Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-03
A HARVEST SCENE.
A TINELY TOPIC TAKEN BY THl GREAT
BROOKLYN PRgAOHER.
The Story Of Boaz and Ruih-Ihs Cleaner in the
Field Of the Rich JBdsan Farmer and HT
RsWaTd-IntasEy and humility Always
RsIaid-Ihs Lessons Drawn.
En..irl 49, b ID R.llsLsr.


gust s.-Dr. Talmage preached here
to-day 10 an immence audience. His
Western tour has been one Of continued
ovation. Never before has he been SO
enthusiastically received or have the
people come to hear him in such vast
numbers. He arrived here from Pueblo,
which city he left on Wednesday last,
and in a car provided by the Railroad
Company exclusively for the use Of DR..
Talmage and his Secretary. In this
car he will visit cities in Colorado,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and
Ctah. Ii is side-tracked at places
where DR.. Talmage has arranged to stay
TO preach or lecture. His sermon redo
lent with the breath Of the great har-
vest fields OF the West, indicates that
the popular preacher has read IN his
surrounding suggestions Of Gospel les
sons. His text is taken from Ruth 2:3:
"And she went and came CLEANED In the
field after the reapers: 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 l have been In
North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio, Michigan, Ohio, Mich
igan, Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Missouri, and they are one great
harveSe-feld, 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 custom when q sheai fell from a
load in the harveSt-feld for the reapers
TO refuse to gather it up; that was TO be
left for the poor who might happen 70
come that way. If there were handouts
of grain scattered across the field after
the main harvest had been reaped, in
stead Of raking it, as farmers do now, it
was. by 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, what is the use
of an these harvest-feldS TO Ruth and
Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble TO
90 ont 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-held?"
BOaz owns a large farm, and he goes
out 70 see the reapers gather in the
grain. Coming there, right behind the
swarthy, Sun-brOwned reaperS, he be-
holds a beautiful woman gleaning-a
woman more fiji to bend to harp or
sit upon a throne than to stOOp among
the sheaves. An, that was an eveutful
day!
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
It was love at first sight BOaz forms
an attachment Cor tue wOmanly cleaner
an attachment full OF undying inter
est 20 the Church o. God in all ages;
while Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a
bushel OF harley, goes home TO Naomi to
tell her the successes and adventures
of the DAY. That Ruth, who left her
native iaud of Moab in darkness, and
fourneylug through an uDdSing alice
ZION for her mOther-in-iaw, IS N the
harvest field of BoaZ, is afianced 20 one
OF the best families Of judah, AMI De
comes IN sfter-time the ancsstrs5s 81
Jesus Christ the Lord 81 glor7! Gut
of 30 dark q night did there ever daw2
so bright o mOrciaEP
Iieacu, TO she irst place, from this
subject how trouble deyeioD2 character.
IL was 6ereayeneo, poverty ard exile
that developed, illustrated and anaoun-
cad 10 All ages tne subiimity OF Ruths
character. THAT Is very unfortunate
man VINO has no trouble 10 was sOr-
ro,y that made Johu Buuyao the better
dreamer. and Doctor Young the better
Doet and O'Connell the better OranOr,
and RishOp Hall the better preacher,
and Havelock the better soldier, ana
Kit5o the better encyclopaedia, and Ruth
the better daughter-in-law.
/ once asked an aged man In regard
In his pastor, who was very brilliant
man: .Why is it that your pastor, so
very brilliant. seems 10 have 90 little
tenderness i'm his sermOns?' "Well,
be renlied. "the reason is; our pastor
has never had any trouble. When mis-
fortune comes upon him his styie,will De
diFerapt." After awhile the Lord took
a child out of that pastors house. and
tbouch the preacher was just as brilliant
ss ne was before, oh, the warmth, the
tenderness of his discOurses. The fact
"a that trouble is q great educator. YOU
soc sometimes q musician SIT down at
on instrument, and mis- execution is cold
and formal and unfeeiing. The reason
i that All his life he has been pros
nered. Bnt let misfortune or bereave-
ment 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
oreat educators. A young doctor comes
INFO a sick-rOOm where there Is dying
child. Perhaps he is very rough IN ms
prescription, and very rough In MS
manner. and rough In the feeling or the
mise. and rough In his answer to the
mothers anxious question; but the
vears roll on, and there has been one
daad in his own house; and now he
comes into the sick-rOOm, and with tear
fnl eve he looks at the dying child, and
he saws. "Oh, how this reminds me OF
NV Cbarlie" Trouble, the great edu-
GATOR, Sorrow see its touch in the
grandest painting; hear its tremor In
tho sweetest song; feel its power In
the mightieSt argument
Grecian mythology said that the
fountain of HippOcrene was struck out
nv the foot of the winged horse, Pc
gssns. have often noticed In life that
lie brightest and most beautiful fOun-
toins of Christian comfort and spiritual
life have been struck out by the iron
sbod hoof Of disaster and calamity. l
see Daniels courage best by the flash OF
Nebpchadnezzar's furnace. l see Pauls
nrowess best when find him on the
wandering ship under the glare Of the
LIGHTNING in the breakers Of Melita.
Cod crowns his children amid the howl
ing Of wild beasts and the ehopping OF
bl0od-splashed guillotine and the crack
ling fires Of martyrdom. 1t took the
nToraee uralinS IN de-