Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-04
LiFE A GAME
Where tina Uatirina and Energetic
are Bound to Win.
WHAT ps. TALaAeE SEES IN HIS TEXT.
"6athsr Up the StraSs in Order That
YOa May Get a SaeafS-Marching
through the Gates Of
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SpeciIl 20 ne Register.
SEw York, June 3.-This evening at The
Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. T. DE Witt Tai
mage preached the following sermon:
Opening hymn:
"The fields are white. the harvest waiting
| Who viii 90 and bear the sheaves away"
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage read the
law OF the ancients about the cleaning Of
the harvest fields.
Subject OF the sermon: "Sheayes OF
| Harvest"
Text: Ruth, II 3; And she went, and came,
and her hap was 10 light ON the part OF the
Held belonging unto Boaz, who was the kin
| dred Of EltmeIsch."
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive
at Bethlehem is the harvest time. 1t was
the custom when sheaf fell from load
in the harvest field, for the reapers to re-
fuse 70 gather it up; that was to be left for
the poor who might happen 10 come along
that way. If there were handfals Of grain
scattered across the field after the
- Main Harvest
had been reaped, instead of rakins it as
| farmers do, Il was by the custom of the
| land left in its place, 80 that the poor
! coming along that way might CLEAN it and
| get their bread But you say: What is
| the use OF all these harvest fields TO Ruth
and SOami? Noami is too old and feeble
! 10 20 out and toll in the sun, and can YOU
| expect that Ruth, the young and the beau.
( titul, should tan her cheeks and blister her
/ hands in the harvest ieldE' BOaz owns a
lsrge iarm and he goes out to see the
I reaperS gather in the grain. Coming there,
right behind the sTsrthy suu-browued
reaPerS, he bshOlds a beautiful woman
gleaniGG-a woman more fit to bend To a
harp or sit upon q throne than 70 stoop
among the shesyes. All, that was an
syentful day
Was Love AT FIRST sight
Boa forms an attachment for the woman
IL glcaner-an attachment full OF undying
interest TO tue church of God in all ages;
while Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a
buShel, oil barley, goes home to Naomi 10
tell her the success and adventures of tie
/ day. That Ruth who left her native land
/ Of Moab in darkness and Travelled great
/ distance through the undying affection for
[ her mOther.in-law, is this morning in the
! harvest field Of BOSz, is attianced to one of
7 the best families OF Judah. and becomes in
! after time the anCeStress of Jesus Christ
The Lord Of GLORY ont Of so dark night
/ did there ever dawn Sc bright morning?
/ | learn in the first place from this subject
I how
Trouble DeY cIops Character.
| II was bereavement, poverty and exile
/ that dcyeiopei, illustrated and announced
. to all ages the sublimity of Ruth's char
! aCter. II Was sorrow that made John Bun
B = hn holt Al a
, better poet, and O'Connell the better ora
/ tor, and Bishop Hail the better preacher.
/ ard HavelOCk the better soldier and kitto
/ the better encyclopaedia, and Ruth the bet
/ ter daughter III law. / once asked an aged
| man in regard 10 his pastor, who was :
/ very brilliant man: Why IS il that your
/ psstOc, 50 very brilliant, seems TO have so
LITTLE heart and tenderness in his sermons!
/ We'll, ne replied, "the reason is our pas
! tor hss never had any trouble"
! ahsn Misfortune Comes Upon Him
/ MS siylr VIII De uIuerent. After uwnI!e
/ the Lord took q child out Of that pastor
! house. and though the preacher was just
/ rs brilliant aS he was before-oh, tue
/ warmth, the tenderness OF his disCourSes.
/ The fact IS that trouble is q great educator.
! NUu zee sometimes musician sit down at
I Sn instrument. and his execution is cold
| and formal and unfeRling. The reason is
.
Butlet misfortune or bereavement come
! 20 that man aud he sits down a. that in
! strumgut and you discover the pathos
{ in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune
! and trials are real educators. \ young
! doctor comes into sjCS IUOiU where there
! ia
D3inx Child.
! Per!,aus he - very rough in his prescrip.
ton aud rery rough in his manner and
rough in the feeling Of the pulse and rough
IN his answer 10 the mothers anxious
question. hut years roll on and there has
been one dead in his Owu house; and now
he comes in the sick room and with fearful
eye he looks at The dying child and he
ssyS: "Oh, how this reminds me Of my
Charlie"
Trouble, the .:rea. edU" ttOr. Sorrow
see it's touch in the :randest painting;
hear it, trernor in the sweetest song;
feel itS powCr in the mightCSt argument.
GreC!an mythology said tAat the fountain
Of lIippoCrene was struck out by the foot
OF the winged horse Pegasus. have
citeu noticed in lie that the brightest and
| :, oct beautiful fountains Oi Christian com
f.rt a'd
Spiritual Lite
raw. been struck out by the iron shot ncot
OF disaster sud calamity. I see paniei
ccur;,.,e hest by the fash - NChuchsJneH-
ssrs furnace. see P2WS proves test
when fnd him on the iounderinG ship,
under the glare Of the i'ghtnlng' III the
breakers vi Meiltia- God crowns
his children amid the bowling oi
Wild beasts and the chOpping OF blood
| splashcd guillutlncs and the cracking fires
Of marty rdom. IL took the prosecutions oil
NarCUs Aur,liuS 10 develop PolyCarp and
Justin Martyr IL took the FoPe's bull ana
the Cardinals curse and The world : anath,
| erua to develop Martin Luther. 1t took all
The hostilitie5 against the Scotch covenant
- and the fury of Lord CiavornoUse 10
develop James EenwiCk and AGare" Mel
Vile, and Hugh MChail, the glorious
Martyr OF scotch History.
! Il took the stormy sea and the ucGeuipef
! blast, and the deSOlate New England coast
: and the war whasp OF SaYacts 20 show torta
/ the proves Of the Pilgrim Fathers
when amid the storms they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
Ald the sounding Rtsles Of the dun wo"d
Rang TO the anthems Of the free
! II took all our past national distresses anu
I il takes all our present national sorrow 70
! jift mo our nstion on that high career
! where Il will march long after the foreign
sristCCraCies that have Knocked, and toe w.
/ rannies thai have eered, shall be swept
| down under the Omnipotent wrath OF uoo'
| Who hates despOtism and who by the
( strength Of His own red right srm, will
n ake all men free. And so it IS snalVlau'
ally and, in the family, and in the church,
| and in the world, that through darkness,
| and Storm. aud trouble, men, women,
! churches,
Natioas are Developed
! Again : ee in my text the besGty et
/ nnfslterirg friendship. l suppose there
| were plenty of friends for Naomi while
/ she was in prosperity; but OF sill her SC
/ auaintances how many were willing 20
| trudge oil with her toward judah when
! she had 10 make that lonely journey. one
- the heroine of my text. One-absolute-
/ IL one. | suppose when Nsomis husband
Vas living and ne had plenty Of money
/ and ali things went we'll. they had agreat
! many callers; but suppose that after her
/ husband died and her property went as