The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-07


than the coming OF 2 poor woman from /
Moab to JudeaP Can you imagine any
thing more trivial than the fact that
this Ruth just happened to alight-as
they say-just happened TO allght on
that field of Boaz? Yet all ages, all
generations, have an interest in the
fact that she was to become an ances-
tress OF the Lord Jesus Christ, and all
nations and Kingdoms must look at
that one little incident with a thrill of
unsPe akable and eternal satisfaction
So it is in your history and IN mine
Events that you thought of no impOr-
lance at all have been of very great mo
ment. That casual conversation, that
accidental meetiug-yOu did not think
of il again for a long while; but how it
changed all the current OF your life.
Again, I see in my subject an inustra-
ton of the beauty OF female industry.
Behold Ruth tOiling in the harvest field
under the hot sun. or at noon taking
plain bread with the reapers, or eating
the parched corn which Boaz handed
to her. The customs of society, of
course, have changed, and without the
hardships and exposure to which Ruth
was subjected, every intelligent woman
will find something to DO. I know
there is sicIzly sentimentality on this
subject. In some families there are per
sons of no practical service to the house
hold or community; and though there
are so many woes all around about them
in the world, they spend their time Ian
gushing over a new pattern, or bursting
into tears at midnight over the story OF
some lover who shot himself! They
would not begin 70 look at Ruth carry
/ ing back the barley on her way home
/ to her mother-in-law, Naomi. All this
/ fastidiOusness mBy seem to do very
/ we'll while they are under the shelter
of their fathers house, but when the
/ sharp winter of misfortune comes,
/ what of these butierhiesP Persons un-
der indulgent parentage may get upon
| themselves habits of Incidence; but
! when they come out into practical life
| their soul will recou with disgust and
chagrin. They viii feel in their hearts
what the poet so severely satirized
| when he said:
| Folks are 50 awkward things so impOlite,
| They're elegantly PANIED from morn till
Through that gate of Incidence how
many men and women have marched
useless on earth to a destroyed eternity ?
SpinOla said to Sir Horace We're: ''Of
what did your brother die?" ''Of hav-
ing nothing to do" yeas the answer.
| "Ah!' said SpiuOla, that's enough to
! kill any general OF us" o! can it be
possible in this world, where there is
so much suffering to be alleviated, so
much darkness to be enlightened and
there is any person who cannot find
anything to do?
Madame de Stael did woEld of work
| in her time; and one day while she was
seated amid instruments of music, ali
of which she had mastered, and amid
| manuscript books which she had writ
ten, some one said to her: ''HOw do yOU
= find time to attend to all these things?'
60" She replied, these are not the
/ things I am proud Of My chief bOas
is the fact that have seventeen trades
by any one of which 1 could make
livelihood if necessary" And if in sec
, ular spheres there is so much to b'
! done, in spiritual work how vast tn,
, field! How many dying all arounC
, | about US without one word of comfort
, | We want more a bigails, more Hannahs
/? | more Rebeccas, more Marys, more De
s borahs cOnsecrated-bOdy, mind, soul
to the Lord who bought them.
l Once more I learn from my subjec
the value of cleaning. Ruth going int
( that harvest field might have said
2 There is a straw, and there is a straw
e but what is a straw? I cant get an,
barley for myself or my mOther-in-lay
e out of these separate stravs-" Not Sc
p, said beautiful Ruth She gathered tw
: stravvs and she put them together. an
t more straws, until she got enough {
Y make a sheaf, and another, and another
e and then she brought them all together
s and she thrashed them out, and she ha
= an ephah of barley, nigh bushel. {
n that we might all be cleaners!
a Elihu Burritt learned many thing
k while tOiling in a blacksmith's shoI
10 Abercrom bic, the world renOwne
n philosopher, was a physician in SEQ
land and he got his philosophy, or til
e. chief part of it. while, as a physician
n he was waiting for the door of the sic
S, room to open. Yet how many thel
s are in this day who say they are
is busy they have no time for mental {
I'd spiritual Improvement The great duti'
is of life cross the field like strong rea
le ers and carry of all the hOu
er and there is only here and there a fra
10 ment left that is not worth gleanin
<, All, my friends. you could go into Il
at busiest day aud busiest week of yO1
Be life and hnd golden OPpOrtunitie
OF which, gathered, might at last make
IL | whole sheaf for the Lords garner
-. | Is the straw 1rlrpoy-EuT1ities and the str