The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-03
WISHED HEWASDEAD
kNp REV. Or. TALMAeE DOES NOT
BLAME JOB FOR IT.

In Addition to toiis, bereavement Bank
,uptcy and Fool Of Wife, He Had
Raging Toothache-The Marrow Escapes
Of Life.
BROOKLYN, July 29.-Rev. DR.. Tai
.ga has selected as the subject for his
! iauon for today through the press
Morrow Escapes, the text being TAX
IN from job xix, 30, II am escaped
With the skin of my teeth. !"
Job had it hard. What with boils and
bereavements and bankruptcy and fool
of wife he wished he was dead, and
10 not blame him. His flesh was gone,
/ nd his bones were dry. His teeth vast
IT away until nothing but the enamel
cmod left. He cries out, II am escap-
IL with the skin of my teeth.
There has been some difference OF
Union about this passage. st. Jerome
4; ii Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole
tad Barnes have all tried their forceps
cn Jobs teeth. You deny my interpre-
tation and say, "What did Job know
rbout the enamel of the teeth?" He knew
everything about it. Dental surgery Is
rlnost as old as the earth. The mum
Lies of Egypt, thousands Of years old,
nrc found today with gold filling in
their teeth. Ovid and Horace ard Solo
mon and Moses wrote about these i'm
portant factors of the body. To other
provoking complaints Job, think, has
added au exasperating toothache, and
putting his hand against the inflamed
face he says. II 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
time when the partition between
them and ruin was no thicker than q
tooths enamel; but, as Job finally es-
capped, 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
off. 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 for
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 J"
But like the figure of Job little bet
ter than that of Paul, because the pull
pit has not worn it out, and 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 tie 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 ii
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 al
hour in 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 ST
gradually that it is uncertain just whel
the matter was decided.
To the Unconverted.
Here is another one, who started il
life with an uncomfortable spirit. H
kept the nursery in an uproar. Hi
mother found him walking on the edg
of the house roof to see if he could bal
ance himself. There was no horse b
dared not ride, no tree he could nc
climb. His boyhood was a long serie
of predicaments; his manhood was reck
less; his midlife very hayward. Blu
now he is converted, and you go over t
the store and say, "Arkwright joine
the church yesterday" Your friend
say: "It is not possiblel You must b
joking" You say: mo; I tell you tn
truth. He joined the church" The
they reply, "There is hope for any {
us if old Arkwright has become Chris
tian."
In other words, we all admit that
is more difficult for some men to acceI
the gospel than for others.
may be addressing some who hav
cut loose from churches and Bibles an
Sundays and who have at present 4
intention Of becoming Christians then
selves but just to see what is going OF
And yet you may find yourself escapin
before you hear the end, as with tt
skin of your teeth" I do not expect
waste this hour. have seen boats 6
off from Cape May or Long Branch an
, drop their nets and after awhile con
ashore pulling in the nets without ha'
ing caught a single fish. It was not
,ood day, or they had not the srigl
= kind of net. But we expect no sue
excursion today. The water is full
, fish; the wind is in the right diretio
y the gospel net is strong 0 thou WI
tidst help Simon and Andrew to ifs
show us today how to cast the net
the right side of the ship!
n A Few Questions.
q Some of you, in coming to God, w
:, have to run against skeptical notion
= 1t is useless for people to say sharp al
b cutting things to those who reject t
D. Christian religion. Icannot say su
,,se things. By what process Of template
b. or trial or betrayal you have come
he your present state 1 know not. The
ne are two gates to your nature-the 81
lie of the head and the gate Of the hea
w The gate of your head is locked wi
"' bolts and bars that an archangel COT
not break, but the gate Of your he'
swings easily on its hinges. If assau
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