The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . lways asleep 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 Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite. Life often seems to be a mere game, where the successful player pulls down allthe other men into his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a mans character, andhe becomes like a bank in a panic, and all the imputations rush on him and break•down in a day that character
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . lways asleep 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 Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite. Life often seems to be a mere game, where the successful player pulls down allthe other men into his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a mans character, andhe becomes like a bank in a panic, and all the imputations rush on him and break•down 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 building,which go down under some moral exposure as a vast temple is consumed by thetouch of a sulphurous match. In this world, so full of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is tofind some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity ! Davidhad such a friend in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never. 64 THE PATHWAY OF LIFK. forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onesiphorus, who visited him injail; Christ had such a friend in 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 will I be buried: the Eord 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 away from her fathers house, to go offwith a poor old woman toward the land of Judah ! They wont live to get acro
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