The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-22
Job
- Delivered by Rev. William A Sunday in Gty Audi
torium, Afternoon OF February 21)


9 friends. I aa So&ng to ask him.
y ys@ r.. Il. = ~. &
: Yon SIT out there ana .cck nj nat
and talk about the world growing bat.
Z ter. When you can trot out q char
acter; show me n man who Is better
thas JOB according to Gods showing
then ! will believe and talk with you
, about the world getting better. Tn.
/ oerstand it7 Trot him Quit Come
Joni
Lam tired OF this hot-afr. wind
jamn,ing about that irooost don.
There ts not n man or woraan looking
IN my fere that had not the advantage
over job In ZEN thousand ways.
What nttls heip he had to be decent
land good, compared with what ve en-
the BEST man to-day and put him BY
the side OF Job. ne Icoks ike a plug
ged counterfeit csrt beside q thou
sand dollar government bind
! Tho book Of Job Ia admittedly the
'olde*t writing IN existencA Yet way
oack IN those misty days wa find g
man who puts us to shame and tho
contrast makes LII hang our heads In
dissraca- Job Lived before ors line of
the Bible was written. He had no
church to atts-s. He nevnr heard a
sermon he pc~>~r was ts q revival
he never saw a ..-S2rnackA He never
saw Y. N c A ar z. w. G.. A.
delegation He never saw q religious
newspaper. There ware s.o Sunday
schools. no young peoples societies.
he had no young fellows like Paul had
10 comfort hira. No Religious history
to g. by; DO book Of martyrs to tell
bow others suffered and 70 inspire
hifn 70 40 likewise. and yea ove4y DAY
he tI,st Pleased 3od
All Ahcut him was mswnI 6arknsev
olark"r than the awful 6Arkne., Of
Egypt and out OF all tina, .nfamy and
iidolatr- ard adultery and corruption.
old Jot walked. shining IKE . stsr:
had ca he whole armoe az Gcd and
re hsncisc the shaslo OF mis- faith 60
skhIutiy that the Devil could not
toucn him.
OH Gcd, how II shaznes wx TO-DAY
tNS religious HE of that man way
back Sonder. compared to tia mutt.
ioday. s7ith all 20 have rot to dc
with. Come oni
i Job. I A1a talking about ~.rhsrs
Was n man In the land OF Or ana his
nsnae was Job. and that man was per-
tecs and upright" In other word,
you could write "Ffnss'---that is ATTN
, ! usually spring a Iittis Latin before
leave town. 1t sounds moxt
anthora .ative and {. helms one r.
speak. aa II were, OK csathes-n = o,,,.
,T4bus unurn, sic eamper tyrannia. tha,
lis mora Latin
Ihere was n man in the hand al
ux AID that mans name war Jot
AID SnAt man YVES rexfccf~, GOD sait
The trouble with good many peo.
! tp's. ley are iop~s,deh. bow legged
ana cFoss-eyed ana they sca1tar al
over Ike shot gun They neve,
ge' anywhereA They DO all thei,
: chm Ding IN "a trCadmin.
. There was q man IN shs fnpa 4,
: tz he wa perfect ana he feared Coz
q and hated evil" In other words tina
/ means he trur,ea God ana behave.
himself. How soon the world woul,
' Dc IKE hsaven If everybody woul,
I mind their own brnineas ana hsSay
|, the nselves
!. Trust tn God and behavs yuursef,
; That Is arotner way Of saying .Tho,
shat icNe the Lord thy CCd with al
, ~ r'ind ana with all thy strength
aT thy ne!ghbcr al thyscif
Job never Stopped for holy davH
. ne licked Off 3es days In tina yea
!, Tor God Almighty. One reason " h,
! so many people find II hard to be
: have Is because they only work at !,
few minutes OF the time. II the,
did their breathing In the rame Coo,
LORD. good devil milk ana cider
: chaik and vinegar. si:cshcd way, the,
would have been dead. buriec ans
Z FORGOTTEN long ago.
( Job was an upright man INT
: means that he had honesty that ,oult
r sand tho severe light Of hee Won
There are men who are 40 crookeI
{ IN$ could hide hsh hind Il co,-i rcreu
!. They CO; tina. h the reason they ar,
A so crooked
1 Job WEB s~.uare tr an his dealings
! he had been raised from n dead lcyc
to . living perpendicular. peve-
= could understand why a lot OF me,
. WON believe tn Fte'e. and they viii
= guip dcwn ever sinr that a horx
Jockey viii ten them.
. JOB WIS upristi: That WA VIII,
the devil wnA ANXIOUS 10 down him
here are great many reasons VIII,
. tbs devil should have Been srain1
Job and why he Is Aga.nat ~veryhoA,
that doing hk~wtse. IAstemi Joi
had a character that stood nlka IN,
a ramfds Of Egypt against the devil,
( o. siness. II the devil had not Doe,
{ against JOB ! wruld have concluded
that he WIS not 4lruch Of q rontla.
" man.
Job@ Character o. Purf.
!. Jobs character wac Hike q fort o,
. machine guns. knocking holes In Tn.
devifa business n you want To fint
, cut what a hot hght M devil car
rnahH and what HIT fight ne car
wage. you live close enough to God IL
knock holes In the devils business
, and you will find the air smeIling
with fro and hr4rnBtone. hot from
hell
Yes. and whene YER Won see q church
member n- a preacher Who Aoes M,
believe in he'll FIRE and birthstone, yoy
can bet your iifo they would believe
In 1t II they got clear out Of Gods
nrfng line and the bullets wers coins
like a machine gun, they would be-
lfeve H. Thai is what Job did, and
/ tssrt " why hn 1svfb v~es. salnat {asyr,
Az soon as God oeciafed that Joi
was perfect and that Job suited God
II was up to the devil to prove thr.,
he was not So II In the DEVILS buGi-
ness to lombard every man ana every
woman that God speaks wu1I -of. lis
has done that from Adams day down
until tonight, and the will do II unit
the Lord cones and puts him in he'll
and turns the key.
You let God speal- carl Of q mar
or woman and the devn with lombard
him. He doesn't have ANYTHING tC