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!a lesson in truth
By VERISSIMUS
j What are you doing, my pupil ? read
i ing the book of Job? Well now, there
; you go! Chasing a will-o-the-wisp!
In that fanciful old legend you are
I drifting away on a shoreless and un
charted sea of fiction; you are feeding
your young mind a lurid dream of myth
ical lore, beside which, the Arabian
Nights, and the hair lifting tales of Bar
or Munchaseu, seem life the punv efforts
of some Senegambian choir! Don’t I ad
mire the character of Job ? Why of course
I admire all “good uien and true!’’ of
every age, in every clime, Job
was a fine old chap, accredit to his nat
ive ladn, and had by honest1 dealing and
upright wavs made a marked success of
life. He didn’t, it is true, have as many
oil tanks as our John D. Rockefeller. He
couldn’t clip the coupons from quite so
many steel certificates as can our ‘‘Han
dy Andy’’, but lie did have a very com
fortable lortuife tor his day and age, and
he had rear’d a family of promising boys
and girls of whom any lather might well
have been proud.
It was what God, and the Devil, did
I to that worthy old citizen of the land o f
| Uz, that rasps me. But proceed with the
| musty time worn story and let us see
.
! how it strikes your young mind. Vu
i are on a still hunt for truth; your brain
^ at this stage of the journey is, in a
measure, unpolluted with superstition
and bigotry, now let us abserye how this
absurd old fable impresses you:
There was a man in the land of Uz
whose name was Job, and he was
one that feared God and eschewed
evil. And there were born to him
seven sons and three daughters. ”
“His substance also was seven thou
sand sheep and three thousand cam
els, and five hundred yoke of oxen,
and five hundred she asses, and a
very great household.”
Here indeed was quite a sizeable for
tune, and all accumulated by honest and
I upright dealing..
Now my boy I was born ia a southern
; clime, and well I know how the warm
' hearted planters and farmers of the
j South dearly love to entertain their
j friends and neighbors; and there dwells
i not in my mind even a lingering shade
of doubt, that when any neighbor called
upon this thrifty old ranchman—that
neighbor was treated with unbounded
! hospitality. When any young farmer of
that section, or any dude from tke near
by city, or any epauletted young ensign
| of the navy, or any future and oily
j tongued young disciple of the law, sought
j the society of those three sweet daugh
ters of Job. I’ll venture they were one
and all, generously served with an un
limited supply of homemade butter and
fresh milk; milk with the cream left on
I’ll bet those girls could not only make
good butter, but could keep house and
fashion their own frocks as well.
It is true they were born in a land
where most of the comely maidens were
taught to dance the Hooch Coochy. but
there never was even one little zephyr
of scandal anent the (laughters of Job.
They were well bred, and well behaved
I girls in everyway, possessing a gentle
t and modest dignity of character; and in
Any humble judgment, each and every
j one of them, if given the opportunity*
I could have made a home for some de
i cent man, that would have filled his
heart ‘ ’with a glad sweet song. ’ ’
But they were not given the oppor
tunity, and it is the conspiracy that was
framed up against those defenseless girls
that sends the grit to my teeth and the
fighting bipod to my temples, Now here’s
| the tale, aud for fpul plqy I’ve failed to
j find its equal:
i “Now there was a day when the
sons of God came to present them-,
selves before the Bord. And Satin
came also among them. ’ ’
Maledictions on that miserable old
miscreant of a devil! he has been butting
i
in to the affairs of both Infinity and
Humanity, for the past six thousand
years, and it is quite evident that he i s
still at his old tricks for now we are told I
that he it was who started the Money
Trust, who invented the convenient lit
tle device of watering railroad stocks,
who suggested the advisibility of a rail
road lobby in the legislative halls of our
National Capitol, who is Mr. Huerta’s
chief adviser and future compadre down
in Mexico, and the lord only knows
what new deviltry he will spring on us
next:—however, its of his very advant
ageous partnership with Jehovah and
their ingenuity, and heartless determin
ation to corrupt and debauch the char
acter of a worthy citizen and murder his
fine children that we would look into
x
now, so let us go on with the sacred re- j
cord:
“And the Lord said unto Satin
whence comest thou ?
“Then Satin answered the Lord and
said from going to and fro in the
t
Earth, and from walking up and
down in it.
