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Track Through the Bible.
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God spoke to Jacob, but because it was intimately
connected with his sons, it is omitted in this de
scription of the dealings of God with the man
himself.
In this study of the beginnings of the regenera'
tion of the individual the truth is revealed that the
one principle through which God is able to op
erate is that of faith in himself. Where that is
present, even though it may express itself in dif
ferent ways, according to differing temperaments,
he can act. Obedient faith, he leads quietly for
ward; passive flaith. he visits to comfort and
strengthen; restless faith, he checks and corrects
toward ultimate realization.
Through the sons of Jacob the circle widens, and
we see the movement toward the regeneration of
the family. Two stories ran concurrently, that of
Joseph, and that of Israel. In the history of Jo
seph we have a further revelation of the method
of God with the individual, but grouped around the
man are movements that make toward the regenera
tion of the family, of society and the nation. The
story of Joseph is. in some senses, the most wonder
ful of the Old Testament. Considering it from
first to last, there is less in him of failure, less
of faltering than in any other of the Old Testa
ment characters. Around the story of his life are
grouped the events which contribute toward the
larger application of the regenerative purposes of
God. These events, as they contribute to that
purpose, were the result of God’s overruling. Apart
from that, the process of degeneration moved for
ward hopelessly.
A list of the sons of Jacob, and a table of the
generations of Esau are first given. Then follows
the story of Joseph, which is immediately succeed
ed by an account of the terrible corruption of the
family in the case of Judah. The connection here
is important in that it indicates the beginning
of that movement which culminated in the segre
gation of the nation, by which they were saved for
long years from the contaminating influences of
the people of Canaan; and purity of family life,
and society, was made possible.
The history of Joseph shows how God overruled
all the failure of man for the ultimate good of man.
Joseph was exiled from his father’s home by the
malice of his brethren, but by the overruling hand
of God he was sent into Egypt in order that there
he might prepare a place for Israel, that the whole
society, which had not yet become a nation, might
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be brought into circumstances of separation and
suffering for their purification. Already, instead
of being separate and peculiar, as salt and light in
the midst of darkness, they had become corrupt
as the case of Judah proves, and from this corrup
tion it was necessary that they should be delivered.
This was accomplished by the overruling of God
through the exile of Joseph, the coming of famine,
and all 'those events which issued in their being
transferred from Canaan to the land of Goshen,
and kept there in separation for centuries. There
was nothing more beneficent in the early history
of the people than those long years of pain and
slavery. Through those years God poured the
family and society, and so prepared for the nation
which was presently to emerge under his wonder
working hand, and to enter into possession of the
land of his appointment.
In the final verses of the book of Genesis the na
tional idea is seen for a moment as a prophecy and
a hope. Joseph, in dying, charged those who were
about him. that when presently they should re
turn to their land, they should take his bones and
carry them with them. In his charge there is re
vealed one of the greatest triumphs of faith re
corded in the whole book. It is the triumph of a
man who believed in God, and in the assured es
tablishment of his people; and he, therefore, was
certain that they must ultimately pass back into
their own land. The book closes with the account
of the burial of the man who had expressed this
faith, and the story of beginnings closes with the
phrase, “A coffin in Egypt.”
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So much has been said of the lack of knowledge
of America and American affairs by the average for
eigner that it will be of interest to note when ex-
Governor Francis, of Missouri, recently visited
England he was deeply impressed by King Ed
ward’s knowledge of conditions political and social
as they existed in America, while continental rulers
were interested and alert regarding all details con
cerning America.
The Wake Forest Student.
The January number of the Wake Forest Student
is a most magnificent example of the college publi
cation. This issue is the Lee Centennial Memorial
Number. The cover design is taken from Miss
Dixie Washington Leach’s Lee Memorial Calendar,
and shows Arlington, surmounted by the picture of
General Lee himself, surrounded by the four flags
of the Confederacy. The birthplace of Lee, Strat
ford, and his crest, motto and signature are also
displayed. The frontispiece is a splendid engraving
of General Lee; there is one of the General mount
ed on “Traveler,” and there are other illustrations
giving appropriate views of Washington College,
General Lee’s home in Lexington, etc. The volume
is dedicated to “His Old Soldiers, the Confederate
Veterans of the Old North State and their Comman
der, Major-General Julian iS. Carr.” It is difficult
to justly describe the value and interest of this
number, containing as it does, reminiscences of the
great Commander and Patriot by those who knew
him best and fought by his side during the war.
Chaplain J. William Jones contributes “The Chris
tian Character of General Lee.” “Fighting Un
der the Eye of the General” is a most interesting
sketch by Gen. R. D. Johnson; Gen. Jas. H. Lane,
Major. 11. A. London, Dr. Chas. E. Taylor, John
F. Lanneare, Gen. Wm. Ruffin Cox, and others write
of associations with General Lee as soldiers, and
Professor Milton W. Humphreys writes upon Gen
eral Lee as a college president from the standpoint
of a student. The volume also contains a number
of poems of high merit, the initial one being by
Mr. John Charles McNeill, an alumnus of Wake
Forest. The whole magazine, both from the stand
point of contents and mechanical makeup, marks
a point of excellence rarely attained by the college
magazine, and is a distinguished contribution to the
literature on the life and work of General Lee, both
as soldier and as private citizen.
There was a little 'Scotch boy who had the qual
ity of astuteness highly developed. The boy’s
grandmother was packing his lunch for him to take
to school one morning. Suddenly looking up into
the old lady’s face, he said:
“Grandmother, does yer specs magnify?”
“A little, my child,” she answered.
“Aweel, then,” said the boy, “I wad juist like
it if ye wad tak’ them ass when ye’re packin’ my
loonch. ’ ’ —Argonaut.