Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-06

ances, how many were willing to trudge
on with her toward Judea, when she had
TO make that lonely Journey One-the
heroine OF my text One-absolutely one
suppose when Saomi's husband was liv.
ing, and they had plenty of money, and all
things went well. they had great many
callers. But suppose that after her hus-
band died. and her property went. and she
got old and poor, she was not troubled
very much with callers All the birds that
sang IN the bower while the sun shone
have gone to their nests, now the 3ight has
fallen
On, these beautiful suniowers that
spread out their color in the morning hourI
but they are always asleep when the sun
goes down. Job had plenty of friends
when he was the richest man in Uz; but
when his property went and the trials
came. then there were none so much that
pestered as Eliphaz the Temanite. and
Bidad the Shuttle and Zophar the Mann
athite
Life often seems to be a mere game
where the successful player pulls down ali
the other men into his own lap Let sus-
PIGEONS arise about mans character. and
he becomes like bank in a panic, aud all
the imputations rush on him and break
down In a day that character which in due
time would have had strength to defend
itself There are regulations that have
been half century in building which 90
down under some moral exposure, as a
vast temple is consumed by the touch of a
sulphurous match. A hog can uproot a |
century plant.
In this world, so full OF heartiessness and |
hypocrisy, how thrilling il is 70 lind some |
friend as faithful in days OF adversely as in |
days OF prosperity David had such a
friend IN Hushai; the jews had such a
friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their
cause. Paul had such friend ia Onesiph
orus, who visited him in Jail. Christ had
such In the Marys, who adhered to him on
the cross Naomi had snch one in Ruth.
who cried out, "Entreat me not 10 leave
thee. or TO return from following after
Thee Tor whittier thou goest, will 20. and
where thou lodgest | will lodge. thy peo.
pie shall be my people. and thy God my
God where thou diest will die. and there
VIII be buried: the Lord do so 70 me and
more also. II aught but death part thee
and me"
FROM DARKNESS To DAY.
Again, | learn from this subject that
laths which open in hardship and darkness
,ften come out in places Of joy. When
Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem
o go along with her mother-in-law. sun
lose the people said: "Oh, what a foolish
Feature TO 30 away from her fathers
iouse, to go of with poor old woman
oward the land OF .Iudeal They WON'T
I've 70 get across the desert. They will be q
rowned in the sea, or the jackals of the I
wilderness will destroy them IL was a :
cry dark morning when Ruth started off e
nth Naomi. but behold her in NV text In y
be harvest field OF Boaz. 10 be afiianced 10 b
ne OF the lords Of the land, and become L
ne OF the grandmothers of Jesus Christ. +
be Lord Of glory And so IL often il that q
path which starts very darkly ends very
rightly
When you started out for heaven. OH h
ow dark was the hour of convietion-how ST
mai thnndered and devils tnrmented and W
lie darkness thickenedl All the sins of SC
our life bounced upon you, and il was the OF
irkest hour you ever saw when You first nj
nnd out your sins. After awhile Won re
ent into the harvest field Of Gods mercy pi
~ began 10 CLEAN in the fields Of divine |
'omise, and you had more sheaves than "
"a could carry as the voice OF God nd sa
essed you, saying, blessed is the man so
hose transgressions are forgiven and va
hose sins are covered" A very dark ali
irting IN conviction. very bright end. W
9 In the pardon aud the hope and the mi
umph of the Gospel or
80, very often IN our worldly business Of til
our spiritual career we start of on
~ dark path, We must 20. The flesh va
~ shrink back, but there is voice ha
thin, or u voice from above. saving. str
on must 90, and we have to drink the str
J., and we have to carry the cross. and or
have TO traverse the desert, aud we are str
1nded and failed of INSTRUMENTATION gal
4 abuse, and we have 70 edge our way get
'ough ten thousand obstacles that have en-,
be slain by our own right arm. We dol
We TO ford the river, we have to climb UNI
mountain, we have to storm the castle an,
:, blessed be God the day of rest and re bro
ru VIII come. On the tiptop Of the the
tured battlemepts we will shout the mig
tory; If not in this world then in that gle
rid where there is no gall to drink, no
'dens to carry, no battles to fight. How +
know its Know i'll know it because toll
says so-"They shall hunger no more. crol
her thirst any more. neither shall the was
hght on them. nor any heat, for the his
no which Is in the midst OF the throne rs a
Il lead them to living fountains Of of |
er, and God shall wipe all tears from thel
II eyes" bus
was very hard for Noah to endure the spir
ling of the people in his day, while he life
trying To build the ark, and was every carr
ming quizzed about his old boat that here
Id never be of any practical use But wor
n the deluge came, and the tops of the coul
ntains disappeared like the backs of weel
monsters, and the elements, dashed M tuni
Try, clapped their hands over drowned max
ID, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in his 1t is
safety aud in the safety of his family priv
looked out on the wreck of a ruined geth
h with
THE sUFFERINGs OF JESUS. TIL
rist, bounded Of prosecutors, denied gIea,
w. worse maltreated than the thieves each
ther side of the cross. human hate over
king its lips in satisfaction after il if tb,
been draining his last drop of blood. | sick
'heeted dead bursting from the sepul come
at his crucilixion. Tell me, q Geth Rutl
me and Golgothal We're there ever of o
er times than those; Like the boom weep
4 the midnight sea against the rock less
urges of CbriStis anyf,ieb ha,t Z, -. L..