Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-21
LOVE AT FIRST StGHT.
REV. DR.. 1ALMAGe'S DISCOURSE At
THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

REV. DR.. rALMAGe'S DISCOURSE At
THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Trouble Develops and Enuobies Charac-
ter-The Beauty OF Unfaitering Friend
ship-A Path which Starts DarkIy
Often Ends Brightly.
BRooKLYN, MAY 2O.-The opening hymn
at the Tabernacle service today begins with
the words;
More love to thee, o Christ.
More love TO thea
After making q running commentary on
some passages of Scripture the Rev. T. De
Witt Tslmage, d. D.. took the text: And
she went, and came, and CLEANED in the field
after the reapers: and her hap was to light
on a part Of the field belonging unto Boaz,
who was Of the kindred of Elimelech." Ruth
ii, s. He preached from these words the
following sermon:
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
Bethlehem is harvest time. 1t was the custom
when sheaf fell from load in the harvest
field for the reapers to refuse to gather 1t
up; that was to be left for the poor who
might happen to come along that way. Ii
there were handfuls Of grain scattered across
the field after the main harvest had been
reaped, instead Of raking it, as farmers do
now, it was, by the custom Of the land, left in
its place, so 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 Naomif Naomi
is too old and feeble to go out and toll in the
sun; and can you expect that Ruth, the
young and the beautiful, should tan her
cheeks and blister her hands in the harvest
fieldsr'
Boaz owns large farm, and he goes out to
see the reapers gather in the grain. Coming
there. right behind the swarthy, sun Drowned
reapers, he beholds beautiful woman CLEAN
ing-a woman more ft to bend to a harp or
sit upon a throne than to stoop among the
sheaves All, that was an eventful dayi
IL was love at first sight Boaz forms an
attachment for the womanly gleaner-an at
tachment full Of undying interest to the
church Of God in all ages; while Ruth
with an ephah, or nearly bushel Of barley,
goes home 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 mother-in-law, in the harvest field Of
Boaz, is affianced to one Of the best families
in Judah. and becomes in after time the an
cestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Out of so dark night did there ever dawn
SO bright morningi
learn in the first place from this subject
how trouble develops character. II was be-
reavement, poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to all ages the
sublimity Of Ruth's character. That is a
very unfortunate man who has no trouble
1t was sorrow that made John Bunyan the
better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better
poet, and O'Connell the better crater, and
Bishop Hall the better preacher, and Have
lock the better soldier, and Kitto the better
encyclopedias. and Ruth the better daughter
in-law.
once asked an aged man in regard to his
pastor, who was a very brilliant man:
why is it that your pastor, so very bril-
liant, seems to have so little heart and ten
deruess in his sermonsr' We'll" be re-
piled, 1.-The reason is our pastor has never
had any trouble When misfortune comes
upon him, his style will be different" After
awhile the Lord took a child out of that
pastors house: and though the preacher was
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