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THR WATNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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The Sunday School Lesson
JOB TEMPTED TO DOUBT GOD'S GOODNESS
By NEWMAN CAMPBELL
(The International Uniform Les
tton on the above topic for July 7 is
Job 1 and 2, the Golden Text being
Job. 1:22, "In all this Job sinned
not, nor charged God foolishly.")
THE STORY of Job, which we
have for today's lesson, is one of
the most dramatic and intensely
interesting in the Bible. Here
again we take up the problem of
disaster which hits at the good as
well as the evil.
There are people who think there
never was a person in the Old Tes
tament times named Job. There
is, however, much evidence to show
there was, and his courage and
faith under unspeakable affliction
is a lesson for all of us old and
young, rich or poor.
The story of Job's lile starts:
"There was a man in the land of
Ui ( whose location cannot be defi
nitely determined at the present
time), whose name was Job; and
that man was perfect and upright,
and one that feared God and es
chewed evil."
Then the account tells of his
even sons and three daughters and
his great riches in the form of
sheep, oxen, female asses and cam
els. When his sons held feasts
in their homes, and invited their
sisters to these merrymakings, Job
"sent and sanctified them and rose
up early and offered burnt offer
ings according to the number of,
them all : for Job said, It may be
that my sons have sinned, and curs
ed God in their hearts. Thus did
Job continually."
Satan Got. to and Fro
Now the story changes to the
abode of God Heaven. On a day
when the Sons of God (the an
gels) came to present themselves
to the Lord, Satan (whom you re
member was once an angel fallen
because of his pride) came too, and
the Lord asked him : "Whence
comest thou?" And Satan ans
wered, "From going to and fro in
the earth, and from walking up and
down in it."
Then the Lord asked Satan if he
had noticed His servant Job, "of
whom there is none like him in
earth, a perfect and upright man,
one that feareth God and eschew
eth evil?"
Satan replied that he had, and
suggested that the reason Job was
so good was that he had everything
the heart of man could ask; and
f uthermore gave it as his ( Satan's)
opinion, that if Job should lose his
possessions he would not be such
a good man, but would curse God
to His face.
So to test Job and see if his wor
ship was merely face devotion, the
Lord gave Satan power to take
away all that Job had.
One day when Job's sons and
daughters were feasting at the
home of one of the son s, a mes
senger came to Job, telling him
that the Sabeans had come upon his
oxen plowing with Tne asses feeding
beside them, and had taken them
all away, killing all of. his servants
but the one who escaped to tell him
the dreadful news.
Then another messenger came
and announced that fire had fallen
from heaven on all his sheep and
Mountain Joe . . .
the servants that tended them, and
that only he had escaped to tell him.
His Children Killed
Yet anotner messenger came to
poor Job, telling him that the Chal
deans had taken away his camels
and killed all the servants with
them. And most dreadful of all,
another came, saying that as his
sons and daughters were feasting
a great wind came from the wilder
ness, blew down the house, and
killed them all, excepting the one
who came to him.
"Then Job arose, and rent his
mantle, and shaved his head, and
fell down upon the ground, and
worshipped, saying: Naked come
I out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return thither: the
Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
away ; blessed be the name of the
Lord."
Satan then asked that the Lord
put forth His hand and afflict Job
with a loathsome disease and Bee
what he would say. The Lord told
Satan he must spare Job's life, but
that He put him in Satan's hands
and he could so afflict him, to test
him further.
When boils appeared on Job's
body, from his head to his feet, his
wife said to him: "Dost thou still
retain thine integrity? curse God,
and die," But Job told her she was
speaking foolishly. "What?" said
he, "shall we receive good at the
hand of God, and shall we not re
ceive evil?"
"In all this did not Job sin with
his lips," the accounts say.
At the end of this chapter (Job
2). three friends came to find and
co.nfort him, but they "knew him
not" at first, and when they did,
they wept, rent their mantles, put
dust on their heads and sat down
with him on the ground for seven
days and seven nights.
We shall read about his further
trials and how he bore them and
what he answered his friends about
his affliction in the next lesson.
Forest Service
To Give Movies
Assigned to the Pisgah Forest
for the next few weeks is one of
the Forest Service "showboats"
with portable motion picture
equipment furnishing its own elec
tricity for the operation of the
projector. The truck is equipped
with a small motor and generator
so that the rural school and com
munities where commercial power
is not available may receive bene
fit of this entertaining as well as
instructive program.
Designed to help the public bet
ter appreciate the value of our
forests, the pictures are a part of
the U. S. Forest Service visual ed
ucation program in the interest of
FOREST FIRE PREVENTION.
In technicolor, "4000 GIFTS OF
THE FOREST" gives an idea of
the multiplicity of practical pro
ducts and unique uses of the forest
trees and their derivities. Rival
ing the brilliance of the Rhododen
dron Grand Parade, this idea is
presented by means of colorful
floats passing in review before the
sovereign, "King Douglas, the Fir.
"RE-CREATION" is the amusing
story of a typical big-city family
which is drawn closer together
through the inspiration of the Na
tional Forest while spending their
vacation there. Some of the beau
tiful scenes are taken from the
Pisgah and nearby Nantahala Na
tional Forest, with other sequences
of athletic activities and historic
sites from the National Forests in
all sections of the country. This
family, as the title implies, finds
through recreation there is "RE
CREATION." Plans are now being formulated
for showing these to the summer
recreation camps in the vicinity of
the Pisgah Forest, and to various
Boy Scout groups.
The pictures are presented with
out charge and the public is urged
to attend.
MUGGS AND SKEETER
The outlook for lard appears to
have some bopeful spots because
of the large buying1 program
planned by the Federal Surplus
Commodities Corporation.
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MODERN FROG LEVEL
Lots of people haven't stopped to
Tealize how Frog Level has im
proved, and has become the most im
portantest spot in town. It's the
only part of JWaynesville what has
train service. It is the only part
of town where a clear mountain
stream flows, bringing with it cool
ness and adding beauty to our sec-
lion;-'
Frog Level is almost a complete
town within itself. You can get
everything from an automobile on
down or up. Why, at Burgin's
alone, there is a complete line of
goods in every department dry
goods, clothing, notions, shoes,
meats, groceries and feeds. No
matter where you go, there is not
much chance of getting a better
line of goods at lower prices than
at Burgin's in Frog Level.:
Next week, very same time and
same spot, another article on "The
Extras of Life."
PS. The folks back home didn't
like my dressed-up picture, so here's
my every-day one.
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