“And the Lord said unto Satin did
you meet my servant Job?”
Did you know there are none like
him on the Earth, a perfect and an
i
upright man, one that fec.ret.ii God
and escheweth evil. ’ ’
“Then Satin smiled his cunning
smile and said, ‘Doth Job fear God
for nought?’ Hast thou not made an
hedge about him ? Aiul about his
house, and about all that he hath cu
every side ?”
But put forth thine hand now and
touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to tliv face.’
“Aud the Lord said unto Satin, Be
hold all that he hath is inthv power,
only upon himself put not forth
thine' hand. ’
“So Satin went forth from the pre
sence of the Lord.’
“And there was'a day when his
sons and daughters were eating, and
drinking wine iu their eldest broth
ers house.’
’.“And there came a. messenger unto
Job and said, the Oxen were plow
ing, aud the asses were feeding be
side them, and the Sabeans fell up
on them aud took them away, yea’
they have slain the servants with
the edge of the sword, and 1 only
am escaped alone to tell the tale.’
“While he was yet speaking there
I
came also another and said the lire
of God- is fallen from heaven and
hath burned up the sheep and the
servants, and consumed them, and I
only am escaped alone to tell tliee.’’
You see, my pupil, the great God o f
heaven after euterihg into this unholy
compact, is pictured here as taking a
hand in this hellish game,
j “The lire of God is fallen from heav
en.’’
Now wliat do you think of that ?
"And while he was yet speaking
there came also another and said thy
sous and thy daughters were eating
aiul drinking wine in their eldest
brother’s house, And benold there
came a great wind from the wilder
ness and smote the four corners of
the house, a n d it fell upon the
young men and they are dead, and I
only am escaped alone to tell thee.’’
J My pupil some great and splendid in
j telligence that stands at the helm of our
Universe, lias endowed your mind with
a spark of divinity called Reason, and
this divine attribute is undoubtedly in
tended to be your guide on the highway
of truth This divine gift alcne; thru
centuries of ignorance and superstition,
has slowly, painfully, yet surely, led the
human * race from savagery up to our
present- state of advancement, and this
has proven its power and wisdom to
guide.
Now cap you exercise even the dullest
| reason and reach the conclusion that the
foregoing excerpts you have been poring
over are really sacred history ? Can you
not with perfect calmness and serenity;
with courage based upon the purity and
strength of reason; face both God and
man and say with tranquil assurance,
this fanciful and cruel tale may be a cer.
tain type of history, but such liistorv
was forged in hell; every word of it
must have dropped from the quill of
Beelzebub himself.
What think you of a God who would
soil his majesty by receiving the Devil
as an honor’d guest ?
What think you of a God who would
conspire with such a guest, and rise fete
omnipotent power to juggle with the in
tegrity of so worthy a man ag Job.
The white slavers of our great Sodoms
and Gomorrolis, who were never known
to pause at any crime; who leer in ghoul
ish glee over the pleadings and tears of
innocent girlhood, are angels of puritv
compared to such a character as Satin,
and vet we are asked to believe, that a
loving and merciful creator,.first made a
welcome guest of this unspeakable friend
and then by pre-arrangement turned
him loose amidst a charming family o f
fine girls and boys, and gave him carte
blanche to work bis hellish ptirposes up
on them.
It’s horrible! too horrible for contem
plation! If you must have fiction my bov
of that ancient day, go to ycr.r pagan
mythology, there you will find fables a
thousand times more uplifting and beau
tiful-fables that do not insult your in
telligence; that do not exact the blight
iug curse of faith in their divine inspir
ation, /
So we end the third lesson.
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i A certain prosy preacher recently gave
ah endless discourse on the prophets.
First he dwelt at length on the miner
I prophets. At last he finished them, and
the congregation gave a sigh of relief,
Ke took a long breath and continued,
“Now I shall proceed to the major pro
phets.” Alter the major prophets l.rd
received more than ample attention, il.e
congregation gave another sigh of relief
"Now that I liaye finished with the min
or and major propcets,” he went on a
new, “what about Jeremiah ? Where is
Jeremiah’s place?” At this point a stout
apoplectic man arose in the Lack of the
church. ‘‘Jeremiah can have lry plice,”
he said; I'm going hoyie,”