Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-05-27
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mother-in-law Naomi All this fastidi-
ousness may seem to do very well while
they are under the shelter Of their fathers
house; but when the sharp winter of
misfortune comes, what Of these butter
fliesi Persons under indulgent parentage
may get upon themselves habits of indo-
lence; but when they come out into prac-
tical life their soul will recoil with dis
gust and cbagrin. They will feel in
their hearts what the poet so severely
satirized when he said;
Folks are SO awkward, things SO impolite,
They're elegantly pasned from morning until
night
Through that gate Of Incidence how
many men and women have marched,
useless on earth. to destroyed eternity
Spinola said TO Sir Horace We're: ''Of
what did your brother DIET" "of hav-
ing nothing to do" was the answer.
"Ah," said Spinola, "that's enough to
kill any general of US" Oh! can it be
possible in this world, where there is 80
much suffering to be alleviated, so much
darkness to be enlightened, and so many
burdens to be carried, that there is any
person who cannot find anything to dos
Nine. de Stael did world of work in
her time; and one day while she was
seated amid instruments Of music, all of
which she had mastered, and amid man
uscript books which she had written,
some one said to her; "How do you find
time TO attend TO all these things2"
'Oh," she replied. "these are not the
things am proud of. My chief boast is
in the fact that | have seventeen trades,
by any one of which ! could make q
livelihood II necessary" And II in sec
ular spheres there is so much to be done,
in spiritual work how vast the fieldi We
want more Abigails, more Hannahs,
more Rebeccas, more Marys, more De-
borahs consecrated-body, mind, soul
to the Lord who bought them.
vi. Once more: learn from my sub
ject the value Of cleaning.
Ruth, going into that harvest field,
might have said: There is a straw, and
there is straw, but what Is straw ]
can't get any barley for myself or my
mother-in-law out of these separate
straws." Not so, beautiful Ruth. She
gathered two straws. and she put them
together, and more straws, until she got
enough to make a sheaf. Putting that
down, she went and gathered more
straws until she had another sheaf, and
another, and another, and another, and
then she brought them all together, and
she threshed them out, and she had an
ephah Of barley, nigh bushel. Oh,
that we might all be gleanersl
Elihu Burritt learned many things
while toiling in a blacksmith's shop.
Abercrombie, the world renowned phi
losopher, was philosopher in Scotland,
and be got his philosophy, or the chief
part of it, while, as physician, be was
waiting for the door Of the sick room to
open. Yet how many there are in this
day who say they are so busy they have
no time for mental or spiritual improve
ment; 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
yoN life and find golden opportunities,
which, gathered, might at least make a
whole sheaf for the Lords garner. II is
the stray opportunities and the stray
privileges which, taken up and bound to-
gether and beaten out, will at last fill
you with aboInding JOY.
There are a few moments left worth
the cleaning. Now, Ruth, to the fieldl
May each one have a measure full and
running over! Oh, you cleaners, to the
fieldl And II there be in your household
an aged one or a sick relative that is not
strong enough to come forth and toll in
this field, then let Ruth take home TO
feeble Naomi this sheaf Of cleaning; He
that goeth forth and weepeth, 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 foreyerl