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The Heres/ oi Sliphaz.
Nestor, the old ijiaii eloquent of the
Greeks, was an Oi ator, bpoause his age
and wisdom gave hiiu intlaenee and Lis
‘‘Tuneful words more sweet thai; honey,
flowed." Plato was an orator heuause
his sound and philosophical arguments
were always stated with force and clear
ness, and his virtuous life gave weight to
all he sai'.l, Demosthenes was an orator,
because he fortified bis positions with facts
sold proofs so arrauged as to make pei'ma-
nent impressions, even on his enemie.s.
Then he uttered the noblest sentimeuts
and lived a life of exalted integrity, in
an age ofbribery and corruption.
nEschines was a polished orator, skilled
in logic and rhetoric, and he understood
and practiced all the tricks of his trade,
Ci.er"' was aii orator who used with
skill the'accumulated wisdom of former
ages, and maslered all the accomplish
ments of his own age ; but bis vast ambi
tiou ami his supreme self complacency
injured his influence for good.
Elipbaz, a descendant of “Duke Te-
man," was a wonderful orator. Such
powers as he displayed had not been seen
on the earth before, and his equal is set
dom seen in modern times His fine say
ings are still in the mouths of many elo
quent speakers. We copy only a few :
“He runneth upon the thick bosses of
Jehovah's bucklers.” “He put no trust
in his servants, and his angels he charged
with folly.” “Thou shalt come to thy
grave in a full age, like as a shook of corn
“ 1.1- • U:.. ” A Itl,.,,,-!, nffl.n
cometh in his season.” Although afflio
tiou cometh not forth of the dust, neither
doth trouble spring out of the ground ;
vet man is born unto trouble as the sparks
fly upward.”
Now w’e are informed that “Naaman,
the Captain of the Host of the King of
Syria, W'as a great man with his master,
and honorable, a mighty man in valor ;
but he was a leper.”
So Eliphaz was a polished gentleman,
gray-headed and very aged, dignified,
decorous, pious in some respects, very fer
tile in his fancy, and attractive in his
orations, even when they were directed
against the “perfect and upright” Job ;
hut, alas, Eliphaz cherished in his heart
a horrible heresy. This accusation is not
our invention. It came down from Hea-
“The Lord said to Eliphaz the Te
manite, my wrath is kindled against thee
and against thy two friends; for ye have
not spoken of me the thing that is right,
as my servant Job hath.”
Now what was the character of Lis her
esy ? Satan charged Job with serving
God as a hireling—for temporal prosper
ity. Take his property and his children,
and he will cease to serve you. God suf
fered Satan to make Job poor and child
less ; but Job still blessed the name of
the Lord. Any mortal man would have
been convinced by this test; but the Dev
il persisted ; afflict his body and he will
curse his God. Then the Lord gave him
to Satan, with the one reservation, to
“save his life.” The Devil began with
bolls, then had him tormented, by his
wife, and last of all sent three oiators to
overwhelm him with a mixture of valua
ble truth and dangerous heresy. Eliphaz
was the great leader, and his three splen
did Philippics attest his power. Bildad
and Zophar seem to have been ordinary
men As for the youthful and long-
winded Elihu, we are not informed that
God, Job or the Devil paid the slightest
attention to a.iy word he uttered. But
the trial was very severe. Job desired
to die, and felt his words when he said :
“God hath delivered me to the ungodly
and turned me over into the hands of the
wicked.” But his final victory was a
great triumph for the Bible doctrine of
afflictions. God m.ade the world, and or
dered all things wisely. One man is rich,
anoiher poor ; one man is sick, another
enjoys health; one man dies, another
lives. God usually consecrates his people
through sufferings. He rules the world
with sovereign power, and in great for
bearance and tender mercy. Yet his
ways are often above our oomprebensiou.
