The Yale expositor., 1900-11-16

justice of God IS an assurance of the
divine mercy. Some pious rustic Of
the land of Uz not able to put three
grammatical sentences together could
have said something more consola-
tory.
The reanness of the attack of these
religious critics was augmented by the
fact that they had the sufferer in their
power. When we are we'll and we do
not like what one is saying, we can
get up and go away. But Job was too
Ill TO get up and so away. First he
endured the seven days and seven
nights of silence, and then he endured
their arraignineut of his motives and
character, and after their cruel cam
paign was ended by sublime effort Of
soul, which this day uphold for imi-
tat'on, he triumphed in prayer for his
tantallzers. In all history there is
nothing equal to it except the memoir
able importation by Christ for his enc
mics. No wonder that after that
prayer OF JOB w23 Gnce uttered a thrill
Of recovery shot through every nerve
and vein of his tortured body and
every passion of his great soul, and
God answered it by adding nearly
century and 4 half to his lifetime and
whitened the hills with fiocks of sheep.
and filled the air with the towing OF
cattle, and Weakened the silent nursery
OF his home with the swift feet and
the laughing voices of childhood
seven sons and three daughters cele-
DRAFTED for their beauty, the daughters
to refine the sons. the sons to defend
the daughters. There is nothing that
pays so well as prayer, and tho more
difficult that prayer to make the
greater the reward for. making it.
UselessneSs of Anger.
Nothing is so unhealthy as to yet
mcd. 1t is shock to the whole
physical organization as we'll as to
your mental and moral condition. II
IS no unusual thing for people to drop
down dead in fit of anger. You peo-
pie who weigh over 200 pounds avoir-
dupols had better never lose your tenn
per, for at such times apoplexy is not
far off. Get the equipoise of Job in
the text, and it will help you in bust
ness directions. Praying for all Offend
ers, you will have more nerve for large
undertakings; you will have a better
balanced judgment; you will waste no
valuable time in trying to get even
with your enemies. Try this height of
prayer for your antagonist today, and
If you fail try it tomorrow. Keep on
until you accomplish it, and l should
not wonder IT, in addition to the moral
and religious strength it gives you, it
should add hundred per cent to your
worldly prosperity. JOB xiii, 10, THE
Lord gave Job twice as much as he
had before"
What we all need is to get out of
ourselves and go to helping others,
whether friends or foes. AS beautiful
al instance Of how this can be done |
found last summer in London in the
person of Florence Nightingale, the
heroine Of hospitals and of battlefields
when there were no hospitals. The
lounge on which she lies PROSTATE Is
throne Of power. and, though she
has passed into the eighties, she trains
nurses for sick beds, and her influence
is now felt among the wounded in
South Africa, while her memory is full
of the story of Balaklava, Sevastopol
and Inkerman, where England and
France and Russia grappled. She told
me that she had not been happy until
she undertook to alleviate suffering,
and that since she began her work she
had never seen an unhappy day. To
that work she consecrated her life, her
classic attachments, her social position,
her brilliant personality. Her whole
life for others. and her face shows it.
! think so much of heaven is to be
found in no other human countelance.
Tennyson's Charge of the Light Bril-
gade" is not more thrilling to me than
the womanly bravery and sacrifice
that took care of those who were shot
from the saddles Of the immortal six
hundred"
Tho Efficacy OF Prayer
Ny text enthrones prayer and gives
it scepter to wave over our temporal
and eternal life. Under God it cured
Job and fixed up his finances and re-
stored his home and made him so
robust of health that he lived Ii de-
cades. But" some one says, II do
not believe in prayer for friends and
foes, because l DO not think that God
is going to change the laws Of nature
because we ask him to do So"
Neither do l think that God will
change the law OF nature at our re-
quest, but l am sure that he answers
prayer through natural law. Not a
physician of any skill, allopathic or
homeopathic or hydropathic or eclec-
tic, but has some time been surprised
that what was thought to be a fatal
disease suddenly relaxes it's grasp Of
the patient, and lie RECEIVERS. Not one
law OF nature has been fractured.
Prayer may have given the sudden
turn to that illness. A business man
may be in difficulty inextricable-
mortgages aCainst him fOreclOSing