The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-26
'lIDl@S SUNDAY SERMON
an ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.

u.a Boils, Bankruptcy and Fool
r,,,. But He Finally Escaped. Body
soul. From HIS Troubles-Thou.
"A. Of Others May BE Similarly Saved
:, IL am escaped with the skin Of
.s,h." Job XIX, 20.
had II hard. What with boils and
.sments and bankruptcy and a fool
"a he wished he was dead, and / do
Name him. His flesh was gone, and
mes were dry. His teeth wasted
mil nothing but the enamel seemed
Ne cries out, II am escaped with the
dmy teeth"
,,s has been some difference OF
Pcn about this passage: st: Jerome and
sstsps and Drs. Good and Poole and
=. have all tried their forceps on
teeth. You deny my Interpretation
.v "what did Job know about the
ri Of the teeth?" He knew every
about 1t. Dental surgery Is almost
IA as the earth. The mummies OF
Thousands Of years old are found to-
I'm gold filling In their teeth. Ovid
Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote
',tbese important factors OF the body.
sher provoking complaints Job, |
I has added an exasperating tooth
and. putting his hand against the
mel face, he says, II am escaped with
hin Of my teeth
ur narrow escape, you say, for Jobs
and soul. but there are thousands OF
vbo make just as narrow escape for
soul. There was time when the
s.iop between them and ruin was no
IN than tooth's enamel, but as Job
Il escaped so have they. Thank God!
ii God
n expresses the same idea by differ
,surewhen he says that some people
saved as by fire." A vessel at sea Is
,res. You go to the stern Of the ves-
The boats have showed off. The
4. advance. You can endure the heat
m,er on your face. You slide down on
he Of the vessel and hold on with your
" until the forked tongue OF the fire
a 10 lick the back OF your hand, and
lei that you must fall, when one OF
lhboats comes back, and the passen-
ay they think they have room for one
The boat swings under you. You
jntoit-you are saved. So some men
pursued by temptation until they are
il consumed, but after all get of
rd as by fire.
| like tho ligure OF job little better
that of Paul, because the pulpit has
FOrn 1t out, and want to show you, II
will help, that some men make narrow
,e for their souls and are saved as
the skin Of their teeth"
5 as easy Tor some people to look to
lrcss as Tor you to look 10 this pulpit.
GENTLE tractable loving, you expect
TO become Christians. You go over
store ana say brandon joined the
D yesterday" Your business COM
say "Inat Is Just what might have
expected. lie always was OF that
oimnd' nyouth this person whom
erDe was Always good. lie never
things lie never laughed when 1t
Ipfoper TO laugn. AL seven ne could
n9ar IN chhrcn, perfectly quiet, look
,'her TO the right hand nor the left,
ialgnt INTO the eyes OF the minister,
pucl he understood the whole dis
aDVu, the eterha, DEGREES. He
alse. things nor lost them: He
llalo ,he klhgdom OF God SO gradually
y uncertain just wheh the matter
erlleu.
another one, VINO started In life
aGncoh.roliapie spirit. he Kept the
!tin III al uproar. ms mother found
M1lns On ,he eu9e OF the mousse roof
ne coulu paiahce nmseif. There
morse tnat ne dared not ride, no tree
lahot cllnD: his boyhood was n
iIs .lts,O Vi Pieuica,nents, MS manhood
vness, MS mldilie very wayward.
wv - eonNef.eu, ana you go over
',o.s vaa,o ann say yArkWrlght Joined the
~, !sItViuay; lour irlehus say: 1T
v.Si.i1i n,n,, lou must De Joking. You
,yi ,oh y WI Ts you .he truth. ne Joined
arr - nen .ney reply, ihere Is
rh,,,,a SS ~ US II 9lu ArKwfight mas be-
NJ, saa' ,ha.,a III o.nsr Words, we
Ia' sn,al. 'na. ~ is more ailncult Tor some
"Icept tue Sospel than for others.
;om nv dhuaehae g,uaot'lne 70 some VINO nave cut
NS I wh" rnatones pn ,. ana blpies and Sun
ans m thU ,hau, mo in'eh.loh OF becoming
rrselI Iautos' osnan,,' anu YET you may
% @nitS tIstapinS before you leave this
s,roa. ",.. 'ne SKIN OF your teeth"
49, " waste this hQur. l have
sS sSt - . Oh. Oh from Cape May or Long
Sora % uiVii n,i,, uneir nets ana after awhile
can,bt PuninB III the nets without
valstt as tL u single ilsh. 1t was not
rp irVi W. .ney nau not the right kind Of
OTs T5o we expect no such excursion
rinb, tnS "u,er dtue Is iuli OF fish, the wind
'I' 0thon u'rec.ion, the gospel net is
10 fsH eJ'u aSn VINO didst help Simon and
!, su' vos sue i OF the ship!
raiD"t Ivs ulc,g ih coming to God will have
SI SaoHIo sneplicai notions. 1t is use
ttHp,o tSdpao IL, TO say sharp and cutting
,nv,u connos VINO reject the Christian re-
Of Ve tamn,y say such things. BY what
~ coma rouP'ation p @ or trial or betrayal
Ie,O ,Oae'o ! 81 your present state l know
Of Of tho I,o Two Two gates to your nature
r6s 'ao ao.n ieaa and the gate of the
ts o1% s%'o q, vi your head is locked
braaI @ pars that an archangel
asiv Sitvah' ". put the gate Of your heart
WIN r, VI. lts hinges. If l assaulted
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