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

their fathers house, but when the SHARP
| winter of misfortune comes, what of these
| butterflies. Persons under indulgent pa
rentage may get upon themselves habits OF
incidence; but when they come out into
| practical life their soul will recou with dis
! gust and chagrin. They will feel in their
! hearts what the poet SO severely satirized
| when he said:
| Folks are so awkward. things so impolite.
! They re elegantly panied from morn till night.
| Through that gate of Incidence how many
mon and women have marched, useless on
| earth, to destroyed eternity Spinola
said TO Sir Horace We're: ..Of what did
| your brother die?'' '.Of having nothing to
do was the answer. ..Ah," said Spinola.
that's enough TO kill any general of US
On, can Il be possible in this world, where
there IS so much suffering 10 be alleviated,
so much darkness TO be enlightened. and so
many burdens 10 be carried, that there is
any person who
CANNOT FIND ANYTHING TO Do2
Madame de Stael did 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 manuscript
books which she had written, some one said
10 her: How do You find time TO attend
TO all these things" 'Oh" she replied.
these are not the things l am proud Of
My chief boast is in the fact that I have
seventeen trades, by any one OF which |
could make livelihood if necessary" And
II III secular spheres there is so much to be
done, in spiritual work how vast the field!
How many dying all around about US with
out one word of comfort. We want more
Abigaills, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas,
more Marys, more Deborahs cOnsecrated-
body, mind, sout-to the Lord who bought
them.
Once more learn from my subject the
~ f oil Tp,,.h ir1fn hot
harvest field, might have said: There is
straw, and there is a straw, but what Is
straw | can't get any barley for myself
and 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 sheaf Putting that
down, she went and gathered more strawS
until she had another and she brought
them all together, and she threshed them
out, ana she had an ephah of barley, nigh a
bushel. Oh, that we might all he cleaners.
Elihu Burritt learned many things while
TOILING IN A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP.
Abercrombie, the world-renOwned philoso
pher was physician in Scotland and he
got his philosophy or the chief part of it,
while, as physician, he was waiting for
the door of the sick-rOom 10 open. Yet how
many there are in this world who say they
are so busy they have no time for mental
or spiritual improvement: the great duties
of life cross the field like strong reaperS,
and carry off all the hours, and there IS
only here and there fragment left, that is
not worth cleaning. All, my friends, you
could 90 into the busiest day and busiest
week Of your life and find golden opportu-
mites, which, gathered, might make
whole sheaf for the Lords garner. 1t is
the stray opportunities and the stray priv
ileges which, taken up and bound together
and beaten out, will at last nil you with
much joy.
There arc a few moments left worth the
cleaning. Now, Ruth, TO the field! Ma Y
each one have measure full and running
over! Oh, you cleaners, to the field, And
if there be in your household an aged one
or sick relative that is not strong enough
TO come forth and toll in this field, then let
Ruth take home TO feeble Naomi this sheaf
of cleaning; He that goeth forth aud
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt
less come again with rejoicing. bringing
his sheaves with him" May the Lord
God Of Ruth and Naomi be our portion for
ever,