Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-12-18
supEa1oR, WIS, Nov. 24th. 1858.

SUPERIOR, WIS. NOV. 24th. 1893.
MRs JoB.-For ages on ages the wisdom Of
Job, and his exemplary endurance Of suffering,
and obloquy, have been the theme of countless
eulogiums. He stands pre-eminent, if not alone
the pride of his sex, a patient man The
world has ever abounded in patient women, add
so much is this the rule, that only its exceptions
are noted, and then up go the eyes OF horrer
stricken world Job was indeed miracle OF
goodness, and it is useless to add one note to
the song Of praise which is ceaselessly going up
to him. But who of all his admirers, has ever
bestowed a thought upon his afflicted wife, the
matchless Mrs. job !
| Her tender heart, overfowing with the untold
richie sof mothers love vas wrung with strong
er agony than his by the death Of her beloved
children for his grief must have been lessened
by that corporeal misery which even to the best
of US, will bring more or less forgetfuness fthe
closest ties. To this was added the deepest
sympathy for her afflicted lord, aud what loving
woman ever witnessed the writings of pain with
out keener anguish than if she were herself
called upon for its eadurances
man, tenderly nurtured, and of fne sensibilities,
for we read in holy writ that "this man Job, was
The greatest of oil the men of the East" and
did ever man attain to such an eminence, with-
out the aid of such wife ? We also know
from his recorded words, that ne was man of
strong poetic feeling united to sound good
sense; and man of such character would
of course, have welded such woman as we
have pictured Mrs. Job.
Imagine her the accomplishing nurse for wea-
ry days and nights, of this afflicted man, his
swollen head enveloped in napkins sitting among
the ashes, and scraping himself with pot sherdi
loathesone with bos--and SO engrossed in
self be never thinks of her distress, and neither
does he notice that her cheek is paled, and her
once elastic step is slow. and faitering Noise
lessly she moves about him, placing here ban
dage, and there a poultce, Offering the cooling
drink, and preparing the tempting morse, and
arranging dywriegt cushions for his comfort,
and repose Accustomed as shc has ever been,
to lay her head upon his breast aud read con-
ISOLATION in his eyes for all her little vexations
and trials. Think you she did not pine for
words Of tenderness, a sympathy, now that this
crushing grief was upon her Doubtless she
was for away from her own friends and people,
whom she had left to follow him; and there were
uoue to whom she could give utteranee to her
sorrows But even had there been, God help the
woman to whom sympathy is a necessity, and
who finds it not within the breast she leans uponi
Hers was no regretted thoughts OF departed
wealth. or greatness; for in the greater griefs.
the lesser ones were lost. What true woman
ever mourned the loss Of paltry gold il but her
loved ones still remained to her ? She may and
must be distressed, al the pain her husband feels
from wounded pride, but her exertions are untir-
ing, TO chase AIS gloom away, by pointing to bis
view the ssilyer lining Of the clouds But Mrs.
job WAS written childless Here was agony
there was real s0rrowi Her seven noble sons--
her iov. her pride--aud her three beautiful and
cherished daughters all were gone, forever gonel
Her husband ouly. remained. and he, also, was
dead to her His ears we're deaf to her tones
her attentions all uunoted, and heso loathesome
in appearance, that all affect ion Is she was aho
coEld not but sicken, and Feeoil when9Fer she
approached. Even womans unlall'ng resources
tears. Was denied to her. tos their fountain was
dry. and her eyeballs seemed on Ore.
Al last, faintiug aud desPairiag IS she is, her
strieI,eu heart gives one invclantary moan -
sGurae God and die r Oh, the wo which
prompted such thought But the husband
does uot hear in it the wsll Of a breaking IieaEi
--he only notes the deep impicty u bfeathes
aud colaly and cuttingly he answers her ~Iho1
speakest as one Of the foolish women speakethi ?
and bis eyes aash forth his detessation of shoog'
his horror Of the sinful vqmq1 whq fbFipka