Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-03

nestered as Eliphaz the Temanite, anC
l3ildad the Shuttle and Zophar the Mann
athite
Life often seems to he mere game
where the successful player pulls down all
the other men into his own lap. Let sus
picions arise about mans character, and
he becomes like bank in panic, and all
the imputations rush on him and break
down in day that character which In due
time would have had strength to defcnC
itself There are regulations that have
been half century IN building which &c
down under some moral exposure, as 9
vast temple is consumed by the touch of O
sulphurous match. A hog can uproot q
century plant.
In this world, 80 full Of heartlessness and
hypocrisy how thrilling it is to find some
friend as faithful in days Of adversely as In
days of prosperity David had such a
friend In Hushai; the Jews had such q
friend In Mordecai, who never forgot their
cause; Paul had such friend In Onesiph-
orus, who visited him in Jail; Christ had
such in the Marys, who adhered to him on
the cross; Naomi had such a one In Ruth,
who cried out, "Entreat me not to leave
thee, or to return from following after
thee; for whittier thou goest, l will go; and
where thou lodgest will lodge; thy PEG
pie shall be my people, and thy God my
God; where thou diest will die, and there
will be buried; the Lord do so to me and
more also, II aught but death part thee
and me-"
FROM DARKNESS TO DAY.
Again, learn from this subject that
paths which open In hardship and darkness
often come out In places of Joy. When
Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem,
to go along with her mother-in-la law, sup
pose the people said; "Oh, what foolish
creature to go away from her fathers
house, to go off with q poor old woman
toward the land Of Judeal They won't
live to get across the desert. They will be
drowned in the seq, or the jackals Of the
wilderness will destroy them" 1t was a
very dark morning when Ruth started off
with Naomi but behold her In my text In
the harvest field Of Boaz, to be affianced to
one of the lords Of the land, and become
one Of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory. And SO 1t often is that
path which starts very darkly ends very
brightly
When you started out for heaven, OIL
how dark was the hour Of confederation
Sinai Numbered and devils tormented and
the darkness thickenedl All the sins Of
your life pounced upon you, and it was the
darkest hour you ever saw when you first
found out your sins. After awhile you
went into the harvest field of Gods mercy,
you began to CLEAN In the fields of divine
promise, and you had more sheaves than
you could carry as the voice of God ad.
dressed you, saying, BLESSED is the man
Ntrh tuaV apCtI ,t,Y,g 4
whose sins are covered" A very dark
starting In conviction, very bright end
ing in the pardon and the hope and the
triumph of the Gospel
&c. very often in our worldly business OF
In our spiritual career we start off on a
very dark path. We must 20. The fesl
may shrink back, but there IL O voice
within, or voice from above, saying,
you must Co." and we have to drink the
gall, and we have to carry the cross, and
we have to traverse the desert, and we are
pounded and failed Of Misrepresentation
and abuse, and we have to edge our way
through ten thousand obstacles that have
to be slain by our own right arm We
have to ford the river, we have TO climb
the mountain, we have to storm the castle,
but, blessed be God, the day of rest and re
ward will come. On the tiptop of the
captured battlements We will shout the
victory; If not in this world, then In that
world where there is no gall to drink, no
burdens to carry, no battles to fight How
do know itP Know It'll / know it because
God says so-"They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shall the
sun light on them, nor any heat, for the
Lamb which Is In the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains of
water, and God shall wipe all tears from
their eyes"
1t was very hard for Noah to endure the
soothing of the people In his day, while he
was trying to build the ark and was every
morning quizzed about his old boat that
would never be Of any practical use. BIT
when the deluge came, and the tops of tht
mountains disappeared like the backs ri
sea monsters, and the elements, dashed up
in fury, capped their hands over drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejoced In his
own safety and in the safety of his family,
and looked out on the wreck of a ruined
earth.
THE sUFFERINGs OF JESUS.
Christ, bounded of prosecutors, denied
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves
on either side of the cross, human hate
smacking its lips In satisfaction after it
had been draining his last drop of blood,
the sheeted dead bursting from the sepul.
cheers at his crucihxion. Tell me, o Geth-
semane and Golgothal were there ever
darker times than thoseP Like the boom
ing of the midnight sen against the rock,
the surges Of Christ's anguish beat against
the gates Of eternity, TO be echoed back by
all the thrones of heaven and all the dun.
geons of hell.
But the day of reward comes for Christ,
all the pomp and dominion of this world
are to be hung on his throne uncrowned
heads are to bow before him on whose head
are many crowns and all the celestial
worship is to come up at his feet like the
humming OF the forest, like the rushing of
the waters, like the laundering of the seas,
while all heaven, rising on their thrones,
beat time with their scepters; "Hallelujah,
for the Lord God omnipotent reignethl
Hallelujah, the kingdoms of this world
have become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christ"
Thnt song of love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden spirod Apocalypse.
Again. learn from my subject that
events which seem TO be most insignih-
cant may be momentous. Can you imag-
inc anything more unimportant than the
coming Of poor woman from Moab TO
Judea? Can you imagine anything more
trivial than the fact that this Ruth just
happened to alight-as they say-just hap.
pened to alight on that field of Boazp Yet
all ages, all generations, have an interest
in the fact that she was to become an an
cestress Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all
nations and kingdoms must look at that
one little incident with thrill Of unspeak
nhln mud ntnrnnl saIisfacIlnn So II Ia In