The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-06
TABERNACLE SERMON.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE DISCUS
SES 4 HARVEST SCENE.
The Rrookfyn Diyine's Sermon
on sunday, August 2.--TcNt
His Remarks, Ruth ii, o3.
4 DISCOURSE ETHATwILL BE.
READ WITH INTEREST.

GLKswooD. Colo, Aug "A ser
mon redolent with the breath OF thu
vast harvest fields Of the west Indicate
THAI DR. Talmaee has found in th
scenes through which he hos been trav
cling and In his present surrounding
suggestions OF Gospel Lessons his ten
Is taken from Ruth H. 8, 'And sh
want and came end cleaned in tho Gek
after the reapes; and her hap was u
light on part Of the Beld belonging
unto Boas, who was OF the kindred oi
ElimeIech."
Within a few weeks l have been liz
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 anchantin.
In any country than the season of bar
vest.
The time that Ruth and Naomi ar,
rive ut Bethlehem Is harvest time. II
was the old custom when = sheaf feD
from load in the harvest feld for the
reaper to refuse to gather it 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 it up az
farmers do now 1t was by the custom
Of the land left In Its place, 20 that the
poor coming al>ng that way might
CLEAN 1t and get their bread But, you
say, What is the use Of all these har
vest fields to Ruth and Naomi2 NoomI
Is too old and feeble to go out and toll
In the sun; and con you expect tho,
Ruth, the young and the beautiful,
should tan her cheeks and blister hei
hands In tie harvest feldT
BoAZ SEES RUTH.
Boaz owns large farm, and be goes
out to see the reapers gather in the
grain. Coming there, right behind tbs
swarthy, sunbrowned reapers, he be
holds beautiful woman gleaning--a
woman more fit to bend to q narp OF
sit upon throne than to stoop among
the sheaves. All, that was nu eventful
day.
1t 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 a
bushel of barley, goes home to Naomi
to tell her the successes and adventures
of the day. That Ruth, who left hei
native land of Moab in darkness and
jouneyed through an undying affec-
ton for her mother-in-law, is in the
harvest field 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 gloryl Out
of so dark a night did there ever dawn
10 bright a mofningi
learn In the first place from this
subject how trouble develops charac-
ter. 1t was bereavement, poverty and
exile that developed, illustrated and
announced to all ages the summit OF
Ruth's character That Is a very un.
fortunate man who has no trouble II
was sorrow that made John Bunyan
the better dreamer, and DR.. Young the
better poet, and O'Connell the better
orator, and Bishop He'll the better
preacher, and Havelock the better
soldier, and Kitto the better encyclo
pedist, and Ruth the better daughter
in-law
TENDERNESS COMES FROM TROUBLE
once asked an aged man in regard
to his pastor, who was very brilliant
man, why is it that your pastor, sc
very brilliant, seems to have 50 little
| tenderness In his sermonsY' We'll,
he replied, ''the reason Is, our pastor
has never had any trouble When mis-
fortune comes upon him his style vii
be different" After awhile the Lore
took child out of that pastors house
and though the pastor was Just az bril-
liant as be was before, oh, the warmth
the tenderness of his discoursesl TIL.
fact Is that trouble is great educator
| You sometimes see a musician sit dowI
at an instrument, and his executios
Is cold and formal and unfeeling. Tb.
reason is that all his life he has beeI
prospered. But let misfortune or be
reavement come to that man, and IN
sits down at the instrument, and yo'
discover the pathos In the first SWEEP
of the keys. Misfortune and trials ar
great educators.
A young doctor comes into a sick
room where there Is a dying child
Perhaps he Is very rough in his preecril
ton, and very rough in his manne,
and rough In the feeling Of the pulse
and rough in his answer to the moth
er's anxious question; but the year
roll on, and there has been one dea'
In his own house; and now he come
into the sickrooln, and with fearful ey
he looks at the dying child, and b
says, "Oh, how this reminds ms Of m
Charliew Trouble, the great educate,
Sogrow-I see its touch in the grandet
painting, Ihear its tremor tn the swee
est song 4 feel it's power in the might
est argument
| Grecian mythology said that tt
fountain of Hippocrene was struck o.
by the foot Of the winged horse Peg
sos. have often noticed 10 life ths
the brightest and most beautiful foul
tatns of Christian comfort and spiritu'
! life have been struck out by the iro
shod hoof of disaster and calamity.
zee Daniels courage best BY the fash
Nebuchadnezax,s furnace. fsee Paul
, prowess best when | find him on 4
! foundering ship under the glare cf z
; ! lightning In the breakers a helft