Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-09-01
ENCOURAGEMENT
tor Many Persons Who Consider Their
Case Hopeless.
1~~~pe by the skin of Their Teeth, ANY
Way To Get Into the Gospel Wagon
and Away From the Ciutche.
of the DcviI.

49, ''i'dNCHlentS, ana bankruptcy
ANA a fool of n wife, ne wished he was
dead; and l do not blame him. Ills
flesh was gone and his bones were dry.
His teeth wasted away until nothing but
the enamel seemed left. lie cried ont.
- am escaped with the skin of my.
teeth
There has been some difference of
opinion about this passage. 1T. Jerome
and Schultens. and Drs. Good and
Fool. and Barnes have all tried their
torcepS on Jobs teeth You DENY my
Interpretation and say, "Nhat did Job
know about the enamel OF
tho ,ccth?' He knew everything
about IT. Dental surgery is al
most as old ~ the earth. The
munmie> of Egypt. thousands of years
ola. are found to-day with gold filling
IN their teeth. Ovid. and Horace. and
solomon. and Moses wrote about these
important factors of the body. 10 9th
or provoking complaints Job. | think.
has added AN eNaSpcrutin" toothache.
and putting his hand against the in
hamct lace hc says. II ann escaped
with the skin of my teeth
very narrow escape, YOU say. for
JOB body and soul; but there arr,
thousands of men who make lust as
narrow escape for their soul There
was "a time when the partition between
them and ruin was no thicker than "A
tooth = enamel; but, a. job finally es-
Sapcc SO have they
i'au. Expresses the same idea by a
different figure when hc SAYS that some
people are saved as by fire" \ vessel
at >'a in flames Nou 20 To the stern
of tine vessel. The boats have showed
oft. The flames advance: YOU can en-
durc the heat no longer ON your face.
ou Slide down ON the Side of the YES
ana mold ON with your finger, until the
forHel 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 pass,n-
ger say they thinl, they have room for
on' more. The boat swings under Won
You drop into it-you are saved. SO
some men are pursued 10y temptation
nnlil they are partially consumed but
after aIl get OIL saved 10y fire"
lint / like the figure of Job a little
better than that of Paul. because the
pulpit has not worn il out: and | want
TO show Won If cod will help. that some
men make narrow escape for their
souls. and are saved as with the skin
OF their teeth"
II j. "a easy for some people To look
10 the Cross as for YOU to look to this
pulpit. Mild. gentle, tractablc. loving
you expect them To become Christians
You 60 over To the store and say.
Brandon joined the church vcstcr-
day Your business comrades say.
II hat Is just what might have been cv-
pccted; ne always was of that turn of
mind" In youth. this person whom |
describe was always good. He never
broke things. He never laughed when
IL was improper TO laugh. At seven
he could sit an hour i'm church per
fectly quiet. looking neither to the
right hand nor TO the left but straight
into the eyes of the minister a, though
he understood the whole discussion
about the eternal DEGREES
tie never upset things nor lost them.
He hoated into the kingdom of cod SD
gradually that it Is uncertain lust when
the matter was decided
Here Is another one who started i'm
life with an uncontroi' able spirit. He
kept the nursery in an uproar. Iii, .
mother found him walking ON th, cdg,
OF tue hou~eroof 10 see If he could bal 4
aHcc himself. There was no horse that
he dared not ridc-no tree he could not
climb His bovhood was "a long >cric, .
~ preaicamcnt. his manhood was r.cJl- .
less. his midlifc very awkward. But
NO" Doe is converted. and you 90 over Z, +
tic store and say. cartwright Joined f.
the church Yesterday You friends T.
g e.