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

for Job, but God only knows how
much trouble Job made for the devil.
Don't forget that side or it, will you?
Devil Hates
Perfection.
Jobs character as a man was
against the devil He was perfect
| The devil is destroyer. he hates per
/ lection Oh! it is torture to the devil
| for he hates to see a man pure or
woman pure or honest or decent or
virtuous.
! Oh! he hates to see a man go home
sober, true to his wife; wife true to
her husband, a yirtuous girl or 4
! young man. Oh! if everybody would
swear and lie and steal, and damn and
/ cheat and murder and commit adul-
| cry. all the devils in He'll would cheer,
| but the earth would be deluged with
tears, falling from the angels eyes.
Devils, devils, devils! Jobs char
acter as citizen was against the
devils business He was upright and
hated evil No man is a good citizen
of whom that can not be said. |
don't give a rap who he is. If you
can't say of man that he is upright
and hates evil he is disgrace and
! Richmond would be better if he did
not live in it. l don't give pick
ayune if it is you, or you, or you.
! Now, man may be so conscious
well l will put it this way; mans
| consciousness of his relationship to
! God may be so vague and indefinite
as to exercise absolutely no influence
over his character or his conduct.
Not at all He may be a nominal
| Christian usually. subscribe to all the
articles in the Apostles Greed, but
! the glorious truths they confess with
!! their lips are invalid and sterile. Their
minds seem to be a sort of a dormi-
tory of slumbering admissions, and a
sick ward of impotent beliefs and
paralytic and crippled purposes.
| Science Must Be
/ Put to Practice.
| Oh! Wait minute | mean this:
An educated Hindu will pass and ex-
animation of Hygiene and yet he will
] look on complacently while every
| sanitary law is violated beneath his
own roof. The poor mutt does not
seem to realize that science to be of
any value must be put into practice.
! He is content with an abtruse knowl-
edge
! That is just exactly what is the
matter with many people out there in
the church, they do not believe in
! practicing what they read in the Bible
j and all they think is necessary is an
| intellectual knowledge. They never
get out and deliver the goods, express
/ charges prepaid.
/ Jobs character as father was
/ against the devil. He was a good faith
err and he carefully trained his chill
dren to be true. There is not very
j much said about Jobs kids. But there
| is enough to show you and me that
! they were headed in the right direc-
ton and they had the right kind of
] homeIife.
] | once saw a search-light held for
a fraction of a second over an over
land train that was speeding sixty
! five miles an hour. 1t was only for
a fraction of a second but it was long
enough for me to see in which direc-
! ton the train was going. God turned
! the search light on Jobs family and
/ / catch a glimpse Of them all going to
Heaven.
! And his sons went and Toasted in
I their houses, every one his day: and
! sent and called for their three sisters
! to eat and drink with them"
! This means when every one had a
: birthday they all met together in a
birthday party in that home. In the
! Far East enemies never eat together.
/, only friends break bread together and
! when ever people eat salt together
they make an eternal covenant and
this custom still prevails in he East
/ and it has been handed down from
remote ages that are as old as Baby
Ion or the cavaliers or Damascus
+. Arabs Believe
In Hospitality
If an Arabian breaks bread with
YOU under his own ioof, you are I'M
der his protection and he will shed
F., his last dollar and his last. drop of
blood for you and he will stand ty you.
If he trusts you enough to break bread
with ycn, you are his friend
The fact that Jobs family ate. to-
gether ten times in the year shows
me, nv friends, that they were friend
~. Where can you find family of
ten kids today that there is not a
scrap in it? 1t showed Job took more
| interest in his children than he did
his camels. That is more than lot
of you fellows can say. You take more
interest in the ticker down at Wall
! street than you do in your own chill
dren; fol-de-rols in society think more
of getting down to the grand opera
! that you do of your old family. Think
of the possibilities for good or evil in
that family of ten children, then you
will understand how tremendously the
1 devil was against the character of
JOB. for he was training his children
Ito fight against the devil.
, Look at Susan Wesley, the mother
! of nineteen children, out of which the
! Methodist church. with its seven mil
/ lion communicates today, walked 1t
is the most powerful of all Protestant
organizations on earth, and they came
: from Susan Wesley. All from those
/ two little boys, John and Charles.
! What a power the Wesley family has
! been against the devil Look at the
Salvation Army and General Booth,
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