...required that they should bring him. Gen. xlii. 14-20. Q. Did their fears awaken their consciences ? A. They said one to another, " We are verily guilty concerning our brother ; therefore is this distress come upon us." Gen. xlii. 21. Q. What was Reuben's reply ? A. Reuben reminded...

...On the power of conscience," founded on the history of Joseph's brethren. After opening his text, " They said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother," &c. (Gen. xlii. 21, 22), he proceeds :— " From this instructive passage of history the following...

...what is acceptable unto the Lord. But again — there is a further lesson for us in the text • — They said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, — note the last words, concerning our brother. They tell us that the remorse of Jacob's sous, was...

...knowing him, nevertheless abashed and conscience-stricken. " And (saith the Scripture, Gen. xlii, 21) they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother." Who or what told them they were guilty ? These men had no Scriptures. It was, of course, that for which...

...reproach themselves with the crime committed by them when they sold their brother into slavery — " They said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he implored us, and we would not hear." We may easily imagine that Joseph...

...and, conscience-stricken, they remembered Joseph, it is recorded GENESIS XXXVII. Fig. 101. — " And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that jve saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress...

...and appealing to their fears. Nor were Joseph's efforts fruitless in this matter ; for, we are told, they said one to another " we are verily guilty concerning our brother, therefore is this distress come upon us." Their sin was certain some day to find them out. Perhaps...

...and danger, when they had gone out from Joseph's presence, and were alone, are thus recorded : " And they said one to another, we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we eaw the anguish of his eoul, when he besought us, and we would not hear — therefore is this distress...

...sorrow, and he turned away and wept. They thought of their cruel treatment of their brother Joseph, and they said one to another, "We are verily guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the anguish6 of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this...

...recollection of him, and therefore he could have said nothing that could have made them suspect — " They said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother." How should this deed, done twenty-three years ago, come into their minds ? Conscience outlives memory...