Here were deposited, From November 12 to December 11, 1869, The remains of GEORGE PEABODY, Then removed to his native country, "I have prayed my Heavenly Father day by day "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your Job had been a public benefactor 14-17. (14) put on, as if it were a robe.a judgment, magisterial justice. diadem, or turban. Job was fully clad or adorned with justice. (15) eyes, etc., forcible refutation of the charge of hard-hearted uncharitableness brought against him by a Ro. xiii. 14; 1 Eliphaz. (16) father, father-like in tender consideration for Pe. v. 5. them. the cause, legal action, wh. seemed obscure. Job tookb Heb. tsaniph, fr. trouble that justice should be done. (17) jaws, jaw-teeth, or grinders. Heb. the biters. plucked, etc., severity with the wicked is as essential a part of public justice as consideration for the poor. Job's character (vv. 11-17).-I. His benevolence and compassion as a private individual. II. His faithfulness and justice as a magistrate. III. His boldness in opposing the wicked and oppressive. Note:-1. A truly good man a comfort to the oppressed and a terror to the oppressor; 2. A good man not deterred from duty by the fear of consequences.e dis tsanaph, to bind round. c Job xxii. а and d" Job is advo- vv. 14-17. Bp. Kindness to the poor.-The benevolent Dr. Wilson once covered a clergyman at Bath, who, he was informed, was sick, poor, and had a numerous family. In the evening he gave a Sanderson, 97. friend fifty pounds, requesting him to deliver it in the most delicate manner, and as from an unknown person. The friend said, "I will wait upon him early in the morning." "You will oblige me, sir, by calling directly. Think of what importance a good night's rest may be to that poor man." Benevolence. But come, ye generous minds, in whose wide thought, Can restless goodness wait; your active search vv. 15, 16. Dr. A. Snape, iii. 272. v. 16. Abp. Drummond, 71. e Dr. Robinson. John Baptist Joseph Languer, vicar of St. Sulpice, at Paris, sometimes disbursed the sum of a million of livres in charities in a single year. When there was a general dearth in 1725, he sold, in order to relieve the poor, his household goods, his pictures, and B.C. cir. 1520. some curious pieces of furniture that he had procured with great difficulty. we Everything to our means of f Thomson. his past hopes a "I shall die surrounded by my family and friends, and encompassed with honours.". Barnes. LXX., Vulg., and Jew. interp. think ref. is to the phoenix bird, which was supposed to reappear out of its on ashes. "The myth was, that the phoenix sprang fr. a nest of myrrh, made fore death, and that he then came fr. Arabia (Job's country) to Heliopolis, in Egypt, once in every 500 years, and there burnt by his father be his father." Fausset. c Ps. i. 3; Je. xvii. 8; Ho. xiv. -5-7. d Ge. xlix. 24. e Hobhouse. f Burder. his past influence And the sun sheds his kindest rays for you, Induces thought, and contemplation still. We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of God to see a happy world. 18-21. (18) die in my nest, continue right to the end of life my comfortable circumstances." Nest is figure for secure dwelling. as the sand, common fig. for boundless extent. Abundance of days compared to the multitude of the grains of sand." (19) root, etc., read " will be open to the waters." Job likens himself to a palm tree. dew, copious and refreshing in that land. (20) glory, honour in wh. I am held will be constantly renewed: will remain fresh." renewed,d will become young; gain ever new strength and elasticity. (21) unto, etc., turning from the hopes he cherished, to the facts he remembered. The nourishment of vegetable life (v. 19).—“ The precious water of the Cephissus is the property of the waivode only during the season of watering the olive-wood: for the remaining months the owners of the gardens, in a proportion settled by long usage, divert the stream into their grounds, for one, two, or three hours in a week or fortnight, according to the bargain at which they have hired or purchased their land. The instant that the stream is turned into the required channel, a public inspector, who is called Dragaris-too-nen, and is always in attendance, turns his hour-glass, and the gardener also measures the time in the same manner; other Greeks frequently being present to prevent collusion, and cut off the rivulet immediately at the expiration of the stipulated hour."e-It is well known that in the hot Eastern countries, where it rarely rains during the summer months, the copious dews which fall there during the night contribute greatly to the nourishment of vegetables in general. "This dew," says Hasselquist, speaking of the excessively hot weather in Egypt, "is particularly serviceable to the trees, which would otherwise never be able to resist the heat; but with this assistance they thrive well, and blossom and ripen their fruit."