All the answers, in the subjects taken, have been attempted; a few of these are omitted here for reasons of space. The maps and diagrams are rather well done, but cannot be reproduced. The writer’s spelling, pointing, etc. have been carefully preserved. _Bible Lessons._ I. 2. (_a_) “I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.” These words were spoken by Joseph when he was revealing himself to his brethren. His brothers had come down into Egypt a second time to buy food, and had persuaded their father Jacob to let them take Benjamin down with them, because Joseph had told them that they must. So Jacob reluctantly let Benjamin go. And now they had bought their corn, and actually been asked to dine with Joseph, and were on their homeward way, when some officers of Joseph’s household come galloping after them, and angrily ask whether the way to return hospitality is to steal Joseph’s cup, his favourite silver cup. Then when the cup is found in Benjamin’s sack, Judah, who has promised to be surety for him, begs that he may be a slave to Joseph instead of Benjamin, as he promised Jacob his father to bring him back safe. Then they are all taken in to see Joseph, and he cannot stand it any longer, and bursts into tears, and says “I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?” ‘And his brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren “Come near to me, I pray you.” And they came near. And he said “I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt.”’ So then of course they believed him, and everything was made all right. (_c_) Jacob lay on his deathbed with his sons around him, listening to his words which seemed to come straight from God. But instead of Reuben, as the first-born getting the best or most wonderful blessing, he seems to have been put below Judah, who is told that he shall be “a fruitful bough,” and shall remain “Until Shiloh come.” This seems to be a wonderful inspiration in Jacob that someone should come from the descendants of his son Judah who “should save His people from their sins.” Of course, _now_, we see in it a prophecy of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, though then it was most likely an undefined thought.