Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-03

whIcn Ruth was subjected, every InUelli.
gent woman will find something to do. !
know there is a sickly sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons Of no practical service to the house.
hold or community and though there are
so many woes all around about them ia
the world they spend their time languish.
ing over q new pattern or bursting into
tears at midnight over the story OF some
lover who shot himselfl They would not
deign to look at Ruth carrying back the
barley on her way home to her mother-in.
law, Naomi.
All this fastidiousness 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
butterfliesP Persons under indulgent par
entage may get upon themselves habits OF
Incidence, but when they come out into
practical life their soul will recoil with dis
gust and chagrin. They will feel In their
hearts what the poet so severely satirized
when he said;
Folks ore so awkward, things 30 impolite,
they're elegantly panied from morn till night,
Through that gate of Incidence how
many men and women have marched, use.
less on earth, to destroyed eternityl
Spinola said to Sir Horace We're: "Of what
did your brother dieP" "Of having nothing
to do" was the answer, "Ahr" said
Spinola, that's enough to kill any gen.
eral of u.s." Oh, can 1t be possible in this
world, where there is 80 much suffering to
be alleviated, 80 much darkness to be en-
lightened, and so many burdens to be cnr-
ried, that there Is any person who cannot
find anything to dol"
THE BOAST OF MADAME DE sTAEL.
Madame 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 manu-
script books which she hadewritten some
one said to her, "How do you find time to
attend to all of these thlngsP" "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 if neces-
sary." And II In secular spheres there is
80 much to be done, in spiritual work how
vast the field How many dying all around
about us without one word of comfort
We want more Abigails, more Hannahs,
more Rebeccas, more Marys, more Deb
orahs onsecrated-body, mind, soul-to
the Lord who bought them.
Once more | learn from my subject the
value Of cleaning. Ruth going into that
harvest field might have said; "There is
straw and there is straw, but what Is n
straw ! can't get any barley for myself
or my mother-in-law out of these separate
straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth She
gathered two straws and she put them to,
gether, 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 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
THE STRAY PRIVILEGES COUNT
Elihu Burritt learned many things while
toiling In q blacksmth's shop. Aber-
crombie, the world renowned philosopher,
was a physician In Scotland, and he got
his philosophy, or the chief part of it, while
as u physician he 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 improvement; the great duties of
lllG CLUBS VIC lltlNl like SJTOiR TtultTS anu
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 and find golden oppor
tunities, which gathered might at last
make whole sheaf for the Lords garner
1t is the stray opportunities and the stray
privileges which taken up and bound to
gether.and beaten out will at last fill you
with much Joy.
There are q few moments left worth the
cleaning, Now, Ruth, to the feldl May
each one have measure full and running
overl Oh, you cleaners, to the lleldl And
II there be in your household an aged or Il
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, "TIe that goeth forth and
weepeth. bearing precious seed, shall doubt
less come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him." May the Lord God
of Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever
During our epidemic of dysentery,