The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-01

or this Street-seemed 10 be OF no importanr,
TO you, and the fact that you went inside Of
0 n church may seem to be a matter Of
very great insignitieenee TO you. but you will
find it the turning-point In your history.
3. AgJfn: ] see in my subject an illustra-
t.ol OF the beauty Of female industry.
BeEeld Ruth tollfng in the har,est-feld
under tie hos sun, or at roen taking plain
bl cad with the reapars, or eating the parrh-
ed corn which Boaz handed to her. The
customs Of society, Of course, have changed.
and without the hardshipg and exposure tn
whlch klih was subjected. eyery Intelligent
woman viii find someth'n NJ TO do.
/ know there Is q ~ ky sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons of n practical service 10 the htuse.
EOld CT community and, though there are 50
many woes all Ground about Them in the
word, they spen | their tine languishing
over a new patterd. or bursting into tears at
midnight oyer the story OF some lover who
shot himself They would not deign 20
IL o x at Ruth eHrying hack the barley on h0F
way home TO her mother-lr-law, Naomi. All
this f~astidiousness may seem 10 do very well
while they are under the shelter OF their
fathers house but wh'n the sharn winter Of
misfortune cones, What Of these butterSi les?
Persons under indulgent parentage nav get
upon themselves hIbi 5 Of ado ence; hut
wlen they cone ont into pr lctical life their
soul will rstOil with disgust and chaprin.
They viii feel in their hearts what the poet
so severely satlrizsd when he said;
Folks are so awkward. things so imponte.
They're elegantly panied from morning until
night.
Through that gate of ind -lence how m ny
men and women have marched, use'ess on
earth to a destroyed eternity! Spinola said
to Sir Horace We're: "Of what did your
brother dep ''0f having nothing to do"
was I g answer. aAh," said Spinola, THUS
enough 20 kill any general OF Us" or, can
1T ne possible in this world. w ere there Is
so mueh suffering to be alleviated, 50 much
darkness to be enlightened, and somanpi mr.
dens to be carried. that there is any person
who can not find fnyLhing'o dor
Nine. Ge Stael did y world or work in her
time, and ore day, while she was seated ami |
instr In ents of mUsic. all OF which she hid
mastered, and amid manuscript books which
she had written, someone stid to her: How
do YOU lind time TO attend 70 all these
thiugsg' sob" she replied, t'these are
not thu things [ am proud Of NV chief
boast Is in the fact that | hWe seventeen
trades. by any one ofwhich | could make =
livelihco II Necessary" And II in g cll r
spheres Their is so much to be dOEe, in
spir tual wor ( how vas th field! We want
more Abignl more Ha1nahs. more Rebee-
cas-, more Marys, more Deb lTahS conseerated
body, mind, soul-to the Lord who bought
them.
5. Once more: / learn from my subject
the value of cleaning.
Ruth going into that harvest field naight
have said: t'rhere's a straw. and there is Il
straw. but what is a straw 1 can't get any
barley for myselfor my mother-in,iaw out Of
these separate" straws. Not 80, said beauti.
full Ruth. She gathered two straws and she
ut them together, and more straws until
she got enough to make q SEeaf. Putting
that down she went and gathered more
Efs.a EQgH until alNn had. amnthaP rshnnf agI1 an
other, and another, and another, and then
she brought them all together, and she
thrashed them out, and she mad an epkalI of
barley, nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might
be cleaners!
Elihu Burritt learned many things while
tnilllg in z blacksmith shop. Abercrombie
the worid-renowned philosopher, was 4 NH :
os 5pfhef in S9etsSH !, and he Sas his ffSsifitsssS-
ply, or the chief part Of il, while asa physi-
clan he w waiting for the door OF the sick
ron to OPP n. Yet how ma1v there are this
day who say they are so busy, they have no
time for mental or spiritual improvements;
the great duties OF life cross tn field like
strong reapers and cary off all the EoIrs.
aud there is only here and there q fragment
left that Is not worth cleaning, Ah, my
friends. you could 90 into the busiest dav
and busiest week of your lille ard find golden
=opportumitifs, With. gathered, might ut
least make a whole shcaf for the Lords gar.
neT. - the stray Opportunities anu ire
stray privileges which, a ! up and bound
together and beaten out, viii a. last FL YOU.
with ~abounding JOY.
There are q few m1mcnts left worth the
cleaning. Now. ruth, to the feldt May
each one Eave a measure full and running
over. oh, you cleaners 10 the field! And il
there be in your household an aged one or q
sick re atiye That is not strong enough TO
come forth ard toll in this field, then let
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheat
of cleaning: "He that goeth forth and weep
ETH, bear.ny precious seed. shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him." May the Lord God OF
Ruth and Naomi be on portion foreycrl