Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-06

| events which seem to be most insight
ficant may be momentous. Can yor
imagine anything more upimportant
than the coming Of poor woman from
| Moab to Judea? Can You imagine any
thing more trivial than the fact that
! this Ruth just happened Il
alight - as they say - just hap
pened to alight on that field Of
Boaz? Yet all ages, all generations
have an interest in the fact that she
| was to become an ancestress of the
| Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and
kingdoms must look at that one little
incident with thrill of unspeakable
and eternal satisfaction. So il is in
| your history and in mine; events that
you thought of no Importance at all
have been of very great moment That
casual conversation, that accidental
meeting you did not think of it again
for long while; but how it changed
all the current of your life.
Il 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 vibration of strirged in,
strument, 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 JubaPs harp and Jub lis
| organ. 1t seemed to be matter of
very little Importance that Tubal Cain
learned the uses of copper and iron;
but that rude foundry of ancient days
has it's echo in the rattle of Birming.
ham machinery. and the roar and bang
of factories on the Merrimac.
Madame de Stael did a 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 manuscript books which she
! had written, some one said to her:
GLOW do you find time to attend to all
these things?" "Oh," 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 l could
make livelihood II necessary" And
if in secular spheres there is so much
to be done, in spiritual work how vast
the field! How many dying all around
about us without one word of comfort!
We want more Abigails, more Han
nahs, more Rebeccas, more Marys
moro Deborahs Consecrated-body,
mind, soul-to the Lord who bought
them.
Elihu Burritt learned many things
while toiling in blacksmitfs shop.
A bercrombie, the world-renowned
philosopher was physician in Scot
land, .sand he got his philosophy, or the
chief part of it, while, as a physician,
he was waiting for the door Of the sick.
room to open. Yet how many there
are in this day who say they are
so busy they have no time
for mental or spiritual improve
ment the great duties of life cross the
field like strong reapers, and carry off
all the hours, and there is only here
and there a fragment left, that is not
worth cleaning. All, my friends, you
could go into the busiest dav and bust
est week of your life and find golden
opportunities, which, gathered, might
at last make a whole sheat for the
Lords garner. 1t is the stray oppor-
tunities and the stray privileges which,
taken up and bound together and
beaten out, will at last fill you with
much joy.
There are a few moments left worth
the cleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field!
May each one have measure full and
running over! Oh, you cleaners, to
the field! And if there be in your
household an aged one or sick rela-
tive that is not strong enough to come
forth and toll in this field, then let
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this
sheaf of cleaning: He that goeth
forth and weepeth, bearing precious
seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him" May the Lord God of Ruth and
Naomi be our portion forever!