“The Lord was with Joseph” (Genesis xxxix. 2). He would not be an Egyptian: he was an Israelite still, and his good old father, when he came down to Egypt, found him one of the family in heart and soul. I notice with much pain, that many professors who prosper in this world have not God with them, for they turn into Egyptians: they do not now care for the simple worship of God’s people, but they sigh for something more showy and more respectable. They want society, and so they seek out a fashionable church, and swallow their principles. They lay it all upon their children, for who can expect young ladies and gentlemen to attend an ordinary meeting-house, where such low people go? For the sake of the young people they are bound to mix with society, and so they leave their principles, their people, and their God. They become Egyptians; indeed, some of them would become devil-worshippers to gain rank and status. Off they go to Egypt, shoals of them; I have seen it, and shall see it again. If some of you get rich I dare say you will do the same; it seems to be the way of men. As soon as a professor gets rich he is ashamed of the truth he once loved. Such apostates will find it heavy work to die.—C. H. Spurgeon.