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history. II took the stormy sea ana
the December blast and the desolate
New England coast and the war SHIPS
OF savages to show forth the prowess OF
the Pilgrim fathers
When amid the storm they sang.
And the stars heard, and the SEQ;
Ana the SCUM. ing aisles OF the dim wood
Rang 70 the anthems OF the free.
It took all our past national distress.
es, and It takes all our present national
sorrows 10 lift up our nation on that
high career where II will march along
after the foreign despotisms that have
Knocked, and the tyrannies that nave
jeered shall be swept down under the
omnipotent wrath OF God, Who mates
oppression, and Who, by the strength
OF His own red right arm, will make all
men free. And so it is individually,
and in the family, and in the church,
and in the world that through darkness
and storm and trouble men, women,
churches, nations are destroyed.
Again / see IN my text the beauty oil
unfaltering friendship. | suppose
there were plenty Of friends for Naomi
while she was in prosperity, but oil all
her acuuaintances how many were will
ing to trudge of with her to Judea
when she had TO make that lonely jour
new? One-the heroine OF my text.
One-absolutely one. 1 suppose when
Naomi's husband was living and they
had plenty OF money and all things
went we'll they had q great many call,
ers, but suppose after her husband
died and her property went and she
60 old and poor she was not troubled
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.
Tn this world, so full OF heartlessness
and hypocrisy. how thrilling 1t is to
find some friend as faithful in days OF
adversely as in days OF prosperity! Da-
yid had such q friend in Hushai; the
Jews had such q friend in Mordecci,
who never forgot their cause; Paul had
such friend in Onesiph0rus, who WIS.,
tied him in Jail: Christ had such in the
Marys, who adhered to him on the
cross: Naomi had such one In Ruth.
who cried out: ''Entreat me not to leave
thee, or to return from following after
thee, for whittier thou goest will go;
and where thou lodgest, l will lodge:
thy people shall he my people, and thy
God nv God: where thou diest will |
die, and there will l be buried; the
Lord dc 80 to me, and more also, II
aught put death part thee and me-"
Again. learn from this subject that
paths which open in hardship and dark
ness often come out in places OF Joy:
When Ruth started from Moab toward
Jerusalem, to go along with her moth
er-in-law, l suppose the people said:
"Oh. what foolish creature to go away
from her fathers house to go OIL with a
moor old woman toward the land OF Jul
dah. They won't live to get across the
desert. They will be drowned in the
sea. or the iackals Of the wilderness will
destroy them" 1t was very dark
morning when Ruth started off with
Naomi: but behold her in my text in
the harvest field OF Boaz, to be affianced
to one of the lords OF the land and be-
come one of the grandmothers OF
Jesus Christ, the Lord OF glory. And
so it often is that path which starts
very darkly ends very brightly. When
YOU started out for heaven, o, how dark
was the hour OF confederation Sinai
Numbered, and devils tormented, ana
the darkness thickened. All the sins
OF your life bounced upon you, and 1t
was the darkest hour you ever saw when
you first found out your sins.
After awhile you went into the har-
vest field of Gods mercy: you began to
CLEAN in the fields OF divine promise,
and you had more sheaves than you
could carry, as the voice OF God ad-
dressed you saying: BLESSED is the
man whose transgressions are forgiven
and whose sins are covered" A very
dark starting in conviction, a very
bright ending in the pardon and the
hone and the triumph Cf The Gospel.
1t was very hard for Noah to endure
the soothing OF the people in his day,
while he was trying to build the ark
and was every morning quiZzed about
his old boat that would never be OF any
practical use, but when the deluge
came, and the top OF the mountains dis
appeared like the backs OF sea monsters,
and the elements, dashed up in fury,
clapped their hands over drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejOiced in
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family and looked out on the wreck OF q
ruined earth.
Christ, bounded OF prosecutors, denied
q pillow. worse maltreated than the
thieves on either side OF the cross, human
hate smacking its lips in satisfaction
after it had been draining His last drop
of blood, the sheeted dead bursting from
the sepulchers at His crucihxion; 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 etern-
ity. to be echoed back by all the thrones
of heaven and all the dungeons OF hell.
But the day of reward comes for Christ;
all the pOmp and dominion Of this
world are to be hung on His throne, UNI
crowned heads are TO bow before him on
whose head are many crowns ahd all
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