The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-20
Sunday Study.
JOSEPH AND PHARoAH.

! The international Sunday school les
son for Oct. 20 is found in Genesis xii,
3S-49. The memory verses are, S9-4l.
The golden text is I. Samuel IL, 80.
The lesson still finds Joseph in prison.
The king of Egypt dreamed two dreams
which his wise men could not interpret.
He heard how Joseph had interpreted
dreams in prison. Joseph was sent for,
and he told Pharaoh their meaning, and
the king was much pleased. Can we
find such a one as this, man in whom
the Spirit of God is?' spoke the king
to his servants when he had heard the
words of Joseph ''Only in the throne
will L be greater than thou" From
a prison to throne, and so suddenly,
and what wonderful words from Phar-
oah, Thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled,'' the second ruler in all
Egypt, and because God had spoken
through him. According to the golden
text, God honored Joseph because Jo-
seph had honored Him. "PromoLon
cometh neither from the East, nor from
the West, nor from the South; but God
is the judge. He putteth down one and
setteth UP another" And Pharoah con-
f1rmed his advancement of Joseph to
authority by transferring the ring upon
his hand to Joseph's hand, by the YES
lures and the gold chain and a place in
the second chariot in the land.
Joseph went out over all the land
of Egypt" No one might do aught with.
out him; as in the prison. SO now in all
the land, it might be said of him. What
soever they did there he was the doer
of it."
''And Joseph was thirty years OLD when
he stood, before Pharaoh, king of Egypt
Our Lord was thirty years old when He
began His public ministry duke ill.,, 23);
so likewise was John the Baptist and
Ezekiel, and this was the age when
the priests began their ministry. Joseph
began to rule at the age of thirty but
our Lord began His public humiliation,
for while He went about doing good,
anointed with the Holy Ghost, it was to
be despised and rejected and crucified as
an eVildoer, and He Still waits for His
kingdom
@And Joseph gathered corn as the sands
of the sea, very much, until he left num-
bering; for 1T was without number This
he did during the seven p1enteouS years,
for the earth brought forth by hand
fuls, and Joseph diligently made provi-
sion for the time to come when there
would be great distress. The phrase "as
the sand of the sea- or, as it is some
times, 'tas the dust Of the EARTH" is
figure signifying that which cannot be
counted.
In Que time the famine came. Then
all Egypt cried to Pharaoh, and he said:
go unto Joseph; what he saith to you,
do" This reminds us of the saying of
Jacobs wives, Now, then, whatsoever
God hath said unto thee, do" also of
the saying of Mary to the servants at the
marriage in Cana, Whatsoever He saith
unto you, do it, Our great and only
question concerning the things which are
eternal, the things of the kingdom.
should be, what hath the Lord spoken?''
for He only has the bread Of life and all
must come to Him who would have life.
Not only all Egypt had to come to Jo-
seph, but all countries, and,' we shall
see in the next lesson, all Israel, too;
and the sons Of Israel found their bene-
factor was their brother Israel shall yet
see that their deliverer is the same one
whom they crucif1ed, sand to Him all
flesh shall come.