Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-05
ni,course Of Rev. DR.. Taimage in
the City of Brooklyn.
IN. No.. 81 Am Escaped with the Skin
- ,vv Teeth"-He Explains Some
differences of Opinion.
,r,,, Ssvsr be Saved Until You Hoist Some
i'- s,,n,I Of Distress, However Weak
and Feeble 1t Nay Be.

tsuas bad been sung " 'io
n the Academy of Music, and
wv had been offered, Dr.. Talmage
p''' s.a m Marrow Escapes, taking
P' ~. text Job xix: 20, 81 am escaped
as - ,bs skin of my teeth. - Following
y =. sermon in full;
=, had it hard. What with boils and
.,s.rsmepts and bankruptcy and fool
-,so he wished he was dead; and
Oh .hIsme him. His flesh was gone,
90 pO ~. homes were dry. His teeth
sll ~ away until nothing but the
VIZ canned left. He cries cut, ~
eD1 lp'o,,sd- with the skin of my teeth. %
Sd hos been some difference of
lD '-',, about this passage. st. jerome
Opn'C Scbulteps, and Drs. Good and
III. and Barnes, have all tried their
80 IN Jobs teeth. You deny my
,,OO,,sr5retstion, and say, "What did Job
H. il's- abont the enamel of the teeth?'
H y. new everything about it. Dental
az il almost as old as the earth.
NJ u1,umies of Egypt, thousands of
~ ln did. are found to-day with gold
sTin- in their teeth. Ovid and Horace
VA Ia, solomou and Moses wrote about
.s,,s imnortant factors of the body. To
.,ser provoking complaints, JOB,
%Int has added an exasperating tooth
sr i and putting his hand against the
irganed face, he says: - am escaped
with the skin Of my teeth. -
very narrow escape you say, for
1,b,s body and soul; but there are thou
.ond, Of men who make just as narrow
sscsns for their soul. There was time
rbe5 the partition between them and
min WAS no thicker than a tooth 8 en-
anal: butas Job finally escaped, SO have
tbst Thank God thank God!
Psul expresses the same idea by diff
fsrsnt figure when he says that some
people are saved as by fire. A YES
eel at sea is in flames. You go to the
stern Of the vessel. The boats have
showed of. The flames advance; you
can endure the heat no longer on your
face. You slide down on the side of the
vessel and hold on with your fingers IN
III the forked tongue of the fire begins to
lick the back of your hand, and you feel
that YOU must fall, when one of the life
bosts come back, and the passengers say
they think they have
ROOM FOR ONE MORE.
The boat swings under You-You drop
into it-yOu are saved. So some men are
pursued by temptation until they are
partially consumed. put, after all, get
of-"sayed as by fire. But like the
figure of Job little better than that of
Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it
out; and want to show you, If God will
help that some men make narrow escape
for their souls, and are saved as "with
the skin Of their teeth. -
Il is as easy for some people to look to
the cross as for you to look to this pull
pit, Mild, gentle, traotable, loving,
you expect them to become Christians.
You 20 over to the store and say:
"Grandon joined the church yester-
day" Your business comrades say:
! THAT is just what might have been ex-
pcted; he always was Of that turn of
Minds In youth, this person whom I
describe was always good. He never
broke things. He never laughed when
1t was improper to laugh. At seven, he
could sit an hour in church, perfectly
quiet, looking neither to the right hand
nor TO the left, butstraight into the eyes j
Of the minister, as though he understood
The whole discussion about the eternal
DEGREES. He never upset things nor lost
ihem. He tioated into the Kingdom of
TOD 50 gradually that it is uncertain just
Nhen the matter was decided.
Here is another one, who started in life
with an uncomfortable spirit. He kept
The nursery in an uproar. His mother
iound him walking on the edge of the
honse-roof TO see if he could balance
himself. There was no horse that he
Jared not ride-nO tree he could not
VHmo' His boyhood was long series of
Feaicaments; his manhood was reck-
lss'; bis mid-life very Maynard. But
LOW ne Is converted, and you go over to
.ne store and say, cartwright joined
'ue church yesterdey.'' Your friends
My: It is not possible! You must be
!uAing. y You say: "No; tell you the
rum he joined the church.. Then
we! reply: ''There is hope for any of us
, :. VIZ ArkWright has become a Chris
uaa! In other words. we will admit
' 'aaI It Is more difficult for some men to
4Vgept tue Gospel than Cor others.
49,. may De preaching to some who have
S Ss loose from churches and Bibles and
sundays, and who have come In here |
, S''u no intention of becoming Christians
themselves, but
JUST TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON;
aua yet you may find yourself escaping, |
Ss'O'e you leave this house, as with |
'-s SKIN of your teeth. - 1 do not ex-
psCt to waste this hour. 1 have seen |
ToA" 90 of from Cape May or Long |
D..aaeh, and drop their nets, and |
inc a%hue come ashore, pull
c,1.t ~ the nets, without having |
d. suI single fish. Tt was not a good |
~. VI tney had not the right kind OF |
To- but We expect no such excursion |
vi1S! Ihe water is full of fish, the |
pst :, . ~ The right direction, :. the Gospel |
SIM - strong. Oh thou who dldss help |
dev I. auu Andrew to fish, show US to-
o. the ship! - -'' OH TUG 'iHHs ''N
bsva ~. oi you, in coming to God, will
!. Nc, 70 run against sceptical notions. Ii
cutt;rs sss Tor people to say sharp and |
lungs TO those who reject she |
thngs religion. i cannot say such
or tris, by what process of temptation
Your Dr. or betrayal you have come to-
are IT, state, know not. There
Of TIA gates to your nature; the gate
The Ss. ueaa and the gate of the heart.
bolts 80 Of your head is locked with
not b,ss'ul oars that an arehangel could
svings out the gate of your heart
ssultss EASILY oil its hinges. 1901 as
Would your body with weapoys, You
Would ~ et me with weapons and it
lad Won. ssSord-stroke for swopf-stroke,