The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-08-11
SERMON TN TIE WEST.
TALMAaE DlscouRsEs FRoMA CHAP
TER IN RUTH.

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yirtue--The Beaut, Of Female Industry.
GREEN MOUNTAIN = FALLS, Col,
Sug. 2.--Dr Talmage preached here to-
DAY TO an immeusc audience. His West
Z ern tour has been one continued ovation.
\ Never before has he been so enthusiast
cally received or have the people come
TO hear him In such vast numbers, He
arrived here from Put bio, which city he
left on Wednesday last in q car provi l..
ed by the railroad company exclusively
for the use OF DIR. Talmage and his sec
retary. In this car he will visit cities
In Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Kansas andSUtah. 1t ls side-tracked at
places where DIR. Talmage has arranged
to stay to preach pr TO lecture. His
sermon reIolept with the breath of the
great harvest field ofthe West. indicates
That the popular preacher has read in
his surrounding suggestions of Gospel
lessons. His text is taken from Ruth
ii; 3: "And she went and came and
CLEANED in the field after the reapers;
and her hap was to light on Il part OF
the field belonging unto Boaz who was
OF the kindrea ct I;limelecn."
WithiH q few weeks [ have been in
North Carolina, Virginia. Penns ,lvan-
Ia, New York, Ohio. Michigan. Canada.
Indiana, Illinois, kentucky, Missouri.
and they are one great harvest field, and
no season can be more enchanting in any
country than the senson of harvest.
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive
at Bethlehem is harvest time. 1t was
tho custom when sheaf fell from a load
in the harvest field for the reapers to re-
luse TO gather it up; that was to be left
Tor the poor who might happen to come
that Mny. 1T there were handtuls of
grain scattered across the field after the
main harvest had been reaped, instead
of raklg it, as farmers 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, "What is the use
OF all these harvest fields to Ruth and
Naomi? Naomi is TOO old and feeble to
go out and toll in the sun; ana can YOU
expect that Ruth, the young and the
beautiful, should tan her cheeks and
blister her hands ia the harvest fieldp"
BohZ owns large farm, and he goes
out TO see the reapels gather in the
grain. Coming there, right behind the
swarthy, sun-browned reapers, he be-
holds beautiful woman gleaning-a
woman more lit to bend to harp or sit
upon a throne than to stoop among the
shcaves. All, that was all eventful day!
Ii was love at first sight. Boax forms
an attachment Tor the womanly cleaner
AN attachment full of undying interest
to the church of God in all age 8; while
Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly bushel
of barley, goes home to- Naomi to tell
her the successes and adventures of the
day. That Ruth, who left her native
land OF Moab in darkness, and journeyed
through an undying affection for her
mother-in-law, is il. the harvest-feld of
Boaz, is aiianced to one of the best fam
lilies in Judah, and becomes in after.time
the ancestress of Jesus Christ the Lord
of glory! Out of so dark night did
there ever dawn so bright. . inorn;Hg.- a.
leain, in the lirst place, from this
subject how trouble developes charac-
ter. 1t was bereavement, poverty and
exile that developed, illustrated and an
nounccd to all ages the sublimity oil
Ruth's character. That is q very uu-
fortunate man who has no trouble. 1t
was sorrow that made John Bunyan the
better dreamer, and Doctor Young the
better poet. and O'Connell the better
orator, and Bishop Hall the better
preacher, and Hayelock the better SOL
dicr, and Kitto the better el cyclopedst,
and Ruth the etter daughter-:n-law.
L once asked an aged man in regard to
his pastor, who was very brilliant
man: Why is it that your pastor, so
very brilliant, seems to have so little
tenderness in his sermons?" "Well," he
replied, 1.-The reason is, our pastor has
never had any trouble. When mis!or-
tune comes upon him, his style will be
different" After awhile the Lord took
child out of that PASTORS house; and
though the preacher was just az bril-.
liant as he was before, oh, the warmth,
the tenderness OF his dscourses! The
fact is that trouble is great educator.
You STE sometimes,a musician sit down
at an instrument, and his execution is
cold and formal and un ceiling. The
reason is that all his life he has been
prospered. But let misfortune or be.
rcavement come 10 that man, and he
sits down at the instrument. and YOU
discover the pathos In the first sweep OF
the keys. Misfortune and trials are
great educators. A young doctor comes
into sick room where there is a dying
child. Perhaps he is very rou III in his
prescription, and very rough in his man
ner, and rough in tue feeling of the
pulse, and rough in his answer to the
hotHSI unAiouS QueSLiOD, DuC the
years roll on, and there has been one
deadin his own house; and now he comes
into the sick room, and with fearful eve
he looks at the dying child, and he say o.
'Oh, how this reminds me of my Char.
lie" Trouble, the great educator
Sorrow see lis touch in the grandesl
painting; hear It's tremor In the sweet.
est song; feel its power in the might!
est argument.
Grecian mythology said that the ioun.
tain OF Hippocrene was struck out BY
the foot of the winged horse, Pegasus
1 have often noticed in life that tie
brightest and most beau,iinl fountans
OF Christian comfort and spiritual life
have been struck out by the iron-shod
hoof Of disaster ana calamity. | see
Daniels courage best by the flash o
NebuchadneZzar's furnace. see p .ul's
prowess best when / find him un the
ioundering ship under the glare of tho
lightning IN the breakers of Nc tia. God
crowns his children amid the bowling O
wild beasts aud the chopping of blood
splashed Suillotino and the cracking
fires OF martyrdom. 1t took the perse.
culions Of Marcus Aurelius to develol
Polycarp and Justin Martyr. IL took
The pope's bull and the cartlnal's curse,
and tha worl1,s on,tbotRa IN dayalnr