Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-08-07

DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON TIE
METRIC OF BOAz AND RUTH.

40 Exhortntion TO All Regarding the
Duty of Life.
GLENwocD, Colo, Aug. "A sermon,
rsduent with the breath of the vast har-
ves, fields OF the west, indicates tlat DR..
'palrNnee AVS found in the SCENES through
which he has been travelling snd in his
present surroundings, suggestions of Cos
vel lessons. His text is tG6Cn from Ruth
il, 3 And she went and came and CLEANED
IN the ield after the Ie4pers and her hap
was to hight on part Of the field belong
Ing unto I3oai, who was OF the kindred Of
Elimeech."
Within few weeks have been in North
Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, ohio, Michigan, Canada, Indiana
Illinois. Kentucky, " ssouri, and they are
one great harvest field 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 the
cid custom when a shcat fell from a
load in the harvest field for the reapers
to refuse to gather it up; that was to be
left for the poor who might happen to
come that way. If there were handfuls of
grain scattered across the field after the
main harvest had been reaped, instead Of
raking it, as farmers do now, it was, by
the custom of the land, left in its place, so
that the poor coming along that way
might CLEAN it and get their bread. But
you say, What is the use of all these
harvest fields TO Rush and Naomi2 Naomi
is too old and feeble to 20 out and toll in
the sun; and can you expect that Ruth,
the young and the beautiful, should tan
her cheeks and blister her hands in the
harvest fleldT
Boaz owns large farm, and he goes out
TO see the reapers gather in the grain
Coming there, right behind the swarthY
sun Drowned reapers, lie beholds a beauti-
full woman gleaning-a woman more fit to
bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to
stoop among the sheavcs. All, that was
Rn eventful dayl
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
It was love at first sight. Doaz forms an
attachment for tue womanly gleaner--an
attachment full of undying interest to the
Church Of God in al ages; while Ruth,
with an cphab, or nearly a bushel Of bar
ley goes home to Naomi to tell her the
successes and adventures of the day. That
Ruth. who left her native land of Moab in
darkness, aud iourneyed through an I'M
diving affection for her mother-n-law, is in
the harvest field Of Boaz, Is atlianced to
one Of the best families n Judah, and be-
comes in after time the ancestress of Jesus
Christ, the Lord of Glory Out of so dark
night dId Vhere ever GAVIN so bright
morning.
learn IN me nrSt place from thls SUB
'eat how trouNIe develops chhrscter IL
was DeFeaNelnehl' pO' anu exile that
"eve."peG' lI4Sirated ana announced to
all ages the s"Dl'n'liy oi ruin 5 character
That Is ii very unfortunate man VINO mas
81 troNple. u was ,orfo" thaI ilaue John
tun}dh the better dreamer anu Dr' Dung
me o''ler poc'' ana y CohueIi tIe better
orator, ana A!ShoD nan the better preach
J., ana HuVelock the better soIdler, anu
.-ttt" the better eucycIopedlst' ana Ruth
TIE better "NugAtcrln-laW'
THE VALUE OF TROUBLE.
once ''ahcd ah aged man III regard TO
i.7 J. Ht"r' VINO was q very orllhant man
wv Ay Is II tAat your pastor, SO very DILL
HlH1 aeclhs 10 A''e 80 4ittIe teuueiAess III
n., sermons" w e!h' he replied, the
T .eon IS our pastor has never had any
trouble When ms fortune comes upon him