_After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day._ THE PERIL OF IMPULSIVE SPEECH In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the spirit which it exhibits, or to believe that it was acceptable to God. It laid the foundation for t... [ Continue Reading ]
_There the wicked cease from troubling._ WICKED MEN TROUBLE THE WORLD True rest and wickedness never meet; rest and the wicked meet but seldom. And it is but half a rest, and it is rest but to half a wicked man, to his bones in the grave; and it is rest to that half but for a little time, only til... [ Continue Reading ]
_The small and great axe there._ THE COMMON LOT Notice the sameness of all men in their birth. One and all are equal by nature. All inherit the sin of their first parents. The necessary consequence following from this truth is that there is a need of a “new birth” for everyone that would inherit ev... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery._ CHRISTIAN POSTURE OF THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN LIFE This question of universal, intellectual, and moral interest, as to the purpose of evil, is a question which has always been raised by ghastly facts in human life, parallel to Job’s. Why wert thou... [ Continue Reading ]
_Why is light given to a man whose way is hid?_ THE LIGHT GIVEN-THE WAY HIDDEN How immediately this question speaks to us! How it seems to describe that mental and moral incongruity of which we are more or less the subjects--that feeling in which we are so often disposed to say to our Maker, Why h... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet trouble came._ TROUBLE AND USEFULNESS What a heathen would have called “the blind and infamous dispensations of fortune,” Christians speak of as the unlikelihoods and inequalities of the providence of God. The facts, however, are not altered, though you may alter their representation This worl... [ Continue Reading ]