The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-09
A MARROW ESCAPE.
What Job New About Dentietry and tho
Eamnei of To 9th,

What job New About Dc ntiatry and tho
Eamaol of To 9th.
BROOKLYN, July 29.-lSsv. DR.. Tai
mage has selected rs tho sub iect Tor his
sermen for today through the press
Marrow Escapes" the text being taken
from JOB xix, 20, ''I am escaped with
tho skin Of my teeth."
and bereavements and bankruptcy mud
TOOL Of n wife he wished he
was dead, and l do not blame
hlm. li,s flesh was gone, and
his bones were dry. His teeth wasted
away until nothing but theenamol seemed
lett. ue cries out, ~ am escaped with
the skin Of my teeth"
There has been some difference of
opinion about this passage. 81. Jerome
and Schultens and Drs. Good aud Poole
and Barnes have all tried their forceps
on Jobs teeth. You deny my inlerprela-
ton and say, "What did Job know
about the enamel Of the teeth?" lie
knew everything about il. Dsntal sur
gerry ls almost as old as the earth. The
mummies of Egypt, thousands of years
Old are iound today with cold filling
in their teeth. Ovid aud Horace and
Solomon and Moses wrote about these
Important factors of the body. 70 other
provoking complaints Job, think, has
added and eXasperating tooth ache, and
putting his hand against the inllamed
face he says, 81 am escaped with the
skin Of my teeth"
a very narrow escape, you say, for
Jobs body and soul. but there are thous-
ands OF mon who make just as narrow
escape from their soul. There was q
time when the partition between them
and ruin was no thicker than q tooth's
enemel, but as Job finally escaped 30
have they. Thank God! Thank God!
Paul Expresses the same !dea by diff
ferent figure when he says That some
people are "saved as by fire." A YES
sel at sea Is in flames. You 90 TO the
stern of the vessel. Thei boats have
showed oil. The flames advance. You
can endure the heat no longer on YOUR
face. You slide down on the side of the
vessel and hold Oh with your fngers
until the forked tongue of the fire begins
TO lick tho back OF Yonr hand, and you
ieel that you must fall, when one OF the
llleboats comes back, and 1.-The passengers
say they thinki they have room for one
more. The boat swings under you; you
drop into ii; you ore saved. SO some
men are pursued by temptation until
they are partially consumed, but after
all get eff, 'saved as by fire.n But I
like the figure Of Job little better than
that of Paul, because the pulpit has not
worn 1t out, and want to show you, If
God will help, that some mon make mar.
row escape tor their souls ,and are save ell
as with the skin Of their teeth.
1t is az easy for some people TO look
to the cross as tor you to look TO this
pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving,
you expect them to become Christians.
You 60 over to the store and say, "Graet
don joined the church yesterday" Your
business comrades say: "That is iusn
what might have been expected. II
always was of that turn of mind.n In
youth this person whom 1 describe was
always good. He never broke things.
he never laughed when it was improper
10 laugh. AT 7 he could sit an hour in
church perfectly quiet, looking neither
10 Inc right hand nor to the left, but
slralght into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whole Discus
sion about tie eternal DEGREES. He
never upset things nor lost them. lie
noated into the kingdom of the God. 90
gradually that 1t is uncertain Just whom
the matter was decided.
-, Here Is anothsr one, who started in
lie with an uncOnt rolIable spirit. He
Kept Inc nursery IN an uproar. His mo-
tilof found him walking on the edge of
inc house roof TO see if he could balance
mmse!f: There was no horse he dared
1Ot rae; no tree he could not climb.
lib poyhood was q long series of predca.
menis. Ills manhood was reckless; his
molile very wayward. But now he ia
converted, and you 60 over to the store
ana say, cartwright joined the church
yesterday" Your friends say: "It ia
not possible! You must be iokipplO
You say: "No. toll you the truth.
lie joined the church," Then they re-
ply, s'rhere is hope for any of us il old
Arkwrlght has become Chrlstianln
In other words, we all admit that IL il
mo ore difficult for some men TO accent
the gospel than for others.
I may be addressing some who have
cut loose from churches and Bibles and
Sundays, and who have at present no
intention Of be- coming Christisns them-
solyes, but just to sec what is going on,
aud yet you may find yourself escaping,
before you hear the end, as "With the
skin Of your, teeth" do not expect
TO waste this hour. / have seen boats
60 of from Cape May or Long Branch
and drop their nets, and after awhile
como aahore. pulling In the nets without
having caught q single fsh. It was not
q good day, or they had not the right
kind Of q net. But we expect no such