Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-21

beri0rCe wrote book called: a Practi
cal View Of Christianity which was Ia,
means Of bringing great multitude "a
Christ, an o1g Others Leigh Richmond. Leigh
Richmond wrote Il tract called The Dairy.
msn : Daughter, which has been the means
OF the salvation of uuCOnyeTted multitude-.
Aud that tide OF influence started from the
fact that one Christian woman dropped a
Christian tract in the way Of Richard Bax-
ter-the tide Of influence rolling on through
Richard Baxter, through Philip Dlddridge,
through the great Wllberiorcc, through
Leigh Richmond, on, on, forever. forever.
80 the magnificent events of this world
seem, after all, to he most momentons.
The TACT that yOu came 10 that street or
TINS street seemed 20 be of no Importance
to you, and the fact that yOu went inside
OF SOME church may seem TO be matter Of
very great in-ignilicauce to You. but YOU
Will ind 1t the turning point in your his
tory.
Y. Again see in my subject an IL
iUStratlOn OF the beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field
under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain
bread with the reapers, or eating the
parched corn which Bo4z handed to her
The customs Of society, OF course, have
changed, aud
WITHOUT THE HNKnsHIPs
and exposure to which Ruth Wa sui
lrCtei, every intelligent woman will lind
something TO do
! know there Is sickly sentmentality
on TINS subject. In some families there
are persons Of no practical service to the
household or community; and though
there are so many woes all around about
them in the world, they spend their time
lhngulshing0 over new pattern, or bursting
lnta tears at midnight over the story Of
some lover who shot himself They would
not delgn 10 look at Ruth carving back
the barley oM her way nome 10 her mother
in-law, Naomi All this fastidiOusnc-s
may seem to DO very well while they are
under the shelter Oi their athr!'s house;
hut when the sharp winter of misfortune
comes, what Of these butterflies Persons
under indulsent parentage may yet NJ on
themselves habits OF Incidence: but when
they come out into practical life their
soul will recoil with disgust and chagrin.
They will feel in their hearts what the
poet so severely 7aiiriled when he said.
"Fo.a.0rc soaHaaurl. things So imporG,.
They r. elegantly IuuuI from moruug uuDI
night
Through that gate of indolence how
many men and women have marched, use.
lcss on earth, to destroyed eternity,
SpnolG said to Sir Horace We're. "Ol what
did your brother die "Oi having moth
ing to do, was the answer. "Ah," said
Spnola, that's enough to Kill any general
of u',' Oh, can 1t be possible in this
world, where there Is 80 much suffering Ia
be alI"viuted, 80 much darkness to hc I'll
HGhtcned, and 80 many burdens To be
carried, that there is any person who can.
not find anything to do?
MADAME DE STAEL
did world Of work in her time; and one
day, while she WAS seated amid iustru-
ments Of music, all OF which sha had
mastered, aud amid manuscript books
which she hlt written, some one -ad TO
her How do you find time tn attend to
ell these thing 'Oh," sha re-
piled, these are not things [ am
pr0nd Of My chief boast in
the fact that | have seventeen trades, by
any one Of which could make livelihood
il necessary And ii in secular sphere
there Is ~ much to be done, in spiritual
work hOw vast the field We want more
Ablgll's more nannahs, more Rcbeccas,
more Mnrys. more Daborahs C)nsrcratcd-
body, mind, sOul-to the Lord who bought
them
VI Once more I learn from my sub
ircr III" valnc OF CLEANING.
Ruth going into that harvest field might
have said. There IL straw, and there is
a straw, but what IL straw, can't get
lnv barley for myself or my mothrr.in-uw
Dlt OF these separate -trlw4' Not ~ said
b au'jlul Ruth She gathered tw, siraws.
and she pl thrm!together, and more straws,
ln'il she got enough t make shcat
Putting that down, she went aud gathered
more srraws, until sh- had another ~nru'.
md another, and another, and another, ard
hen she brought them all together, AMI
he ihrcshed them out, and she had an
'phah OF barley nigh a bushe Oh, that
sc might all hc glrmer~
Ehhu BWrtt leaned many things
while toIiiug in hlacksmith'a shop.
Ahrrcromhie, the world-reuowned phllos
,pher, was philosopher in Scotland, and
le got his philosophy, or the chief part Of
{, while, rs physician. he was waiting
or the door OF the sick room to open. Yet
low many there are in this day who say
hey are 80 busy they have no time for
mental or spiritual improvement the
.reat duties of life cross the field like
irong reapers, and cary on all the h0norz,
nd there u only here and there a lrlg-
nent lett that il not worth cleaning. All,
ny friends, you cOu.d 20 into the busiest
ay AMI busiest week OF your life and find
DIden opportunities, which, if gathered,
night at least make whole -heai for the
.Drd's garner. 1t Is the stray oppOrtuui-
lea and the stray privileges which, taken
AIKEN up and bound together and htaten
ur, will at last i'll you with abouudng
oy.
There are n few moments left worth the
leaning Now, Ruth, to the field. May
ICh one have a measure full and running
yer, Oh, you cleaners, 10 the field And
there he in your household an aged one
T a sick relative that ia not otrorg enough
D come forth and toll in this field, then
t Ruth take home 10 feeble Naomi this
heal Of cleaning. "iic that goath forth
,,cping, heareth precious seed. ehpIi ,
oubtlrss come again with rejoicing,
ringing In. ,htay,s with him. May the .
ord God OF Ruth and Naomi be our p1r. ,
on forever,