Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-03
MARROW ESCAPES
THE SUBJECT OF DR. tai
IMAGES SERMON.
The Text Being Taken from job 10;
TX. II Am Escaped with tins Skin
of My Teeth"-Don't Confound Chris
tianity.

press: Marrow Escapes, the JeNt
being taken from Job 10: XXX, II
am escaped with the skin of my
teeth"
Job had it hard. What with boils,
and bereavements, and bankruptcy
and a fool of wife, he wished he was
dead; and / 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 CT les out II am escaped 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 Interpretation, and say,
"What did Job know about the enamel
of the teeth?" He knew everything
about it Dental surgery is almost as
old as the earth. The mummies OF
Egypt thousands of years old, are
found to-day with gold filing in their
teeth. Ovid, and Horace, and Solo,
mon, and Moses wrote about these
important factors of the body. To
other provoking complaints, Job
think, has added an exasperating
toothache, and, putting his hand
against the inflamed face, he says, Il
am escaped with the skin of my
teeth.
A very narrow escape, you say, for
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 be-
tween them and ruin was no thicker
than n tooth's enamel; but, as job
finally escaped, so have they. Thank
God! Thank God!
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 off The flames advance;
you can endure the heat no longer on
your face. You slide down on the side
of the vessel, 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 life-boats comes back,
and the passengers say they think
they have room for one more. The
boat swings under you-you drop into
| it-you are saved. So some men are
pursued by temp tation until they are
partially consumed, but after all get
off-"saved as by fire" But like
the figure of job 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 escape for their 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, low
| ing, you expect them to become Chris
tians You go over to the store and
say, 'N=andon joined the church yes
terday." 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
laughed when it was improper tc
laugh. AT z, he could sit an hour in
church, perfectly quiet, looking
neither to the right hand For to the
left, but straight into the eyes of the
minister, as though he understood the
whole discussion about the eternal de
crees lie never upset things, nor lost
1 f~A4 ha 1rf ~ do
of God so gradually that it is uncer
tain Just when the matter was de
cided.
Here is another one, who started il
life with an uncomfortable spirit HI
kept the nursery in an uproar. Hi
mother found him walking on thu
edge of the house roof to see IL h
could balance himself There was NJ
horse he dare not ride-no tree h,
could not climb. His boyhood was
long series of predicaments; his man
hood was reckless; his midlife yer,
wayward. But now he is converted
and you go over to the store and say
"Arl1wright joined the church yester
day." Your friends say, 1T is no
possible! You must be joking!" Yo-
say, mo; 1 tell you the truth. IL
Joined the church" Then they reply
''There is hope for any of us If oil
Arkwright has become Christian!"
in other words, we all admit that
is more difficult for some men to &C
sept the Gospel than for others
I.may be addressing some who hav
, cut loose from churches, and Bibles
: and Sundays, and who have at presen
no intention of becoming Christian
themselves, but just to see what is &C
ing on; and yet you may find yoursel
escaping before you hear the end, a
: with the skin of your teeth" 1 d
not expect to waste this hour. l hav
seen boats go off from Cape May O
1[sang Branch, and drop their nets, an
afsfter while come ashore, pulling
the nets without having caught
single fish. 1t was not good day, @
they had not the right kind of a net
] But we expect no such excursion tc
? day. The water is full of fish; tn
a wind is in the right direction; tn
= Gosnel net Is stronp O. thou VIII