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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
his brethren . They were indignant at being told that their sheaves had bowed themselves in submissive reverence before his sheaf ; and that the sun , moon , and eleven stars , representing his father , mother , and brethren , had made obeisance to him . To frustrate a prediction whieh they conceived to be fraught with personal dishonourthey conspired to
de-, stroy him ; but feelings of compunction and remorse changed their design , and they sold him as a slave to some Midianitish merchantmen , on their way to Egypt with a caravan of gums and spices . Here he was purchased by Potiphar , a captain of the royal guard ; which proved the foundation of his future glory and usefulness . Thusby the wise
ordi-, nance of Divine Providence , Joseph was sent clown into Egypt , that he might be the instrument , in the hands of God , of preserving his family , the chosen seed , from perishing by the famine which desolated all the eastern parts of the world .
In this remarkable detail of events we are incited to admire the wonder-working dispensations of Providence in the conduct and regulation of human affairs . Events of the most untoward nature are silently arranged by the eye that never sleeps , so as to produce effects which human foresight would have pronounced improbable , if not impossible .
Joseph was brought into Egypt as a stranger , an outcast , and a slave . His character was traduced by an odious charge ; and he was imprisoned as a felon on accusations of the basest nature . But he had within his bosom that principle which no human persecution could destroy . He possessed a spirit of piety and virtue—he possessed faith in the promises of his heavenly Father—in a word , he was a Freemason —and this enabled him to triumph over all his difficulties—elevated him to the chief rank in one of the
greatest kingdoms upon earth , and conferred on him the deathless honour of preserving it from destruction during a long and cheerless period of famine . His situation at this time is thus eloquently described by a popular modern writer : — " Placed by the providence of God in situations of peculiar difficulty and hazard ; exposed
to the powerful temptations of the most abject , and the most elevated condition ; at one time persecuted by his brethren , and sold by them as a slave into a foreign country ; at another , to become the object of their reverence , while they bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth ; at one time deservedly honoured ancl exalted by his
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
his brethren . They were indignant at being told that their sheaves had bowed themselves in submissive reverence before his sheaf ; and that the sun , moon , and eleven stars , representing his father , mother , and brethren , had made obeisance to him . To frustrate a prediction whieh they conceived to be fraught with personal dishonourthey conspired to
de-, stroy him ; but feelings of compunction and remorse changed their design , and they sold him as a slave to some Midianitish merchantmen , on their way to Egypt with a caravan of gums and spices . Here he was purchased by Potiphar , a captain of the royal guard ; which proved the foundation of his future glory and usefulness . Thusby the wise
ordi-, nance of Divine Providence , Joseph was sent clown into Egypt , that he might be the instrument , in the hands of God , of preserving his family , the chosen seed , from perishing by the famine which desolated all the eastern parts of the world .
In this remarkable detail of events we are incited to admire the wonder-working dispensations of Providence in the conduct and regulation of human affairs . Events of the most untoward nature are silently arranged by the eye that never sleeps , so as to produce effects which human foresight would have pronounced improbable , if not impossible .
Joseph was brought into Egypt as a stranger , an outcast , and a slave . His character was traduced by an odious charge ; and he was imprisoned as a felon on accusations of the basest nature . But he had within his bosom that principle which no human persecution could destroy . He possessed a spirit of piety and virtue—he possessed faith in the promises of his heavenly Father—in a word , he was a Freemason —and this enabled him to triumph over all his difficulties—elevated him to the chief rank in one of the
greatest kingdoms upon earth , and conferred on him the deathless honour of preserving it from destruction during a long and cheerless period of famine . His situation at this time is thus eloquently described by a popular modern writer : — " Placed by the providence of God in situations of peculiar difficulty and hazard ; exposed
to the powerful temptations of the most abject , and the most elevated condition ; at one time persecuted by his brethren , and sold by them as a slave into a foreign country ; at another , to become the object of their reverence , while they bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth ; at one time deservedly honoured ancl exalted by his