand. When he woke | up he was anxious to know what this | dream, which appeared to be closely | connected with his business and misfor- | tune, meant. He talked with Joseph l about the matter, and Joseph told him he could interpret the dream. His in- depreciation of it was this: "The three branches are three days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head and restore thee unto thy place; and thou shalt deliver Pharaohs cup into his hand after the former manner when thou vast his butler" Having thus put the chief butler into more frame of mind Joseph said a word or two for himself. But think on me-" he pleaded, "when it shah be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this house."
 After three days it all came out as Joseph said it would. The chief butler was taken out of jail, the keys of the kings wine cellar were handed to him, "and he gave the cup unto Pharaoh's hand" Yet did not the chief butler Joseph, but forgat him" Dearly beloved brethren who are in politics, what think ye of this chief but Ter? Wasn't he an ungrateful wretch when he forgat Joseph, who had shown him the way out of jail and who wanted ( to get out himself, and all the more be- l cause he had got in on a false accusa- ton? And what think ye of the chief buffers of our own day, who, when they l are prisoners of hope and anxiety be- fore election, eagerly seek the comfort I and the help of those who can make , their way plain before them, and who f liter election forget those on whom they most relied before they were out of 7 misery? Are not the chief buffers of , .hese times who bask in the sunlight of I he favor of the sovereign people, and | ireams for them when they were in rouble just like the chief butler who, liter he had become solid with the king, orgat Joseph? Dearly beloved breth- 'en who are in politics, so it seemeth, q But be not utterly cast down, ye who nave been Josephs unto chief buffers Il ind have been forgotten. Two years I liter King Pharaoh's chief butler for i' rat Joseph he repented of it.
 
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