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the moment to be a mere incident in the life of that splendid court, but in reality it was an occurrence which changed the entire life of humanity.
The events which led to that singular scene have all the charm of romance, and yet they are really historical facts. Joseph had been in Egypt seventeen years, and in that time had risen from a slave boy to be the Governor over all the land, and second only to the King. The brothers who had sold him made several visits from their home in southern Palestine to Egypt to buy corn because of the famine then prevailing. Joseph carefully concealed from them the fact that he was their brother until the third visit, and then he made himself known to them—that he was none other than the brother whom they had sold long years before. This was not only a great surprise to them, but to the whole court, and very probably to the people of Egypt in general.
In due time the news reached the ears