The problem of suffering in the Old Testament; the Hartley lecture delivered to the Primitive Methodist Conference, in Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, June 8th, 1904 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...maintain his ways before Him. His righteousness he holds fast and will not let it go. This consciousness finds its noblest expression in Job's great defence of his past life, which perhaps touches the loftiest point of Old Testament ethics. Sure of himself and the justice of his cause, he brings his self-vindication to its close, with a challenge to Yahweh that He should answer him, and the proud declaration that as prince he would draw near to God, bearing the indictment which his adversary had written. Yet the poet has wonderfully shown us the clashing currents in Job's breast by the strange incoherence of his language about God. He is torn between the bitter present, and the happy memory, between the God Who is torturing him, and the God, of Whose goodness he had drunk so deeply in the past. And side by side with all his incisive complaints of God's cruelty, and scorn of His malignant pettiness, side'by side even with the firm assertion of His immorality, stand other utterances which recognise His righteousness. He bases the confidence he expresses in one of his less gloomy moments, on the conviction that ajjoiilessjujm shall not come before jlim. He warns the friends that God will not suffer Himself to be flattered by lies. It is therefore natural that appeal should alternate with invective. The appeal is in some cases, indeed, rather remonstrance. Why had God suffered him to be born? Why does He contend with him, why hide His face? What are the sins God has to bring against him? Is it good for Him to despise His own work, or, when He has lavished so much care on fashioning His servant, wantonly to destroy him? But the tone of remonstrance is softened into the tone of pathetic appeal. Would that he knew where he might find Him, that he might lay bare hi...

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