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- into Pharaoh’s hand; but the baker ; himself, he thought no more about
was hanged, as Joseph said. Joseph. But God always remem-

Did the butler remember Joseph, | bers us; He says to every one who
and ask the king to take him out | serves him, “They may forget, but
of prison? No: he quite forgot | I will not forget thee.” IJsasah
him: when he was happy and safe | xlix. 15.

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PHARAOH'S PREAMS,

dreamed, in one night, I and he;
came out of prison, Pha- | and there was a young man, a He-
‘| raoh king of Egypt had | brew, in the prison with us; and he
S| two wonderful dreams. | interpreted our dreams to us; and
He thought he stood by | as he interpreted, so it was; I was
the river, and saw seven fat kine | forgiven and the baker was hanged.”
come out of it, and feed in a mea- | Then Pharaoh sent, and called for
dow. Soon after he saw seven other |; Joseph directly.

kine come out, very thin and bad; | Joseph had been a long time in
and they eat up the seven fat ones. | the prison; but though the butler
So Pharaoh awoke. Then he slept | had forgotten him, his Father in
again, and dreamed; and he saw | Heaven had not forgotten him:
seven fine good ears of corn come; God was now doing wonderful
up upon one stem; and soon after, things for Joseph, which he did not
seven ears more, very bad and thin; | yet know. Joseph washed, and
and the bad ears devoured the seven | shaved, and took off his prison
good ears; and the king awoke. In | clothes, and put on new, and came
the morning, Pharaoh wondered | to Pharaoh. Then the king told
what these dreams could mean, and | his dreams, and asked Joseph to in-
he called all his wise men, and ask- | terpret them. But Joseph was not
ed them to interpret them. But | proud of his wisdom; he knew he
they had no heavenly wisdom, and had no power, no wisdom, in him-
God did not enable them to explain | self; but that all he had God gave
the dreams He had sent to Pharaoh. | to him; and so he said to Pharaoh,
But-when the butler heard Pharaoh | “It is not in me: God shall give
and the wise men talking together | Pharaoh an answer of peace.” And
about the dreams, he remembered | God taught Joseph rightly to inter-
his own dream, which he had two | pret the dreams. He said, “The
years before, and which Joseph had | seven fat kine, and the seven good
interpreted so truly; and he went | ears of corn, are seven years of
to Pharaoh, and said, “I remember | great fruitfulness; and the seven
to-day my faults long ago, when the | thin kine, and the seven bad ears,
king was angry, and sent me to | are seven years of famine. Seven

prison with the chief baker. We | years are coming of great plenty in

3 caz,|WO years after the butler