New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30

or this street'seemed to be of no innortanct
to you aadsth fact that you went inside of
some church may seem to be matter Of
very very great Inslgnlflcence to you, but you will
find it the turning point in your history
8. Again: / see in my subject an Illus tra-
to1 of the beauty of female industry.
IS Bel.oad Ruth tolling in the harvest-feld
under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain
bread with the reapers. or eating the parch-
ed corn which Boaz handed to her 'The
customs OF society, of course, have changed.
and without the hardships and exposure to
which Ruth was subjected. every intelligent
woman will find something to do
know there is a .iekly sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons OF no practical service to the house.
Eoid or community; and, though there are so
many woes all around about them IN the
word, they spen their tine languishing
over new pattern. or bursting into tears at
mldnlght over the story OF some lover who
shot himself! They would not deign to
look at Ruth carrying back the barley on her
way home to her mother-n-Iaw, Naomi. "a II
ibis astldlousness may seem to do very we'll
While they are under the shelter of their
fathers house; but wh,n the sharp W inter of
misfortune comes, What Of these butterflies?
Persons under indulgent paientage may get
upon themselves habis of lndoIence; but
Wien they come out into practical lf their
soul will raeoil with disgust and cnagTin.
LIE WILL 1eeI IN UilolF near Us Wn1L The QOeD
so severely satir.zed when he said:
Folks are so awkward things SO impolite.
They re elegantly panied from morning until
night.
Through that gate of ind fence how m my
men and women have marched useless on
earth to destroyed eternity! Spinola said
to Sir Horace We're: "Of what did your
brother die?" 's0f having nothing to do"
was t answer. s.Ah," said Spinola. that's
q Iph tN III oJ,u oon Of
it De possible in this world. w ere there Is
so much suffering to be alleyiatea, 50 much
darkness to be enlightened, and somanv tlr-
dens to be carried, that there is any person
who can not find anything TO do?
Mime. Ge Stael did a world Of work in Der
time, and one day, while she was seated amid
instruments of music, all of which she had
mastered. and amid manuscript books which
she had written, someone said to her: .sHow
do yoil find time to attend to all these
thingsw ''Ob," she replied, ssthese are
not the things am proud of. My chief
boast Is in the fact that I have seventeen
trades. by any one of which could make a
livelihood if necessary And If in 81 calir.
spheres ther. is SO munh to be doGe, in
spir tual wor how vast the field! We want
more Abigail !, more Haanahs. more Rebec-
cas-, more Marys, more Deborahs consecrated
body, mind, soul-to the Lord who bought
them.
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the value of cleaning.
Ruth going into that harvest field might
have said: s'There's a straw, and there is a
straw. but what is 4 straw? cant't get any
barley for myself or my m0ther-in-laW out of
these separate straWs. Not so, said beauti-
full Ruth. She gathered two straws and she
ut them together, and more straws until
she got enough to make sheaf Putting
that down she went and gathered more
straws, until she had another sheaf, and an
other, and another, and another, and then
she brought them all together, and she
thru shed them out, and she mad an ephah of
barley, nigha bushel. Oh, that we might
be gleaners
Elihu Burritt learned many things while
toii1ng in a blacksmith shop. Abercronbie
the world-renoWned philosopher, was a phi
Osopher in Scotlan 1, and he got his phiIoso.
ply, or the chief part of it. while as a phy>i-
clan he WIS waiting for the door of the sick
ron to opan. Yet how Inanv there are this
day who say they are so busy, they have no
time for mental or spiritual Improvement;
the great duties of life cross The field like
strong reapers and carry off all the hours
and there is only here and there fragment
left that is not worth cleaning. All, my
friends, you could go into the busiest day
and busiest week of your life ard find golden
least make whole sheaf for the Lords gar.
ner. 1t is the stray opportunities and the
stray privileges which, take up and bound
together aud beaten out, will at last ell YOU
with aboundingjo joy.
There are a few moments left worth the
cleaning. Now, fltuth, ito the field May
each one have measure full and running
over Oh, you cleaners TO the field! And if
there be in your household an aged one or a
sick re alive that is not strong enough to
come forth and toll in this field. then let
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheat
Of cleaning: ssHe that eoeth forthand weep
eta, bearing precious seed. shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him." May the Lord God of
Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever.