The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-11-16

emily realms with his children who
had been slain? Why did they not
talk to him about the satisfactory ex-
plantations in the future world of
things we do not understand in this
world? Why did they not go to the
apothecary and buy II poultice that
would have soothed the carbuncles,
or some quietng potion that would
calm his nerves, or few drops of
febrifuge that would cool his heated
frame? mol For seven days and
seven nights they did nothing and
said nothing for his relief. They must
have almost bored him to death.
After these three friends had com
pleted their infamous silence of a
week they began to lecture job. First,
Eliphaz the Temanite opens with a
long story about dream which he
had in the night and initiates the suf-
ferer with words that make things
worse instead of better and sets him
in an attitude of defense against the
lecturer Then comes Bildad the
Shuttle, who gives the invalid round
scolding and calls him garrulous and
practically tells him that he deserved
all that he got, and that il he had be-
haved himself Alright he would not
have lost his house or his children or
his estate. He practically says: JOB,
I will toll Won What IL the matter with
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crite. Won arc ro,y oottiro noid for
yorr yyicl,edness No wonder that
tber, cor,e fror, Ioh an outhurst ~
irdirro+ior which ooils or+ tho otber
ouondam friend. Zopbar the Naa-
mathite. who begins denouncinp Job
by calling him a liar, and keeps on
the discourse until Job resDonds to all
three of them i'm the sarcastic words:
mo doubt but We are the people, and
wisdom shall die with Won"
Oh what frir.rs lob had, Heaven
deliver ms fr having one such
friend 70 say p..l..ro of bavinp three
of them. II was for such friends that
Job praved. and was il RELIGIOUS tri-
umpb for him TO do so? Would Won.
the very hest Of Won he in very deyout
mood and capable of making interces-
sion for neonle who had come TO Won
in day of trouble and said. Good
for Won You oupbt to he chastised
You are being taken in hand bv eter-
nal iustice. If Won had behaved your.
self arigbt Won would not have been
sicl, or persecuted or IMPOVERISHED or
made childless." Oh. no. NV friend.
YOU would not have felt like Job when
he prayed for his friends. but more
like Job when he cursed the day of his
nativity,
Notice that this fagellntion by the
three friends was premeditated. They
did not merely hammer in and come
suddenly upon the trouble for which
thew could not offer a compound. The
Bible saws: "Tbev had made an an.
pointment together" The interview
was prearronged. They had agreed
ss 70 what they would saw To the sick
man. You can see that their remarks
were NOT extemnorapeous What thew
said was sublimelv noetic. They rose
in STYLE into what in later times we
would call the Homeric or Dantesoue.
But Job was NOT II, need Of noetrv so
much os n salve for his eruntive dis
order. He was not DIVING for lack Of
a paraprapb in blank verse He was
not so much in need Of a didactic lee
ture about the ipstice of God as an
assurance ~ tbo Divine mercy Some
pious rustic of the lnnd of liz not able
IN nu+ tbree grommotica1 eentences
together could have said something
more consolatorv
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reIioions critics was oramer+od bv
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tboir mower when we arc vol and
we do NOT like what one is soving we
can cet nm Srd go owov 8nt lob
was foo m IN Get mn and go awav
First he endured the seven davs and
seven NIGHTS Of silence and then he
endured their Abandonment ~ his mo-
tiyes and character and nfter their
cruel camnoion was ended NV n sinh.
lime effort of soul which this dav nm.
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