Egypt [antikvár]

EGYPT CHAPTER I its antiquity Every boy or girl who has read the history of Joseph must often have wondered what kind of a country Egypt might be5 and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story. It must have been .a startiing experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills of Canaan, so suddenly found himself an mmate of a palace, and, in his small way, a participator in the busy whirl of life of a royal city. No contrast could possibly have been greater than between his simple pastoral life spent in tending the flocks upon the hillsides and the magniíicence of the city of Pharaoh, and how strange a románcé it is to think of the little slave boy eventually becoming the virtual ruler of the most wealthy and most highly cultured country in the world ! And then in course of time the very brothers who had so cruelly sold him into bondage were forced by famine to come to Joseph as suppliants for food, and, eg.ii