. The Bible and its . him, dipped this coat inblood and brought it to Jacob, declaring they hadfound it thus in the wilderness, and adding, with re-sentful sarcasm, that Jacob might recognize it, thoughthey did not. The father cried out that some wildbeast must have devoured Joseph. And all his sonsand all his daughters rose up to comfort him; buthe refused to be comforted; and he said. For I willgo down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thushis father wept for him. The artist Schopin has powerfully conceived thescene. The strong and aged Israel is rent with an-guish. This beloved o
. The Bible and its . him, dipped this coat inblood and brought it to Jacob, declaring they hadfound it thus in the wilderness, and adding, with re-sentful sarcasm, that Jacob might recognize it, thoughthey did not. The father cried out that some wildbeast must have devoured Joseph. And all his sonsand all his daughters rose up to comfort him; buthe refused to be comforted; and he said. For I willgo down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thushis father wept for him. The artist Schopin has powerfully conceived thescene. The strong and aged Israel is rent with an-guish. This beloved one also has been torn from women of the house cry out around him; littleBenjamin clings to his father in affright. Before himstand the plotters, dark and anxious; will they be sus-pected? Presumably he who holds the coat is Reu-ben, the eldest, who was himself deceived; for he hadsought Joseph in the pit and found him not,so that he thought the lad really him who had not intendedguilt, the crime lay !^ if Wi *, Jfi?. bf,d r-jiuii ,lr T [..!.■ A C lu- ^ 1 n. ro ,di ^o f<oi fubaf) anb tKamar BY THE NOTED FRENCH ARTIST, HORACE VER- NET, DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL AT ROME, DIED 1863. And he said. What pledge shall I give thee? Andshe said, thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff.—Gen., 38, 18. AFTER the disappearance of Joseph;, Judahbecame the most important among the sonsof Jacob. Reuben, blamed for this lastdisaster as well as for other earlier crimes, hadbeen practically disinherited. Simeon and Levi,the next oldest of the brethren, had never been par-doned for their murder of the Shechemites. Hencethe birthright, the leadership for which in an earliergeneration Jacob had striven with Esau, now passedto Judah, the fourth son of Leah. He became andremained the active head of the household. Following Judahs fortunes, the Bible tells howhe too was punished for his wrong-doing, one of hiseldest sons dying after the other. Tamar, the widowof th
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