Zaphnath-paaneah; or, Revealer of Secrets, and gave him a princess to wife.

What a change! - from a prisoner to a prince-from a slave to a ruler. How wonderful to us this seems! But much as this God has often done and yet can do for them that fear him. Let every boy remember that.

The years of plenty and of famine came; but Joseph was now a man of about forty-he was thirty when he first stood before Pharaoh—and it enters not into our plan to detail other facts than those of his boyhood and his youth. But are they not told in living words in the latter chapters of Genesis? how the famine spread even into Canaan, how the brethren came to Egypt to buy corn, how they knew not Joseph but how he knew them, how roughly at first he treated them, and how their guilty consciences reproved them, how he sent them home but forbade their return without Benjamin, and how distressed Jacob was on parting with him, how affected Joseph was

when he saw his own brother, how after the brethren had again set out to return he brought them back, how nobly Judah pleaded for the liberation of Benjamin, and then how the Great Ruler of Egypt made himself known to them all as their long-lost brother!

When the news reached Jacob that Joseph was not dead, but Governor over all the land of Egypt, his heart fainted within him he could not believe. But when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, his spirit revived, and he said, Enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

And he went. On his way, at Beersheba, God spake to him in a vision of the night, assuring him of safety. Joseph made ready his chariot, and meeting his venerable parent at Goshen, fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. He then introduced his father to the King; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Seventeen years Jacob lived in Egypt, and

having exacted a promise from Joseph to bury him with his fathers, he blessed him and his two sons-Ephraim and Manasseh. Death now drew near, and having, in blessing, blessed each of his sons, he gathered up his feet into his bed, and gave up the ghost. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. Behold how he loved him! What a noble example of filial piety! The whole age of Jacob was one hundred and fortyseven years.

Joseph saw his children's children. When dying, he also charged his brethren to carry up his bones from Egypt. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt-and that coffin may have been one of those ponderous sarcophagus' now in the British Museum, enormously large, and covered with hieroglyphics within and without.