The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-04
NARROW ESCAPES.
Dr.. Talmago Tells How Some Men
Are Scarcely Saved.
The Difnculty with Which They Accept the
GosPsl-Battling with skepticism
and Other Perplexities-How
to He Saved.

The latest sermon given out to the
press by Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage was
upon the subject Of Marrow Escapes"
the text being taken from Job xix. 20:
81 am escaped with the skin of my
teeth" Following is the sermon:
Job had it hard. What with boils,
and bereavements, and bankruptcy,
and q fool of q wife, he wished he was
dead; and l do not blame him. His
flesh was gone, and his bones were dry.
His teeth wasted away until nothing
but the enamel seemed left. He cried
out: II Am escaped with the skin of
my teeth"
There has been some difference of
opinion about this passage. st. jerome
and Barnes nave all tried their forceps
on Jobs teeth. You deny my in
depreciation, and say: what did
Job know about the enamel of
the teeth?" He knew everything
about 1t. Dental surgery is almost as
old as the earth. The mummies of
Egypt, thousands Of years old, are
found to-day with gold-flling in their
teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon
and Moses wrote about these important
factors Of the body. To other provok-
ing complaints, Job, I think, has added
an ex~asperating toothache, and, put
ting his hand against the infiamed face,
he saws: 81 am scaped with the skin
of INV teeth.n
A verv narrow escape. Won sav. for
.Job,s bodv and souI. hut there ara
thousands Of men who make inst "a
narrow escane for their soul. There
was a time when the partition betyveen
them and ruin was no thicker than a
tooth,s enamel. INIT a. .Joh 8naIly es.
caped. 40 nave thew. Thank God,
Thank GodI
Paul expresses the same idea bv a
different Boure when he savs that
some people are ..saved as nv fire" A
vessel at sea is in flames. You 90 to
the stsrn al the vessel. The boats are
allowed of. The flames advance. Won
can endure the heat No longer on vour
face. You Aide down on The side Of
the vessel. and hold ON with vour fin
oers until the forked tongue Of the FIRE
begins to lick the back Of vour hand.
and Won feel that Won must faIl. when
one Of the lifeboats comes back. and
he uassenoers saw thew think thew
have room for one more. The boat
swinos under vou-vou dron into tt
Won are .aved So some men are mr.
sued bv temptation until thew are mar
tislly consumed, but after ali get Off
saved as II by fire." But 1 like the
figure of Job q little better than that
Of Paul. because the pulpit has not
worn It out; and l want to show YOU. if
God will help, that some men make
narrow escapesf for their souls, and are
saved as with the skin of their teeth
II is as easy for some people to look
Ia the cross "a for Won to look 10 this
pulpit. Mild. gentle, tractable, loving.
YOU expect them to become Christians.
You 20 over to the store and saw:
"Grandon Joined the church yester-
day." Your business comrades say:
THAT is just what have might been
expected; he always was of that turn
of mind" In youth, this person whom
I describe was always good. He never
broke things. He never laughed when
It was improper 10 laugh. At z, he
could sit an hour In church, perfectly
quiet, looking neither to the right
hand nor 70 the left, but straight into
the eyes Of the minister, as though he
understood the whole discussion about
the eternal DEGREES. He never upset
things, nor lost them. He floated into
the Kingdom of God SO gradually that
It is uncertain just when the matter
was decided.
Here "a 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 II 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
rackloss. his mid.life very wavward.
hut now he IN converted. and Won 90
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boats go of from Cape May or Long
Branch, and drop their nets, and after
awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets
without having caught a single fish.
1t was not a good day, or they had not
the right kind of a net. But we expect
NO such excursion to-day. The water
10 full OF fish; the wind is In the right
direction; the gospel net Is strong. D,
Thou, who didst help Simon and An
drew to fish, show AS to-day how to
cast the net on the right side OF the