El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-28
AAfter this job opened his mouth and Q
cursed his day.r-JOb Bal.

@After this Job opened his mouth and
cursed his day."-JOb Bal
FOB was angry for ever having been
born. He would rather have been
dead than alive. Just how man
who has never been dead ard who con
sequently does not know how It feels
to be dead can say that Is beyond my
comprehension. Job never went so far
as to make an attempt to take his own
life. But in answer to the soliloquy
ito be or not to be-" he was quite ready
TO say that for him It would have been
better never to have been. than 10 have
to pass through the experience OF los
ing wealth. children. health and
friends
In this he WIS. however. mistaken.
Wise as he was. as mems wisdom goes.
he had still much TO learn. He thought
he knew the meaning OF life and the
matter OF fact. he was short sighted
and fainte hearted and gave way 10
despair before the day was lost
What Is Ones Day.
But before going any farther. let US
ask: What is meant by ones day Ny
day is that period Of time that inter
venes between birth and death. It may
be 80, so or 100 years This period Of
be, has no significance. save for the
events that are crowded into it. To
use a very common Illustration. 4 sack
NAV contain sound potatoes or rotten
ones But since the sack IS not con
suited when filled. it is not TO be
praised II filled with good things or
blamed II filled with bad things. Your
day and mine are sacks. We are fill
ing them. We determine what the
contents are TO be. II you put into
the sack evil thoughts. rotten deeds
don't blame the sack, i some day there
comes from 1t stencil that fills your
nOstrils with a most offensive OdOr.
But Job might have replied to all
this. Il am not cursing my day be
cause Of what 7 have put into il.
an thinking Of what other people have
put into IL. Of the bandits that drove
off my herds. Of the storm that killed
my children. of the friends who have
proved false, of all the circumstances
beyond my control that have ruined
my life"
lives That Resisted Ruin.
But hold on a minute. brother Job
Are you sure that the circumstances
you have mentioned necessarily ruin
a mans life Il did not ruin Abraham
Lincoln to have been born in poverty
neither did it ruin George Washington
tc have had his birth in a home Of
wealth Il did not ruin Milton TO lose
his eyesight- Paradise Lost was
written after he lost his sight. Il did
not ruin Bunyan TO be unjustly thrown
into prison The circumstances of our
lives are the things that surround US
Their effect is not absolute but de
Ponds on how We react on them tt
did not ruin Joseph 10 be exposed TO
the corrupung influences Of Egypt. His
reaction was such that the very things
intended 10 be his undoing, became
stepping stones to a place OF honor
and authority
There is walled CITY which no one
can enter except BY your consent That
city is your own personality, your own
soul If you please Within this city
you rule. BY means CT this divinely
bestowed sovereignty. You may he
master Of your circumstances The
filth that men would dump on your
life may be by you converted into 4
fertilizer for your fields to make them
produce more abundant crops. The
winds Of opposition and persecution
Will fill your sails and drive you on