/ 22-25. (22) my words, a given as counsel, or as judicial decision. dropped, fig. for eloquence, esp. in Oriental poetry. a "This passage (23) waited, as does a parched and thirsty land for the rain. introduces a new latter rain, those wh. fall in the month of March; necess. to theme, viz., Job's position among bring forward the harvest. (24) laughed, they thought it too his countrymen great a condescension to be believed. light.. down, they did statesman not oppose me so as to make me frown. (25) way, or expeas a king, surrounded by every sign of state. forteth, etc., a side-thrust at the friends whose intended comfortings had proved so great a failure. and leader." Spk. Com. b De. xxxii. 2. "Some read, I smiled kindly on those who trust ditions. com Review of the chapter.-I. Evidence of the statement that the fear of the Lord is wisdom. II. Proof that true piety towards -Umbreit. d Dr. Robinson. words come tule drop by drop." must bur life for cur God is accompanied with the purest morality and love to men. B.C. cir. 1520. III. An example afforded of what grace can effect in restoring ed not,' i.e. in and renewing fallen humanity. IV. A pattern for Christians times of danger both in public and private life. V. The retrospect of a holy and I cheered those useful life a source of pure and elevated comfort in sickness and in despondency." adversity. VI. Example of the uncertainty of earthly comforts and riches. VII. The experience of believers in respect to the sensible enjoyment of the Divine presence and fellowship liable to fluctuation. VIII. An exemplification of the requirements of the moral law in respect to our neighbour. IX. Job exhibited in this chapter as a type of Jesus Christ the righteous. Silent influences.-A man need not covet the high-sounding language of the egotist, the pedant, or pharisee, to have influence Roberts. with others. He need not aspire to the deeds of heroes or the "To religion, achievements of warriors. A fixed star is better than an erratic then, we comet. The even, steady, patient temper, is better than the hold in every blustering and self-conceited behaviour. An unbroken series of circumstance of good works performed in the retired sphere of a humble life, are more beneficial in influence than many a world-wide reported exploit accomplished on the theatre of public observation. The bubbling spring which makes the beautiful rivulet, flowing gently by the homestead of a country farm-house and through the centre of a rural little village, may be more valuable and useful than the rushing flood or roaring cataract. Niagara is an we are miseobject of wonder to the contemplative mind. We stand amazed before its magnificence and grandeur. As the power of God opens the stupendous flood-gates and pours the world of water from the hollow of His hand, we bow in adoring admiration. But one Niagara is sufficient for a continent, if not for a world. Its influences are more of a sentimental than physical and moral effect. They are more beneficial to the tourist or traveller, than to the occupant of the soil and the artisan of the shop. Whereas the thousands of glassy fountains and gently running streams, which, unnoticed and unadmired by the multitudes, beautify the country, are refreshing to the meadow, the garden, the shrubbery, the cattle, and the thousands of needy inhabitants. CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH. 1-4. (1) but now, painful contrast of present circumstances. younger than I, the expression is a general one," and need not be referred to the three friends. fathers, intimating that those who insulted him in his distress were the children of the lowest and most degraded of the community. with the dogs, wh. are in East regarded with contempt as unclean. (2) strength.. me, they could not work, they are enervated, good-for-nothing fellows. old age, better, mature age; in them is no manliness, no vitality. (3) solitary, barren, their strength utterly exhausted. fleeing, lit. gnawing the wilderness. former, etc., hitherto utterly waste places. (4) mallows, a salt herb of the desert. juniper,' a kind of broom. The root would only be eaten in extremity. Reproachful speeches (v. 1).