...thou art fatten!" And do we address one, any one, in whose life Job's lamentation is appropriate, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...and when, by his light, I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle, when the Almighty...

...only at those unhappy periods when you failed to walk in the Spirit. Your very mourning showed this: oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...and when, by his light, I walked through darkness. The exhortation of the text, therefore, is enforced by your hopes, and happiness, and fears. By the...

...walketh in the darkness, and hath no light ?" (Isa. 1. 11). "Oh," says the afflicted patriarch of Uz, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when...and when by his light I walked through darkness." Can we forget a more awful and impressive example — ONE soaring above the reach of all grovelling...

...Job when he said, ' the arrows of the Almighty are within me;' and again, 'Oh that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved...and when by his light I walked through darkness,' Job xxix. 2, 3. In such an hour as this, when the feeling of distance from God is almost insupportable,...

...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' O bv his light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were- about...

...something more than the mere words ; he must have it come with power. Now Job for one cried out, " Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle ; when I washed my...

...there ; and to bring thee where one of old was brought, who cried out in the bitterness of his soul, "Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days...candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness," Job xxix. 2, 3; or with the church, "Tell me, O thou, whom my soul loveth,...

...therefore, which burns dimly (as did that of Job) will be lightly esteemed.' In ch. 29. 2,3, Job says, * Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness. The Hindoos are accustomed to say, 'Alas! alas! his secret...

...God's countenance, but now the consolations of God are small with thee. You have to say with Job, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...and when by his light I walked through darkness." Your state is similar to that so feelingly described by Asaph, " In the day of my trouble I sought...

...(xxiii. 3 — 6). Then it is the mournful' remembrance of better and more humble days that sighs out, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness" (xxix. 2, 3). Thus the fierce conflict rends his soul asunder. For the man who only hears of God will...