The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-05-17
International Sunday School Lesson.
Second Quarter. Lesson z Gen. 40:
May Is. 1918.
Joseph Meets His Brefhern.



Tho Story.
That inimitable story-teller, Ed
ward Everett Hale, runs an imagi-
native parallel to the authentic his
tory of Joseph. 1t is to the effect
that once the Hebrew lad is on the
point of escaping by night from the
camp o" the slave-traders, when a
yellow dog banks, his keepers are
awakened, and he is, retaken. An
onlooker wants to kill the dog be-
fore he barks, and thus help Joseph
to escape. But the guardian angel
cries, Hands off, And just to
show him what would happen if he
were to interfere in this way, he
lets him try it out in an ideal
world. The dog is killed. Joseph
escapes; his father is happy; his
brothers comforted. But the fam
inc comes, and there has been no
Joseph to store the corn in Egypt.
All the Orient famishes. Great civil
1;,.tion. nar;sb otbers remain nm
dave,onad bacanse , yellow dog was
not allowed to bark. 1t is clever
wav of showing how great events
NAV turn m small hinges and the
suffering of many be saved by the
suffering of one. Never were tables
turned more completely. The bro
there futilelv scanned the faces of
passinS slaves. thinking, they might
possibly see in transit the brother
they had sold into bondage twenty
years before: but they looked strai-
. III IND fhe face az Pharaoli,s Sec
srak1rySpf state, wearing the kings.
snjf4pla and sixnet ring without the
slightest suspicion that their own
blood ran in his veins. They knew
him not" Joseph naturally had no
such difficulty. His brothers were
grown men when, he was parted
from them. Thew had changed lit
tie. If any. They were in their own
native shepherd garb. Joseph
knew his brethren" but he could
MT know their feeling and attitude
toward himself and was perfectly
justified in putting them to the test,
eav.r. +bouob If was Joseph
.,,.s 80 d;a not s,rn.ss bic
l;na,v daecana.n+ so,omon in the
judicial eYnedient he used to try
out his brothers 1t was not until
they were actually in their brothers
sorry plight that they felt the pangs
O. conscience and said to each 9TH
er: I'VE are guilty. We saw his
anguish. Yet We would not hear
him. Now his distress is ours"
Little did they dream that the
prince around whose neck hung
Pharaoh's golden chain, and at
whose door stood chariot second
only to that of the king, understood
every syllable of the native dialect
in which they talked. Joseph show
ed how fit he was to wear the pur-
pie by not Immediately disclosing
his identity and thus magnifying
himself. Again, he loves MS pro
theirs, In spite OF their unklndness'
far too well to simply condone their
offsnse. He felt his moral oollga-
ton to reform his orothers before
he forsavs them.
The Teachers Lantern.
Jossph had q prime opportunity
to disentangle himself from his
race in general and his family in
particular. He was abundantly jus
titled in doing. so by the dastardly
cruelty that had been inflicted upon
him He had nothing to gain by
dallyfne with his brothers. He stood
chances. of losing much. But He
brew raee-feeline is a proverb. 1t
asserted itself in the heart of Jo-
sanb Ha could not forget even
amid tho .n1endors of Egypt his
ovn country and countrymen. He
was far from ready to be expatri-
ated Like his descendant Moses,
he was willing to give up the pleas