Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-13

nations and kingdoms must look at that
one little incident with a thrill Of unspeak-
able 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 con-
versation, that accidental meeting-you
did not think Of It again for long while;
but how 1t changed all the current of your
lifel
It 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 vibra-
tion of a stringed instrument 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
Jubal's harp and Jubal's organ. 1t seemed
to be a matter of very little Importance
that Tubal Cain learned the uses Of copper
and iron, but that rude foundry of ancient
days has its echo in the rattle of Birming-
ham machinery and the roar and bang OF
factories on the Merrimac
BEAUTY OF FEMALE INDUSTRY.
Again, see In my subject an illustration
of the beauty Of female industry. Behold
Ruth toiling in the harvest 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 society of course have changed, and
without the hardships and exposure to
which Ruth was subjected, every intelG-
gent 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 the house
hold or community, and though there are
so many woes all around about them in
the world they spend their time languish-
ing over q new pattern or bursting into
tears at midnight over the story of some
lover who shot himselfi They would not
deign to look at Ruth carrying back the
barley on her way home to her mother-in-
law, Naomi
All this fastidiousness may seem to do
very we'll while they are under the shelter
of their fathers house; but when the sharp
winter of misfortune comes, what of these
butterfliesf Persons under indulgent par
entage may get upon themselves habits of
Incidence, but when they come out into
practical life their soul will recoil with dis
gust and chaerin. They will feel in their
hearts what the poet SO severely satirized
| when he said
| Folks are SO awkward, things 80 impolite,
| They're elegantly panied from morn till night.
Through that gate of Incidence how
many men and women have marched, USE
less on earth, to destroyed eternityl
Spinola said to Sir Horace We're: "Of what
did your brother die2" "Of having nothing
to do" was the answer. "Ah" said
Spinola, that's enough to kill any gen.
eral of u.s." Oh, can it be possible in this
world, where there is so much suffering to
be alleviated, so much darkness to be en-
lightened and so many burdens to be car
ried, that there is any person who cannot
find anything to do?"
THE BOAST OF MADAME DE sTAEL.
Madame de Stael did a 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 to
attend to all of these things?" "Oh," she
replied, "these are not the things l am
proud Of My chief boast is in the fact that
l have seventeen trades, by any one of
which l could make a livelihood if neces-
sary." And if in secular spheres there is
| bO llluSh W DC uOlCS III opllLOuoA WI n hO"
vast the fieldl How many dying all around
about us without one word of comfortl
We want more Abigails, more Hannahs,
more Rebeccas, more Marys, more Deb
orahs onsecrated-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 q
straw and there is straw, but what is 8
straw l 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 more straws until she got
enough to make a sheaf. Putting thai
down she went and gathered more straws
until she had another sheaf, and another
and another and another, and then sht
brought them all together and she threshet
them out, and she had an ephah of barley
nigh bushel. Oh, that we might all b.
cleaners!
THE STRAY PRIVILEGES COUNT.
Elihu Burritt learned many things Will
toiling in a blacksmith's shop. Aber
crombie, the world renowned philosopher
was a physician in Scotland, and he go
his philosophy, or the chief part of it, whil
as physician he was waiting for the doc
of the sick room to open. Yet how man.
there are in this day who say they are s.
busy they have no time for mental o
spiritual improvement; the great duties o
life cross the field like strong reapers an,
carry off all the hours, and there is onl
here and there fragment left that is no
worth cleaning. All, my friends, yo
: could go into the busiest day and busies
week of your life and find golden oppol
: tunities, which gathered might at las
make whole sheaf for the Lords garner
1t is the stray opportunities and the stra
, privileges which taken up and bound tc
gether and beaten out will at last fill yo
with much joy.
There are few moments left worth tn
!. cleaning. Now, Ruth, to the feldl Ma
each one have measure full and runnin
: over! Oh, you cleaners, to the fieldl An
: if there be in your household an aged or
> sick relative that is not strong enough
come forth and toll in this field, then IL
!, Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this she's
of cleaning, "He that goeth forth an
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doub
: less come again with rejoicing, bringin
- his sheaves with him." May the Lord Go
Of Ruth and Naomi be our portion foreve
Hardening Cast Iron.
;, Some Chicaooans have lately been col