But human sympathy and Christian char
ity are the bands which bind together the
ijch and the poor, the prosperous and the
•afilloted. By doing good to others we
feel the force and beauty of the saying
that “It is more blessed to give than to
receive.” But the doctrine of Eliphaz
is that the prosperous are the good and
the afflicted are the W'icked. Hear him ;
“Who ever perished being innocent, or
v/’iere were the righteous cut off?'’ He
the masonk^ journal.
forgot the righteous Abel died by the
hand of cruel Cain. He knew nothing of
the innocent children drowned in the
flood. He says “the wicked travaileth in
pain all his days.” The Psalmist says
“the wicked are not in trouble as other
men, neither are they plagued like other
men.” Eliphaz exhorts Job thus: “Ac
quaint now thyself with God and be at
peace; thereby good shall come unto
thee.” We recently heard a good pastor
use this verse as a text. He urged the
people to seek religion and other blea-
sirgs would follow. Pie told of a poor
and wicked community, in which he held
a meeting and all the people joined the
church. In a very short time they pros
pered and all got rich. “So come and get
religion and God will bless you. He for
got to mention this truth ; “All that will
live godly shall suffer persecution.” He
promised them good things in this world
as well as the next. He preached the
doctrine of his text; but the texlwasthe
heresy of Eliphaz.
But what connection has this subject
with the orphan work ? One of our
ablest theologi-aiis refuses to cooperate in
the orphan work, because the orphans, or
their parents were simmers, and are suf
fering for their sins, or for the sins of their
parents, and he does not wish to interfere
with God’s decrees. “Let people reform
and amend their ways and God will pros
per them.”- We charge upon him the
heresy of Eliphaz, the great barrier in the
way of benevolent work in our day. For
the sake of their own souls, and for the
sake of the good which ought to be done
in the world, we warn the people against
a doctrine which Satan spoke through an
eloquent mouth, and which has been hand
ed duwn to stagnate benevolence, to di
minish the spiritual growth of the rich
and prosperous, and to augment the suf
ferings of the needy and neglected.
[ The above is an editorial in the Or
phans Friend of this week, and needs no
commendation at our hands. We thin k
any “theologian” who, by his own doc
trinal exclusiveness to co-operate in the
Orphan work or any other benevolent
work, has sadly missed his calling, and
had better at once abandon his robes and
take up the less harmless pursuit ©f rail
splitting.
The man who refuses to aid in caring
for the helpless little innocents of our
State, and in rescuing many of them from
a fate worse than death, because, forsooth,
their parents had committed the sin (?)
of being Masons, deserves the eternal
execration of all good people and should
be driven fi om his damaging position of
leader and “theologian.”
Editor JoTJBSA.T,.]
The Warrenton Gazette has the follow
ing feeling appeal touching the Oxford
Orphan Asylum:
We regret to learn that this Institution
is in need of immediate assistance, to en
able it to supply the wants of the orphans.
There is no institution of charity in the
State which so strongly appeals to the
hearts of the people as this. Shall it be
sustained, and made the means of train
ing the orphan children of the State for
lives of morality and usefulness, or be
permitted to fall and these children tube
turned loose to grow up in ignorance and
vice? The question must be answered bv
the men and women of the State, and
must be answered at once. It will be a
burning shame if its doors are allowed to
be closed for the want of the means nec
essary to carry it on. The money ex
pended for whiskey would feed all the
orphans in the State. Yes, the amount
fed to and destroyed by the worthless
dogs in North Carolin.i, would feed,
clothe and educate the orphans.
We have no doubt but there are many
people in the country who would willing
iy contribute if the matter were brought
to their attention, and that is our object
in writing this. Provision, clothing or
anything you can suare, if delivered upon
the railroad and marked to the Orphan
A.sylum, Oxford, will reach its destination
who that reads this will at once send a
barrel of flour, or corn or a buodred
pounds of bacon ?
She Knew the Women.—At one of
the Railroad depots the other day, a lady
walked up to the ticket-window and
smilingly said, “I know just how women
are. and I don’t propose to bother any
one. Answer me a few questions, and 111
sit down and say nothing to no one till
tram time.—How far is it to Grand Rap
ids? What's the fare? When does the
train leave? When do we arrive there?
Where do they check baggage? Which
track will the train start from? How will
I get to Muskegon from Grand Rapids?
