Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-03
WE ARE ALL CLEANERS.
DR.. TALMAeE's SERMON ON THE
MEETING OF 6oAz AND RUTH.

oehhoh OF Jhe harvest Aime-lt includes
an Elaboration to All Regarding the
Duty of Life.
GLENwooD, Colo. Aug. IA sermon
redolent with the breath Of the vast har
vest fields OF the west, indicates that DR.
Talmage has found in the scenes through
which he has been travelling and in his
present surroundings suggestions of Cos
pei lessons. His text Is taken from Ruth
II, 3; And she went and came and CLEANED
In the field after the renpers; and her hap
was to light on part of the field belong
ing unto Boaz who was of the kindred of
Elimelech."
Within few weeks have been in North
Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, Ohio Michigan, Canada, Indiana
Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and they are
one grent harvest field. and no season can
be more enchanting in any country than
the season Of harvest
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive
at Bethlehem Is harvest time. 1t was the
old custom when shcaf fell from a
load in the harvest field for the reapers
to refuse to gather it up; that was to be
left for the poor who might happen to
come that way If there were handfuls of
main harvest had been reaped, instead of
raking 1t, as farmers do now, 1t was, by
the custom of the land, left In its place, so
that the poor coming along that way
might CLEAN 1t and get their bread But,
you say, "What Is the use of all these
harvest fields to Ruth and NaomiP Naomi
is too old and feeble to 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 in the
harvest fleldT
Boaz owns large farm, and he goes out
to see the reapers gather in the grain
Coming there, right behind the swarthy,
sun Drowned reapers, he beholds beauti
full woman gleaning-a woman more fit to
bend to harp or sit upon a throne than to
stoop among the sheaves. All, that was
an eventful dayI
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
1t was love at first sight. Boaz forms IN
attachment for the womanly gleaner-an
attachment full of uhdyng interest to the
Church OF God in all ages while Ruth,
with an ephah, or nearly bushel of bur
ley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the
successes and adventures of the day, That
Ruth, who left her native land of Moab In
darkness, and journeyed through an un.
dying affection for her mother-in law, is in
the harvest field of Boaz is aflianced to
one of the best families in Judah, and be.
comes in after time the ancestress of Jesus
Christ, the Lord of Gloryl Out of SO dark
a night did there ever dawn 80 bright a
morningP
learn in the first place from this sub
iect how trouble develops character. 1t
was bereavement, poverty and exile that
developed, illustrated and announced to
all ages tho sublimity of Ruth's character
That is n very unfortunate man who has
no trouble. 1t was sorrow that made john
Bunyan the better dreamer, and DR.. Young
the better poet, and O'Connell the better
orator, and Bishop Huh the better preach.
er, and Havelock the better soldier, and
Kitto the better encyclopedia, and Ruth
the better daughter inlaw.
THE VALUE or TROUBLE.
once asked mn aged man in regard to
his pastor, who was n very brilliant man,
"Why is it that your pastor, 50 very bril-
liant, seems to have so little tenderness in
his sermons% "Well," he replied, "the
reason IL our pastor has never had any
trouble. When misfortune comes upon him
his style will be different" After awhile
the Lord took a child out of that PASTORS
house, and though the preacher was just
as brilliant as he was before, oh, the
warmth, the tenderness of his dscoursesl
The fact is that trouble Is great edu
Gator. You see sometimes n musician sit
down at an instrument and his execution
is cold and formal and unfeeling. The
reason Is that all his life he has been pros
pered. But let misfortune or bereavement
come TO that man, and he sits down at the
instrument, and you discover the pathos
in the first sweep of the keys Misfortune
and trials are great educators.
A young doctor comes into sickroom
where there is dying child. Perhaps he
is very rough in his prescription, and very
cough in his manner and rough in the
feeling of the pulse, and rough in his an
rswer to the mothers anxious question, but
the years roll on and there has been one
dead In his own house, and now he comes
into the sickroom, and with fearful eye he
looks at the dying child and he says, "Oh
how this reminds me of my Charlie"
Trouble, the great educatorI Sorrow
see It's touch in the grandest painting;
hear its tremor in the sweetest song; | feel
its power in the mighticst argument.
Grecian mythology said that the foun-
tain Of IIippocreno was struck out by the
foot of the winged horse, Pegasus. have
often noticed in life that the brightest and
most beautiful fountains of Christian com
fort and spiritual life have been struck out
by the iron shod hoof of disaster and ca
lamity. see Daniels courage best by the
flash of Northumberland furnace. ! see
paul's prowcss best when | find him on
the laundering ship under the glare of the
lightning in the breakers Of Melita God
crowns his children amid the bowling of
wild beasts and the choppng of blood
splashed guillotino and the cracking fires
of martyrdom
II took the prosecutions of Marcus Azure.
Illus to develop Polycarp and Justin Mar
tyr. 1t took the pope's bull, and the cardi
nails curse, and the worlds anathema to
develop Martin Luther 1t took all til,
hostilities against the Scotch Covouanter
and the fury of Lord Clayerhouse to de
veiop James Rcnwlck, and Andrew Mel
vile, and Hugh McKail the glorious mar
,tyrs Of Scotch history 1t took the stormy
sea, and the December blast, and the DESC
late New England coast, and the war
whoop of savages TO show forth the proves
of the Pilgrim fathers
When amid the storms they sang,
And the stars heard, and tho sea-
And tho sounding aislcs of the dim wood
Rang to the anthoms of the free.
1t took all our past national distresses
and It takes all our present national sor
rows, to lift up our nation on that high
career where it will march along after the
foreign despotisms that have Knocked and
the tyrannics that have jcered shall be
swept down under the omnipotent wrath
of God, who hates oppression, and who, by
the strength OF his own red right arm, will