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At Babel God confused man’s speech and drove the descendants of Ham and Japheth away from those of Shem, who remained in the area where that tower of Babel was built. Japheth’s descendants went north into Asia Minor and into Europe. Ham’s descendants settled in the land of Canaan and in Egypt and Africa.

Through the good counsel which Joseph gave him, the king of Egypt not only retained his kingdom, but he increased his wealth in material things as well. The coffers of his kingdom overflowed with money from the Egyptians, but also from the Canaanites. In real estate his holdings were extended beyond what any man would have imagined a few years before Joseph interpreted his dreams. 

It has been stated that there is nothing more certain in life than death. There is truth in this, and whether we be rich It has been stated that there is nothing more certain in life than death. There is truth in this, and whether we be rich or poor, bond or free, male or female, Jew or Gentile the day of our death is certain for us. The only exception is that those living when Christ returns will be changed and at once enter into heavenly glory or hellish agony. We may not like to think of our coming...

If we take the position, and we should, that the introductory words of the book of Esther, namely, “Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus,” are God’s word to us that the events recorded in the book are fact and not fiction, and that all the incidents in the book happened in the history of this world, we will be able to say with the psalmist in Psalm 75:1, “Unto Thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto Thee do we give thanks: for that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare.” On the other hand, if...

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” So spake the wisest of all mere human beings. Solomon in Proverbs 20:1 warned his son, and all who read the book of Proverbs, against being deceived by wine and strong drinks. And he did so at a time when men did not know of the damage that alcohol does to the brain, liver, and blood vessels. Those few moments of fleshly pleasure that wine and strong drinks give are soon changed into years of suffering of that same flesh and a hastening of the day...