The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-22

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 u1lspeak-
able and eternal satisfaction. So it is in
your history and in mine: events that you
thought of no Importance at all have been
of very great moment. That casual con-
versation, that accidental meeting-you
did not think of it again for long while;
but how it changed all the current of your
life! 81 M
1t seemed to be of no Importance that
Jubal invented rude instruments of music,
calling them harp and organ, but they
were the introduction of all the worlds
minstrelsy. And as you hear the vibra-
tion of a stringed Instrument, even after
the fingers have been taken away from it,
SO all music now of lutte and drum and
cornet is only the long continued strains of
Jubal's harp and Jubal's organ. It seemed
to be matter of very little Importance
that Tribal Cain learned the uses of copper
and iron, but that rude foundry of ancient
days has its echo in the rattle of Birming-
ham machinery and the roar and bang Of
factories on the Merrimac.
BEAUTY or FEMALE INDUSTRY
Again., see in my subject an illustration
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 intelIi-
gent woman will find something to do. !
know there is Il sickly sentimentality on
| this subject. In some families there are
persons 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 languish-
ing over a new pattern or bursting into
tears at midnight over the story of some
lover who shot himselfl They would not
deign to look at Ruth carrying back the
barley on her way home to her mother-in-
law, Naomi
All this fastidiousness may seem to do
very well while they are under the shelter
of their fathers house; but when the sharp
winter of misfortune comes, what of these
butterflies? Persons under indulgent par
entage may get upon themselves habits of
| Incidence, but when they come out into
practical life their soul will recoil with dis
gust and chagrin. They will feel in their
hearts what the poet so severely satirized
| when he said:
Folks are SO awkward, things so impoIite,
They're elegantly panied from morn till night
i Through that gate of Incidence how
many men and women have marched, use
less on earth, to destroyed eternityl
Spihola said to Sir Horace We're: 'Of what
did your brother dieS' .'Of having nothing
to do" was the answer. "Ahp' said
Spinola, "that's enough to kill any gen.
eral of u.s." Oh, can it be possible in this
world, where there is SO much suffering to
be alleviatcd, so much darkness to be en-
lightened, and SO many burdens to be car
ried, that there is any person who cannot
find anything to dor"
THE BOAST oFMADABIE DE STAEL.
Madame de Stael did world of work in
! her time; and one day, while she was
seated amid instruments of music, all of
which she had mastered, and amid manu-
script books which she had written some
one said to her, 'How do you find time to
attend to all of these things?" sOh," she
replied, "these are not the things l am
proud Of My chief boast is in the fact that
have seventeen trades, by any one of
which could make a livelihood if neces-
sary." And if in secular spheres there is
so much to be done. in spiritual work how
vast the fieldi How many dying all around
, about us without one word of comfortl
We want more Abigails, more Hannahs,
more Rebeccas, more Marys, more Deb
orahs consecrated-body, mind, soul-to
the Lord who bought them.
/ Once more L learn from my subject the
value of cleaning Ruth going into that
J
, straw and there is straw, but what is q
, straw? 1 can't get any barley for myself
or my mother-in-law out of these separate
3 straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She
l gathered two straws and she put them to-
gether, and more straws until she got
3 enough to make a sheaf. Putting that
e down she went and gathered more straws
D until she had another sheaf, and another
/. and another and another, and then she
: brought them all together and she threshed
g them out, and she had an ephah of barley
9 nigh Il bushel. Oh. that we might all bt
t cleaners!
o THE STRAY PRIVILEGES COUNT.
Elihu- Burritt learned many things while
e toiling in blacksmith's shop. Aber
J, crombie, the world renowned philosopher
g was a physician in Scotland, and he go
e his philosophy, or the chief part of it, whil,
e as a physician he was waiting for the doo
f of the sick room to open. Yet how many
n, there are in this day who say they are 81
busy they have no time for mental O.
e spiritual Improvement; the great duties o
70 life cross the field like strong reapers ant
y carry off all the hours, and there is onl,
vt here and there fragment left that is no
1t worth cleaning. All, my friends, yol
e couid go into the busiest day and busies
If week of your life and find golden oppor
p tunities, which gathered might at las
d make a whole sheaf for the Lords garner
is 1t is the stray opportunities and the stra
=, privileges which taken up and bound to
ID gether and beaten out will at last fill yo1
with much JOY.
There are a few moments left worth tn
cleaning. Now, Ruth, to the feldi Ma
IS each one have a measure full and runnin
oe over! Oh, you cleaners, to the feldl An
6..i in, hone f1nlG -r1 arrodn