The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

IF you know of skeleton hidden
| away
In a closet and guarded and kept
from the day, in the dark
| And whose showing, whose sud-
den display
Would cause grief and sorrow and
| lifelong dismay,
! "If you know of a thing that would
/ darken the joy
It's pretty good plan to forget
| it.
i OF man or woman, a girl or a
! boy,
That would wipe out smile and
elsewise annoy a fellow,
| And cause his gladness to cloy,
| It's pretty good plan to forget
/ it.
| And the reason why am glad that
the name of Job is given in connect
ion with the stories of his trial his
experiences, is, that it has been a
! great blessing and help to me and |
want to tell him so when | get to
Heaven, so ! will know who to ask for
now.
/ Would Like to
See Job
| can imagine an angel chasing
around and saying, Job, Job, there
is fellow here from the United
States named Billy Sunday wants to
j see you"
l want to take a walk with Job
some day and have him fill out the
gaps in his story. | want to ask him
some questions about a few things
over which l have been curious.
want to ask him how he felt when
the messengers came dashing I'D
bringing him bad news. | want to
ask him if he did not find it easier to
endure his boils than he did the
| taunts and insinuations of his alleged
i friends. am going to ask him.
! You sit out there and look at me
and talk about the world GROWING bet
ter! when you can trot out a char
acter; show me man who is better
than job according to Gods showino,
then J will believe and talk with YOU
! ABOUT the world getting better. in
derstand it? Trot him out! Come
on! 56
| am tired of this hot-air. wind
1ammlng about the proposition There
is not man or woman looking in nv
/ race that had not the advantage over
Job in ten thousand ways. What little
help he had to be decent and good
compared with what we enjoy TODAY
and put him by the side of Job. he
looks like a plugged counterfeit cent
beside thousand dollar government
bond
Book Is One of
Oldest in World
/ The book of Job is admittedly the
Oldest writing in existence. Yet. way
back in those misty days we find a
man who puts us to shame and the
contrast makes us hang our heads in
disgrace. Job lived before one line Of
the Bible was written. He had no
church to attend He never heard a
J sermon. He never was in a revival
/ He never saw a tabernacle. He never
saw Y, NJ. C. A. or Y. w. G. A
delegation. He never saw a religious
newspaper. There were no Sunday
schools, no young peoples societies.
! He had no young fellow like Paul had
| to comfort him. No religious history
| TO go by; no book of martyrs to tell
how others suffered and to inspire
him TO do likewise, and yet every day
he just pleased God.
! All about him was moral darkness.
blacker than the awful darkness of
! Egypt, and out of all that infamy and
/ idolatry and adultery and corruption
old Job walked, shining like a star:
! had on the whole armor of God and
he handled the shield of his Faith so
!. skilfully that the Devil could not
touch him.
] Oh. God, how it shames us today
tIr
back yonder, compared to the NUTS
today. with all we have got to do
with. Come on,
!, Too Many Persons
/ Lose Perspective
Job, | am talking about. "Thers
was a man in the, land of w and his
name was Job. and that man was per
feet and upright" In other words
you could write "Finis-that is Lat
I in. ! usually spring a little Latin bS
i fore leave town. 1t sounds more
authoritative and ii helps one to
! speak, as it were, ev cathedra. pIu-
ribus unum, sic semper tyrannis; that
/ is more Latin.
/ There was man in the land of
, Uz and that mans name was Job
and that man was perfect, God said
so.
i The trouble with good many peo-
pie. they are .lop-sded, bow-egqed,
and cross-eyed and they scatter all
over like a shot gun. They never
get anything They do all their climb
! ing in a treadmilI.
/ There was a man in the land OF
! Uz, he was perfect and he feared God
and hated evil" In other words that
means he trusted God and behaved
himself. How soon the world would
be like heaven if everybody would
mind their own business and behave
themselves.
! Trust in God and behave yourself.
That is another way of saying "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy mind and with all thy strength
and thy neighbor as myself"
Job never stopped for Holy days,
he licked off 365 days in the year
for God Almighty. One reason why
so many people find it hard to be-
have it because they. only work at ii
few minutes of the time. If they
did their breathing in the same Good
Lord, Good devil milk and cider,
chalk and vinegar, slip-shod way, they
would have been dead, buried and
/ forgotten long ago.
Job was an upright man. This
means he had honesty that could
stand the severe light of Heaven.