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

ouHudy sdld wednesday afternoon:
That is the greatest certificate Of
character that l know anything about
1t is greatest in what is said, for Ian
guage could not express more. II
declares that he was perfect and to
that nothing can be added. When
that is said all that speech can say
has been said.
Perfect means a wonder and
then some. That is the kind of .
man that Job was. perfect in charac
Ter ana nothing more can be said Of
an angel. Perfect, when measured
by the highest standard in the uni
verse, Gods. ~
JoD was white in the light of Heay
en-. this certificate of character comes
from the highest source in the world
God; and II the Lord makes it. and /;
is the Lord that makes it, that means
mat he just suited God. The all
seeing eye of God could not find =
raw in his character and for the
first time in History, God could lean
over the battlements of GLORY and
look down upon the land of w and
lind the man that He could trust. find
a man He could admire, recommend
endorse, go the limit.
would rather be perfect in the
sight of God than have all the world
could give in wealth and honor. and
have God look down and say. "Well
there is a Wop."
Think of the hope and the inspira
ton that comes to you TODAY. med
ftation upon the declaration that God
made about Job. If Job could please
God back there in those dark DAYS
you and I can please him down here
tonight with all the enlightment and
incentives that we enjoy.
Any One Can
Please God.
To know that it is possible for one
man or woman to please God, is ia
know that any man or woman that
lives can please God! What one did
all can do. if all are willing to do it.
This is not standard too high for
human attainment
The Bible does not say that Job was
perfect in the sight of man. Jesus
Christ was not; they called him Il
vine bibber and they cursed him and
blasphemed him. so he was not per.
feet in the sight of man. but he was
perfect in the sight of God
! thought that had to please
everybody or miss Heaven, would
throw up the sponge now and take
the count, and if were to please
everybody would miss Heaven.
II you had to be perfect in the
sight of neighbors you would never
wear a crown. There is not one oil
us that can please everybody for q
week even if your life depended or
1t. There is not a man who can be
perfect in the sight of his wife and
there is not a woman could please
her husband fifteen minutes.
But hundreds of US NAV please God
If We are earnest and do our best
1t is a thousand times easier to please
God than it is your neighbor. The
reason of it is that God knows every
thing about us and our most intimate
friends only know little bit about
us.
Human Vision
Stops At Surface.
Our friends judge us by what they
see US do and God judges us by what
we would do if we had the power to
do it. You see fellow reeling down
the street, drunk; that fellow goes
and means and cries and sheds tears
God Judges him by what he wants to
do and you judge him by what YOU
saw him do. Human vision stops al
the surface
good many people measure God
but they deny Gods right to measure
them. There was a man in the land
Of Uz"-I don't know much about the
land of Uz but they say it was located
near where Bagdad is jeremiah
Ezekiel and Ezra are buried in Bag
dad Babylon used to stand about
twenty miles East of where Bagdad
is now | don't know much about the
land of Uz but ] will tell what ] think
about it; | have an idea it was about
as hard place in the then known
world for a man to be perfect as there
was.
meet people who seem to think
that religion is matter of geoqra
ply. There are people who think
they can be good if they live in Kan
sas, and people in Kansas think they
could serve God in New York PEG
Pile in New York seem to think they
could serve Gcd better if they lived
in California.
I heard of a man who went to q
camp meeting and he shouted GA
= men so loud that he frightened PEG
pie around him. And he got into {
fight with a hack-driver on the way
home.
Every One Can
Please God.
If Job could please God in the LAND
of Uz, | know you can do it here
Every time. Any Christian man OIL
woman can do it. no matter, where
your lot may be providentially cast
The man who has to be in church OF
in a revival meeting to be happy has
leak in his Faith, and a doubt i;
the leak that sinks the ship of Faith
There was a man in the land OF
Uz". Job. Have you ever noticed
that when the Bible has anything
good to say about man it usually
gives his name and if nothing bul
evil. his name is withheld.
We know the name of the poor man
that was lying at the gate of the rich
| man-Lazarus-but we do not know
the name of the rich man. God had
nothing to say about him so he did not
mention his name If you know any
thing about man or woman that is