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

bws, Mlsfortunes, and Trials Arc
Great Educators and Develop
/. Character.
BE Made John Bunyan the Better
Dreamer and DIR. YOuD. the
Better Poet
e orening hymn at he Tabernacle scry-
sunday began with the words:
More love to Thee, o Christ
More love 10 Thee.

~ gter making a running commentary on
of,e passages Of scripture the Res. Il. De-
f3a Talmage, d. D., took the text: "And
imss. went, and came, and CLEANED in the
inS after the reapers; and her hap was too
on part Of the field belonging unto
ana who was of the kindred of Elimelech"
hs il; 3. He preached from these words
laps following sermon:
be time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
y hlehem is haryest.time. 1t was the Gus
II when a sheaf fell Fl ON a load in a har-
field for the reapers to refuse TO gather
p that was to be left for the POOR who
Gre bit happen to come along that way. If
"a 4 e were handfuls of grain scattered across
field after the main harvest had been
imw ped, instead Of raking it as farmers do
" a it was, by the custom of the land, left
esAa Is place so that tie poor, coming alcng
way, might CLEAN it and &C I their
Pd. But you say: "What IS the use OF
these halyest-ields to Ruth and Naomi?
mi is too OLD and feeble to go out and
ran in the sun and can you expect that
al ID, the young and the beautiful, should
g her cheeks and blister her hands in the
Fest.heldg"
( oaz own n large farm, and he goes out
be the reapers gather in the grain. Com
there, ri-ht behind the swarthy, sun
Gned reapers. he beholds a beautiful
nan gleaniug-a woman more fit to bend
.as harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop
Y w # AHng the sheayes. ALI that was an event.
day.
~ was love at first sight Boaz forms an
Hesq chment for the womanly gleaner-an at
Z bment full Of undying interest to the
~ rch Of God nall ages; While Ruth, with
s fphah, OF nearly a bushel of barley, goes
be to Naomi TO tell her the successes and
bea entures OF the day. That Ruth, who left
native land of Moab in darkness, and
NJ. eled through on undYing affection tor
oet mother n-law, in the haryest-feld Of
fP. b, is afianeed to one Of the best families
u1ah, and becomes IT. after time the an
ny hess Of Jesus Christ, the Lori of Glory.
a Of so dark a night did there ever dawn
M light a morningy
earn in the fiji, Page from thi, subject
trouble de telopes chaIaCter. 1t was
eayement, poverty, and exile that deyel
" d, illustrated, and" announced to all ages
suElimity of Ruth's character. That is q
unfortunate man who has no trouble.
vas sorrow that made John BuEYan the
per dreamer, and DIR. Young the better
{, and 0Connell the better orator, and
Mop Hall the better preacher. and Have
urn the better so der, aud KitIo the better
ldr yclopedist. and Ruth the better daughter
Haw.
lnca once asked an aged man in regard to his
leh FOR, who was a very brilliant man: HWhy
au that your pastjr, 50 very brilliant, seems
pa& lave 50 little heart and tenderness in his
ant nOnsl" swell" he rep led, 1.-THE reason
b our pastor has never had any trouble.
~ ven misfortune comes upon him his style
"A be different After a while the Lord
won a child out of that pastors house, and
Mr. ugh the preacher was just As brilliant rs
WAS before, oh, tine warmth. the tender
M or ms discourses. The fact is that
bible is a great educator. You see some
es a musician sit down at an instrument,
.Pt his execution IS cold and formal aud I'M
7 ing The reason is that all his life he
'G bsen prospered. But let misfortune or
pavement come to that man, and he sits
: sn at an Instrument and YOU discover
enq pathos in the frst sweep Of the keys,
B0 isfortune and trials are great educators.
1 TN Yong doctor comes into the siek-room
ere there is q dying child. Perhaps he
reia very rough in his preseripto Oh, and very
E eN Oh in his manner, and rough in the feel
OF the pulse, and rough in his answer 70
rasf4 mothers anxious question:, but years roll
a6el and there has been one dead In his own
eon se; and now he comes INTO the sick room,
with fearful eyes he looks at the dying
\ {, and be says: sob, how this reminds
of my Charliew Trouble, the great
bcator. Sorrow, l see its touch in the
snde { painting I hear the tremcr Va the
eetest song; | feel It's power in the might
argument.
bird breeIm mythology said that thu fonnda-
"a aben of Hippoerene was struck out by The
rhf4h DO Of the winged horse, PcgasAe I have
n vi an roticed in life that the brightest and
st beautiful foHlt1ins II Christian comfort
,htAkA8 spiritual lie have been struck ont by
t4. iioa-shod hoof of disaster and calamity.
q lee Daniels courage best by the flash OF
tbuehadnezzar's furnace. / see PauPs
bwess best when 1 find him on the found
ng ship under the glare Of the light ling
Il he breakers oil Melifa. God crowns his
VT dren amid the bowling OF wild beasts,
the chopping blood-splashed guillotine.
the cracking fires Of martyrdom. IL
the prosecutions Of Marcus Aurelius to
pTss elope Polyearp and Justin Martyr. 1t
t5 The worlds auathema to deyelOpe Mar
fha Luther. 1T took all the hostilities against
tiw Scotch covenanters and the fury OF Lori
say reihouse To develope James Rensyics1
Andrew Melville and Hugh Hchaii.
dive glor;ous martyrs of scotch Ii story. 1t
alNHlt the stormy sea, and the December blast,
the desolate New England cost, aDd
scoHl -whcop OF savares to show forth the
Fcss OF the pilgrim fathers.
rkss Wken amid the storms they sang,
,nk And the stars heard and the sea;
And The sounding aisles Of the dim wood
Rang TO the anthems OF the free.
VIZ 5s n took ALI our past national distresses to
up our nation on that high career where
ots Mil march along after the foreign aristoc-
Mics that have mockcd and the tyrannles
Shaye iecred shall be swept under the ON.
otent wrath Of Cod who hates despotism
a who BY the strength Of his own red right
Nth will make all men free. And 10 il il
o|n1 viduallY, and In the family, and In the
ft sth. and in the world, that through dark
,Ja undg storm and trouble men, women.
Asahes 4isstsous. are deseloppd
Again / soe ia my text The beauty Of
n altrring friendship / suppose there were
iIfy OF friends Tor Naomi while she was In
sperity; out Of ull her acGuaintances how
flv " we've willing 10 trudge OF with her To-
aiN dJudah when she hadt0 make that iouely
tcA new One-the heroine Of my taxi one
ar bsoIu;oly. i suppose when Naomi's hus-
I4' Il WAS living and they had plenty Of
he leV ana all things went we'll they had a
fne Il many callers but 1 suppose that after
husband died and her property went and
az had Qotold and poor she Wa not troubled
much with callers. All tho birds that
Sad IA tie hover w,dle the sun shone haze
ma g io their nests now the night hns fallen,
m Is. these beaufimE sunfowers, that spread
XXI, their color ia toe morning hour, bur are
NFats M ooE wifen the sun Is5 going uowni
si ma plenty OF friends when he was the
.t &sfst man ia Uz; but when his property
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