-Fateh Ali Shah contented himself one day, after a quarrel among his ministers, with telling them publicly that he should bestow their titles on some of his dogs, truest comforts; for if we are already happy, it is a pleasure to think that we can make that happiness un ending; and if rable, it is very consoling to think there is a place of rest. Thus to the fortunate religion holds out of bliss, to the wretched change from pain." a continuance Goldsmith. e J. Bate. a Oliver B.C. cir. 1520. c Sir W. Ouseley. "How happy is the evening tide of life, when phlegm has quench'd our passions, trifling calling one the Sedr aazem, another the Amin ad douleh, and a third the Itimad ad douleh.c-Respect to age.-"Dost thou not see, O Gaul," says Morni, in one of the poems of Ossian, “how the steps of my age are honoured? Morni moves forth, and the young meet him with reverence, and turn their eyes with silent joy on his course.' The obligation to reverence old age is a necessary emanation from that duty which we owe to our parents. The youth who pays due honour to his own father will out the feeble never treat despitefully the grey hairs of those who pass by his remnant of our silly days in father's door, or enter within his threshold. The Jewish lawgiver follies, such as has made this duty the subject of a particular precept: "See dotage best is that thou rise up before the hoary man, and honour the face of pleased with, free from the wound- the old man.” "I am young," says the son of Carachel," and ye ing and torment- are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show you ing cares that mine opinion. I find days should speak, and multitude of years toss the thought-teach wisdom." Among the Chinese, neither birth, nor riches, ful, active, busy mind."-Otway. nor honours, nor dignities, can make a man forget that reverence which is due to grey hairs; and we are told that the sovereign "Let me not live, after my flame himself never fails to respect old age, even in persons of the lacks oil, to be lowest condition. Many of our readers are doubtless acquainted the snuff of with the name of a Swiss doctor, Michael Schuppach, of Lengnau, younger spirits, in the Emmenthal, who was highly celebrated, and much in whose apprehensive senses all Vogue in the last century. He is mentioned by Archdeacon but new things Coxe, in his Travels in Switzerland, who himself consulted him. disdain; whose There was a time when people of distinction and fortune came judgments are mere father of to him, particularly from France and Germany, and even from their garments: more distant countries; and innumerable are the cures which whose constan- he performed upon patients given up by the regular physicians. cies expire before There were once assembled in Michael Schuppach's laboratory a their fashions."-Shakespeare. great many distinguished persons from all parts of the world, partly to consult him, and partly out of curiosity; and among them, many French ladies and gentlemen, and a Russian prince, ages; in mature with his daughter, whose singular beauty attracted general life they attention. A young French marquess attempted, for the amusethree hundred ment of the ladies, to display his wit on the miraculous doctor; and sixty-five days; in old but the latter, though not much acquainted with the French age they have language, answered so pertinently that the marquess had not the dwindled to a laugh on his side. During this conversation, there entered an Time is, indeed, old peasant, meanly dressed, with a snow-white beard, a neighbour the messenger of Schuppach's. Schuppach directly turned away from his great with wings at company to his old neighbour, and hearing that his wife was ill, his feet. Yesterday he took my set about preparing the necessary medicine for her, without wife, to-day my paying much attention to his more exalted guests, whose business son, to-morrow he did not think so pressing. The marquess was now deprived he will take me.' of one subject of his wit, and therefore chose for his butt the old man, who was waiting while his neighbour Michael was preparing something for his old Mary. After many silly jokes on his long white beard, he offered a wager of twelve louis d'or that none of the ladies would kiss the dirty-looking old fellow. The Russian princess, hearing these words, made a sign to her attendant, who brought her a plate. The princess put twelve little longer, and louis d'ors on it, and had it carried to the marquess, who of nature drops course could not decline adding twelve others. Then the fair him down with Russian went up to the old peasant with the long beard, and out your sin, like mellow fruit said, "Permit me, venerable father, to salute you after the without a winter fashion of my country." Saying this, she embraced him, and storm."