The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-22
"That song of love, now low and far,
Erelong shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden spirit Apocalypse"


Again | have to learn from my subject
that events which seem to be most insig-
nifcant may be momentous. Can you
imagine anything more unimportant
than the coming of poor woman from
Moab to JudahP Can you imagine any
thing more trivial than the fact that this
Ruth Just happened to alight-as they
say-on the field cf BoaZP Yet all ages,
all generations have an interest in the
fact that she was to become an ancestor
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations
and kingdoms must look at that one lit
tie incident with thrill of unspeakable
and eternal satisfaction. So it is 10 your
history and in mine; events that you
thought OF no importance at all have
been of very great moment.
That casual conversation that aCciden-
tai meeting, you did not think of again
for long time, but how it changed the
whole phase of your life. It seemed to
be a matter Of no Importance that Luther
founded Bible in monastery; but as
he opened that Bible and the brass lids
fell back, they Jared everything from
the Vatican to the furtherest convent in
Germany, and the rustling of the leaves
was the sound of the angel OF the
Reformation. 1t seemed to be a mat
ter of no importance that q woman
whose name has been forgotten, dropped
q tract in the way of very bad man by
the nameo of Richard Baxter He picked
up the tract and read it, and it was the
means of his salvation. In after years
that man wrote book called "The Call
to the UnConverted," that book brought
many to God, among others, Philip bod
bridge. Philip Doddridge wrote book
called "The Rise and Progress of Relig-
ion" which has brought tens of thous.
ands into the kingdom of God. And
the tide of influence started from the
fact that one Christian woman dropped
a Christian tract in the way of Richard
BAKER. So the insignificant facts of this
world seem, after all, to be the most mo-
mentous Again, see in my subject an
illustration Of the beauty of female in
dustry. Behold Ruth toiling in the har-
vest field under the hot sun, or at noon
taking plain bread with the respers, or
eating the parched corn which Boaz gave
her. The customs of society have, of
changed, and, without the hard
ships and exposures TO which Ruth was
subjected, every intelligent woman will
6pd something to do. ] know there is a
slckly sentimentality on this subject. In
some families there are persons of no
practical service to the household or
community; and, though there are many
woes all around them in the world, they
spend their time languisbing over a new
pattern, or bursting into tears at mid.
night over some lover who shot himselfl
They would not deign to look at Ruth
carrying back the barley on her way
home to her mother.in.law, Naomi. All
this fastidiousness may seen to do very
we'll while they are under the shelter of
their fathers bouse, but when the sharp
winter of misfortune comes, what of
these butterfiiest Persons under indul-
gent parentage may get upon themselves
habits Of Incidence. 6us when they come
out into practical lifs, heir soul will re-
coil with disgust apd cnayrin. They
will feel in their hearts what the poet so
severely satirized when he said:
Folks are so awkward, things so impolite,
They are elegantly paired from morning until
!. night"
Through that rut Of indolence ,now
many men and women have marched
useless on earth to destroyed eternity
Spinola said to Sir Horace We're, "0fI