LOOKING BACK

The Meaning of Freedom

DATELINE: April 22, 1932

SOURCE: The Sentinel

"NOW THERE AROSE a new king of Egypt, who knew not Joseph" [Exodus i:8].

Joseph had dreamed of greatness of royalty. Instead, he was sold into slavery, followed by imprisonment. Were his dreams abandoned? Did his royal ambition die within him because of lack of nourishment?

No! Joseph was never resigned to his fate. One thought was uppermost in his mind, Liberty! And when it came, it found Joseph ready to meet it.

Israel, too, is a dreamer. Sold into slavery by a Pharaoh, he refused to surrender his dream. Apparently submissive yet inwardly rebellious, Israel never lost the …