The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06

from the Nile, followed by seven lean
cows which devoured them; and. IN
parallel, of seven full heads OF wheat
that were deyoured by seven scrawny
heads of wheat that came after them
In these figures Joseph, when called.
saw seven years of plenty for Egypt.
to be followed by seven years OF dire
famine.
Famine is an old, old story. now
newly real to a large part OF the
well to the present condition; for It Is
the last we shall ever see. As talked
one day, east of the Jordan, with an
Arab and his wife and child. who hao
fled from Beer-sheba because OF ram
inc, ! realized how ole their story
have been driven by famine from one
part of this region to another. NOW
that is all over Transportation ana
communication and a sense of worlo
solidarity have chased the specter OF
famine from the earth.
Amid the surrender of the armies
and ships of the central powers, we
have missed the full significance OF
the sailing of Mr.. Hoover, to take
counsel with the allied nations for the
feeding of the world. Implied in that
fact is the other. that North America
has become the almoner region OF
earth. Hoover is the modern Joseph.
He stands for the new era, wherein
each accepts responsibility for all; SO
that in the days order there cannot
be hunger permitted anywhere be
fore ever a league of nations is real
I.ized, we accept the New Testamen!
teaching that we who are strong ough'
to bear the burdens Of the weak.
Wherever there is food today. 1t is
| to be znhared with hungry peoples
The Joseph principle that the. fat val
ley of the Nile-which is the mos
productive soil anywhere in the world
as we'll as the most expensive agricui'
tural land-should feed the hungry oil
Palestine and Syria has been given 8
large expansion Of application. Mani
toba and Dakotas and Argentina and
| Tauran and Manchuria and Siberis
and Upper Mesopotamia and Asia
| Minor now are to be marShaled tt
| their fullest productivity for all man
kinds sake. In the train of JOSEPH
! follow a new school Of Hoovers. econ
omists. scientists, philanthropists ant
missionaries, to feed the hungr!
everywhere. In another year, pictures
| of famine victims will be out of dat,
everywhere.
l. Making Ready To Make Good.
The perfect story, as a story, o
Joseph'S adventures, is largely a rec
ord of an imaginative young mai
making ready to make good. His hou
| found him fit and alert. Opportunit.
! came to him by strange and devioU
| ways, and he met it, awake and eff
| cient and resourceful. God is prepar
4 ing occasions for all of us; but not al
/ the dreamers are also oers. Conside
of us are preparing for our occasions
| Some are. Dreams come true whel
| the tale of Professor Masaryk, yes
| terdAy an exile from proud Austria
i today the president of the Czecho
1 Slovak republic. All over middl
/ Europe hunted exiles are returnin
home. to places off power and honor
The bottom is coming to the top. Il
these story-book times. the history o
Joseph is being duplicated.
There is a divine Providence tina
rules the affairs of man. Wise ar
they who. like Joseph, league them
selves thereto. When God is give
right of way in life, he brings won
ders to pass, and gives good succes
to all who are loyal to Him.