Telegram-herald., 1891-08-03

EzAuTf eS FEsAI1 HpUsfgT,
Agzia / sec Ia ny 81 5Srx a. illustration
Of the beaaty of female inaastxy. Behoad
Ruth toslnx Ia the harvest nSl6 under fhs
h1E slsn. Or - nooE taxing PLATA bread wiEA
the reSpars, or eating the parehed corn
waieh Boaz handed - Esr. The customs
CT society Of course have changed, AID
without the hardships Snd exposure 20
which Rlta was subjected every iHtsili-
gent woaisa will find something 70 do.
know -h<rs Is = slczly seat'men.aiity on
this subject. Ia sCGie families there are
persons Of 90 practical service 70 the house
hold or community. aEd though there are
so many wees ali around about them Ia
the world they spend their tiEle laasalsa-
Ing over a Des pattern or bursting into
tears az Midnight over tue story Of some
lover who shot himselfl They would not
deisn 10 look al Ruth carrying back tbs
barley on ber way home - Ter motAer-ia-
law, Naomi
All this fastidioEsnsss may seem 10 do
very we'll while they are under the shelter
Of their fathers house, hut W hen the sharp
winter Of misfortune comes, what or these
butterflies' PeTsous under indulSent par
entage may get upon themselves habits IL
indolenes, buI when they come out into
practical life their soal viii reeoil with dis
gust and chagrin. They viii feel in thsir
hearts what the poet 80 severely satirized
when be said;
Folks are awkward. things so irnpoiite,
They re s.egantly p4ined IRON uaora III night.
Through that gate of Incidence how
many men and women have ma:ehed, use
less on earth, TO destroyed eternityl
Spinola said TO Sir Horace We're: ..0f what
did your brother ,iiei" 'Of having nothing
TO do" was The answer. ABR said
Spinola. that's enough TO kill any gen
eral OF u.s." Oa. can 1t be possible in this
world. where there is so much suffering TO
he allevisted, so much darkness TO be en-
lightened, ard 30 II any burdens 10 be car
ried, that there is any person who cannot
tind anything TO dor
THE IosSr or MADAME De srAEl-
Madame de Stael did world Of work In
her time; and one day, while she WAS
seated amid instruments OF music. all Of
which she had mastered, and amid manu-
script books which she had written some
one said TO her. .How do you find time 10
attend 10 all Of these thingsi" oh" she
replied, "these arc not the things l am
proud Of Ny chief boast is in the fact that
l have seventeen trades, by any one Of
which | could make livelihood il neces-
sary" And IL in secular spheres there is
30 much to Ne done. in spiritual work how
vast the iieldl How many dying all around
| about Us without one word OF comfort!
We want more Abigails, more Hannahs,
moro Rebeccas, moro Marys, more Deb
orahs consecrated-body, mind. soul-to
the Lord who bought them.
Once more | learn from my subject the
| value of cleaning. Ruth going into that
| harvest field might have said: "There is a
| straw and there Is a straw, but what is n
straw? | can't get any barley for myself
| or my mother-in-law out Of these separate
| straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She
| gathered two straws and she put them to-
| gether, and mere straws until she got
| enough TO make n sheaf. Putting that
| down she went and gathered more straws
| until she had another sheaf, and another
aud another and another, and then she
| brought them all together and she threshed
them out, and she had an ephah of barley,
| nigh bushel. Oh. that we might all be
| gleaners
THE STRAY PRIVILEGES COUNT.
| Elihu Burritt learned many things while
telling in blacksmith's shop. Abcr-
crcmbie, the world repowned philosopher,
was physician in Scotland, and he got
! his philosophy, or the chief part OF il, while
as physician he was waiting for the door
of the sick room to open. Yet how many
there are in this day who say they are so
busy they have no time for mental or
spiritual improvement; the great duties OF
| life cross the field like strong reapers and
/ carry OFF all the hours, and there is only
! here and there fragment left that is not
worth cleaning. All. my friends you
| could 60 into the busiest day and busiest
week of your life and find golden oppor
tuuities. which gathered might at last
make a whole sheaf for the Lords garner
1t is the stray opportunities and the stray
| privileges which taken up and bound to-
gcther and beaten out will at last ill you
with much JOY.
There are n few moments left worth the
| cleaning. Now, Ruth, TO the field. May
each one have a measure full and running
overt Oh, you cleaners, to the field! And
| II there lie in your household an aged or IA
sick relative tha. is not strong enough 20
come forth and toll in this field. then let
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheaf
of cleaning. "He that goeth forth and
weepeth. bearing precious seed, shall doubt
less come again with rejoicing bringing
his sheaves with him." May the Lord God
of Ruth and Naomi be our portion foreyeri
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