The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-08
AN EVENTFUL DAY.
TALMAGEs SUNDAY DISCOURSE.
A Case Of Love at First Sight.
a Beautiful Pen Picture Drawn from
Biblical History,

| AgeS-de That GOeth Forth and WeeDeth
Bearing Precious Seed, Snail Dou btless
Come Again With Rejoicing.
Special to The Kansas city Times.
BROOKLYN, May 90 The opening hymn at
the tabernacle service to-day, begins with
the words:
| More love to Thee. 0 Christ
| More love to Thee
| After making a running cofYifoentorv On
some passages of Scripture the Rev. r. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., took the text: "And
she went and came, and cleaned i'll the field
"i'er tne reapers: and her hap was too light
on part OF the field belonging unto Boaz,
VINO was OF the kindred of Elimelech" Ruth
II: 8. He preached from these words the fol-
! lowing sermon;
| The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
| Bethlehem is harvest-time 1t was the GUS
tom when a sheaf fell from a load in the
harVest-tield for the .reapers to refuse to gath
| er 1t up: that was to be left for the Door who
might happen TO come along that way. If
tnere were handfuls of grain scattered across
the field after the main harvest had been
reaped, instead Of raking it, as farmers do
now, IL was, by the custom of the land left in
ltS place, so that the poor, coming along that
way, might CLEAN it aud get their bread
But you say; What is the use of all these
harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi2 Naomi is
TOO old and feeble to go out and toll in the
SUM- ana can you expect that Ruth, the
young and beautiful, shoul1 tan her cheeks
ana blister her hands in the harvest-feld!n
boaz owns a large farm, and he goes
oGC 10 see the reapers gather in the
gram; Coming there, right behind the
6Warthy, sun-brOwned reapers. he beholds.
Deauti1ul woman gleaning-a woman more
q hnrYN cit
eveDtful day.
1t was love at first sight. Boaz forms an
attachment for the womanly gIeaner-an at
G Iachment 1ul OF undying interest to the
Church OF God in all ages; while Ruth, with
an ephah, or nearly bushel of barley goes
nome to Naomi to tell her the successes and
adventures OF the day. That Ruth, who left
her native land of Moab In darkness. and
travelled through an undying affection for her
motner-ln law, in the harvest field of BoaZ
is athanced to one of the best families in
judah, and becomes in after time the ances-
tress OF Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Out
Oh so dark night did there ever dawn so
bright mOrnng9
learn in the first place from this SUBJ
Ject now trouble develops character 1t was
bereavement, poverty and exile that develop
eu, Illustrated and announced to all ages the
Subllmlty OF Ruth's character. That ia a
very unfortunate man who has no trouble
1t was sorrow that made John Bunvan the
better dreamer, and Doctor Young the bet
ter poet and OCOnnell the better orator.
and Bishop Hall the better preacher. and
HaVelock the better soldier, and Kitto the
better encyclOpaedist and Ruth the better
daughter-in.law
once asked an aged man in regard to his
pastor, who was a very brilliant man: ttVhv
is 1t that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems
TO have so little heart and tenderness in his
sermOns" "Wen,'' he replied, ''the reason
Is our pastor has never had any trOnble. When
misfortune comes upon him, his style will be
ulIIerent" After awhile the Lord took a
child out of that PASTORS house
and though the preacher WAS just as
brilliant as he was before, oh the
warmth. the tenderness of his dfscOursps,
The fact is that trouble is a great educa tor
l GU see sometimes musician sit down at an
!nstrument, and his execution is cold and
formal and unfeeling. The reason is that all
his life he has been prOspered. But Iet mis-
fortune or bereavement come to that man, and
ne SITS down at all instrument, and YOU dis
discover pathos in the first sweep of the
keys.
Misfortune and trials are great educators.
A young doctor comes intOa siclI-room where
there is dying child. Perhaps he is very
rough in his prescription, and very rough in
his manner, and rough In the feeling Of the
pulse, and rough in his answer to the moth
er's anxious question ; but years roll on. and
there has been one dead in his own house:
and now he comes into the sick-rOom and
with fearful eye he looks at the dying child,
and he says sob, how this reminds me of nv
Charlie ~ Trouble, the great educator. Sor-
row, see It's touch in the grandest painting:
| near Its tremor in the sweetest song; feel
Its power in the mightiest argument.
Grecian mythology said that the fountain
OF Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of
the winged horse Pegasus. | have often no.
tced in life that the brightest and most
beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and
spiritual life have been struck out by the iron
shod h0of of disaster and calamity. | see
Daniei's courage best hy the fash of Nebuch-
adnezzar's furnace. see Paurs proves best
when | find him on the fOundering ship I'M
der the glare of the lightning in the breakers
0f Melita. God crowns his children amid the
Rowling OF wild beasts and the chOpping Of
blOod-spashed guillotine and the crack
ling fires of martyrdom. 1t took
The prosecutions of Marcus Aurelius
TO develop Polrcarp and Justin MARTYR. 1t
took the worlds anathema to develop Martin
Luther. 1t took all the hOstilties against the
Scotch Covenanters and the fury of Lord
ClaverhOuse to develop James RenwIck. and
Andrew Melville, and Hugh McKail. the
glorious MARTYRS of Scotch history. 1t took
the stormy sea, and the December blast, and
the desolate New England coast and the war
whoop Of sayages, to show forth the proves
of the Pilgrim Fathers
And he stars heard. and the sea;
And he undng aSles Of the dim wood
Rang to the anthems of the free"
1t took all our past national distIesses to
lift up our nation on that high career where
it will march along after the foreign aristo-
cracics that have Knocked anG the tyranes
that have jeered, shall be swept down under
the omnipotent wrath of God, who hates
deSpotism. and who, By the strength of His
own red right arm, will make all men free
And so it is Individually, and in the family,
and in the Church, and in the world
through darkness and storm and trouble that
men, women, churches nations, are develop
cd
III. Again. l see in my text the beauty of
unfaltering friendship. / suppose there are
plenty Of friends for Naomi while she was
in prosperity; but of all her acQuaintances
how many were willing to trudge off with her
toward Judah, when she had 10 make that
lonely journey! One-the heroine Of nv text.
One-absolutelg one. ! suppose when Naomrs
husband was living, and thew had plenty of
money, and all things went well, they had
great many callers; but suppose that after
her husband died, aud her
property went. and she got old and pOor
she was not troubled very much with callers
All the birds that sung in the bower while
the sun shone have gone 10 their nests, now
the hight has fallen.
Ohr these beaut full SUM- flowers that sUresd
our their color in the morning hour, but are
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