The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03
THE CHRISTIANS TRUsTFULNEss.

81 know that my Redeemer lieveth,"
exclaimed the good but afflicted man of
w. JOB had been stricken down by
series of disasters sufficient to overwhelm
the stoutest hearts. Following so closely
that they pressed hard upon each others
heels came the messengers bearing the
tidings of the destruction of his great
wealth. One came saying the oxen and
asses were stolen; another, that the sheep
had been consumed by fire; third, that
the camels had been run off; fourth, at
a mighty wind Lad swept away his house
killing his sons and daughters. Finally,
since these misfortunes did not drive him
from his faith in GoD, he himself was
smitten with sore affection, that he had
no rest neither day nor night. The wife of
his youth turned against him, and loathed
him, advising him to curse COP and die.
His friends not only withheld their sym
pathy from him in his sore need of sym
pathy, but derided his faith and more than
limited that his misfortures had befallen
him because of his sins. 1t was in the
midst of this supreme suffering, physical,
mental, spiritual, that the old prophet
preston of faith:
know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth ;
and though after my skin worms destroy this
body, yet in the flesh shall see COP; whom 1
shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold
ard not another; though my veins be consumed
within me.
II know that my Redeemer is near" was
the expression of good DR. boutwell,, of
Brooklyn, last Friday. The reverend
gentleman, some twelve days previous to
that time. had inhaled into his lungs cork.
The physicians have been probing in vain
efforts to extract the troublesome incum-
brance which is threatening the unfortun-
ate mans life. On Friday the dispatches
brought the word that the physicians had
made an inclsion in the patients left side
with the view of extracting the cork in
that way, but the sufferer was so weak
| from pain and the loss of blood that the oper-
alton had to be discontinued. When asked
! if he thought he could undergo another
operation he replied in writing, certainly"
and shortly afterwards, in the midst of his
suffering, he wrote that sentence which
!
presence of severe trial-'I know that my
Redeemer is near" "There can be nc
doubt said the dispatches of Saturday
morning, 'he is sustained by his religious
faith. When the patient wrote, j know
that my Redeemer is near, he revealed his
reliance upon an infinite power. His forti.
tude has excited the admiration of the
surgeons whe are hardened to the pair
they are accustomed 10 intlict, and there is
not man among them who would MOI
sacrifice much to save the life of so brave
q man.
Many centuries roll between the man
who first said II know that my Redeemer
liveth'' and the Rev. DR.. boutwell, who
merely quoted his words, but through
those long centuries, in spite of mists and
clouds and pitch black darkness through
which the human race has passed, or i.
even now enveloped, in spite of sin and
shame, glory and disgrace, pain and sorrow
i'm spite of war and famine and desolatior
through flame and flood and mighty
revolutions in spite of the mock
Iings of science, falsely so called-il
spite of the atheists laugh or the sooner
ridicule, it is a glorious thing to see tina
mankind have clung to that grand old as
surance-"I know that my Redeeme
liveth," and that as of old it is the goo
mans stay in the presence of appalling
dangers If that assurance be false
mere phantom, existing only in the brazil
of enthusiasm, as some of skeptical inclina
ton affirm, ''What truth on earth so pre-
, cious as the le?''
, But we need not look at this matter il
the subiunctive mood, or hang our faith upo
an ''if.n Though the idle reasonings o
mankind may sometimes make them littt
skeptical. the necessities of their heart