Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-07
Job Is Held Up as the Model
Man by Sunday in Sermon

1 spiritually lop-sided bow-legged, cross
eyed. You scatter like a shotgun and
you're no good.
THAT man was perfect and upright"
God said So The trouble with a good
many is that they are lop-slded. bow
legged and cross-eyed. They scatter all
over: they never get anywhere.
tie feared God and hated evil" This
seems that he trusted God-that he be-
hsved himself. How soon we could make
this old world like heaven II we all did
that
Job minded his own business How soon
this old world would be like heaven II
everyone minded his own business! some
people are really religious only on sun
days. but they may be 80 crooked that
they could hide behind a corKscrew.
Trust God and behave yourself is sim
ply another way OF saying, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart
aud with all thy mind. and thy neishbor
as myself"
some People Work at Goodhess
short Time.
Job never stopped for holidays. He be-
haved himself Se5 days In the year. One
reason why some people find 1t so hard
It a few minutes at a time.
can't understand why some fellows
won't believe the Bible. but will gulp
down every word a Jockey tells them
about an old skate. or will bite on
gold brick scheme.
II YOU did your breathing the same way
you would have been dead and forgotten
long ago.
Job was an upright man. This means
that he had an honesty that could stand
the light OF heaven.
Job had character that stood out
like a pyramid against the devils bust
ness. IL you want to find out what
hard fight the devil can make, what
hot fire he can wage. live close enough
| to God.
Some of you church members don't
believe in fire and brimstone-you would
IL you got clear out on Gods firing
line. That's what Job did, and that's
why the devil opposed him.
AS soon as God declared that Job was
, perfect 1t was up to the devil to prove
! that he wasn't. It's the devils business
to lombard everybody that God speaks
u well of. He has done that from Adam
n down until the present time. He will
4 continue to do SO until the Lord comes
and drives him away out of the world.
Some Roast BILLY"
The devil is prompting the things that
are being said about me, and some OF
the meanest, most villifying, most sour
rilous things are being said about me
:. by people In the church. Some OF the
= ministers are in II. too.
A mans character is what is left after
a you have taken away everything else
that he can lose. After you strip and
v peel off everything else that a man can
4 lose, then you begin to catch a glimpse
e of the real man.
y Character never dies. It comes from
J. God-eternal as the great white throne
1t stands four-square against everything
e evil. That's why the devil and all his
e hosts make war upon It,
X But the devil never gets any rest
e where there's a good man or woman
> l know the devil Is making a lot oil
e trouble for me, but m keeping him busy.
e and don't you forget that.
The devil would like to have every
married man in Omaha keep a woman
IL on the side every girl sell her virtue
II He hates perfection, and you're on hii
side, you big idiot. You're a fool. Yol
q never thought so little Of yourself be
fore. did you? Do something for God
- There are a lot of nominal Christians
" who have subscribed to all the articles
% of the creed, but their minds are sterile
!. they never reproduce. Their minds arr
/, nothing but q sick ward of impotent
. paralytic purposes.
= Jobs character as the head of a fam
lily was against the devil. Instead OF
IN sneaking through life a bachelor and
" cheating some good woman and the
state, he married and had a family OF
n ten children, and every one OF them
grew up to the glory of God.
II Home f. the Test.
s. There is no stronger religious test than
'e the home test. The preacher whose re.
Is ligion can't stand the home test hasn't
a much of a religion, and It was Jobs
o ability to stand out the devil when the
devil came to his home and put him &c
a test that made Job right with God.
> Jobs wife wasn't very glad when she
saw her husband win out. I'm sorry e
say that Jobs wife wasn't very re
ligious. l wonder why the devil didn't
. kill the old woman when he was Out
at Jobs house. / think I'd have donS
that II I'd been the devil I'd have
soaked her. I'm glad that you women
;. are not as bad as she was
Yes, all the time Jobs wife was watch
:, ing him as he lay moaning with boils
:, all over him from head to foot Jobs
n wife said to him. "Dost tnou still re-
tain thine integrity? Curse God and
a die; Job. give up"
Most of you want the best from God
and unless you do the right thing
a whether you are rich or poor. by Him
!, you won't get 1t. Job was the Wander
- bllt. the Rockefeller and the Carnegie
OF his day. Money didn't prevent him
/, from doing the right thing by God
- have never met John d. Rockefeller,