The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-25
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson N.--SeCond Quarter, For
April 81, 1913.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of the Lesson, Gen. sekxvii, 1886.
Memory Verses, 26; 27--GoIdsn Text,
Cor. xiii, documentary Prepared
by Rev. o. NJ. Stearns.
We begin today some studies In the
life OF Joseph. who was in many re-
spects a most wonderful type Of the
Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit has told
us by Paul that Adam and Eve suggest
Christ and the church both by analogy
and contrast. ..... g
We have cen much in the death and
resurrection and marriage Of Isaac, but
no character is quite so full typicalIy
as that Of Joseph. No one can be a
type of Christ in the matter of being
sinless, for He alone was without sin.
But there are quite a number who be-
cause of incidents in their lives or off,
cial position are suggestive OF Christ.
We are to have seven studies in the
history Of Joseph, and as the next will
be In chapter xl this lesson must touch
xxx as well as xxxvii. We are in
troduced to Joseph at the age of seven
teen as a shepherd with his brethren
(verse p. There we're two peculiar
things about him, for neither of which
he was responsible-he was loved by
Israel more than the others because he
was the son Of his old age, and the
Lord gave him two dreams which in
dicated an %exaltation above his breth-
rem and eve above his parents oversees
BID.
Because of his fathers love and these
dreams 1t is written that his brethren
hated him and they hated him yet the
more and they envied him and as they
saw him coming, being sent by his IA
Their to seek their welfare, they con-
spired against him to STAY him oversees
4, s, s, II. 10, 20l.
Our lesson verses today tell Of his
being stripped of his coat OF many col
ors or pieces, cast into a pit, taken up
again and sold IS a slave for twenty
pieces of silver and taken down to
Egypt and sold to Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's and captain OF the guard.
AS his father waited and wondered con
corning his precious boy they brought
home his coat, which they had dipped
In the blood Of a kid of the goats, and
said, This have we found-know
now whether it be thy sons coat or
no." So Jacob was led to suppose that
Joseph had been killed by a wild beast.
and he refused to be comforted. He
had soreIy deceived his father, and
having sown the wind he reaped the
whirlwind.
Turning to Joseph, we find him both
as a slave and as a prisoner falsely ac-
cused and wrongfully imprisoned call
ed a prosperous man, for the Lord was
with him. In Potiphar's house all that
he had was put in Joseph's hand, and
even in the prison the keeper put ev-
erything under his care, and whatso-
ever they did there he was the doer of
it (xxxix, Is, 21-23). So the years
passed with Joseph, who was sold for
a servant, whose feet they hurt with
letters. He was laid In iron. Until the
time that His word came the word of
the Lord tried him Fps. CIV, 17-19).
In '"The Study of the Types" by Miss
Ada r. Habershon, she notes the fol-
lowing points Of analogy, giving the
New Testament and other references.
l am glad to quote them for those who
are interested enough to look up the
references, giving today only those from
the two chapters we have looked at.
The good shepherd feeding his flock
(John x, II, 14). Loved by His Father
(Matt. lid. Hated, envied and disbe-
lieved by his brethren John iii, 10, 20;
vii, 5; XIV, 25; Mark XIV, 10; Luke xix,
14). His pre-eminence shown in his
dreams (Col. /, 49,. His father observ-
ed his saying duke ii; 81. He willing
~ agreed to go to bis brethren Cps. II,
7, s; Luke Xxx, ID; John Iii, 49,. He
went from Hebron fellowship, came
to Shechem and was found wandering
in the field John xvi, %; xvii, 5, "a;
iv, 4, 3; Matt. xiii, 3S; Luke TX, 5S).
He went after his brethren to seek
their welfare. and his father told him
to bring him word again duke xix,
10; XIV, 4; John xvii, 13l. They con-
spired against him. Knocked him, strip
ped him, put him in a pit, sat down
and afterward sold him into Egypt for
twenty pieces Of silver (Matt. xvii, l,
%, sc, 8; XVI, 10; ii, ID; Mark XIV, 30;
Ps. xl, 2; Xix, 2, IA, 15).
He became a slave to an officer Of
Pharaoh, but the Lord was with him
and made all that he did to prosper
lisa. Xix, Z; lii, 10; Phil. Ii, z; John
xvi, 32). Those who oppressed him
were blessed for his sake and placed
everything under his care Rph. 1, 8;
~, 80; John ill, 35; II Tim. i, 12). He
was a goodly person. well favored, yet
without sin (Song v, 16; Luke ii, SO;
Hab. iv, 15. Many other texts may
be added to these, and we will quote
further a~nalogies from Miss Haber.
Shon's studies in future LESSONS.
1t will help some to remember that
whatsoever things were written afore-
time were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort
of the Scriptures might have hope"
and that '"These things were our exam
pies and happened unto them for
types" (Rom. XIV, 4; I Cor. x, 6, Ii,
marginl. I have no doubt but that Jo~
seph was sustained in his sufferingB
by the glory set before him In his
dreams, for since he could interpret
the dreams Of others, as we shall SEQ
In our next lesson, he must have under
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