Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-18

"And when they saw him afar off,
even before he came near unto them.
they conspired against him to slay
him. And they said one to another,
behold! this dreamer cometh. Come
now therefore, and let us STAY him,
and cast him into some pit, and we
will say some evil beast hath de-
youred him, and we will see what
will become OF his dreams."-Gen.
XXXVII, 1920"
Joseph was the favorite son Of
} his father Jacob, because he was
the child Of his old age. How little
human nature has changed with the
passing of many centuries. In the
primitive age in which Jacob and
Joseph and his brethren lived, thou
sands of years ago the head OF the
family, the chief of the tribe, was
inclined to treat the youngest son,
the child Of his old age, more leni-
entity than his elder brothers. So
we read that he bought him a coat
of many colors, and pampered him
more than his other sons. He kept
him at home, while his brothers
went out to feed the family live
stock, sheep and cattle, on free
range in that vicinity. That kind
Of petting did not tend to make
him popular with his brothers. But
the senile affection of their father
for his youngest son, excited envy
and anger in the breasts of his
brothers. Joseph's own conduct
added to it. Doubtless, he was more
or less of a spoiled child at the age
Of II when this Bible story begins.
But he was a dreamer Of dreams,
and these dreams which he told his
brethren about intensified their dis
like and anger against him, and even
brought rebuke from his old father,
for they dealt with great achieve
ments in the future which he was
to bring about, when he became
a great and powerful man. In one
of these dreams, he was reaping
with his brothers in the field and
while his sheaf of grain stood erect
in the field all his brothers sheaves
bowed down before his sheaf and
made obeisance unto it. His BROTH
ers did not like this dream any
better than they liked his fine
clothes and his exemption from the
hard work they had to perform, and
when they saw him coming toward
them, they planned to kill him, but
that plan was altered on the advice
of his brother Rueben, and they
merely stripped him of his fine
clothes, threw him into a pit, and
later sold him as a slave to party
that passed by on their way to
Egypt. His subsequent history and
how he became the right hand man
of the king Of Egypt and of almost
royal power, and how his dreams
were realized and he fed his father
and brethren when famine pressed
them hard,-is the story not writ
ten in the book of Genesis, and told
to many a child at his mothers
knee, even to this day?
We said human nature had not
changed much in the thousands of
years that have fled since the days
of Jacob and his sons. The dream
er of great dreams, in which the
dreamer achieves great things which
causes his brethren to bow down
before him, invariably excites re-
sentiment among the crowd until
the dreams come true. Then they
are ready to exalt him and bow
down before him. The great
dreamers of the world. whose
dreams came true, all experienced
the malice of their brethren at first.
They were sneered at, conspired
against, cast into pits, maltreated
by envious and malignant brethren
who hated them for their dreams.
Columbus dreamed of new con-
tinent and was conspired against at
the Spanish court and baked of his
dream, until Queen Isabella listen
ed to him, believed in his dream,
and sold her jewels to buy him
ships and equipment to make his
dream come true. All the great
inventors, Stephenson, Fulton, Bell,
Edison, the Wrights, Ford, and
many others, had much the same
experience. The crowd sneered at
them and discouraged them until
their dream came true.
Woodrow Wilson dreamed a
great dream at Paris of a world de-
livered from the curse of war, and
Henry Cabot Lodge and his CO.
conspirators sneered at his dream,
and said behold, this dreamer
cometh," and planned to STAY him
and strip him of his raiment Of