Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-05
A SERMON FOR WORKERS
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches ElO-
OUENTLY TO BUSINESS MEN.

OUENTLY TO BUSINESS MEN.
His Text Taken from Job: 81 Am Es-
capped with the Skin of My Teeth"
Weary Laborers Can Find Peace in
Gods Haven.
BROOKLYN, May After the Long
meter Doxology and appropriate
hymns had been sung by the congre-
CATION, in the Academy of Music, and
prayers had been offered, DR.. Talmage
preached on Marrow Escapes, taking
as his text Job xix, 20: L am escaped
with the skin of my teeth. Following
is his sermon in full:
Job had it hard What with bolls
and bereavement and bankruptcy, and
a fool of a wife, he wished he was
dead; and I do not blame him. His
flesh was gone, and lis bones were dry.
His teeth wasted away until nothing
but the enamel seemed left. He cries
out. L am escaped with the skin OF
nv teeth" There has been some diff
ference of opinion about this passage.
st. Jerome and Schultens, and Drs.
Good and Poole and Barnes, have all
tried their forceps on Jobs teeth. You
deny my Interpretation, and say,
'sWhat did Job know about the en-
amel of the teeth?' He knew every
thing about it. Dental surgery is al
most as old as the earth. The mum
mics of Egypt, thousands of years old,
are found today with gold filing in
their teeth. Ovid and Horace and
Solomon and Moses wrote about these
important factors of the body. To
other provoking complaints, Job, L
! think. has added an exasperating
toothache, and putting his hand
against the infamed face, he says, Il
| am escaped with the skin of my teeth. "
NARROW ESCAPES.
4 very narrow escape, you say, for
Jobs body and soul; but there are
! thousands of men who make just as
narrow escape for their soul. There
was time when the partition between
! them and ruin was no thicker than a
tooth's enamel; but as Job finally es-
capped, 50 have they. Thank God
Thank God!
Paul expresses the same idea by 8
different figure when he says that some
people are saved as by fire." A vesse
at sea is in flames. You go to the
stern of the vessel. The boats have
showed off. The flames advance; you
can endure the heat no longer on YOU
face. You slide down on the side O
the vessel, and hold on with youl
fingers until the forked tongue of the
fire begins to lick the back of you
hand, and you feel that you must fall
{ when one of the lifeboats comes back
and the passengers say they think the.
have room for one more. The boa
swings under you-yOu drop into it
YOU are saved. So some men are pur
sued by temptation until they are par
tally consumed but, after all, get OF
= saved as by fire" But [ like tn
figure of Job q little better than tina
of Paul, because the pulpit has no
worn it out; and | want to show you
if God will help, that some men max
narrow escape for their souls, and ar
saved as with the skin of their teeth.
1t is as easy for some people to loo
to the cross as for you to look to thi
pulpit. Mild gentle, tractable, low
ing, you expect them to become Chris
tians You go over to the store an
say: ''Grandon joined the church yes
terday." Your business comrades say
That is just what might have bee
expected; he always was of that tur
: Of mind" In youth this person whor
; l describe was always good. He neve
; broke things He never laughed whe
it was improper to laugh. At h
: could sit an hour in church, perfect
: quiet, looking neither to the rigI
r hand nor to the left but straight int
the eyes Of the minister, as though b
: understood the whole discussion abOU
the eternal DEGREES. He never upst
things nor lost them. He floated int
5 the kingdom Of God SO gradually th'
it is uncertain just when the matte
was decided.