Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-08-03
WISHED HEWASDEAD
AND REV. DR.. TALMAeE DOES NOT
BLAME JOB FOR IT.


BLAME JOB FOR IT.
In Addition to Dolls, Bereavement, Bank
ruptcv and Fool Of a Wife, He Had q
Raging Toothache-The Narrow Escapes
of Life.
BROOKLYN, July 20.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage has selected as the subject for his
sermon for today through the press
Marrow ESCAPES, the text being tax
en- from Job xix, 20. II am escaped
with the skin of my teeth.
Job had it hard What with boils and
bereayements and bankruptcy and fool
of a wife he wished he was dead, and l
do not blame him. His flesh was gone,
and his bones were dry. His teeth vast
ed away until nothing but the enamel
seemed left. He cries out, Il am escap-
ed with the skin Of my teeth.
There has been some difference 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 interpre-
tation and say, "What did Job know
about the enamel of the teethI" He knew
everything about it. Dental surgery Is
almost as old as the earth. The mum
mics Of Egypt, thousands Of years old,
are found today with gold filling in
their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solo
mon and Moses wrote about these i'm
portant factors of the body. To other
provoking complaints Job, think, has
added an exasperating toothache, and
putting his hand against the infamed
face he says. u am escaped with the
skin Of my teeth.
A very narrow escape, you say, Tor
Jobs body and soul. but there are
thousands Of men who make just as
narrow escape for their soul There was
a time when the partition between
them and ruin was no thicker than u
tooth's enamel; but, as Job finally es-
caped. so have they. Thank Godl
Thank God!
With Gods Help.
Paul expresses the same idea by q
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
sci and hold on with your fingers until
the forked tongue Of the fire begins to
lick the back Of your hand, and you feel
that you must fall, when one Of the
lifeboats comes back, and the passen
gers say they think they have room 70.
one more. The boat swings under YOU
you drop into it; you are saved. SO
some men are pursued by temptation
until they are partially consumed, but
after all get off-"saved as by fire. a."
But I like the figure Of Job little bet
ter than that Of Paul, because the pull
pit has not worn 1t out, and ! want to
show you, II God will help, that somo
men make narrow escape for their
souls and are saved as with the skin
Of their teeth. "
1t is as easy for some people to look
10 the cross as for you to look to this
pulpit. Mild, gentle. tractable, loving
YOU expect them to become ChristianA
You go over to the store and say.
"Grandon joined the church yesterday. ="
Your business comrades say: THAT is
lust 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 1t was
improper to laugh. At he could sit an
hour Ia church, perfectly quiet, looking
neither to the right hand nor to the left
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 50
gradually that IT Is uncertain Just when
the matter was decided