"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, WHO DIE IN THE LORD" (Rev. 14:13.) Oh brethren, weep not! Though our Savior died HE LIVES! No more can sin Attack His spirit form. Nor shall fell care Have rolled away, eternal youth is His. But more than this! He has the keys of death. The widow's son at Nain, and Lazarus, Oh, brethren, think! Unending glory with the risen Christ Lo! what love Our heavenly Father has bestowed on us To know the dead now sleep-sleep in the LORD- Shall cry enraptured, "Death, where is thy sting? VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1910 No. 14 The Faith A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE EXPOSITION OF THE FAITH ONCE FOR ALL DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS NOTE-If you receive this magazine regularly and have not personally subscribed for same, please read it carefully, as it is paid for and sent by a sincere friend and wellwisher. 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Though he may be the constant object of the taunts of a godless and unsympathetic generation, he can peacefully think of the time when he shall be the recipient of divine favor and exaltation. Though the storms of adversity may beat against the house, he can peacefully rest in Him who is able to bid storms of every kind "be still." Such a peace does not and cannot belong to those who do not put their trust in the living God. Contrast the prospect of the one who looks forward to the time when God shall be manifested in him because he will be made a partaker of the divine nature, with the prospect of him who looks forward only to extinction and the grave, having no hope beyond. The one looks forward to an endless life of joy and glory, the other to eternal oblivion in the darkness of the tomb. Those who have a glorious hope before them may gather comfort and exhortation from the Word of God. They are often in the company of the apostles and frequently consider the prophets, but do not, perhaps, so often meditate upon the words. and the character of another of God's saints who trusted in the Lord ages before the apostles, or even before the prophets. It is certain that Job lived before the time of Moses, or contemporary with him. This is proved by the fact that Job was priest over his own house. We read in the 5th verse of the 1st chapter that when his sons were leading a merry life “Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burntofferings according to the number of them all." After Moses' day, the Aaronic priests alone were permitted to offer sacrifices, but here Job offers for all his sons, proving that he lived before the days of Moses, or at any rate before the institution of the Mosaic economy. Job was a man of faith. He was a man of patience, too; so much so that his patience has become proverbial. His patience was the outcome of his faith. He was smitten with a terrible disease after he had been bereaved of all his possessions and of his sons and daughters. But he found it in his heart to say, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." On no account could he be induced to substitute cursing for blessing. So great was his trouble that at one time he exclaimed, "Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed and my calamity laid in the balance together! For now would it be heavier than the sand of the sea." He many times expressed his sorrow that he had ever been born; and in the 8th verse of the 6th chapter he said, “Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me and that He would let loose His hand and cut me off." Truly Job's grief was intense to cause him thus to give expression to his feelings. But it was only because he was thoroughly convinced that he should be "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” This is one side of Job's feelings. But there is another. The book abounds with declarations of the majesty and power of God. More is revealed here concerning God's omnipotence than in any other book of the Bible. Job once expressed a desire that his words might be written. They have been written, and today we are thankful for it, because they tell us that the hope which Christians now have has been the hope of God's saints for more than three thousand years. Job's request is recorded at the 23d verse of the 19th chapter: "Oh that my words were now writ |