Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-08-28
JOBS ACHING TOOTH.
HE ALSO HAD BolLS, BANKRUPTCY
AND A FOOL OF A WIFE.

HE ALSO HAD BOlLS, BANKRUPTCY
AND A FOOL OF A WIFE.
But He Finally Escaped, Body and Soul,
! From His Troubles, and Rev. DIR. Tai.
mage Shows That Thousands OF Others
May BE Similarly Saved.
NEW York, Aug. 22.-In this dis
course of DR.. Talmago is mighty ell
couragemcnt for many who consider
their own ease hopeless. His text is job
xix, 90, 81 am escaped with tho skin OF
my teeth. -
Job had it hard. What with boils
and bereavements and bankruptcy and
Il fool of a wife no wished no 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 cries out, 81
am escaped with the skin of my teeth "
There has been some difference of
opinion about this passage. ST. Jerome
and Schultcns and Drs. Good and Poole
and Barnes have all tried their forceps
! Oh Jobs teeth. You deny my interpre-
tation and say, "What did Job know
about the enamel of the tceth:' Ho
knew everything about it, Dental sur
gerry is almost us old as the earth. The
mummies of Egypt thousands of years
old are found today with gold filling III
their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solo
mon and Moses wrote about these i'm
portant factors of tho body. To other
provoking complaints Job l think, has
added an exaspcrating toothache, and,
putting his hand against the infamed
face, be says, II am escaped with the
skin of my teeth. y
A very nar1ow escape, you say, for
Jobs body and soul, but there are thou
sands of men who make just as narrow
escape for their soul There was time
when the partition between them and
ruin was 10 thicker than 4 tooth's
enamel, but as Job final g escaped so
have they. Thank God! Thank Godl
Saved rs by Tirc.
Paul expresses the same idea by a
different figure when he says that some
people are Saved as by fire. - A vessel
at sea is in fumes. You go to tho stern
of the vessel. The boats have showed
off. The flames advance You can en-
durc the heat 10 longer on your face.
You slide down on the side of the YES
sci and hold on with your fingers, until
the forked tongue CT 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 tho 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 arc pursued by temptation until
they are partially consumed, but after
all get off, saved as by fire. y
But like the figure of Job little
better than that of Paul. because the
pulpit has rot worn it cut, and want
to show you, if God will help, that some
men make marrow escape for their souls
and are saved as with the skin Of
their teeth. "
1t is as easy for some people to look
to tho cross rs 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 yester'
day" Your business comrades say:
'1That is Just what might have been
expected. lie always was Of that turn
of mind. - IN youth this person whom
/ describe was always good. lie never
broke things Fo never laughed when
it was improper to laugh At he could
sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet,
looking neither to the right hand nor
tho left, but straight into the eyes OF
the minister, rs though he understood
tho whole discussion about the eternal
DEGREES. He never upset thingsnor lost
Them. He floated into the kingdom Of
God so. gradually that it is uncertain
lust when the matter was decided.
Difficulties In the Way
Hero is another one who started in
life with an uncomfortable spirit. He
kent the nursery in an upToar. His
mother found him walking Oh the edge
Of the house roof to sec if he could bal
auce himself. There was no horse that
he dared not ride, 10 tree he could not
climb. His boyhccd was long series
Of ure;licaments, his manhood was reck-
less, lis midlife very hayward. But
nov he is converted, and you go over
to the store and say, "Arkwright joined
the church yesterday" Your friends
say: at is not possible. You must be
Joking" You sly: "No; 1 tell you the
truth. He Joined tie church. " Then
they reply, "There is hope for any of
us If old Arkwright has become a Chris
tian." In other words, we will admit
that it is more difficult fer some men to
accept the gospel titan for others.
mag be preaching to some who have
cut lccse from churches and Bibles and
SUNDAYS, and who have no intention OF
becoming Christians themselves, and
yet you may find yourself escaping be-
fore you leave this house as with the
, skin CT your teeth. do not expect to
waste this hour. l have seen boats 90
CIT from Cage May or Long Branch and
drop their ::c:s and after awhile come
ashore, pulling in the nets without hay-
ing caught single fish. 1t was not a
coed day, OF they had not tie right KIND
Of a net But we expect no such excur-
sion to day. Tic water is full OF fish,
4 the wind is il the right direction, the
eosDel net is strong. o thou who dldst
help Simon aud Andrew to hsh' snow
us how to cast the net on tine right size
eG the shlpl
Some of you in coming to God will
have to run against skeptical notions;
1t is useless for people to say sharp and
cutting things to those who reject the
Christian religion. l cannot say such
things. By what process of temptation
or trial or betrayal you have come to
your present state l know not. There