Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-22

! hCldLl1lS TIC SApSElcuCGS u JOJ
as the basis of his sermon this aft
ernoon Mr.. Sunday continued by
saying:
| Job was an upright man. This
means he had honesty that could
stand the severe light of heaven.
There are men who are so crooked
they could hide behind a cork
screw. They do; that is the reason
they are so crooked.
Job was square in all his deal
ings. He had been raised from a
dead level to living perpendicu-
lar. l never could understand why
lot of men won't believe the bible,
and they will gulp down everything
that horse jockey will tell them.
Job was upright, that was why
| the devil was anxious to down him
There are a great many reasons
why the devil should have been
against Job and why he is against
everybody that is doing likewise.
Listen! Job had a character that
stood like the pyramids of Egypt
against the DEVILS business. If the
devil had not been against Job l
would have concluded that he was
Jobs character was like a fort of
machine guns, knocking holes in
the DEVILS business. If you want
to find out what a hot fight the
devil can wage, you live close
enough to God to knock holes III
the DEVILS business and you will
find the air smelling with fire and
birthstone, hot from hell.
Yes, and whenever you see a
church member of a preacher who
does not believe in hell fire and
birthstone. you can bet your life
they would believe in il If they got
clear out on Gods firing line and
the bullets were going like a ma
chine gun, they would believe it.
That is what Job did and that is
why the devil was against him.
AS soon as God declared that Job
was perfect and that Job suited
God, it was up to the devil to prove
that he was not. So it is the DEVILS
business to lombard every man
and every woman that God speaks
well of. He has done that from
Adams day down until tonight and
he will do it until the Lord comes
and puts him in hell and turns the
key.
Character Eternal.
You let God speak well of a man
OF woman and the devil will bonn
bard him. He doesn't have any
thing TO say against his own gang.
Now a mans character is what IS
left when you take away everything
that he can lose. When you strip
and peel him of everything he can
lose then you begin to get a glim-
mer of the real man or woman
Character never dies. Character
comes from God. Character is
eternal as the white throne. Char
acter stands for squareness and
against evil and never dips its col
Ors
Character nails the flag to the
mast with nails that clinch on the
other side; that is why the devil
and all his hosts make war on
character. And the character of
Job was against the devil as dark
ness is against light; as sin is
against salvation; as vice is
against purity; as heaven Is
against hell 1t was against him.
That is why the devil is kept
anxious and troubled and busy all
the time that a good man or woman
is alive.
You drop a good man or woman
in a neighborhood and the devil
will be walking to and fro. The
devil never gets any rest near
where a good man or woman lives,
We all know that the devil made
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only knows how much trouble Job
made for the devil. Don't forget
that side of It. will you?
Jobs character as a man was
against the devil. He was perfect.
The devil is a destroyer. he hates
perfection. OH It is torture to the
devil for he hates to see a man
pure or woman pure or honest
or decent or virtuous.
1 am glad that the name OF job
is given in connection with the
stories of his trial, his experiences,
1t has been a great blessing and
help to me and l want to tell him
so when l get to heaven. so l will
know who to ask for now.
1 can imagine an angel chasing
around and saying, JOB, Job. there
is a fellow here from the United
States named Bill Sunday wants to
see you"
l want to take a walk with Job
some day and have him fill out the
gaps in his story. l want to ask
him some questions about a few
things over which have been cur
ious. l want to ask him how he
felt when the messengers came
dashing up bringing him bad news
want to ask him if he did not find
it easier to endure his hollis than he
did the taunts and insinuations of
his alleged friends. l am going to
ask him.
Character All I'm All.
You sit out there and look at me
and talk about the world growing
better! When you can trot out
chara cter; show me q man who is
better than Job according to Gods
showing, then l will believe and
talk with you about the world get
ting better. Understand 1t? Trot
him out! Come on!
/ am tired of this hot air, wind
tanning about that proposition.
There is not q man or woman look
ing in my face that had not the adj
over Job in ten thousand
ways. What little help he had to
be decent and good, compared with
what We enjoy today and yet when
you line up the best man today and
put him by the side OF Job, he looks