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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, ONT., JUNE 17th, 1937. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON JOSEPH'S KINDNESS TO HIS KINDRED Printed Text -- Genesis 46;l-7, 2i 30 : 50 : 4-26. Golden Text -- "Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you." -- Ephesians 4:32. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME -- According to the common chronology, Jacob went down with his family into Egypt B.C. 1715; he-died B. C. 1698. Joseph died B.C. 1643. Place -- Joseph's residence in Egypt was at Zoan, the capital of the kingdom at that time, located on the eastern part of the Nile Delta. The Hebrew people settled in the land of Goshen in the eastern part of Egypt and north of the southern part of the Delta. Hebron is nineteen miles to the southwest of Jersualem. "And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of hi3 father Issac." Israel, who is, as we have seen before, the same as Jacob, knew that he and his entire family, the chosen people of God, were on the threshold of a great experience, were at a turning-point in their history, and, coming to know through his long years of experience, that great ventures undertaken without God are doomed to failure, tarries at Beer-Sheta on his way down Into Egypt, to offer sacrifice to God. (See 21.33; 26:24; 28:10). "And God spake unto Israel in the Visions of the night, and said, Jacob, ' Jacob. And iie said, Here am I." 3. "And he said, I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation." 4. "I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall p.t his hand upon thine eyes.' Here is the fulfillment of the oft-repeated promise -- "They that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing" (Psalm 34:10). Four things are promised -- God's permission to go down into Egypt; God's presence as they go into Egypt; God's promise to make of them in Egypt a great nation, and God's purpose to bring them back again to Canaan. And probably God's assurance that Jacob's descendants would come back to Canaan in the future was the most reassuring of all God's gracious promises to Jacob this day. "And Jacob rose up from Beer-She-ba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten^ in the land of ^Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him. His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt." The wagons which Joseph Sent were certainly four-wheeled con-"' veyances. Tn such wagons, drawn by oxen, did the women and children of •the patriarchal family travel. The cattle were driven and the rest of the goods packed upon asses and camels. -- F. Delitzsch. While the carefully enumerated list Of names of those who went dowa into Egypt is important in a minute discussion cf Hebrew history, we do need here spend but a moment with ft. We must not identify this list with another contained in Numbers 26, written two hundred and fifty years later. Jacob, himself, at this time, was one hundred and thirty years old (47: 9), and Joseph approximately forty years old, while Reuben, the oldest, was about forty-six, and Benjamin, the youngest, about twenty-six. The sons of Ieah are first enumerated in 9-15), then the sons of Zilpath, Leah's handmaid (16:18), then the sons of Rachael, who alone is here called the wife of Jacob (19-22), and finally, the sons of Bilhah, Rachael's handmaid (23-35). All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt that came out of his loins were eleven sons, one daughter, fifty grandchildren, and four great-grandsons; in all, sixty-six. Jacob, Joseph, and his two sons are four, and thus all the souls belonging to the family of Jacob which went into the valley of Egypt were seventy. The Sep-tuagint gives seventy-five as the sum total, which is made out of inserting five names not found in this list. "And he sent Judah before him up to Joseph, to show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came unto the land of Goshen." Joseph had previously promised his brethren that they should dwell in the land of Goshen (45-10), and the region in Lower Egypt east of the Bubastic branch of the Nile, a region not of any great extent, having an area of approximately nine hundred square miles, but exceedingly fertile, and which allowed the Israelites more or less of a life of separation from the contaminating influences of great Egyptian cities. "And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive." The meaning of the patriarch is that, since with -his own eyes he was now assured of Joseph's happiness, he had nothing more to live for, the last earthly longing of his heart having been completely satisfied and was perfectly prepared for the last scene of all, ready, whenever God willed, to be called to his fathers. "And Joseph said unto his brethren I die; but God will surely visit you, I bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Issac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence." Through all the terrible bondage they were destined to suffer, the bones of Joseph, or rather, his embalmed body, stood as the most eloquent advocate of God's faithfulness, ceaselessly reminding the despondent generations of the oath which God would yet enable them to fulfill. And thus, as Joseph had been their pioneer, who broke a way for them into Egypt, so did he continue to hold open the gate and point the way back to Canaan. "So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in ends with death, because in between had come sin which brings forth the death. And yet that coffin spoke of life as well as death. It was a symbol of hope, a message of patience, and a guarantee of life everlasting. Genesis, with its coffin in Egypt, was followed by Exodus, which means departure, deliverance. There is nothing finer to remember in all this lesson than the five words: "I die, but God will." The same writer whose books on Genesis are so valuable, gives the following qualities of the life of Joseph: (1) Guilelessne ;s, (2) frankness, (3) tactfulness, (4) sensitiveness to evil, (5) purity of heart and life, (6) humility of word and deed, (7) wisdom, (8) executive ability, (9) filial affection, (10) manly energy, (11) resolute adherence to duty, (12) prudence, (13 self-control, (14) sympathy, (15) hopefulness, (16) considerateness, (17) equanimity, (18) courage, (19) patience, (20 large hearted generosity. These are perhaps the