11 THE ?R0 /ZRB3 0? ?Vih SOhOHQir
1. *Voe unto bin in the amy of Sariuel who couplaineth of sickness!
/erily, tho he rend his garnents an 1 tear out his beard in nuch vouching
hir? affliction,yet no ua:i bolteveth, and he is accounted a gold brick
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A private first -clasc
was in all things troll
a.'^e of Job. since transferred, and. learn therefron.
was he,of 1 upright life.who dcdgal not fatigue but
iisposcd except his health.
3,
Boils afflicted bin uni beset bin sore,-yea,-boii3 and carbuncles
4. 'Ilian we.it ho unto tho first sergeant an«l accosted hiu humbly, say
in?," 0 thou -vho hol'ietii in keep the canteen ohecks, an 1 within whose desk
the rooming report reposethl See me a3 a nan afflicted and weary of all life1.
5« Thou,the First Sergeant,art 'rent and should be merciful, thy auth
ority excedoth a field clerk7. Grant, then, that uy none be enrolled in the
book of the ailing#
6. All pow%r and g3 ory is thine,for naught but a shavetail conmandeth
the company. Tho^ sayest unto one; "G6", and he goeth, and unto another thou
sayest, Come,and lie cometh.
7c But the first sergeant was* worthy in his heart, for that the time
of demotion was already at hand,and he cried loudly,
B. "Not thou,but I an the most miserable of nen1 Of late it happeneth
continually that he unto whom I say, "Cons", repliet-h, "Lo, I on feeling sick’1,
and he unto whom 7. say "Go” respondeth "Try elsewhere,! am narked quarters”,
and I weary of much go!dbricking. Report to the kitchen with-thy boils,per
chance *twill hasten the dinner'*’*
9* Then was Job much abashed but he who was company clerk in those
lays pitied his plight and entered his name on the sick report when the
first sergeant wot not what ova3 doing.
10. Kno-v ye there be gene in the arny of Samuel who be skilled in heal
ing, and an angle-worn with wings alorneth their collars,
11. Possessing a liquid more notent than waters of that pool which is
in Jerusalem,by the fi3h market.
12. 'too30ever is touched by this elixir,or anointed therewith,beeometh
at once officially whole and fit for luty.
13, It3 none is called "Iodine",which in the language of our fathers
signifieth '*1 an in a hurry",but as some interpret it;"Ihou wilt recover
anyway."
14. And the physicians poured this plentifully upon him, and Job
thereafter spotted even as a bird dog,and for three days shunned the
of men,keeping within his tent®
appeared
sight
15. Verily a complaining soldier is as a cheap inner tube which still
holieth air.It is joyously replaced when it faileth to function,and even when
it performeth,it receiveth no praise."
(SELAH,in Ft.Benning News.)