The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

personal relationship are lAe AiOSN go
portant. Before a man is public OF
fetal. he is a son or husband or father
or friend Many a man who is weighed
down with cares of state really has as
his first and deepest concern the way
wardness of a son, the illness of a GEAR
one. or some other like burden Inc
loneliness of the leader OF men, the ldch
of personal sympathy and sweet fel-
Iowship which lesser men enjoy, Is one
of the penalties of public service. Kip
ling has pictured this well in his'"Song
of Diego Valdez who. because he was
Lord High Admiral of Spain could no
longer enjoy the liberty ana pleasures
of the comrades of his youth.
The floods of purely human emotion
overwhelm Joseph, the great ruler OF
Egypt in the present Sunday schooI
lesson. He had tested his once-cruei
brothers. by many devices, ana Hau
found them changed men, All that the
RESPONSIBILITIES and caution OF ms hlsn
Office required of him he had done. ana
nov he filings aside all robes OF state
all titles all eXaltation, and becomes
only a lonely, homesick man, hungry
for the love of those of his own olo4u:
The sto-y is too fine to be marreu py
summarizing: here it is as the insured
narrative give 1t;
The Great Reunion.
And Israel took his journey with
all that he had, and came to beer
sheba. and offered sacritces unto the
God of his father Isaac Ana coo
snake unto Israel in the visions OF
1he night. and said, Jacob, jacob AND
he said. Here am I. And he said, am
God. the God of thy father: fear
not to go down in to Egypt: for l VIII
there make of thee great nation: L
will On down with thee into Egypt; ana
will also surely bring thee up again;
and Joseph shall put his hand upon
thine ewes And Jacob rose up from
Beersheba: and the sons OF Israel carried
Jacob their father, and their little ones
their wives, in the wagons which Pha-
raoh had sent to carry him. And they
took their cattle, and their goods which
they had gotten in tire land of Canaan.
and came into Egypt Jacob, and all ms
seed with him: his sons and his sons
sons with him, his daughters, and his
sons daughters, and all his SEED
brought he with him into Egypt.
And these are the names of the
children of Israel who came into |
Egypt. Jacob and his sons; Reuben:
Jacobs frst-born- And the sons OF
Reuben: Hanoch. and Pallu, and
Heron. and Carmi. And the sons OF
Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamlin, and
Ohad, and joachim, and Zohar, ana
ShauI the son of a Canaanitish wom- |
an And the sons of Levi: Gershon, |
Kohath. and Marari. And the sons
of Judah: E,r, and Oman, and Shelah,
and Perez, and Zerah but Er and oman
died in the land of Canaan And the
sons of Perez were Heron and Hamul &,
And the sons of Issachar: Tolar, ana /
Puvah, and lob. and Shimron- Ana
the sons of Zebulum: Sered. and Elon. |
and Jahleel. These are the sons OF
Leah. whom she bare unto Jacob in
paddan-aram. with his daughter
Dinah: all the souls of his sons and
his daughters were thirty and three
And the sons of Cad: Ziphion, and
Haggi and Shuni, and Ezbon, Fri and
I7n n
Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah. and Ishvi, |
and Beriah. and Serah their sister and
the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Nal
chiel. These are the sons of Zilpah, |
whom Laban gave to Leah his daugn-
ter: and these she bare unto Jacob, |
even sixteen souls. The sons OF
Rachel Jacobs wife: Joseph and
Benjamin. And unto Joseph in the
land of Egypt We're born ManaSseh
and Ephraim, whom Aenath, the |
daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. |
bare unto him. And the sons of
Benjamin: Bella and Becher. and |
Ashbel. Gera. and Naaman, Eli and
Besh, Maupim and Huppim, and Ard. |
These are the sons of Rachel, who |
We're born to Jacob; all the souls were
fourteen. And the sons of Dan: |
Hushim. And the sons of Naphtali:
Jahzeel and CUM. and Jezer. and
Shillem. These are the sons of Bill |
hah. whom Laban gave unto Rachel
his daughter. and these she bare unto |
Jacob: all the souls were seven. All
the souls that came with Jacob into /
Egypt that came out of his loins. be-
sides Jacobs sons wives, all the souls .
were three score and six: and the sons |
of Joseph who were born to him in |
Egypt We're two souls: all the souls of /
the house of Jacob that came into |
Egypt were three score and ten.
"And he sent Judah before him unto |
Joseph to show the way before him |
unto Goshen; and they came into the |
land of Goshen. And Joseph made |
ready his chariot, and went UP to meet
Israel his father. to Goshen; and he |
presented himself unto him, and fell |
on his neck. and wept on his neck |
good while. And Israel said unto |
Joseph. Now let me die, since I have |
seen thy face. that thou art yet alive.
And Joseph said unto his brethren. |
and unto his fathers house, I will go |
up. and tell Pharaoh. and will say unto |
him. Ny brethren, and my father
house who were in the land of
Canaan. are come unto me; and the |
men are shepherds, for they have
been keepers of cattle; and they have
brought their fiocks. and their herds, |
and all that they have. And it shall !
come to pass. when Pharaoh shall call
you. and shall say. What is your oc-
cupation2 that We shall say. Thy ser
wants have been keepers of cattle from |
our youth even until now, both we. |
and our fathers: that We may dwell |
in the land of Goshen; for every
shpherd is an abomination unto the
Egyptians"
When the Past Becomes Plain.
When we look backward the provi-
dences of God becomes plain. The
why OF the experiences which once
troubled US most is usually revealed
BY time. Disasters in the long look.
become triumphs, adversely appears as
truest prosperity: and our unanswer-
ed prayers cause us to praise a wise
Father who has led us by a way we
know not The providence in Josephs'
gic career was clear as the ruler
stood in the presence of the family