The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-15
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIvINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
subiect; Tho Welfare Of Others We
should Danish selflshness-Job Deliv-
cred From Evil when Hc Prayed For
Frlends-Happy From Doing Good.

subjects The Welfare OF Others - We
should Banish selnshness-Job DeIiv-
cred From Evil when Hc Prayed For
Friends-Happy FROM Doing Good.
tCopyriRht 1901
WASHINGTON, d. C.--In this discourse
DIR. Talmagc wars on narrowncss Of view
and urges o life helpful to others: text.
job xiii, 10. "And the Lord turned the
captivity of JOB when he prayed for his
friends"
Comparatively few people read this last
chapter of the book OF job. The earlier
chapters arc so full of thrilling incident.
OF events so dramatically portrayed, OF
awful ailments and terrific disaster, Of
domestic infolcity, of staccato passage,
of resounding address, of omnipotcnoy
proclaimed, of uttcrances showing Job to
have been the greatest scientist of his
day an expert in mining and precious
stones. astronomer, and geographcr. and
zoologist, and electrician and poet. that
most readers stop before they get to my
text. which, strangely and mysteriously,
announces that "the Lord turned the cap
tivity of Job when he prayed for his
friends
Now, will YOU please explain 30 me how
Jobs prayer for his friends halted his
catastrOphes? Give me some good reason
why job on his knees in behalf OF the
welfare OF others arrested the long pro-
ccssion of calamties. Mind YOU. it was
not prayer for himself, for then the cesss.
tlon Of his troubles would have been only
another instance OF prayer answered, but
the portfolio OF his disaster was rolled up
while he supphcated God in behalf OF Eli
phaz the Temanitc, Bldid the Shuhitc.
and Zophar the Naamathite | must con
fess TO you that / had to read the text
over and over again before ! got its full
meaning And the Lord turned the cap.
tivity OF job when he prayed for his
friends
Well il you will not cyplain il to mc,
viii explain it to you. The healthiest, the
most recupcrativc thing on earth to do is
to stop thinking so much about ourselves
and so TO thinking about the welfare OF
Others. Jc5 had been studying his misfor.
tunes, but the more he thought about his
bankruptcy the poorer he seemed the
more lie thought Of his carbunclcs the
worse they hurt the more he thought
OF his unfortunate marriage the more in
tolerablc became the Conjugal relation,
the more he thought OF his house blown
down the more terrific seemed the cyclone.
His mislortunes grew blacker and blacSer.
but there was TO come a reversal OF these
sad conditions. One day he said to him
self: II have been dwelling too much
upon my bodily ailments and my wfe's
temper and my bcrcavements. II is time
! began 60 think about others and do
something for others, and | will start now
by aging Tor my three friends Then
job dropped upon his knees, and as he
did 50 that last shackc Of his captivity of
trouble snapped and fell off Hear it, all
| We ages of time and all yc ages of eternity
"the Lord turned the captivity OF Job
when he prayed lor his friends
The fault with most of us is too much
self concentration-our health. our for.
| tunes, oar advancement. our social posi-
| tion, our achievements, our losses, our de
| teats, our suiferings, our persecution, our
| life, our death, our immortality. OF course
! there is a lawful and righteous selfshness
| In n world and IN a time of such activities
and rivalrles and temptations we must
| look after our own interests aud our own
| destiny on we will go under, DO
| not wait for others TO take care
| of you. Take care Of yourself. But
| it viii not hinder our preservation and
! prosperity ii we enlarge the sphere of our
wishes and prayers so rs TO take in 9TH
| crs. The law in the natural world would
| do well for the moral and spiritual world
| The centripetal force in nature would
| throw everything in toward the center,
| and the centrifugal force in nature would
,
| the centripetal and the centrifugal worl,
| beautifully together. The one force that
would throw everything toward the cen
| ter is balanced by the force that would
| throw everything outward
Our world, with its own interests, feels
| the pull of other worlds No world, no
| nation, no community, no man, no woman,
can afford to exist only for itself or him
self or herself The hour in which job
| has that soiloquy about the enlargement
of his prayers so as to take in his friends
| and he put into execution his good resolu-
ton was the hour when he felt tonic
! a sedative, a neryine, u cataplasm, that
| helped to cure his body and revived his
| fortunes till they were hundred per
cent. better than ever before, for the
| record is "the Lord gave job twice as
much as he had before and tended to
| make him a wonder OF longevity, for he
| lived 40 years after his troubles were
gone. Oh what mighty medicament is
the contemplation OF and the effort for
| the welfare of others
But" says some one, ''it was easy
enough for job to pray for his friends
! Anybody can do that There are those
| to whom we are obligated for years of
kindness. They stand so close 20 us in
| sympathy and remniscence and antic-
| patton that it is easy for us to pray for
| their welfare" Well ! see Won do not
understand that these friends of job were
| the most tantalizing and eyasperating
| friends man ever had. Look as their
behavior. When they heard of his be-
reavements and the accidents by whirl-
| wind and lightning stroke. they came in
| and sat down by him whole week, sev.
| en- days and seven nights, and the record
| is none spake a word to him What
| a disreputable and wicked silenCel Mind
| you, they professed to he religious men,
| and they ought to have been able to offer
| some religious consolation. Instead of that
| they were dumb as the sphinx which at
| that time stood in the African desert and
| stands there still. Why did they not say
| something about reunion in the heaven
| " realms with his children, who had been
| slain? Why did they not talk to him
| about the satisfactory explanations in the
| stand in this world? Why did they not
90 TO the apothecary and buy a poultice
| that would have soothed the carbuncles,
or some queting potion that would calm
| his nerves. or a few drops of febribuge
| that would cool his heated frame? No!
| 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 completed
| their infamous silence of week they be-
gan to lecture job. First Eliphaz the
| 'Cemanite opens with n long story about
a dream which he had in the night and ir-
| ritates the sufferer with words that make
| things worse instead of better, and sets
| him, i'm an attitude of defense against the