The New Generation

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. We enter now a new period in the history of the people of Israel. Consider, once more, that the offspring, the seed of Abraham, is now in Egypt. It was Egypt that the Lord had selected and prepared to serve His people as a temporary abode. The ruling dynasty of this land, favorably inclined to Joseph for the services he had rendered Egypt, continued, without a doubt, to be in power long enough to permit the chil­dren of Israel to...