The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-03
SCENE IN HARVEST TINE.
raw. DEWITT TALMAG E'5 SERMON
TAKEN FROM RUTH.

Beautiful Fountains of Christian
Comfort and Spiritual Lifs Come Out
of the lron-Saod Hoof of Disaster and
Calamity--Ths Beauty of Female In
dustry-Life's olden Opportunities
GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS. Col Aug. 2.
DR.. Talmage preached here to-day to an
immense audience His western tour has
been one continued ovation. Never before
has he been 30 enthusiastically received or
have the people come to hear him In such
vast numbers. He arrived here from
Pueblo, 1hioh city he left on "Wednesday
last, in a car provided by the railroad com.
pany exclusively for the use Of DR.. Talmage
and his secretary. In this car he will visit
cities in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Utah. IL il sldetracked at
places whore DR.. Talmage has arranged to
stay to preach or lecture. His sermon,
redolent with the breath of the great har-
vest fields of the west, indicates that the
popular preacher has read in his surround
ings suggestions of gospel lessons. His text
Is taken from Ruth H., 3: "And she went
and came aud CLEANED in the field after the
reApers and her hap was to light on 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, aud they are
one great harvest-ield. 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 tho GUS
tom when a sheaf fell from load in the har-
vest-held for the reapers to refuse to
lther IL up; that was to be left for the poor
who might happen to come that way. III
there were handfuls Of grain scattered
across the field after the main harvest had
been reaped, instead of raking 1t. as farm-
ers do now, il was, by the custom of the
land. left In its place, so that the poor, com
ing along that way, might CLEAN it and get
their bread. But, you say, what is the use
of all these harYest-fields to Ruth aud
Naomil Naomi Is too old and feeble to 20
out and toll iu the sun and can you expect
that Ruth, the young ana the beautiful
should tan her cheeks and blister her hands
IN the harvest-heldf'
Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out
70 see the reapers gather in the grain. Cons
ingthere, right behind the swarthy, sun
Drowned reapers, he beholds a beauti-
more fit to bend to q
| harp or sit upon IA throne than TO stoop
among the sheaves. An, that was an event
ful day
Itwas love at first sight. Boaz forms an
attachment for the womanly gleaner--an
attachment full Of undying interest to the
! Church Of God In all ages: while Ruth.
with an ephah, or nearly bushel of barley,
goes home to Naomi TO tell her the successes
and adventures Of the day. That Ruth,
who left her native land Of Moab In dark
ness, and journeyed through an undyin2
affection for her mother-in-law, is in the
harvest field Of Boaz, is afiianced TO one of
the best families in Judah, and becomes in
atter~time the anceStress of Jesus Christ
the Lord Of glory Out of 30 dark a night
did there ever dawn 50 bright a morningi
learn, in the first place. from this sub
ject, how trouble develops character. 10
was bereavement, poverty and exile that
developed, illustrated, and announced to all
ages the sublimity of Ruth's character.
That Is very unfortunate man who has no
| trouble. 1t was sorrow that made John
! Bunyan the better dreamer, and Doctor
Young the better poet. aud OConneu the
| better orator, and Bishop Hall the better
| preacher, and Havelock the better soldier.
and Kitto the better encyclopedia, aud
Ruth the better daughter-in-law.
once asked an aged man In regard to
his pastor, who was a very brilliant man:
why ts it that your pastor, SO very brill
liant, seems TO have 80 little tenderness in
his sermonsN "Well," he replied, ''the
reason Is, our pastor has never had any
trouble. Whom misfortune comes upon him.
his style will be different" After awhile
the Lord took child out of that PASTORS
house; and though the preacher was just as
brilliant as he was before, oh the warmth.
the tenderness Of his discourFes The fact
is that trouble fs great educator. You
see sometimes musician sit down at an
instrument, and his execution is cold and
formal and unfeellng. The reason is
that all his life he has been prospered.
But let misfortune OF bereavement come
to that man, and he sits down at the instru-
ment, and you discover the pathos in the
first sweep Of the keys. Misfortune and
trials are great educators A young doctor
comes into sick room where there is a
dying child. Perhaps he is very rough in
his prescription, and very rough in his man
ner, ana rough in the feeling 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;
and now he comes into the sick room and
with fearful eve he looks at the dying child
and he says, 20. how this reminds me of my
Charliew Trouble, the great educators
Sorrow-t see Its touch Ia the grandess
painting; | hear its tremor in the sweetest
song; feel its power in the mightiest argu-
ment.
Grecian mythology said that the fountain
of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot Of
the winged horse, Pegasus | have often
noticed In life that the brightest and most
Leautful fountains of Christian comfort
and spiritual life have been struck out by
the iron-shod hoof of disaster and calamity.
l see Daniels courage best by the flash Of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS furnace. | see Paulis
prowess best when find him on the fodn-
derin5 ship under the glare of the lightning
In the breakers Of Meita. God crowns bis
children amid the bowling of wild beasts
and the chopping Of blood-splashed guillo-
tines and the cracking fires Of martyrdom.
1t took the prosecutions of Marcus Aurelius
to develop Polycarp and Justin Martyr. It
took the pope's bull and the cardinals curse,
and the worlds enathema to develop Mar.
tin Luther. 1t took all the hostiites against
the Scotch covenanters and the fury Of
L rd Claverhouse to develop James Rem =
wick, and Andrew Melville, aud Hugh No
Kali the glorious martyrs Of Scotch his
tory. 1t took the stormy sea, and the De-
camber blast, and the desolate New Egg
land coast, and the war whoop Of savages to
show forth the 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 woo0
Rang 60 the anthems OF the free
1t took all our past national distresses,
aud it takes all our present national sor-
rows, 70 lift up our nation on that high
career where it will march along after the
fo1.aior, daepofisYraS hot bava rnNrxad