The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . ep when the sun is going down ! Job had plenty offriends when he was the richest man in Uz; but when his property went andthe trials came, then there were none so much pestered as Eliphaz, the Temanite,and Bildad, the vShuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite. Eife often .seems to be a mere game, where the successful player pulls down allthe other men into his own lap. Eet suspicions arise about a mans character, andh
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . ep when the sun is going down ! Job had plenty offriends when he was the richest man in Uz; but when his property went andthe trials came, then there were none so much pestered as Eliphaz, the Temanite,and Bildad, the vShuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite. Eife often .seems to be a mere game, where the successful player pulls down allthe other men into his own lap. Eet suspicions arise about a mans character, andhe becomes like a bank in a panic, and all the imputations rush on him and breakdown in a day that character which in due time would have had strength todefend itself. There are reputations that have been half a century in Iniilding,which go down under some moral as a vast temple is consinned by thetouch of a sulphurous match. In this world, .so full of and , how thrilling it is tofind .some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity ! Davidhad such a friend in Httshai: the Jews had .such a friend in Mordecai, who never. 64 THiv PATHWAY OF LIFE. forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onesiphorus, who visited him injail; Christ had such a friend the Marys, who adhered to Him on the cross;Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out: Entreat me not to leave thee; orto return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and wherethou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;where thou diest, will I die, and there wuU I be buried: the Lord do so to me, andmore also, if aught but death part thee and me. DARKNESS AND DAWN. Again I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship and dark-ness often come out in places of joy. When Ruth started from Moab towardJerusalem, to go along with her mother-in-law, I suppose the people said: Oh, what a foolish creature to go
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