The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-01-21
Holy Land, Canaan or Palestine
IN 81 LETTERS. LETTER NO. IA.

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IN 81 LETTERS. LETTER NO. IA.
written for Brandon News, by Virgil.)
LAND OF w, HOME OF JOB.
The country in which Job lived, as
far as we can gather, lay east, or
southeast, of Palestine, adjacent to the
Sabeans and the Chaloeans. Job l 8
and 1917, "And there came a mes
sengel unto Job, and said, The oxen
were blowing, and the asses feeding
beside them, and the Sabeans fell up
on them, and took them away; yea,
they have slain the servants with the
edge of the sword, and l only am es-
capped alone to tell thee X
while he was yet speaking, there
came also another and said The Chal-
deans made out three bands, and fell
upon the camels and have carried
them away; yea, Eand slain the SER
wants with the edge of the sword; and
only am escaped alone to tell thee. -
1t was north of the southern Arabri-
ans, and west Of the Euphrates; and,
lastly, near to the Edonites of Mount
Sler,, who at one period occupied Uz,
probably as conqueror, Lam. 4-21, }
and whose cave dwelling habits are
spoken of in Job 3-6, Z.
"Rejoice and be glad o daughter of
Edom, that dwellest in the land of
w. From the above date it may
be inferred that the land of Uz cor
responds to the Arabin Deserta of
classical geography, at all events it is
thought to embrace all that lies north
Of the Both parallel of latitude
Whether the name Uz survived to
classical times is uncertain; Tribe
named Aeslae is mentioned by Plat
envy, who perhaps may be identified
with the w of Scripture - Job was
a chieftain III the land of w, of i'm
mense wealth and high rank, ''the
greatest of all the men Of the east;'
OF perfect integrity, blameless in all
the relations of life and declared of
the Lord himself to be unique in his
uprightness, etc. He stood all the
stormy temptation of satan and looked
up to God through his tears and suff-
ering, and waited patiently for God
to help and console him: even his
wife dispaired and advised him to
curse God and die;'' he still chung
to his hope, Saying, what shall we
receive good at the hands of the Lord;
and shall we not receive evil "In
all this Job did not. sin with his lips
From Jobs breaking heart, amid the
awful darkness which shaded his suff-
e1ing soul, we have, like the dying
swan the sweetest music of his life
While he thus sat in sackcloth and
ashes, a ray of divine light broke in
upon his vision, and he saw the fu.
ture resurrection in beautiful PAN
oIamma loom up before him, and he
cried out in perfect estasy, "Oh that
my words were now written; oh, that
they were printed in a book; that
they were craven with an iron pen
and lead in the rock forever for |
know that my Redeemer iveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth and though after my
skin worms destroy this body, yet in
my flesh shall / see God, whom /
shall see for myself, and mine eyes
hall behold, and not another though
my reins be consumed within me-
Job 10 1927. We see one answer to
Jobs prayer all ever our land. The
doctrine of the resurrection is written
in the ssBook of God, and the embles
of an hope is ''graven with pens of
iron, in the tomb stones to be found
in all our cemeteries and graveyards.
Writers have not agreed altogether as
to the home of the MAN of W.
In leaving Bozrah, you may ride
through waving grain fields, lovely at
harvest time and pass the village of
AIRY, on tell in the midst of rich
Adowns, at the base of label HauraD,
- at noon lunch under the shale Of
1ntree in an old christian church,
Without the walls Of Sueideh,
mt capital of the Hauran.