The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-27
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rHE ERooKIIN DTvNTs SUNDAY
SERMON
Subject: ''GIcaners in Life's Field.'
preached az GIcnwood, Coli

TfxTs "And she tceHt and came ana
gffaaed Ia me feid after The Keepers; and
belonqfag unto Boaz. foho l0as IL The kin
drsd Of Eiimeiech. Ruth IL. 5.
within a few weeks have been in North
Carolina Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Canada Indiana,
Illinois Kentucky, Missouri, and they are
one great harvest feld, aud no season can be
more enchanting IN any country than tho
season Of harvest.
at Bethlehem is harvest time II was tho
old custom when q sheaf fell from =
load ia the harvest field for the reRpers
to refuse to gather 1t up; that was to be
left for the poor who might happen to
come that way. III there were handouts Of
grain scattered across tho field after tho
main harvest had been reaped, instead Of
raking III as formers do now, It was, BY
the custom Of the land, left in it's place, SO
that the poor coming along that way might
CLEAN it and get their bread But you say.
HWhat Is the use OF all these harvest fields
10 Ruth and Naomi Naomi is too old and
feeble to 20 out and toll in the sun; and can
Won expect that Ruth. the young and the
beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister
her hands in the harvest field?
Boaz owns large farm, and be. goes out
70 zee the reapers gather in the grain. Com
ing there, right behind the swarthy, sun
hrso,vg1,ed reapers. he beholds beautiful wo-
man gleaning--a woman more fit to bend 10
a harp or sit upon throne than TO stoop
among the sheayes. All, that was an event.
full day
attachment for the womanly gleaner-an
attachment full Of undying interest to the
Church of God in all ages: while Ruth,
with an ephah, or nearly bushel OF bar
Low. goes home to Naomi to tell her the
successes and adventures OF the day Iha5
Ruth. who left her native land OF Moab IN
darkness. and journeyed through an I'M
diving affection for her mother-inlaw, is IN
the harvest field of Boaz, is aftianced TO one
~ fine hest families in Judah, and becomes
In after time the ancestress Of Jesus Christ,
the Lord Of Glory Out Of so dark night
ala there ever dawn SO bright morning?
learn in the first place from this suDJec5
how trouble develops character. 1t was be
reavement. poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to all ages the sub
linity OF Ruth's character That is a very
unfortunate man who has no trouble. III
was sorrow that made John Bunyan the
better dreamer, and DIR. Young the De5ter
poat and O'Connell the better orator, ana
4 Bishop Hall the better preacher, ana haYe-
! lock the better soldier, and kitto the petber
/ encyclopaedia, and Ruth the better daughter
! in-law. III.
once asked an aged man in regard to his
4 nastor. who was very brilliant man. why
* it that your pastor, so very brilliant
! seems to have so little tenderness IN ms SER
monsS' 'sWell, = he replied, THE reason Is
/ misfortune comes upon him his style WIN be
4 differeutn After awhile the Lord took q
child outof that past rs house, aud though
Are PREACHER was Just as brilliant as ne was
before. oh, the warmth, the tender
ness Of his discourses! The TACT i
that trouble is a great edu-
GATOR You ZEE sometimes q musician sit
down nj AZ instrument, and his execution
Is cold and formal aud unfeeling. The rea-
SON ID that all his life ho has been prospered.
put Let misfortune or bereavement come to
that man. and he sits down at the instru
ment and ycu discover the pathos Ia the frsl
sweep OF the keys. Misfortune and trials are
great educators.
al Young doctor comes into sick room
Il wnere sutsrs ~ = EiYsng child. Perhaps he
is very rough III his prescr1pvita .saaac very
+ rough ii, ftfs rHaaunsry and rough i'm tiis fcci.
ing of tho pulse, and rough In his answer
to the mothers anxious question: cut
the years roll on and there has been one
dead in his own house, and now he comes
into the sick room, and with fearful eye he
looks at the dying child and no says, "Oh,
how this reminds me OF my Charliep
Trouble, the great educatorl Sorrow
see its touch IN the grandest painting;
hear its tramor in the sweetest song; feel
its power in the mightiest argument
Grecian mythology said that the founda
ton of Hippocrene was struck out by the
foot of the winged horse, Pegasus. ! have
often noticed in life that the brightest and
most beautiful fountains of Christian com
fort and spiritual life have been struck out
by the iron shod hoof OF disaster and ca
Iamity | sec Daniels courage best by the
flash OF Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. / see
Pauls prowess best when ] find him on the
laundering ship under the glare OF the light
ming in the breakers of Meita. God crowns
His children amid the bowling OF wild beasts
and the chopping OF blood splashed guillotine
and the cracking fires of martyrdom
Ii took all our past national distresses,
and it takes all our present national sor-
rows, TO lift up our nation on that high
career whers il viii march along after the
foreign despotisms that have Knocked and
the tyrannies that have jeered shah be
swept down under the omnipotent wrath
OF God, who hates oppression, and who, by
the strength OF His own red right arm, will
make all men free. Aud so it is Individually,
and in the family, and in the church. and IN
the world, that through darkness and storm
ana trounlemen, women, churches, nations.
are developed.
Again, see in my text the beauty of nm.
faltering friendship. / suppose there were
plenty of friends for Naomi while she was
in prosperity. But of all her acquaiut-
ances how many were willing to trudgs
of with her toward Judea. when she had
to make that lonely Journey? One-the
heroine of my text. One--absolutely one.
| suppose when Naomi's husband was liv-
ing, and they had plenty of money, and all
things went well, they had great many
! callers. But ] suppose that after her hus-
band died. and her property went, and she
I got old and poor, she was not troubled very
much with callers. All the birds that sang
in the bower while the sun shone have gone
to their nests now the night has fallen
In this world, 50 full of heartessness and
hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some
friend as faithful in days of adversely as in
days of prosperity David had such a
FREUD in Hushai; the Jews had such a
! friend in Mordecai. who never forgot their
causc, Paul had such friend in OnrSinh-
oruS who visited him in iail: Christ had
such in the MaryS who adhered to Him on
the cross Naomi had such a one in Ruth.
7 who cried out, "Eutreat me not to leave
thee or 20 return from following after thee.
for whittier thou goast 1 win 10: ane where
4 thou lodgest I win lodge; thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God. where thou
/ diest viii / die, and thare viii be buried:
I the Lord do 50 to me AID more also, If auzht
Z but death part thee and me-
Again. learn from this subject that rafhs
/ which opsn IN hardship end darkness often
come outin places Of JOY. When Ruth started
! from Moab toward jerusalem. to 20 along
with her motker-sn-law. / suppose the people
said. oh. what Abolish creature to 70 away
from her fathers horse to 60 OF with poor
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