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SIR ANDREW WINGATE, K.C.I.E., 



the Holy Spirit, is successively foreshadowed in the lives of 

 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the triune God adopts their names 

 as His Name to all generations, and the way is prepared for the 

 manifestation in the life of Joseph of the Christ made flesh. 



Joseph was sent with a message of goodwill and warning to 

 his brethren, and soon hears their angry shout : " We will not 

 have thee to reign over us." (Genesis xxxvii, 8, and Luke xix, 

 14.) Jesus was clad as a child with His Father's coat of many 

 colours. Angels and men vied to weave it. His mother never 

 forgot it. But it was torn from him by Herod's ferocity, and He 

 entered on His public life with only the carpenter's home for a 

 backu;round. 



Joseph's agony had been unheeded, but his eyes were daily 

 scanning the thronging crowds — searching for the faces of those 

 ten men, just as in the parable the father first caught sight of 

 the returning son, because love was on the watch. Not love but 

 hunger drew both son and brothers within the arms of forgiving 

 love. Let the Christian Church recollect that when the Jews 

 ask for their land. What a nobility of forgiveness there is in 

 Joseph ! He intercedes for his brothers, so that in Jacob's last 

 words, where there is sharp rebuke for other sins, and where 

 there is allusion to the separation of Joseph from the family, 

 there is no condemnation. " Father, forgive them." Then 

 Joseph wipes away all tears from their eyes by changing remorse 

 to praise. They had thought evil against him, but God willed 

 it for good " to save much people alive." " Be not grieved nor 

 angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for God did send 

 me before you to preserve life." (Genesis xlv, 5, and 1, 20.) 



Such is the majestic pardon that awaits the return of weeping 

 Israel. " God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." The 

 Jews do not yet recognize Jesus, because He is pouring out His 

 treasures upon the nations. Jesus is seen by them in Gentile 

 dress, served by Gentile ministers, and with the Gentile Church 

 for Bride. Yet Joseph had never concealed his identity. From 

 Pharaoh to his Steward every Egyptian knew that Joseph was 

 a Hebrew, and had his brethren inquired why Joseph sat at a 

 table apart, they would have found the clue to his identity. 



What caused Joseph to make himself known to his brethren 

 the second time ? Judah's moving prayer of intercession; Judah's 

 life laid down — not for Benjamin's sake, but because their father 

 loved Benjamin. Has not the set time come for the Christian 

 Churches to plead for the Jews ? Not because they are lovable, 

 but because Jesus loves them, and laid down His life for that 

 nation (John xi, 51, 52). Can there be any second coming of 



