Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-25
IOVg At FIRST sight.
r)sIIcats Matter FseIingIy Handled
by the Foremost Pulpit Ora
tor Of the Day.
:. accidental Meeting, 4 Chance Ac
,.,,tauce, 4 Casual Acquaintance
s., Have Great SIsnifieanes.
,,s Develops Ohsraeter-fhs Beauty
=, UnfAlssring Ffsendship-Hardshfp
often Leads to Joy-A Sermon.

often Leads to Joy-A Sermon.
psooKIYN, N. Y, May 2o.-The open
:. svu,n at the Tabernacle service to-day
.ssips with the words;
e's anore love TO Thee, o Christ,
More love to Thee"
thor making running commentary on
M pass:ges Of Scripture, the Rev. T.
n.witt Tslmsge, D. D., took the text:
Ds0d she went and csme, and CLEANED in
80 ssld after the reapers; and her hsp
-. N slight on part Of the field belong
10 Bosz, who WAS of the kindred OF
sSsSr,e,ecn. Ruth ii 3. He preached
1.-THE these words the following sermon
ig me lime that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
,pathlehen1 is harvest time. II was the
SIN when shea fell from load In
~ ssryeat field for the Keepers to refus
=. Gather it up; that was to be left for
~. " nosr who might happen to come along
AT wsy. II there were hsndfuls OF
s,,in scattered across the field after the
g.in harvest had been reaped, instead Of
r,ttny IL, IS farmers do now, it YVES, by
80 custom OF the land, left in its place,
.,thxt the poor, coming along that way,
s,.st rlecn it and get their break. But,
sas ssT: "What is the use Of all these
i.,vest tields to Ruth and Nsomi2 Naomi
g soo old and feeble to go cut and toll in
ne sun, sad can you expect that Ruth,
the young and the besutiful, should tan
her cheeks and blister her hands IN the
harvest held3"
Rosz owns large farm, and he goes
ant TO see the respers gather In the
S,iu. Coming there, right behind the
sv,rthy, suu-browned reapers, he be-
holds q beautiful woman cleaning wo-
man more flt to bend to harp or sit
mon throne than to stoop among the
ssssyes. All, that WAS an eventful day!
n WAS love st first sight. Boaz forms
an attachment for the womanly CLEANER
an attachment full OF undying interest to
The Cnurch Of God In all ages; while
Ruth, with an ephsn, or nearly bushel
Of barley, goes 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 AT scsion for her moLher-in-
Inv, in the harV sst field of Boaz, is aft
.rcsd to one of the best families Of judah,
snd becomes in sftertime the encestress
Of Jesus Christ, the Lord Of glory. Out
oiso dark night did there ever dawn 30
bright mornipg2
learn in the frst place from this sub
jet how
TROUBLE DEVELOPS CHARACTER.
twas bereavement, poverty and exile
ihst developed, illustrated and announced
to oil sges the sublimity Of Ruth's char
setter. Thst is very unfortunate man
who has no trouble. 1t was sorrow that
Eide John Bunysn the better dreamer.
and Doctor Young the better poet, and
0'Connell the better orator, and Bishop
Hall the better preacher, and Havelock
the better soldier, and Kitto the better
sncyclorR list, and Ruth the better
daughter iu-law.
once asked an aged man In regard to
bis pastor, who was very brilliant man :
"Why is 1t that your pastor, 80 very bril-
Isn't, seems to have so little heart and
tenderness in his sermon7" "Weil," he
replied, 'the reason is our pastor has
never had any trouble. When misfortune
comes upon him, his style viii be differ
ent" After awhile the Lord took child
out Of thst PASTORS house, and though the
preacher was Just as brilliant as he YVES
before, oh the warmth, the tenderness OF
bis discusses. The fact is that trouble
sagrest educator. You see sometimes
snusicisn sit down at an instrument, and
ais execution is cold and formal and un
feeling. The reason is that all his life he
eas been prospered But let misfortune
OF bereavement come 10 that man, and ne
sis down st an instrument, and you dis
cover the patnos in the first sweep Of
The keys.
Misfortune and trials are great edu-
eslofs. A youtg doctor comes into q
Sekfoom where there is dying child.
sefnaps he Is very rough in his prescrip-
uoni and very rough in his manner, and
rough IN the feeling OF the pulse,
aaa rough in his answer TO
ae mothers ANXIOUS question; but
Issls roll on, and there has been one dead
~ MS own house; and now he comes into
,Ssslck-room, and with fearful eye he
svSks at the dying child, and he says:
u vI, now this reminds me OF my Char
s Trouble, the great educator. Sor
wv see its touch in the grsndest paint
W | hear its tremor in the sweetest
"os; | feel its power in
The MIGHTIEsT ARGUMENT.
uieclan mythology said that the fount-
49, hlppocrene was struck out by the
a sss Vi the winged horse Pegasus. / have
n. wen noticed in life that the brightest and
So ss. beautiful fountains Of Christian
o u4tort and spiritual life have been struck
os tne iron-shod hoof of disaster and
Salty' l see Daniels courage best by
sas p pasn OF Nebuchadnezzsr's furnace. 1
n., Ssars prowess best when find him
y. @e numbering ship under the glare of
cns snlning in the breakers OF Melita.
n. u crowns his children amid the howl
N.Y. sa WHO beasts and the chopping of
Inv ssplashed guIllotine and the crack
nss., me OF martYrdom. 1t took
tnSsuuons OF Marcus Aurelius
itsSeiop Polycarp and Justin Martyr.
N,.ssa tae worlds snathema to develop
,r,;sa Luther. 1t took aIl the hostilities
m ass tne Scotch Ceven1nters and the
LAM. VI Lord Claverhouse to develop
gsss' nsnwick, and Andrew Melville, and
Se9,a, meksil, the glorious martyrs Of
ma w history. II took the stormy sea,
EsvV e December blast, and the desolate
cissso giand coast, and the war whoop
iSs s;,g to show forth the prowess of
NC pilgrim fathers
ASS Snid the storms they sang,
AID 1 IN ne stars heard, and the SEES;
Rsese sounding aisles of the dim wood
ene anthems OF the free.
/, n NJ. .ook all our past national distresses
shs,a - up our nasioh on that high, career
s,sso,n VIII march along after the foreign
tystacies that hsve Knocked and the