--Dryden. gave him a kiss. She then presented him with the gold which was "When young, Our years are are few weeks. -Madame de "Shake not his little B.C. cir. 1520. on the plate, with these words; "Take this as a remembrance of me, and as a sign that the Russian girls think it their duty to d Percy Anec. honour old age." a described 5-8. (5) driven forth, as vagabonds unfit for decent the youth society. cried, etc., a cry is raised if one of them dares to show who dehimself out of his lurking-place. (6) caves,a Heb. holes. spised him Those living in such holes are called Troglodytes. (7) brayed, like wild asses when hungry. See ch. vi. 5, xxiv. 5. gathered together, huddled up in heaps. Delitzsch prefers the idea, "spread about in disorder, amid useless weeds of the desert." (8) fools, worthless, the refuse of society. base men, Heb. men of no name. viler, etc., frightened, or scourged, out of the cultivated lands. Dwelling in the caves (v. 6).-The Oriental shepherd and his family sometimes take up their abode in caves, with which the country, particularly about Askelon, abounds. These caverns are often so capacious as to admit the master and his whole property; In times of imminent danger, the people forsake their towns and villages, and retire with their wives and children, their flocks and herds, into these dark recesses, which have been from time immemorial the refuge of the oppressed. It was in these hidingplaces that Baldwin I., King of Jerusalem, in the barbarous age of the crusades, found the inhabitants of many villages, with their flocks and their herds, who had favoured the cause of his enemies, and fled at his approach. In Egypt, such excavations appear to have been the settled abodes of a numerous and peaceful population. Dr. Richardson entered several mountain defiles, on his way to Nubia, where he found "a number of excavations extremely well executed, covered with sculpture, and painted in the most brilliant colours; likewise a number of pits sunk perpendicularly into the rock, all of which have been used as burying-places, and many of them still contain handsome mummy cases, made of wood and stone, beautifully painted in a variety of colours, and covered with curious devices." But, besides these, "high up in the front, along the base of the mountain, and over the rocky flat, all the way from Medina Thabou, there are innumerable excavations, many of them large and beautifully formed, painted, and sculptured with many curious devices, illustrative of ancient customs. In one place above Medina Thabou, the doors into these excavations are so numerous and so contiguous, that they resemble a row of houses in a village. They have a long piazza in front, and a large apartment within; and a long shaft running back into the rock. They rise in tiers above each other, according to the different elevations of the mountain. They have evidently been dwellinghouses, and, from the shady piazza in front, the spectator enjoys the most delightful view that can possibly be obtained of the plain of Thebes. In Hindostan, too, the fainting inhabitants are forced to escape, from the severe fervours of an Eastern noon, into vast artificial caverns, and into grottoes of the most refreshing coolness, which the great and the wealthy cause to be constructed in their gardens. b 9—11. (9) their song, his calamities were the subject of low jesting, even by such people. byword, comp. ch. xvii. 6.a (10) spare.. face, Heb. withhold not spittle from my face. Strong poetic fig. of insult; need not be pressed into actual fact. a "Dr. Richardson found a large number of such dwellings in the vicinity of Thebes, many of wh. were large, and beautifully formed, and sculptured with many curious dealso saw a large vices. Mr. Rich number of such caves not far from Mosul." Barnes. Wetzstein gives a full account of Troglodyte caves tricts adjoining the Hauran. found in the dis Ju. vi. 2. "Depend upon this truth, that every man is the upon, and the worse looked worse trusted, for being thought to have no religion, in spite of all the pompous, specimay assume, of ous epithets he esprits forts, free-thinker, or pher; and a wise philosoatheist, if such a thing there is, would, for his character in this world, pretend to some religion.". moral own interest and field. - Chester b Paxton. the treat their hands |