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18 wisdom to His people in sleep. And this interesting circumstance teaches us that God is near to us, and takes care of us while we are unable to take care of ourselves, and that when He sees good He can give us warning and instruction in dreams. There is one great difference between us and Joseph. In those times they had not the Scriptures, such as we have, to guide them, and, therefore, the Lord gave them special instruction by means of angels and in dreams. We have now the will and wisdom of God revealed in His Word. And having thus the precious Book of God in our hands, we have, so to speak, a constantly "open vision," and a "more sure word of prophecy" than that given in dreams, "to which we do well to take heed."

But Joseph dreamed another dream; and this time the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to him. This dream he told to his father as well as to his brethren. His father saw the meaning it involved; for he said to his son, "What is this that thou hast dreamed; shall I and thy mother and thy brethren, indeed come to bow down ourselves