THE K I N G ’ S BV S I NE SS They think he is dead for they have not heard a word since that awful day. Here they come with their sacks and money in their hands ready to buy corn. They are shown into a large room and a man with fine clothes stands before them. It is Joseph their brother, and he knows them right away, but they do not know him, for he is no longer a boy, but a grown man. Here are the ten brothers who had treated him so cruelly years before, bowing before him hungry, and asking for something to eat. Now here is a good chance for Joseph to punish these brothers. Will
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When the brothers got home and told their father about their trip and the finding of the money in each man’s sack, and that if they wanted any more corn, they would have to take Benja min with them, he was troubled and said he could never let Benjamin go. After a while the corn was all gone, and the brothers tell their father it will do no good to go back for more unless they bring Benjamin, so the poor old father bids him good bye and lets him -go, and sent some presents to the ruler 'Who sold them the corn before. So again they travelled on the donkeys to
he do it? No, Joseph’s heart is filled with God’s love, which makes him kind and loving, and he forgives his broth ers and feeds them, but he does not tell them yet who he is. Joseph asked them is their father was still alive, and if they had any other brothers. They told him their father was still alive, and that they had another brother at home whose name was Benjamin. Joseph then told them if they came back again for corn, they must bring their brother Benjamin along also. Then he told his servants to fill all their sacks with corn and on top of the corn to put back the money they had paid for it. So the corn was a present. Joseph returned good to them for the evil they had done to him.
Egypt, and went to the ruler’s home, and he invited them all to eat dinner with him. (Tell this most interesting of all stories and make it live again for. the boys and girls, emphasizing the part Judah takes showing to Joseph a change in the brothers’ feeling for the father.) When Joseph looked upon his brothers and heard Judah’s pleading, he could bear it no longer, for his eyes filled with tears, and he told them he was Joseph. Then his brothers were so frightened they could not speak for a time. What made them afraid when they knew it was their brother? (Emphasize how sin makes cowards of us.) Joseph put his arms around their necks and kissed them, and forgave them. He told them there would be five
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