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

with all the good they have done,
touching every civilized land on the
, globe
Families Work
! Against Devil
! Look at the tears they have dried,
misery and squaIlor and want thew
have turned into abodes of peace, all
| they have done. See how terrifically
/ the family of General Booth has been
! against the devil Do you see it?
50 JOB and his family were against
the devil. See how much depends on
the proper training in each case.
! A lot OF you people have children
that grow up like lot of wild asses
or colts. They never go to church
/! with you. And Jobs character as a
religious man was against the devils
business. Job had religion that was
able TO stand the test and there is no
more fiery ordeal than that.
] II preacher can't prove by his
wife and children that his reIi1ion is
better than his preaching, he has mis-
understood his call. Oh, Gosh! you
needn't clap your hands. If you
can't prove by your wife and kids
that you are religious, then you are a
fraud, it you can't prove the same.
JOBS wife was not very spiritual
/ Gosh. she was the limit. If there
ever was vixen in the land of w,
MRS. Job was. But wait a minutei
l wonder why the devil did not kill
ner While he was on the Job?
She leaves her testimony. Her hus-
bands religion was proof against at.
Fiction. She watched him with true
Of
messengers, and then another gal
! loped up and instead of seeing Job
curse and damn and make the air
blue, she saw that old patriarch fall
down and say: THE Lord gave, the
q Lord has taken away, blessed be the
LORD. And all this time she clenched
| her lists, and she set her teeth as if
she had lockjaw, and she wished that
Jop would cut loose, and she watched
MIN as he lay moaning in the dust,
covered with boils from head to foot.
and though he cried out in agony from
pain, not one word of complaint ever
fell from his lips.
Jobs Wife Knew
| His Religion
| By and by, she could hold in no
i longer, and with her eyes blazing like
a rattlesnake she shook her fist in
Jobs face and shrieked out: "Dost
thou still retain thine integrity? Curse
! God and die. Are you going to keep
On being religious and praying after
all this? 1t is no use, Job, the jig is
up. God? God? He is either deaf.
dumb or blindi There is no use;
/ there is no use,"
Jobs wife knew what kind of a re-
lglon he had. the same as every
I
many of you fellows could get to
heaven on what your wife knows
about your religion?
| Now, that strikes some of YOU
preachers. And Jobs religion. OH if
! hit the devils business every time. as
( lar as | can find out Notice how con-
! cerned he was for the spiritual wei.
] rare or his children, and when the
| Gays OF their feasting were gone Job
sanctlfled them and rose up early and
offered burnt offering, according to
the number of children
Job said, 1T may be that nv sons
have sinned and cursed God in their
hearts" thus did Job continually. He
wanted everybody in his family to be
! right with God and to keep right with
/ Him. He was not satisfied with out
ward forms, he wanted them right in
ther hearts. although he was busy
and had big business interests, as anv
man as wealthy, as we are told. was
the greatest man of the East,
He took time to keep the fires
burning on the family altar. Oh!
where is the religious man today if
ne had as much business on hand as
JOB! whenever he attempts to pray
he punches his wife and children in
nFaNRF l.;
some Of you fellows crawl out of bed
j little bit late and you will bolt your
breakfast and grab your cup of cot
Tee and sinker. and 1rab your BIZ
Bile and turn to the 117th Psalm that
only has two verses, and drop on your
knees and say. God bless my wife,
my son, John,' and then bury your
lace in a newspaper in your Iimou-
sine or in the subway
On. they just go through the mo-
/ tons of worship and God has to take
the tag end of everything. Isn't that
fact? Why, sure.
other Reason for
! Opposition
I Another reason why the devil was
against Job was his wealth. Listen,
The Bible says he was the greatest
/ IN all his possessions of all the men in
/ lhe East Job was the Vanderbilt
Astor, Rockefeller of his country.
Richest man. best man, most religious
man. If that combination was not
enough to keep the devil on the Jump,
/ you tell me what was,
! Wouldn't it be great when YOU
wanted to know who was the best
man to go down and find out who has
the most on deposit in the bank? Go
to the courthouse and find out who is
paving the most taxes?
whenever wealth and piety become
synonymous terms, the devil will be
out of a job
Some of the noblest men and wo-
men have ever met have been men
and women of wealth. / have no pa
thence nor sympathy with the God.
forsaken mutt who will loaf around
the street corner, stXnd on a dry
i goods box, or hang around Madison
| Square, and get up and damn a man
that has an earnest dollar, expecting
/ everybody to go out and divvy up
with that God-forsaken bunch that
hangs around the stale beer joints
and hits the suds.
No.