JOSEPH'S ACHIEVEMENTS.--Gen. 37, 39-48, 50.
_Parallel Readings_.
_Hist. Bible_, I, 121-150.
Hastings' _Dict. Bible_, II, 770-772.
Emerson, _Essay on Character_.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because
he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic
with sleeves. And when his brothers saw that their father loved
him more than all his other sons, they hated him, and could not
speak to him.
But Jehovah was with Joseph so that he became a prosperous man, and
was in the house of his master the Egyptian. When his master saw
that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah caused everything that
he did to prosper in his hands, Joseph found favor in his eyes, as
he ministered to him, so that he made him overseer of his house,
and all that he had he put in his charge.
And Jehovah was with Joseph and showed kindness to him, and gave
him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison, so that the
keeper of the prison gave to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who
were in the prison, and for whatever they did he was responsible.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have appointed you over all the
land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his
finger and put it upon Joseph's finger, and clothed him in garments
of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck, and made him
ride in the second chariot which he had. Then they cried before
him, Bow the knee! Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Pharaoh also said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, but without your consent
shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of
Egypt.--_Hist. Bible_.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?--_Matt. 16:36_.
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are
underlings.--_Shakespeare_ (Julius Caesar, Act. I, Sc. 2, L. 139).
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand
as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of Heaven we
must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it; but we
must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.--_O. W. Holmes_.
He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
It is more important to make a life than to make a
living.--_Ex-Governor Russell of Massachusetts_.