And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much; and he laid it up in store for food, in the cities of Egypt.

AFTER the seven years of plenteousness were ended, the seven years of dearth and famine came, as Joseph hard predicted. The famine was also in the land of Canaan where Jacob dwelt.

And when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent most of his sons down into Egypt to buy corn for the support of himself and his household.

When they came unto Joseph, who was now the governor of all the land of Egypt, they bowed down themselves before him to the earth. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.

Here his brothers were brought into trouble and difficulty, and then they remembered their envy and cruelty towards Joseph. In their feelings of remorse, they said one unto another, "We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us."

Joseph, however, after taking measures to bring them to their feelings, generously gave them corn for the supply of their wants, and they returned to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan.

But when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of the land of Egypt, their father said unto them, "Go again, and buy us a little food."

So, after much hesitation, they went down again into

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Egypt to buy corn, and stood before Joseph. Here again they were brought into great trouble and distress. But when they were properly humbled, Joseph made himself known unto them.

After he had ordered every other person out of the room, Joseph wept aloud, and he said, "I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live?" And he called his brethren to come near him, and said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt." And his brethren could not answer him.

Joseph then sent large provisions, with this message to his father, "Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down unto me, tarry not; and I will nourish thee and thy household."

And when his brethren returned unto Jacob their father, and told him that Joseph was alive, and was governor over all the land of Egypt, he at first could not believe them. But when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him down to Egypt, Jacob said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die."

And Jacob went down into Egypt, with all his household, and his flocks and his herds. And Joseph went to meet him, and embraced him. After this Jacob lived seventeen years in Egypt, and died at the age of one hundred and forty-seven years.

Some other very interesting circumstances that occurred between Joseph and his brethren, after the death of their father, are recorded in the last chapter of the Book of Genesis. These, together with the narratives contained in the preceding chapters, are worthy the careful perusal of all;

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for in these are portrayed the excellent and amiable character of Joseph, in every varied condition of his life.

THE COUNTRY.

THE poet William Cowper says, "God made the country, man made the town."

William Penn remarks, "A country life is to be preferred: for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men."

To minds that have a relish for the study and observation of the works of nature, which are the works of God, a country life furnishes innumerable objects of pleasure and instruction.

In the fields and woods, in the waters and running streams, there are to be found a great many subjects of innocent and rational amusement, as well as knowledge that is nowhere else to be obtained.

The perfect wisdom and goodness of the great Author of nature becomes more clearly evident to us, as we "look through nature up to nature's God."

A person who walks in the fields, or strolls along the banks of a stream of water, or roams through the forest,-if he understands the elements of natural history, may read a pleasant story, and gain information from the great book of nature which everywhere lies open before him.

Even the structure and form of a feather, a flower, a plant, a blade of grass, or a stone, may be the means of impressing the mind with just ideas of the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Supreme Being, the maker of all.

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AVOID ANGER: LIVE IN HARMONY.

How good and how pleasant it is to live in harmony, peace, and good feelings towards all persons!

But in order to do this at all times, we must learn to govern our tempers, our words and our conduct, so as not soon to be angry, and not willing to take or give offence.

Many things may occur that tend to excite us to be impatient, or to irritate and ruffle our tempers and passions; but if we have command of ourselves, we may avoid or suppress anger and resentment.

When occasions of provocation arise, it will very much assist us in suppressing anger, if we keep as silent as possible: for if we speak crossly or harshly, it only tends to increase the heat of passion, and to raise the like feeling of anger in others.

A sea-captain, who wanted to conquer a habit of getting angry, concluded to keep his mouth shut close until he became calm and quiet. He did so, and thus in a short time. gained a command of his irritable temper.

A mother who had nine or ten children, among whom she often had trials of her patience, took this method of composing herself when any thing tried her temper: as soon as she felt a peevish or angry disposition beginning to arise, she retired to her chamber alone, and stayed there in silence and stillness, till her mind became composed and quiet. The closet of prayer will dispel the clouds of anger.

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MIRRORS.

A MIRROR is an opaque body, the surface of which is finely polished, so that it will reflect the rays of light that fall upon it, and thus represent the images of objects.

There are three kinds of mirrors, namely, the plane, the convex, and the concave.

A plane mirror is flat, as in a common looking-glass, which is polished on one side, and silvered on the other.

The silvering of glass plates, in order to form mirrors, is made of tinfoil and quicksilver.

Tinfoil is pure tin, beaten out into very thin leaves, almost as thin as paper.

A sheet of this tinfoil is first laid on a very smooth, flat, marble table; quicksilver is then poured on, till a thin coat of it is spread all over the tinfoil. The glass is then placed on it, and pressed down with heavy leaden weights.

In this state the quicksilver dissolves the tinfoil, and mingles with it; and in a few days the mixture adheres firmly to the glass. It is then silvered so as to reflect objects.

To preserve the silvering from being rubbed off, a back or thin board is fitted into the frame of the looking-glass, which is made of mahogany or some other fine wood.

A convex mirror is a rounded or globular surface that reflects objects.

A concave mirror is a hollow surface.

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