The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
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SO Nassau ST., New York.
1t seemed to be a matter of nc impor-
lance that Luther found a Bible in a
monastery, but as he opened that Bible
and the brass bound lids fell back they
Jared everything, and the rustling of
the wormed leaves was the sound of the
wings of the angel of the reformation.
1t seemed to be a matter Of no impor-
lance that a woman whose name has
been forgotten dropped a tract in the
way of a very bad man of the name of
Richard Baxter. He picked up the tract
and read it, and it was the means of
his salvation. In after days that man
wrote a book called 1.-THE Call to the
U~nconverted," that was the means of
bringing a multitude to God, among
others Philip Doddridge. Philip bod
bridge wrote a book called 1.-The Rise
and Progress of Religion, which has
brought thousands and tens of thousands
into the kingdom of God and among
others the great Wilberforce. WILDER
force wrote a book called "a Practical
View of Christianity, which was the
means Of bringing a great multitude to
Christ, among others Leigh Richmond.
Leigh Richmond wrote a tract called
1.-The Dairyman's Daughter" which
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unconverted multitudes. And that tide
of influence started from the fact that
one Christian woman dropped a Chris
tian tract in the way of Richard Bax-
ter, the tide of influence rolling on
through Richard Baxter, through Phil
ip Doddridge, through the great Wilber-
force, through Leigh Richmond, on, on,
on, forever, forever. So the insigniti-
can't events of this world seem, after
all, to be most momentous.
Female Toilers.
Again, l see in my subject an illus
tration of the beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest
field under the hot sun or at noon tax
ing plain bread with the reapers or eat
ing 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 intelligent woman
will find something to do.
/ know there is a sickly sentimental
ity on this subject. In some families
there are persons of no practical service
IN +ha household or onnn,nnnitu arl
though there are so many woes all
around about them in the world, they
spend their time languishing over a new
pattern or bursting into tears at midnight
over the story of some lover who shot
himself. They would not deign to look
Mt 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 shell
Ger of their fathers house, but when the
sharp winter of misfortune comes what
of these butterflies? Persons under in
dulgent parentage may get upon them
selves habits of Incidence, but when
they come out into practical life their
soul will recoil with disgust and cha
grin, They will feel in their hearts
what the poet 81 severely satirized when
he said:
Folks are SO awkward, things SO impolite.
They're elegantly panied from morning until
night.
Through hat gate of incidence how
many men and women have marched.
useless on earth, to a destroyed eternity!
Spinola said to Sir Horace We're, "Of
what did your brother dep "Of hav-
ing nothing to do" was the answer.
"Ah," said Spinola, "that's enough to
kill any general of us!" Oh, can it be
possible in this world, where there is SO
much suffering to be alleviated, so much
darkness to be enlightened and so many
burdens to be carried, that there is any
person who cannot find anything to do?"
Nine. 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 writ
ten, some n said to her, "How do you
find time to attend to all these things?'
"Oh," she replied, ''these are not the
things I am proud of. My chief boast Ia
in the fact that / have II trades, by any
one of which I could make a livelihood
If necessary" And, if in secular spheres
there is SO much to be done, in spirit
ual work how vast the feldi How many
dying all around about us without one
word Of comfort! We want more Abb
gals, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas,
more Marys, more Deborahs, consecrat-
ed, body, mind, soul, to the Lord who
bought them.
Cleaning.
Once more l learn from my subject
the value Of cleaning.
Ruth going into that harvest field
might have said: "There is a straw,
and there is a straw, but what is a
straw? ! can't get any barley for my
self or my mother-in-law out of these
separate straws." Not SO said beautiful
Ruth. She gathered two straws, and
she put them together, and more
straws, until she got enough to make a
sheaf. Putting that down, she went
and gathered more straws, until she had
another sheaf, and another, and anoth-
er, and another, and then she brought
them together, and she threshed them
out, and she had an ephah of barley,
nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might all be-
gleanersl
Elihu Burritt learned many things
while toiling in a blacksmith's shop
Abercrombie, the world renowned phil
osopher, was a philosopher in Scotland,
and he got his philosophy, or the chief
part OF 1T, while as a physician he was
waiting for the door Of the sickroom TO
open. Yet how many there are in this
day who say they are 30 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 hero and
there a fragment left that IL not worth
cleaning. All, my friends, you could 20
into the busiest day and busiest week
OF your life and find golden opportuni-
ties, which, gathered, might Mt last
make a whole shoaf for the Lords gar.
ner. IL IL the stray opportunities and
the stray privileges which, taken up
n 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 II have a measure full and
running overt Oh, you cleaners, TO the
heldl And II there be in your household
an aged n or a sick relative that il
not strong enough to come forth and
toll in this field, then let Ruth take
home to feeble Naomi this sheaf OF
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