108 BOYS OF THE BIBLE.

his dream; but there was none that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.”

Now, you must know that expounding and merorer ae
dreams was quite a profession in those days. But the wise
men, the professional interpreters, were all at their wits’ end
over these dreams of the King. They could not explain, or
expound or interpret. At this point the released butler
remembered how Joseph in the prison had interpreted his
dream, and told the King all about it, and suggested that
Joseph should be sent for.

And Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and told him of his hav-
ing dreamed strange dreams, and of the singular fact that
all his sooth-sayers and wise men were utterly baffled, and
could not interpret his dreams.

Now mark the modesty of Joseph; and his loyalty to the
God of his fathers. When Pharaoh told Joseph that he had
heard of his wondrous skill in interpreting dreams, and
charged him to make plain these mystic revelations, instead
of quietly taking all the credit to himself, Joseph answered
Pharaoh and said:

“Jt is not in me; God shall give Pharaoh an answer of
peace.” God has promised in His word that those who are
loyal to Him shall not go unblessed. He has said: ‘‘ Those
who honor me, I will honor, and those who despise me shall
be lightly esteemed. God was honored by the testimony of
the young dreamer in the Court of Pharaoh, King of Egypt.
Now see how God honors the son of Jacob.

Directed by the wisdom that cometh from above,
Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh, and this is the
interpretation:

“¢ And Joseph said unto pe oen The dream of Pharaoh
is one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.