Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-30

and | can easily believe it, since from
his dramas, his stories and his poetry
is drawn a constantly growing in
~spiration to the production of good
literature. In our own time Tenny-
son, we are told, was a Bible student
and it's influence can be traced in
many of his poems. In Memoriam as
an example. So / might go on with
many other writer's who have direct
ly used as models what they have
found in these pages.
In the Old Testament are the best
examples of short stories contained
in any literature. and the manner of
their telling has come to be more and
more the method employed by our
best story writer's. Think over all
the authors you most admire and see
if this is not true. First is their ex-
cetding simplicity in their descrip-
tons of the actors who are their CEN
trail figures, and second their perfect
truthfulness in the incidents related.
Take the story of David for instance
beginning with that wonderful ac-
count of his championship of the
Hebrew nation against the giant
Goliath, when, in spite of Saul's fear
that being but a youth he could not
stand against the Philistine, a man of
war, he stood and conquered because
of the courage given by his implicit
faith in God, and the righteousness
of his cause. The same simplicity
characterizes the story of his after
life in which it is told of him even,
| though a mar after Gods own heart
he vet miserably failed under a strong
temptation, for which suffering came
as it always does come to us all for
wrong doing since we each invariably
reap what we sow. Reading this
simple yet thrilling record of the fail
ure of so good a man to be always
true to the highest in him, and yet
of his repentance and sorrow, it seems
as If one can almost select the Psalms
of which he was the author.
Then there is the story of Moses,
wonderful in conception and execu-
] ton. A life full of strange and varied
river Nile found and adopted by an
Egyptian princess, developing into a
man of action, a great lawgiver
leading his people in a search for
The promised land, dying at last in
undated vigor, his eye undimmed.
though he had reached a hundred and
twenty years; dying, after being al
lowed to look from the mountain top
into the beautiful valley which was
TO be the home of his nation, but
himself not permitted to enter there
in. 1t is a most pathetic sequel to
the story of a courageous human
life. / have wondered if the thought
of Moses looking longingly towards
this forbidden place, sc long sought
did not suggest to Edward Everett
Hale the moving story of The Mar
Without a Country.
One of the Old Testament's strong
est stories is that of Job. at the
same time, it is n of the most
dramatic of poems. This story and
poem combined, has so greatly in
fiuenced the worlds literature that
I cannot pass it by. 1t has to do
you know, with what is named the
mystery of human suffering, 'anG
tells how, though in Divine love
lob bore ~reverses, loss, years OF
pain, desertion of friends. and YET
did not lose confidence in Gods care
OF utter a word of reproach when he
seemed forsaken. Can you think OF
a more dramatic telling than that Of
the consent of the Infinite to the
experiment upon his servant, and
how with one misfortune after an.
other coming upon him, Job sinneG
not? And yet it was not strangt
that IN his anguish, when all seem,
ed to have turned against him HI
should exclaim:
Have pity upon me, have pity upor
me
Oh, We my friends
For the. hand of God hath touched
mel
Still he chung to the thought Of
TIE heavenly indicator when over
whelmed by curel accusations say.
ing
\ Oh, that I knew where l might fine
him