Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-03

the cross, and we have % traverse u
desert, and we are pounded and haile
OF Misrepresentation and abuse, and v
have to urge our way through te
thousand obstacles that have to /
slain by our own right arm. We hay
TO ford the river, we have to climb th
mountain, we have to storm the castle
but. blessed be God, the day of res
and reward will come.
On the tiptop of the captured battle
ments we will shout the victory; If no
in this world, then in that world wher
there is no gall to drink, no burdens t.
carry, no battles to fight. How do
know it2 Know i'll know it becaus
God says so. "They shall hunger M
more, neither thirst any more, neithe
shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat, for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them tc
living fountains of water and God
shall wipe all tears from their eyes.
NOAH AND THE sCoFFERs.
II was very hard for Noah to endure
the scofilng 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 tops of the mountains
disappeared like the backs of sea mon
sters. and the elements lashed up in
fury, clapped their hands over
world, then Noah in the ark
reioiced in his own safety and in the
safety of his family, and looked out on
the wreck of ruined earth.
Christ bounded of prosecutors, de.
Ned a pillow, worse maltreated than
,he thieves on either side of the cross,
human hate smacking its lips in salts
action after it had been draining his
asst drop of blood, the sheeted dead
,ursting from the sepulchers at his cru
,ifixion. Tell me. o Gethsemane and
iolgotha were there ever darker times
han those2 Like the booming of the
sea against the rocks, the
urges of Christ's anguish beat against
he gates of eternity, to be echoed back
" all the thrones of heaven and all
he dungeons of hell.
But the day of reward comes for
Jhrist all the pomp and dominion OF
his world are to be hung on his throne,
ncrowned heads are to bow before
i'm on whose head are many crowns,
nd all the celestial worship is to come
p at his feet, like the humming Of the
,rest, like the rushing of the waters,
ke the laundering of the seas, while
II heaven, rising on their thrones, beat
me with their scepters: "Hallelujah,
Or the Lord God omnipotent reignethl
Iallelujah, the kingdoms of this world
AVE become the kingdoms of our Lord
Iesus Christi
That song OF love, now low and far,
Ere long shall 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 be most insignifi-
jdllb may Dt lilhilitlAlRu9f NhAl yOl ~
igine anything more unimportant than
-he coming of poor woman from Moab
10 Judeal Can you imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Ruth
Just happened to alight-as they say
just happened to alight on that field Of
Boaz2 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 king
lons must look at that one little Incl
lent 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
did not think of it again
for long while but how it changed
all the current of your llfel
THE BEdINNING OF MINsTRELsY.
1t 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 strlnged instru-
ment, even after the fingers have been
taken away from it, so all music now of
lutte and drum and cornet is only the long
continued strains of Jubals harp and
JubaIs organ, II seemed 10 be a mat
ter 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 Bir
machinery and the roar and
bang of factories on the Merrimac.
Again, see in my subject an illus
tration of the beauty Of female indus
try Behold Ruth toiling in the har-
vest field under the hot sun, or at noon
taking plain bread with the reapers or
eating the parched corn which Boaz
handed to her The customs of so.
ciety, OF course, have changed, and
the hardships and exposure to
which Ruth was subjected every intel
ligent 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
household or community and though
there are SO many woes al around
about them In the world they spend
their time languishing over new pat
tern or bursting into tears at midnight
over the story Of some lover who shot
hhnselfl They would not deign TO
ook at Ruth carrying back the barley
ln her way home TO her motherin-law.
Naomi.
All this fastidiousness may seem TO
10 very Woll whlle thav ara under tina