The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-11

an issue which has made man ia
nous passes away the mans work is
done and the mans name will surel,7
be forgotten
Still Another Reason.
But there is another reason why
those Egyptians ceased to honor the
name of Joseph. The disasters which
flowed from the stay of his people in
Egypt were so overwhelming that Jo-
| seph's services were forgotten. They
could not mention his name unless at
| the same time they recalled the ca
I lamities bis descendants had brought
upon their kingdom. Those Hebrews
who were the descendants of Joseph
| and his brethren were like small
| tribe of Indians called the Aztecs,
which settled in Mexico. They multi
piled rapidly in numbers until they
| overran and captured the whole land of
what is now called modern Mexico. So
was it with the children of Israel in
Egypt. They were multiplying so fast
that they threatened to overturn the
throne of the pharaohs.
Joseph? Who was Joseph" I hear
some of the Egyptians ask. ooh,
know some one answers. HE Is that
Hebrew who was captured by band
of rowing Ishmaelites and brought into
/ this country and sold as a slave about
| 200 years ago, under one of the shep-
| herd kings called Aphobis. Then the
| story goes that he interpreted some
| crazy dream of the king and was APP
| pointed prime minister. Then he sent
| to his old home in Canaan and brought
| down ISL his brothers and their wives
and children. And their descendants
multiplied until they have become as
numerous as the Hebrews we have
with us today" What! Did all those
| Hebrews come from Joseph's familyY'
Eyes, all, ALL" Then | hear the Egyp-
| tians mutter: Course him. Curse him.
| Curse him. Then the Egyptians for
| got all about the days of famine. They
| forgot how Joseph had saved their an
| cestors from starvation. They only
| remembered the fact that the multi
| tudes of threatening slaves at their
feet were the descendants of this an
cient prime minister and his relations.
! Alas, my friend, is it not a fact that
the evil we do will live longer in mems
| minds than the good we do? And the
sad fact is, though we may have spent
whole lifetime in good works, yet if
we do one wrong that one wrong will
| be chiseled by man i'll the solid rock of
memory, while the good we do will be
| forgotten in day.
The Evil Remembered.
Who was Solomon Spaulding?
'Spaulfing, Spaulding?' you say.
WAS it not Solomon Spaulding who
once lived in rittsburg? Was he not
| the man who in 1910 wrote a book to
prove that the North American Indians
were the descendants of the lost ten
tribes of Israel? And was it not this
book that Joseph Smith took and after
ward called the Book of Mormon,
upon which he afterward founded the
/ Mormon church, Yes, Solomon Spaul
I ding was that man. Is that all you
know about him? Well as far as l
can make out, Solomon Spaulding lived
| just such life as you and | are try
/ ing to live. He was an honest man.
He was good to his family. He tried
/ to be of help to mankind. But in his
! old age. to pass the tedious hours Of
/ inyalidism, he wrote this book which
the charlatan, Joseph Smith, got hold
Of And today ali the good that Solo
mon Spaulding ever did has been for
gotten. But the one mistake he made
will live through the centuries. And
SO, my friends, If you and | are liv-
ing simply for the fame which we
shall have among those who come aft
err us there are thousand chances to
| one that we then shall be best remem-
! bered by the mistakes we have made
rather than praised for the good we
have done Joseph, the prime minis
ter who saved Egypt from starvation
was forgotten, but Joseph the ances-
tor of the Hebrew slaves was remem-
bered "And there arose up new
king over Egypt which knew not Jo-
seph.'
But there was still another reason
why the Egyptians ceased to honor the
name or Joseph. AS uiSHOHesl Dco-
pie ruled by dishonest officials, they
did not want to revere the memory of
one whose public and private life was
pure and spotless and who, through
long premiership, demanded that the
Egyptian people should be honest and
pure as he was honest and pure. Why
you might as well expect a band of
highwaymen or pirates to elect Paul
or Jesus for their captain as to expect
the dissolute, merciless Egyptians to
like Joseph What he stood for they
did not What he preached was against
every desire of their corrupt hearts.
Joseph Was Pure.
In the first place, Joseph was pure
man in his moral life He believed
that marriage was more than mere
| name or a cloak behind which man
or q woman could hide a multitude Of
sins. He did not believe that as soon
as married men or married women be-
came tired of their marital partners
i they had a right to turn their backs