Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-03
SHE WENT AND CAME
And Cleaned on Part of a Field
Which Belonged Unto Boaz.
1t WAS THE SEASON OF HARVEST
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Talks Very interest
ingly in Colorado.
PTTE AND NAOMI GATHER THE BARJEY
T WAS THE SEASON OF HARVEST
RUTH AND NAOMI GATHER THE BARLEY


DIR Talnage preached mere to-day 10 Al
immense audience. His Western tour ha.
been one continued ovation. Never beiorI
has he been so enthusiastically received ol
have the people come to hear him in such
vast numbers He arrived here from Pueblo,
which citv ne left on Wednesday last, in a
car provided by the railroad company ex.
clusivelv for the use of DR.. Talmage and
his secretary. In this car he will visit cities
in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Utah. 1t is side-tracked at places
where Or. Talmage has arranged to stay to
preach or lecture. His sermon, redolent
with the breath of the great harvest fields
of the West. indicates that the popular
preacher has read in his surroundings sug-
Ccstions of Gospel lessons. His text is
taken from Ruth ii:3, "And she went and
came and cleaned in the field after the
rcapers, and her hap was TO light on a part
OF the field belonging 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 great harvest field, and no season can
be more enchanting in any country than the
season of harvest.
THEY ARRIVE AT HARVEST
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at
Bethlehem is harvest time 1twas the Gus
tom when sheaf fell from load in the
harvest field for the rcapers to refuse to
gather il up: that was TO be left for the poor
who might happen to come that way. If
there were handfuls OF grain scattered
across the field after the main harvest had
been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers
do now. il was, BIZ the custom of the land
left in its place. so that the poor, coming
along that way, might CLEAN it and get their
bread. But, you say, WI hat is the use of
all these harvest fields to Ruti; and Naomi?
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 hcr checks and blister her hands in the
harvest tield?''
Boaz OWES large farm. and he goes out
10 see the reapers gather in the grain. Com
ing there, right behind the swarthv, sun
Drowned reapers, he beholds beautiful
woman gleaning-a woman more fit to bend
10 a harp or sit upon a throne Than to stoop
among the sheaves All, that was an
eyentful dav!
1t was love at first sight Boaz forms an
attachment for the wonanlv gieaner-an
Church OF God IN all ages: while Ruth. with
an epitah, or nearly a bushei Of barley,
goes home TO Naomi, to tell her the successes
and adventures of the day. That Ruth, who
leiy her native lard of Moab in darkness,
and iourneyed through an uDdying affection
for her mothcr-in-law, is in the harvest
field of Boaz, is afflanced TO one of the best
families in Judah. and becomes in after
time the ancestress Of Jesus Christ. the
Lord of glory! Our Of so dark nighv did
there ever dawn so bright morning?
TROUBLE DEVELOPS CHARACTER
I learn, in the first place, from this SUBJ
ject how trouble develops character 1t
was bereavement, poverty and exile that de-
vCloped, illustrated and announced to all
ages the sublimity of Ruth's character.
That is a 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'Connel the better |
orator and Bishop Hall the better preacher,
and Haveiock the better soldier, and Kitto
the better encyclopedias anG Ruth the bet
ter auChter-in-law.
] once asked an aged mani regard to his
pastor, who wss a very brilliant man: "Why
is il that your pastor, SO very brilliant,
seems to have so little tenderness In his
sermons" 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 a child out of that pastors house; and |
though the preacher was Just as brilliant as |
he was before, oh, the warmth, the tender |
ness Of his discourses! The fact is that !
trouble is a great educator. You see some |
times musician sit down at an instrument, |
and his execution is cold and formal and |
The reason is that all his life /
he has been prospered. But let misfortune |
or bereavement come to that man, and he |
sits down at the instrument, and you dis /
cover the pathos in the first sweep of the |
keys. Misfortune and trials are great edu- !
Gators.
THE GREAT EDUCATOR.
A young doctor comes into q sickroom |
where there is a diving child. Perhaps he I!
is very rough in his prescription, and very !
rough IN his manner, and rough in the feel |
ing Of the pulse, and rough in his answer to |
the mothers anxious question; but the |
years roll on, and there has been one dead |
IN his own house; ana now be comes into |
the sicf,room, and with fearful eve he looks /
al the lying child, and he saws: "Oh how |
this reminds me OF nv Charlier' Trouble, |
the great educator. Sorrow-I see its touch |
in the Eraadesr painting; l hear its tremor
argument.
Grecian mythology said that the fountain
Of Hippocrcne was struck out by the foot
Of the winged horse. Pegasus. l have often
noticed in life that the brightest and most
fountains of Christian comfort and
spiritual life have been struck out by the |
h0of of disaster and calamity,
see Daniels courage best by the flash of
Nebuchednezzar furnace. L see Peul's
prowess best when L find him Oh the foun-
iering ship under the glare of the light
ling IN the breakers of Melita God crowns
MS children amid the how ling of wild beasts
md The chopping of blood-splashed guillo-
line and the cracking fires of martyrdom.
1t took the prosecutions of Marcus Aurelius
@ develop Polycarp and Justin Martvr.
Il took the pope's bull and the cardinals
,urse, and the anathema to develop Martin
Luther. 1t took all the hostilities against
ne Scotch Covenanters and theI fury OF
Lord Claverhouse to develop James Rem
Sick, and Andrew Melville, and Hugh Nc
Kali, the glorious martyrs of Scotch his
,ory.
PILGRIM FATHERS PRowEss.
Il took the stormy sea, and the December
blast, and the desoiate New England coast,
nd the 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 TO tie anthem of the free.
il took all our past national distresses.
nd Il tUkes all Our present national sorrows. |
0 lift up our nation on that high career
rhere i. vii! march along after the foreign
egpotisms that have Knocked and the
Yrahnies that have jeered shall be swept
own Under the omnipotent wrath of God,