Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-08-27

nleO pillow, worse maltre1teQ than
the thieves on either side of the cross,
human hate smacking its lips in salts.
faction, after it had been draining his
last drop of blood, the sheeted dead
bursting from the sephulchres at his
crucifixion. Tell me, o Gethsemane
and Golgotha. were there ever darker
times than those? Like the booming
of the midnight sea against the rock,
the surges of Christ's anguish
beat against the gates OF
eternity, to be echoed back by all
the thrones Of heaven and all
reward comes for Christ; all the pomp
hung on his throne, uncrowned heads
are to bow before him on whose head
are many crowns, and all the celestial
worship is to come up at his feet. like
the humming of the forest, like the
ing of the seas, while all heaven, rising
sceptres: "Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipoten reigneth! Hallelujah,
the kingdoms of this world have be-
come the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Christi"
Hdt tUus VI lOFc, 1OW low uilu Iar.
Ere long III III swell from star to star;
That light. the breaking day which tips
The golden spired Apocalypse,
Again, learn from my subject that
events which seem to DC most insight.
fcant may be mOmentous. Can you
imagine anything more unimportant
than the coming of poor woman from
Moab to .Iudea? Can you imagine any
thing more trivial than the fact that
this Ruth just happened to
alight - as they say - just hap.
pened to alight on that field OF
Boaz? Yet all ages, all generations,
have an interest in the fact that she
was to become an ancestress OF the
Lord Jesus Christ. and all nations and
kingdoms must look at that one little
incident with thrill of unspeakable
and eternal satisfaction. So it is in
your history and in mine: events that
you thought of no Importance at all
have been Of very great moment. That
casual conversation, that accidental
meeting-you did not think of it az ain
for long while; but how it changed
all the current of your life!
Il seemed to be of no Importance
that Jubal invented rude instruments
of music, calling them harp and organ;
but they were the introduction of all
the worlds minstrelsy: and as you
hear the vibration of a stripged in
strument, even after the fingers have
been taken away from it, SO all
music now of lutte and drum and
cornet is only the long-cont;nued
strains of Jubal's harp and Jub lis
organ. 1t seemed to be IN utter of
very little Importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron;
but that rude foundry of ancient days
has it's echo in the rattle of Birming.
ham machinery, and the roar and bang
of factories ON the Merrimac.
Madame de Stael did world OF
work in her time; and one day while
she was seated amid instruments Of
music, oil of which she had mastered,
and amid manuscript books which she
had written, some one said to her:
Chow do You find time to attend to all
these things?' "Oh,' she replied,
"these are not the things l am
proud Of. My chief boast 10
in the fact that I have seventeen
trades, by any one of which l could
make livelihood if necessary" And
TO be done, in spiritual work how vast
IlC llcIu' IloW many Wy iilS al dIouLu
about us without one word of comfort.
nahs, more Rebcccas, more Marys
more Deborahs consecrated-body,
mind, soul-to the Lord who bought
them.
Elihu Burritt learned many things
while toiling in blacksmith's shop.
Abercrombie, the world-renowned
philosopher, was n physician in Scot
land, and he got his philosophy. or the
chief part of it, while, as 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 improve.
ment: the great duties of life cross III ,
field like strong reapers, and carry OF
all the hours. and there is only here
and there "a fra gment left, that is not
worth cleaning. All, my friends, You
could go into the busiest dav and bust
est week of your life and find golden
opportunities, which, gathered, might
at last make "a whole sheat for this
Lords garner. 1t is the stray oppor-
tunities and the stray privileges which,
taken up and bound together and
beaten out, will at last fill you with
much joy.
There are a few moments left wortl,
the cleaning. Now, Ruth. to the field
May each one have measure full and
running over. Oh, you cleaners, to
the field. And if there be in your
household an aged one or sick rela.
tive that is not strong enough to come
forth and toll in this field, then lei
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this
sheaf of cleaning: HE that goeth
forth and wcepeth, 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 forever!
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