The times-news., 1937-06-19


day, June 20.
Read Genesis 45:16 to 50:2G
Study Genesis 46:l-7, 28-3O
50:24-26.
Along with rich presents to his
father, Joseph sent wagons to
bring him from Canaan to Egypt
with all his property and house
hold, which included sixty-siS
males in the immediate family
and total constituency of per-
haps two hundred and fifty. When
they reached the border of Egypt
they were met by Joseph, who
brought his father and five of hi!
brothers before Pharaoh and
placed them in the land of Gosh
en-, which was most suitable &c
their profession rs herdsmen anC
best located for the Exodus in the
fulness of time.
JOSEPH'S FAITH IN
HIS KINDRED
Genesis 46:l-O
KINDNESS LIFTS. BY th'
princely provision of Joseph fol
his father, Jacob made his jour
ney to Egypt. We note two things
about the patriarch whom the
premier honored. (D His age
Jacob had now lived three dec
AIDES beyond the century mark
He had, therefore, attained ar
age far exceeding the average life
in Egypt or elsewhere, and thi'
as well as his relation to JOSEPH
focused all eyes upon him. 1t Il
indeed a notable thing to become
a centenarian and more notable
still to climb the stairway o
several decades beyond. And i
is not an accident. Sometimes i
is due to heredity which impart'
a sound and healthy body to be
gin with; sometimes to strict OBJ
servance of the laws of health
sometimes to the poise and equa
nimity of mind which refuse t
fret over the worries of today o
borrow from the troubles of to
morrow; sometimes to fortuitou
circumstances which shelter on
from the sterner and more siren
uous conflicts of life; but, in al
cases, it is due above all to tn
mercy of God that lengthens tn
cord Of time. And while we liv
| in deeds rather than in years, We
the years and the deeds may no,
and then be united in a singl
individual. And when this is sc
we find that the gray hairs Of tn
good are wreathed naturally int
a very coronal Of light. (2) Hi
character. There was far NOR
of interest in Jacob than his Ion
years, his gray head, his patrl
archal form. We imagine that hi
great soul shone through his eye
and that the tone Of his voice wa
the evident vibration of his heart
strings. His varied experience
must have been written large i
his face, making the countenanc
at once a study and a benedictior
Jacob had ripened with age an
had been sanctified during tn
process of the years. The passio
of the old deceiver was gone. Th
fraud and trickery and mischie
of other days had all disappeare'
Besides he had emerged from
long course of discipline: TIL
hate of Esau his brother; the d.
ceit and chicanery of Laban, h
father-in-law: the wickedness
his own children; his sorrow
! the death of Rachel and disal
pearance of Joseph-all were bl
chisels in the Sculptor's har
chipping off the crudities of th'
wild early life and developing
each stroke the better natul
within. And so, what Pharaoh sa
in Jacob was more the white so,
than the white head, and beneat
the exterior of the tribal chic
he felt the glow of the imperi
personality chastened and refine
by long experience. What is MOI
lovely, more attractive, MOI
heavenly, than old age purified
gold in the fires Of life?
JoSEPH'S LOVE TO
HIS KINDRED
| (Genesis 46:28.30)
KINDNESS LOVES. Note Il
beautiful deeds of dutiful sol
The Prime Minister of Egypt SCI
for his famine-smitten father
Canaan, supplying paternal wal
out of filial wealth. He left Il
palace and met his father on Il