Shared with humorous intent, I came across this today while searching for a document by B.B. Warfield. Published by Fleming H. Revell, the book plate on this copy indicates it was a donation to the PTS library from Warfield.

How Josh worked up a concept

and the poem concludes:

"There's words all through the Testament,
Which, every time I find 'em,
Thinks I, "There ain't no Josh work here;
There's Some One True behind 'em!"

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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

indeed.

Kind of a poser, eh?

Apparently it was a poem written by a Princeton Sem. senior, published no less by a major publisher of that day [!], and a gift copy presented by Warfield to the PTS library. Wonder what the rest of the back-story might be? I'm sure we'll never know this side of glory.

What a guy that Josh is.

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Acton, Maine
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Sounds like a conversation I had with a pastor's husband the other day: (red flag number one)

Me: It says that Jesus was angry. Therefore, we can be angry. Anger is not a sin but we must not sin in anger.

Him: It says that, but does it MEAN that? I think he was disappointed, maybe frustrated, but not angry.
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He believes in infallibility and sufficiency, but I don't know how.

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Stephen J. Powell
Middlebury, VT

"Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me" John 14:1 (NASB)

Was the pastor a "hubby"?