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CHRISTIAN * HERALD 5 (Gen. 36: 4.) Bildad the Shutute and began to oppress Israel. Be tellect, to set beneficent and humane was probably a descendant of Shua, this as it may, the next recorded of causes in motion, to stimulate BIBLE TALKS. son of Abraham by Keturah (25 : 2). him is as follows, “There was a material progress, to give impetus Zophar the Naamathitc was.probab- man in the land of Ur, whose name to science and useful inventions, to BŸ M. K. LEMEBT ly a descendant of Naaman, grand was Job?’When first spoken of TjrëaFÎhe power^ ^espotlSffiy ro ti NVKBEB XXI. son of Benjamin. (1 Chron. 8: 4 ) by the sacred writers, he was a make people free, and to liberate faith from the superstitions which Under this heading 1 hate spoken The young man Elihu, who is in little boy, on the eve of being taken were choking it to death ? This of many persons and events whose troduced towards The CtoS6~of"’onr flown into Egypt to see his uncle American Republic was the direct record is found in the Bible; but nar’ative is said to be of the kindred .Joseph, who was ruler over all the product of the Reformation. The of Job I have as yet said nothing. of Ram, who was Judah’s great land. He was thought to be dead, DcclaraUon ofIndependence would The book bearing his name occupies grand-'Ron. (t f ,thron. -2-r H, also but th e y-h a d pint learned to th ei r- never have been written had Mar a prominent position in the sacred Ruth 4: 19.) We thus see that great joy that he was actually alive; tin Luther not nailed his theses on. canon consisting of 42 chapters, all were descendants of Abraham, and grandfather Jacob, and his pa the church door at Wittenburg. and is quoted from by many of the and relatives of Job. Their being and ma, all his uncles and cousins Luther was to the Reformation sacred writers. But who was Job/ descendants of Abraham accounts were going to see him and live with for their general intelligence, then- him; FnT Ii^ ^as ^bing, along " whut- ffro iTTw eff wa s.t o the Engli s h and in what period of the history V went and had a nice time • - for Revolution, what Washington was of our race did he live ? Some reverence for God, and the very They to our own. There were reformers claim that he was a ficticious per exalted ideaF they had of him as a serics of years? But after a before Luther. The spirit of revolt son—never had any real existence. the Almighty Ruler of the Uni while they were badly treated an<t against the abuses and tyranny of But the prophet Ezekiel said, verse, and of his providential deal Job thought he had better leave, so the Roman Catholic Church was “ Though these three men, Noah, ings of one race. They were not he went to Ur, a place near the rife in Germany when he appeared. Daniel and Job, were in it (the land at all like the nations around them, eastern arm of the Red Sea, not But it was diffused, diffident, ino of Canaan) they should deliver but as they were wholly given once to far front" where Esau and his de- perative. It needed crvstalization see' had .settled in the land of their own souls by their righteous idolatry. God had said of Abra 5 ^scendants __Lpm. Here lie spent the remain- in a movement; it wanted a man ( ness, saitli the Lord God.” Here he ham, “ I know him that he will i rkd command his children and his - dej of his eventful life; of which to embody it, and give it the bold est possible exprSiSstdiE 111 Luther in our next. such, as were Noah and. Daniel, household after him, and they shall more Hebron, O., Aug. 15, 1883. it found its organ, so to speak, and with whom he is classed because of keep the way of the Lord,, to do ----------- ♦ « --------- he became its incarnation. Provi Three the righteousness of each. The justice and judgment.” Four Centuries of Luther. dence apparently had more to do apostle James, prompting his per hundred years later we have in It will be four hundred ye'ars on with the training of Luther and secuted suffering brethren to endure these men, together with Job, an the shaping of events at that time, all patiently said, “ Take, brethren, illustration of the beneficial influ the 10th of November, since Martin than all human agencies combined; for an example of suffering and of ence of a thorough moral and re Luther was born. And already and one can hardly read the history patience, the prophets who spake in ligious education—education in the Protestants in this country and of that period, and see how events the name of the Lord. Behold, we way of the Lord—to know, feal and Germany have begun to celebrate fitted into each like the pieces of a call them blessed which endured; obey the Lord. Parents should the event. He was born nine years Chinese puzzle, without feeling ye have heard of the patience of take courage and renew their before Columbus discovered Amer that a wiser and mightier than Job, and have seen the end of the efforts to thus educate their child ica, and was well on his way to human intelligence was behind and Lord, how that the Lord is full of ren, knowing that their labor in manhood when the Continent w-as in that historic demonstration. pity, and merciful.” (5: 10, 11, the Lord is not in vain. In so do reached by the half-dazzled ex It is remarkable that Ignatius Rev. ver.) Thus James classes him ing they bless their children and plorers. These two events deserve with the suffering patient prophets society; possibly for generations to to be classed together. For the Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit discovery of America and for the order, which has had such a power and makes him and his sufferings come. In learning who Job is, we also Protestant Reformation, of which ful influence on the history of the as real as any. learn when he lived. It may hie Luther was both heart and head, Catholic Church, was bom eight These two Scriptures establish safely affirmed that he lived during his personality. From the same the entire sojourn of Israel in mark the great turning point in years aftSr Luther, and while sourse We learn who he was. Egypt. This lasted 215 years. history between the old and the Luther was carrying Germany by Ignorance of the Scriptures is the Being - the third and next to the new^ages. They are the two great storm against the Church, Loyola sole cause of so little being known youngest son of his father when events since the close of the Apos- laid the foundation of that ener of Job. His parentage is given as they went down into Egypt, he i tolic age, and Christianity was getic society which has done more clearly as of other patriarchs. He was proba*bly from three to five fairly launched on its all-subduing, than any other to hold the Church against Protestant aggressors. It was the third son of Issachar, one years old. At the time of his beneficent way. The story of Luther’s life has is very largely through the work of the twelve sons of Jacob; conse affliction, he was the father of ten quently he was his grandson, and children, all of whom were grown, been told hundreds of times, gather of these two men that Europe is was in the caravan that went and his sons were married and had ing neW interest with each retell not all Papal nor all Protestant to down into Egypt at the call of left the paternal roof; so Job must ing. The literature relating to day. It is worth the while now to Joseph. (Gen. 46: 13 ) The Scrip have been some eighty ora hundred Luther and the Reformation would contrast anew the work of these tures likewise give a pretty satis years old; after his recovery he make a large library, and hold two remarkable men, and learn the some of the world’s best work. secret of their effectiveness. Luther factory account of his three friends lived a hundred and forty years; The time has now come for a re was a brilliant boy. His talents —Elephas, Bildah and Zophar, who making his full age at least two living near by and hearing of his hundred and twenty-five years. study of that work, and a new es were extraordinary, and marked timate of Luther’s position in his him out for a great career. No misfortunes, came to comfort him. This covers the whole period of the tory. His Protestantism failed, as wonder that his father was proud Eliphas was the son of Esaw, so captivity. Though Job was one of we are so often assured by Cathol of him, and did his best to educate was first cousin of Manasseh, and the “three score pnd six ” of ics and ritualizing Episcopalians ? the precocious boy j and it was second cousin of Job. He was also Jacob’s descendants that went into father of Amelek, from whom Egypt, and into the captivity, he What is to be the future of a quite natural that* he should grieve discendcd the Amalekates of whose did not remain in captivity, but movement, which during four hun bitterly, when arrested by a light misdeeds and utter destruction 1 went out, possibly when another dred years of activity, has done ning flash in the road, Martin have spoken in a previous paper. king arose that knew not Joseph more to « emancipate the human in- solemnly vowed to enter a convent Originai Contri b ut io ns.