The Progress., 1897-08-28
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.
JOB DID IT "WlTH TIE SKIN Or
HIS T6ETH."

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to Preach an Eloquent and fo"eri"' i
Sermon encouragement For Those WI" t
Consider Their Cases Hopeless.
NEW YORK, Aug s2.-1n this discourse q
Of DIR. Talmage is mighty encouragement !
for MANY who consider their own case
homeless. His text is Job XIX, 70. e am
esoaped with the skin of my teeth.
lob had 1t hard. What with boils ana
hereayements and bankruptcy and 1901
Of n wife he wished he was dead. and 90
not blame him. His flesh was gone ano
his bones were dry. His teeth "as'eu
away until nothing but the enamel seemed
left. He cries out, ~ am escaped with the
skin of my teeth
There has been some difference of opin-
ION about this passage. st. Jerome ana
Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and
Rarnes have all tried their forceps on
Jobs teeth. You deny my Interpretation
and say, "What did Job know about the
enamel of the teeths" He knew every
thing about 1t. Dental surgery is almost
=. old ma the earth. The mummies OF
Eovpt. thousands of years old, arc found
today with gold filling in their teeth. Ovio
and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote
.hont these Important factors of the body:
To other provoking complaints Jop; =
think has added an oz0speIatine tootnac"o,
and putting his hand against the innaineu
face he says, II am escaped WIN S"e sA" "
my teeth"
A very narrow escape, you say, for Jop'
hodv and SOUL but there are thousands Oh
men who make just as narrow escape tol
their soul. There was time when the
partition between them and ruin was no
thioker than a tooth's enamel Dus, as CO SJV
1lnally escaped, SO have they. Thank Goa!
0,honk G0dl
Paul expresses the same idea by diner
emit figure when he says that some people
nre 'saved as by fire." A vessel ae sea 10
In flames. You go to the stern OF the yes
sell The boats have showed on. Ihe n",ne'
advance You can endure the heat no Ion
ger on your face. You slide down on the
AIDE Of the vessel and hold ON with your
1ineers until the forked tongue OF the hre
begins to lick the back OF your hand ano
YOU feel that you must fall, when one ol
Che lifeboats comes back, ana the passen
oers say they think they have room io'
one more. The boat swings under you
You drop into it-you are saved-"eo SOM
men arc pursued by temptation until the!
are partially consumed, but AFTER Oil 90
off-"saved as by fire. "
But like the figure Of Job little pet
ter than that Of Paul, because the pulpi
ha. not worn it out, and want to shov
YOU, II God will help, that some men max
narrow escape for their souls and are save
"a with the skin Of their teeth.
It is us easy for some people to look .
the cross as for you to look to this pulpi'
Mild, gentle, tractablc, loving, you expee
them to become Christians. You go ove
to tho store and say, "Grandon joined tn
church Yesterday" Your business con
rades say, "That Is just what might ha>
been expected; he always was OF that tnr
of mind" In youth this person whom
1escribo was always good He never broi
1hings He never laughed when 1t was IN
In church. perfcotly quiet, looking Meth
TO the right hand nor the left, but straig
into the eyes of the minister, az shout
he understood tho whole discussion abo
the eternal DEGREES. He never upset thin
nor lost them. He fioated into the KIN
dom of God SO gradually that It Is unc'
tain lust when the matter was decioeo.
Here is another one, who started In j
~ -. ..oont roila hla shirt. He kept