most important features, though there are doubtless a lot of others that can be found. Scholarship Honored Leigh Davis Steinhardt, York City, who took her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, with distinction in Philosophy, at Bryn Mawr College. She was selected as alternate for European Fellowship. All Want to Drive Writes the.Kingston Whig-Standard:--Why is traffic, after all these years, getting constantly more dangerous instead of safer? Perhaps the chief reason is that a far greater number and range of persons now drive. Not merely are there more ear-owners and in direct consequence more car drivers, but also more persons within an owning family drive. The handling of a car is not left to the one, or perhaps two, members of the family assumed in pursuance of the ways of horse-driving days to be specially skilled or adapted to the task. Nowadays almost everyone feels that he or she is able and has the right to drive. Put another way the reason may be that we have tried to fit the auto into the system of democratic individualism. We have assumed that it is every person's right to drive a car. It is probable that a far greater proportion of persons drive cars today than ever drove horses. In the days when the horse was dominant everybody did not feel competent to drive. As yet we have hardly begun to tackle the problem of ruling incompetent and dangerous drivers off the road. A capital levy was imposed England nearly 700 years a^o, 1262. To speed justice, the judge and the jury of the Pr ince George, British Columbia, Assizes, went into the wilderness to take the testimony of the Chief o f the Siccaneus Indians (seated), who was quarantined in his cabin. A Horse On The House "Silver Dollar" Brady, western figure whose antics are meant to attract attention to the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco, shows his horse, "Cheyenne," the sights of New York from roof of hotel where both registered and were accommodated. For Their Brave Dead After telling 18 policemen to whom he awarded medals for bravery to shoot hoodlums first and then ask questions, Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia of New York pins Medal of Honor on Mrs. Nora Gallagher, widow of clain officer. Mrs. Jean Pasquerella waits turn to receive posthumous honor to husband killed on duty. The Honor Roll In a country as young as Canada one does not expect to find many individual business enterprises with a history going back as far as 1850. Yet the Canadidan publication industry can boast of 10 daily newspapers, 17 weekly newspapers, three religious periodicals and one magazine, all in active operation, that had their beginnings earlier than the middle of last century. That makes 21 publications, each of which is 87 years old or older. And if the honor roll were to begin at 60, there would be 204 publications that would qualify, 199 of them being in Eastern Canada, the part settled first. Today there are many media available to advertisers, but none with the long and distinguished record of useful service, both to advertisers and the public. A seaplane can rise from slightly rough water more easily than from a calm surface. The unseen forces that are contained in the sun's rays are necessary to all life existing on the earth. The largest window in England is to be found in York Minster. It is seventy-five feet high and thirty-two feet wide. One of the World's Greatest Ocean Ports This view of the big sheds, where in fact most of Cana and were royally greeted when they returned, seas contingenl ; By DOROTHY ; James Cagney In spite of her outstanding success in "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie", and the forthcoming "They Gave Him a Gun." which is said to be even better, Gladys George looks on herself as just a novice at screen acting. So intent is she on becoming as skilled a player on the screen as ] on the stage, that she spends all of j her spare time studying movies. The' players she admires most are Garbo, Spencer Tracy, and Merle Oberon. Social life and cafe-hopping were at low ebb during the weeks when; there was talk in. the air of a strike of the Screen Act-, ors' guild which; counts all the great in its ranks, but the homes of Rob-e r t Montgomery, Jim Cagney, Fredric j March and a few other leaders were j continual mob j scenes. These men j won the undying gratitude of extras and bit players, for they were battling to improve their pay and working conditions, not their own. Everyone is relieved i that no strike was necessary. These ! leaders rallied the support of their fellow-players so quickly and thoroughly that the producers gave in to their demands without a struggle. ODDS AND ENDS -- Hollywood | will throw a grand party soon in honor of Weber and Fields and the fiftieth anniversary of their stage debut as a team. Imitations of their act will be put on by Jack Benny and George Burns, Eddie Cantor and George Jessel, and two motion-picture producers . . . Joan Crawford is teaching Mrs. Gary Cooper to' crochet and Gary is threatening to buy them old-fashioned rocking chairs . . .Betty Davis never gets the least bit nervous in front of a camera or a microphone, but waiting between scenes gives her the jitters. She calms down by sipping tomato juice between scenes . . . Joe E. Brown, Jr., is the envy of all his^ pals because he takes Dixie Dunbar, the cutest little trick in 20th Century-Fox pictures, to his fraternity dances . . . James Dunn has bought, an airplane so that he can fly around the countty to big - sports. ...events whenever he has a few days between pictures . . . Whenever the R-K-0 studio wants to reach Ginger Rogers on a day when she is not working, thye call the hospital where James Stewart is undergoing treatment for arthritis . . . Paul Muni has rebelled against beards and weird make-up. A store on' wheels carrying a supply of groceries, soft drinks, bread, toilet articles, medicines and crockery, has been equipped by the Bryukhovet-' sky village store in the Azov-Black Sea Territory of Russia to serve the collective farmers while in the fields.' Cotton is considered the only im-, portant part that was cultivated in-, dependently in both the Old World; and the New, before white men came • to America. A Form of Relaxation Joan Blondell looks up from the springboard over the pool of her Hollywood home as she lazily relaxes in the sun after a day on the studio sets.