The southern argus., 1891-08-06
LESSONS FROM RUTH.
Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Value Of Misfortunes.
TroaSie as a Developer of Mans Nature
BLESSINGS of Friendship During Adver
sity-The Saviour's Experiences
Cleaning For the Harvest.

western trip, recently preached a.
Glenwood Springs, Col, to an immens,
audience. His text was from Ruth il. +
'And she went and came and CLEANED
IN the held after the reapers; and hel
hap was to light on part Of the Relc
belonging unto Boaz who was Of tho
kindred Of Elimelech." The preache,
said:
Inc time that Ruth and Naomi ar
rived at bethlehem is harvest time. II
vas the custom when sheaf fell from
2 road In the field for the reapers to re-
!usc to gather it up; that was to be left
II the poor who might come that way
A there were handfuls of grain scat
tered across the field after the main
harvest had been reaped, instead of
raklng 1t, as farmers do now, it was, by
me custom Of the land, left in its place.
so that the poor, coming along that
way, might CLEAN it and get their
bread.
But, you So: tsWhat is the use OF
all these harvest fields 10 Ruth and
Naomi is too old and feeble to
go out and toll in the sun; and can YOU
expect that Ruth, the young and beau
tiful, should tan her cheeks and blister
her hands in the harvest field?" Boaz
owns large farm, and he goes out to
see the reapers gather in the grain
coming there, right behind the swarthv
sun-Drowned reapers, he beholds a
beautiful woman gleaning-a woman
more NJ TO bend to a harp or sit upon a
throne than to stoop among the sheaves.
An that was an eventful day! 1t was
love at first sight. BOaz forms Az IL
tachment for the womanly gleaner-an
attachment full Of undying interest to
1ne church OF God in all ages; while
huth' with an ephah, or nearly a
ousnel, OF barley goes home to Naomi
to tell her the successes and adventures
Of the day. That Ruth, who left her
naive land Of Moab in darkness ana |
1ouraey<G through an undying affection
1or her nother-in-law, is in the harvest
neld Of Boaz, is affianced to one Of the
pest IAN lies in Judah, and becomes in
a1tertlme the ancestress Of Jesus Christ.
the Lord Of glory! Out Of 50 dark i
night did there ever dawn 50 bright \
morning?
learn, in the first place, from this
subject how trouble develops char
acter' 1t was bereavement, poverty
and exile that developed, illus
trated and announced to all ages the
sublimity Of Ruth's character That u
very unfortunate man who has no
trouble. It was sorrow that made
Jonn bunyan the better dreamer, and
Dr, Young the better poet, and O'Con-
neil the better orator, and Bishop Hall [
Ehe better preacher, and Havelock the ;
better soldier, and Kitto the better a. (
cyclopedist, and Ruth the better danph- {
ter-in-law /
once asked an aged man in regard q
70 ms pastor, who was very brilliant 3
man; why is it that your pastor 50
very brilliant, seems to have 50 little b
tenderness in his sermons?" "WaIl },
ne replied, the reason is, our pastor 9
mas never had any trouble. When mis- 9
fortune comes upon him, his STYLE will f
oe alHerent." After while the Lord Y
Look child Of that pastors house, and s
I !! the preacher was just as bril- t
l I as ne was before 0, the warmth. Il
'ne tenderness Of discourses! The fact d
7 mat trouble is great educator. You q
~ sometimes musician sit down at h
- instrument and his execution is cold s;
lnu formal and unfeeling. The reason q
Vnat all ms life he has been prosper Il
ms But let misfortune Or bereave. al
nent come TO that man. and IL sits b
IoWn AZ the instrument and You dis Re
INIT the pathos in the first sweep Of 81
~ Keys Misfortune and trials are 81
1eat educators. til
see Daniels courage best by the g;
ISL Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace. b;
u Fauls prowcss best when find X
|, On the foundering ship under the 50
.are Of the lightning in the breakers ne
Mellta. God crowns His children tn
HIS the bowling Of wild beasts and 70
n cnopplng Of blood splashed guillo- tn
ne and the cracking fires Of MARTYR 70
ON ali
II took the prosecutions of Marcus
urelins to develop Polycarp and Justin tn
Iartyr. 1t took the pope's bull and WI
II cardinals curse and the worlds an
iathema To develop Martin Luther. 1t his
'ok all the hostilities against the pr;
'otch Covenanters and the fury of cal
oro Ilaverhouse to develop James dis
enwick and Andrew Melville and ste
III Mckall, the glorious martyrs Of fur
sotch history. It took the stormy sea drc
~ the December blast and the desc rel
y New Engla ~~>--t md the war SAT
Fps Of savages to show forth the the
owess Of the pilgrim fathers {
when amid the storms they sang ~
And the stars heard, ana the sea: III
anu the sounding aisles Of the dim wood tne
Rang 20 the anthems Of the free. hul
\. took AL our past national distresses, fac
4 y takes all our present national last
rrows to lift up our nation on that bur
IN career where it will march alonr cru
ler the foreign despotisms that have and
'ckeo, and the tyrannies that have tim
sreu snail be swept down under the Of
inipotent wrath Of God, who hates the
PRESTON u. and who, by the strength aga
rs own red right arm will make all ech
\ free. And so it is individually. Hea
\ n the family, and in the church, But
/. ~ the world that through darkness all
! storm and trouble men. women wor