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

Il GLENwooD, Colo, Aug "A sermon.
redolent with the breath of the East har.
vest fields Of the west, indicates that DR.
Talmage has found in the scenes through
which be has been travelling and in his
present surroundings, suggestions of Cos
pei lessons His text is taken from Ruth
H. B. And she went and came and CLEANED
in the field after the reapers: and her hap
was 70 light on part of the field belong
ing 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. and they are
one great harvest field, and no season can
De 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
old custom when a sheaf 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. II there were handouts of
grain scattered across the field after the
main harvest had been reaped, instead OF
raking il, 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 II and get their bread But,
you say, What is the use of all these
harvest fields TO Ruth and Naomil Naomi
Is too old and feeble to 90 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 ieldy"
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, he beholds a beauti.
ful woman gleaning-a woman more lit 10
bend to harp or sit upon a throne than 10
stoop among the sheaves. All, that was
all sventful dayl
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
IL was love at first sight Boaz forms an
attachment for the womanly gleaner-an
attachment full of undying interest 10 the
Church OF God in all ages; while Ruth.
with an ephah, or nearly u bushel Of bar
ley, goes home to Naomi TO tell her the
aud adventures OF the day. That
Ruth, who left her native land OF Moab in
darkness, and journeyed through an un.
dying affection for her mother-in- law, is in
the harvest field Of Boaz. is affianced to
Dne OF the best families In Judah, and be-
comes IN after time the ancestress of Jesus
Christ, the Lord of Glory Out OF so dark
night did there ever dawn SO bright J
learn in the first place from this sub.
ect how trouble develops Character II :
vas bereavement, poverty and exile that
developed, illustrated aud announced to
III ages the sublimiLy Of Rnth's character. !
That is very unfortunate man who has !.
10 trouble II was sorrow that made John
5unyan the better dreamer, and DR.. Young =
he better poet, and O'Connel the better =
rator, aud Bishop Hall the better preach :
r and Havelock the better soldier, and =
Aitto the better encyclopedias and Ruth Z
he better daughter-in-law =
THE VALUE OF TROUBLE =
once asked an aged man In regard TO =
i pastor, who was very brilliant man, !,
Why Is Il that your pastor. so very bril- :,
ant, seems TO have so little tenderness in 4,
is sermons Well" be replied, 1.-THE ;.
Jason Is our pastor has never had any
'ouble. When misfortune comes upon him !,
IS style will he different" After awhile =
re Lord took a child ont of that pastors =,
)use, and though the preacher was lust =
brilliant as he WAS before, oh, the g,
armth, the tenderness OF his discoursesl !,
he fact is that trouble is great edu. ?,
tor lou see sometimes musician sit -
'wn at an instrument, and his execution -
cold and formal aud unfeelinQ The ~
ason is that all his life he has been pros - -
red. But let misfortune or bereavement e.
me to that man, and he sits down az the -
Strument, and you discover the pathos b.,
the first sweep of the keys Misfortune -
d trials are great educators. sa =,
A young doctor comes into a sickroom ~
lere there is dying child. Perhaps be ~
very rough in his prescription, and very H.,
lgh ia his manner and rough i'm the II
ing OF the pulse, and rough in his an g.
er TO the mothers anxious question, but ~;
; years roll on and there has been one -,
nd IN his own house, and now he comes -,
o the sickroom. and with fearful eye he 49,
KS at the dying child aud he says, "Oh, ,,,a'
" this reminds me of my Charlieg' -
'uble, the great educatori Sorrow-I i
It's touch IN the grandest painting; 500
II It's tremor in the sweetest song; feel va.
power in the mghtiest argument. -
recian mythology said that the foun- ~,
} of Hippocrene was struck out bv the ~
Of the winged horse, Pegasus. have MOI
IN noticed in life that the brightest and so
st beautiful fountains OF Christian com IN :,
and spiritual life have been struck out 49,
r't-cA nv
ity. see Daniels courage best by the and
Of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. / see Co.,,
Us prowess best when | find him on
laundering ship under the glare of the Ct
thing in the breakers OF Melita. God Mill,
vns his children amid the bowling Of on :
beasts and the chopping of blood sma
shed guillotlne and the cracking fires had
lartyrdom tba
took the prosecutions of Marcus Azure cher
to develop Polycarp and Justin Mar sem
II took the pope's bull. and the cardi- darl
) curse. and the worlds anathema TO inc
'lop Martin Luther. 1t took all the the
ilities against the Scotch Covenanters the
the fury Of Lord Claverhouse to de ALI
p James Renwick. and Andrew Mel. peor
, and Hugh McKail, the glorious mar B,
of Scotch history. 1t took the stormy ALI r
and the December blast, and the desc are +
New England coast, and the war. head
op of savages to show forth the prowess are
Ie Pilgrim fathers wors
When amid the storms they sang, hum