How far is it? What’s the fare? Do I
change oars? Ls there a palace coach on
the train? Shall I get a layover ticket?
Can I check my baggage clear through?
Is there a conductor on this road named
Smith? Do you adow dogs m the passen
ger cars, and can a child ten years old go
for nothing?—Having been answered, she
kept her promise to sit still, and the de
pot policeman never had the least bit of
trouble in seeing her off.—Detroit Free
Press.
The Eastern Star, the Mystic Star, and
all brilliant stars of the lady section of
the firmament are in high feather over a
discovery lately made by one “Colfax,"
and all female secret organizations are
expected to increase during the coming
winter in consequence thereof. Listen :
Colfax has faith in woman's ability to
keep a secret. He says: “Out of all the
sixty thousand women who have belonged
fo the Daughters of Rebecca, he had nev
er known one to break faith ; and h? pro
tested against the miserable, worn-out,
stereotyped theory of the world that
women cannot keep a secret.”
The millenium is doubtless approach
ing and women will know and be the
embodiment of
“All secrets of the deep, all nature's works,”
And all mysteries ofhigb Heaven.
—Dalton (Oa)Enterprise;
In the Rubbish of the Temple.
. There are in the South nearly, 200,000
Masons who ought to be “linked together
by an indissoluble chain of sincere affec
tion.” If this vast army were to practice
the valuable precepts taught by our order
many an aching heart would be soothed
many a failing fortune would be relieved
and peace and good will would reign
among them. But strange as it may seem,
like all other institutions we have among
us those who neglect their sacred duties ;
who forgot their vows, and who utterly
disregard the tenets of the lodge room It
is true that the Almighty did not consti
tute an uncharitable heart, or a cold and
unfeeling disposition for a receptacle for
the tender thoughts and resolves that
ought to enter into the make up of every
true man, and yet we have some of these
in our mystic circle. How they came to
be there is no subject for discussion, but
in every lodge room the Worshipful Mas
ter should see to it that the poison of bick
ering and uncharitableness should not
take root and spread among the members.
He should see to it that the members at
every meeting are reminded of their duty
to lend a helping hand to a falling broth
er, to whisper good council in his ear, and
to administer to his distresses so far as
they can without material injur}' to them
selves.
We have often been reminded of the
words of the great and good Rev. James
D. McCabe, now gone to refreshment in
the Grand Lodge above, that “Masonry
was not a religion but the next thing lo
it” How true was this utterance we
leave for every intelligent Mason to say
for himself: but we do know that if the
sublime teachings of our beautiful order
were carried out in letter and spirit, the
world would be happier and better for it.
That this is true, no true JJason will deny'
Then why should it not be the duty of ev
ery Junior Warden and W’orshipful Mas
ter in the Boiith to see to if, that these ten.
ets are carried out. Let ns all turn over
a new leaf, throw our former pretentions
in the rubbish of the temple and hence
forth practice what we preach. Worship
ful Masters will yon start the ball in mo
tion. We shall see.—Dalton {Qa,) En
terprise.
The Realities of Life.—There is rou-
tine work in life, and every man goeg
through it, but not all in the same way.
To some it is a drudgery, to some pain, to
some art, to some pleasure, but to all lifg.
If a man will not work neither shall he
eat, and the work men do is necessarily
routine; the same wants the same demands
similar duties meet us every day. There
arise endless details and questions of wayg
and means but the one thing, life, by duty
and by work, is before us. But what
wisdom, what grace we require to meet
and fulfill it! How often we are perplex
ed and trolbled by it. We are like ma-
riner.s in an archipelago : the channel is
'uordered on either kide by rocks, and he
is a skillful pilot who steers safely
through them. There is one thing how
ever that better than all things helps a
man—it is cheerfulness. The sun arioeg
every morning in the heavena, and al
though mists and clouds sometimes cover
it, it is there. Bo a man's di.sjiosition
makes or mars his prospect. There is no
healthier no more hopeful light that a
man can tt row on his pathway than cbeer-
tulness.
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