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

REV. OR. TALmAce DESCRIBES A
HARVEST SCENE.


Read With interest
0LKNwooD. Colo, Aug. 2. e. A ser
mon redolent with the breath of th
vast harvest fields of the west indicate
that Dr. Talmage has found IN th
scenes through which he has been trav
piinR and In his present surrounding
suggestions Of Gospel lessons His tex
is taken from Ruth II. 3 And sh,
went and came and CLEANED in the felC
after the reapers and her hap was {,
light on a part Of the field belonging
unto Boaz, who was Of tho kindred o.
Elimelech.
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 field,
and no season can be more enchanting
in any country than the season Of bar
vest.
The time that Ruth and Naomi ar
rive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It
was the old custom when a sheaf fell
from load in the harvest field for the
reaper to refuse to gather II up; that
was to be left for the poor who might
happen to come that way II there
were handfuls Of grain scattered across
the field after the main harvest had
been reaped, instead of raking 1t up as
farmers do now it was by the custom
Of the land left 10 its place, SO that the
poor coming along that way might
CLEAN II and get their bread But, you
say, What Is the use of all these har.
vest fields to Ruth and Naomi2 Naomi
Is too old and feeble to go out and toll
IN the sun; and can you expect that
Ruth. the young and the beautiful,
should tan her cheeks and blister her
hands in the harvest iieldp
BoAz sEEs RUTH.
I,oaz owns large farm, and he goes
out to see the reapers gather in the
grain. Coming there, right behind the
swarthy, sunbrowned reapers, he be-
holds o beautiful woman cleaning
woman more fit to bend to harp or
sit upon throne than to stoop among
the sheaves All. that was an eventful
day
II was love at first sight. Boaz forms
an attachment for the womanly cleaner
--an attachment full Of undying inter |
est to the church of God in all ages
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 affec-
tion for her motherin-law, ls In the
harvest field of Boaz, Is afflanced to
one of the best families 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
no bright a morning9
learn In the first place from this
subject how trouble develops charac-
ter II was bereavement, poverty and
exile that developed, illustrated and
announced 10 all ages the summit of
Ruth's character That is very un-
fortunate man who has no trouble. 1t
was sorrow that made John Bunyan
the better dreamer, and DIR. Young the
better poet, and O'Connel the better
orator, and Bishop Hall the better
preacher, aud Havelock the better
soldier, and Kltto the better encyclo-
pedIst and Ruth the better daughter
in-law
TENDERNESS COMES FROM TROUBLE.
once asked an aged man In regard
90 his pastor who was very brilliant
man, why Is Il that your pastor, so
very brilliant. seems TO have so little
tenderness IN his sermonsT We'll
be replied, "the reason Is, our pastor
has never had any trouble. When mis-
fortune comes upon him his style win
be different" After awhile the Lord
took child out OF that pastors house,
and though the pastor was just as bril-
liant as he was before, oh. the warmth,
the tenderness OF his discourses The
fact is that trouble is great educator
You sometimes see a musician sit down
at an instrument, and his execution
is cold and formal aud unfeeling. The
reason Is that all his life lac has been
prospered. But let misfortune or be-
reavement come 10 that man, and he
sits down at tho 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 rough In his prescrlp-
ton. and very rough In his manner
and rough IN the feeling Of tho pulse
aud rough In his answer TO the moth
ers anxious question; but the years
roll ON, and there has been one dead
Ia hls own house, and now he comes
into the sIckroom, and with fearful eyo
be looks at the dying child, and ho
says "Oh, how this reminds me OF my
Charliep Trouble, the great educator
Sorrow SEQ les touch Ia the gFandest
paintingi ihear lis tremor Ia the sweet
est songi I feel its power la the nlighti
est argument
Groclah mythology said that the |
fountain ~ HippocWne Was struck out
By the foot Of the winged horse fega
sns. / lave often noticed In life that
the brightest and most beautiful loun.
tains oi Christian comio1 and spiritual
lifo have been struck out by the Iron
shod hoof OF disaster and oalainity
500 Daniels courage beet BY tho Hash ui
Nebuohadneaxars furnace sro pauls
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