Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-01
ISHED HE WASDEAD
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DOES NOT
BLAME JOB FOR 1T.


pf Life.
ecu BRooKLYN, July 29.-Rev. DR.. Tai
Ill ge has selected as the subject for his
! a ttmon for today through the press
IN Narrow Escapes, " the text being TAX
81 from job xix, 20, 'I am escaped
Nlth the skin of my teeth. "
Job had it hard. What with boils and
Measurements and bankruptcy and fool
81 Ia wife he wished he was dead, and
Id not blame him. His flesh was gone,
and his bones were dry. His teeth vast
ed away until nothing but the enamel
eeemed left He cries out, 81 am escap-
ed with the skin Of my teeth.
There has been some difference of
Cd 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 interpre-
tation and say, "What did Job know
aiiout the enamel of the teeth?" He knew
= everything about it. Dental surgery is
altnost as old as the earth. The mum
q mies of Egypt thousands of years old,
are found today with gold filling in
/ tlteir teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solo
lnon and Moses wrote about these i'm
portant factors of the body. To other
pfovoking complaints Job, l think, has
added au exasperating toothache, and
uniting his hand against the infamed
face he says, 81 am escaped with the
slin of my teeth. "
"a very narrow escape, you say, for
Job's body and soul, but there are
do Of xtrhO ,,alyn
harrow escape for their soul. There was
q time when the partition between
tkem and min was no thicker than a
tooth's enamel; but, as Job finally es-
caped, so have they. Thank God
Thank God
with Gods Help.
Paul expresses the same idea by
different figure when he says that some
people are saved as by fire. - A vessel
at sea is in flames. You go to the stern
of the vessel. The boats have showed
of. The flames advance. You can en-
dure the heat no longer on your face
You slide down on the side Of the yes
sell and hold on with your fingers until
the forlled tongue of the fire begins to
lick the back of your hand, and you feel
lifeboats comes back, and the passen-
gers say they think they have room fol
one more. The boat swings under you;
you drop into it; you are saved. Sc
some men are pursued by temptation
until they are partially consumed, but
after all get off-"saved as by fire. >
But like the figure of Job little bet
ter than that Of Paul, because the pul
pit has not worn it out, and want t.
show you, if God will help, that some
men make narrow escape for thei1
souls and are saved as with the skin
of their teeth "
1t is as easy for some people to look
to the cross as for you to look to this
pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving,
you expect them to become Christians.
You go over to the store and say,
"Grandon joined the church yesterday
Your business comrades say: "That is
Just what might have been expected. "
He always was of that turn Of mind. |
In youth this person whom describe |
was always good. He never broke |
things. He never laughed when it was
Improper to laugh. At he could sit an
hour III church, perfectly quiet, looking |
neither to the right hand nor to the left, i
but straight into the eyes Of the minis |
Ter, as though he understood the whole |
discussion about the eternal DEGREES. |
He never upset things nor lost them.
He foated into the kingdom of God SC
gradually that it is uncertain just when |
the matter was decided.
To the UncOnverted. |
Here is another one, who started in |
life with an uncomfortable spirit. He |
kept the nursery in an uproar. His |
mother found him walking on the edge |
of the house roof to see if he could bal |
ance himself. There was no horse he |
dared not ride, no tree he could not |
climb His boyhood was a long series |
of predicaments; his manhood was reck. |
less; his midlife very wayward But |
now he is converted, and you go over to |
the store and say, cartwright Joined |
the church yesterday" Your friends
say: "It is not possiblel You must be
Joking" You say; "No; tell you the
they reply, "There is hope for any of
us if old Arkwright has become Chris
tian." "
In other words, we all admit that IL
is more difficult for some men to accept
the gospel than for others
/ may be addressing some who have
cut loose from churches and Bibles and
Sundays and who have at present no
intention of becoming Christians them
selves but just 10 see what is going On.
And yet You may find yourself escaping /
. hefOra Vou hear fha end as with the /
skin Of your teeth. / do not expect to
waste this hour. / have seen boats go |
of from Cape May or Long Branch and
drop their nets and after awhile come |
ashore pulling In the nets without hay
Ing caught single fish. IL was not a |
good day, or they had not the right |
kind Of a net But We expect no such
excursion today. The water is full Of
fish, the wind is in the right diretioni
the gOsDel net IA strong % thou who