VOICE OF THE HURRICANE; A SERMON, PREACHED IN ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL, ON SUNDAY, THE 13TH JANUARY, 1839, BY THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL, A.M., MINISTER OF THAT CHURCH, DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD CLONBROCK, AUTHOR OF "OCCASIONAL SERMONS," &c. &c. London: J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. TO THE CONGREGATION OF ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, THIS SERMON (PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF MANY OF THEM) IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. THE VOICE OF THE HURRICANE: A SERMON. JOB, i. 18, 19, 20, 21. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shared his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came 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. FAITH, to have its triumphs, must also have its trials. The crucible is required to test the purity of the metal. As an example of this truth, we may say, never was mortal man subjected to such an ordeal as that which the enmity of Satan brought upon the patriarch Job, and never did mortal man bear up with more holy courage and pious trust in God under the buffetings of his probation. Job was a prosperous man, as the world measures its ideas of prosperity. He was rich, the master of vast possessions, the happy father of a numerous family; but riches and prosperity had not worked their usual effects upon Job-his integrity had |