Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-03


vast numbers. He arrived here from
Pueblo, which city he left on Wednesday
last in a car provided BY the railroad com
pany exclusively for the use of DR. Tai
Uuage and his secretary. In this car he vii
visit cities in Colorado, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Kansas and Utah. II is side-tracked a
places where Dr.. Talmage has arranged tC
stay TO preach or lecture. His sermon re
dolent with the breath Of the great harvest
fields of the West indicates that the popu
lar preacher has read III his surroundings
tAaggestiOns of gospel lessons. His text is
taken from Ruth, ii::: And she went and
came and CLEANED in the field after the
reapers: ana her nap was 10 light on part
of the field belonging unto BOaz who was Of
the kindred Of Elimelech'
wITAIN A FEW WEEKS
| have been in North Carolina, Virginia
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan,
Canada. Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky, Mis-
souri, and they are one great harveSt-ield.
and no season can be more enchanting IL
any country than the season of harvest.
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
Bethlehem is harvest-time. IT was the
custom when 4 Sheaf fell in the harvest
field for the reapeTs TO refuse TO gather il
up: that 1t was to be left for the poor who
might happen 10 come that way. If there
were haudfulS of grain scattered across the
field after the main harvest had been
redped. instead of ralllng Il, as farmers do
now. it was, by the custom of the land, left
in lis place, so that the poor, coming along
that way. might CLEAN it ana get their
bread But. YOU say, What IS the use of
all these harveSt-tieldS TO Ruth and Naomi?
Naomi is too old and feeble 10 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 III the
baryest-tield''
F., =, / -
10 see the rcaperS gather in the grain.
Coming there, right behind the swarthY
suu-browned rcapers, he behOlds beauti-
full woman gleanin2-a woman more tit TO
bend to Il harp or sit upon throne than TO
stoop among the SheaVes.
Al. THAT WAS AN EyENTFUL DAY!
II was love at first sight. Boaz forms an
attachmuut for the womanly gleaner-an
attachment full of Undying interest to the
Church of God in all ages; while Ruth,
with an ephah, or nearly a bushel, of bar
Soy. goes home TO Naomi 10 tell her the sue
FeSSeS ana adventures OF the day. That
Ruth. who left her native land
Of Moab in darkness. and jour
neyed through an undying affection
for her mother-in-law. is in the
harvest tield OF Boaz, IS affianced to one of
the best families in Judah, and becomes in
after time the ancestress Of Jesus Christ
the Lord of glory, ont of so dark night
did there ever dawn so bright morning.
| learn, in the first place, from this sub
icCt how trouble developes character. 1t
was bereavement, poverty and exile that
developed, illustrated and announced 10 all
ages the sublimity of Ruth's character.
That is a very unfortunate man who has no
trouble II was sorrow that made John
Bunyan the better dreamer, and DR. Young
the better poet, and O'COnneu the better
orator and Bishop Hall the better preacher,
and Havelock the better soldier, and kitto
the better encyclopedias and Ruth the bet
ter daughter-in-law.
! once asked an uged man in regard TO his
pastor, who was very brilliant man:
WHY is il that Your pastor, so very bril-
liant. seems TO have so little tenderness in
his sermons!'i well" he replied, the
reason is, our pastor has
NEVER HAD ANY TROUBLE.
When misfortune comes upon him, his
style will be different After awhile the
Lord took 4 child out of that pastors house;
and though the preacher was just as brilliant
As he was before oh, the warmth, the ten
deruess of his diseoursesl The fact is that
trouble is great educator. You see some
times a musician sit down at an instrument
and his execution is cold and formal and IN
feeling. The reason is that all his life he
mas been prOSpered. But let misfortune
or bereavement come TO that man, aud he
sits down at the instrument, and you dis
cover the pathoS III the first sweep of the
keys Misfortune and trials are graet educa-
tors. a yonng doctor comes into a sickroom
where there IS 4 dying child. Perhaps he
is very rough in his prescription, ami very
rough in his manner. and rough in the feel
ug of the pulse, and rough IN his answer to
he mothers anxious question; but the
years roll on. and there has been one dead
e his own house; and now he comes into
] ), Il =, lg,N1
II the dying child, and he says. "Oh, how
his reminds me of my Charlie" Trouble,
he great educator! Sorrow see its
ouch in the grandest painting; ! hear its
remor in the sweetest song; l feel its
power in the mightieSt argument.
GRECIAN MYTHOLOGY
aid that the fountain OF Hyppocrene
vas struck out by the foot of the
winged horse, Pegasus. have
,ften noticed in life that the brightest
md most beautiful fountains of Christian
omfort and spiritual life have been struck
nut by the iron shoG hoof of disaster and
alamity. l see Daniels courage best by
he flash of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace. [
zee Paul's prowess best when l find him on
he laundering ship under the glare of the
-htninC in the breakers of Melita God |
rowns his children amid the bowling OF |
Wild beasts and the chopping of blood |
FLASHED guillotine and the cracking fires |
i martyrdom. II took the prosecutions of |
Iarcus AureliuS 10 develop Polycarp and |
ustin Martyr 1t took the pope'S bull and |
he cardinals curse and the worlds ana !
hema 10 develop Martin Luther II took |
Il the hostilitieS against the Scotch cove |
auters aud the fury of Lord Clayerhouse |
o develop James Renwick, and Andrew |
IelviIle and Hugh Alckail, the glorious |
martyrs of Scotch history. 1t took the |
torrnv sea. and the December blast, and |
he desOlate New England coast, and |
he war-whoop of savageS to show forth |
he prowess of the pilgrim fathers.
When amid the storms they sang.
And the stars heard. and the sea;
And the sounding aisles OF the dim WOOD
Rang 10 the anthems OF the free.
It took all our past national dlStresses.
nd it takes all our present national sor-
owS. TO lift up our nation on that high ca
Ger where it will march along after the !
oreign deSpotisms that have Knocked and |
ne tyrannies that have ieered, shall be ,
yyept down under the omnipotent wrath of |
Od, who hates, oppression and who, by |
ne strength of his own red right arm, viii |
lake all men free And so it is indiyidu- |
.ly, ana in the family. and in the church,
nd in the world, that through darkness
nd storm and trouble men, women,
lurches.
NATIONS. ARE DEVELOPED.
Again, see in my text the beauty of I'M
Altering friendship. l suppose there were
enty of friends for Naomi while she was
prosperity; but of all her acquaintance.
0w many were willing to trudge off with |
Pr toward Jud9a, when she had TO make
lat lonely journey? One-the heroine Of
v taxi. One-abSolutely one | suppose |