The Penn's Grove record., 1897-04-30

Of MISREPRESENTATION and abuse. and we have
70 urge DUR way through 10000 obstacles
that have been slain by our own right arm,
we have 70 lord the river. we have to climb
the mountain. we have to storm the castle,
but, blessed be God, the day of rest and re-
ward Will come, On the tin top OF the cap
turei bnttlements we will shout the victory;
II not In this world, then IN that world where
there Is no gall todr,nk, no burdens to carry,
no battles to light. How do l know ft2 Know
1 knowit because God says SO: ..rhey
shalt hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sun light on them.
nor an heat, for the Lamb which is In the
midst OF the throne shall lend them to living
fountains Of water. and God shall wipe all
tears from their eyes
It WAS very hard for Noah TO endure the
sconng OF the people In his day, while he
was trying to build the arb ant was everv
morning qutzzei about his old boat that
would never hc OF any practical use; but
when the deluge came and tho tops OF the
mountains disappeared like the backs OF sea-
monsters, and the elements, dashed up in
fury, ,clapped their hands over n drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejotced In his
W safety and in tho safety OF his family
and looked out on the wreck OF a ruined
earth.
Christ, bounded OF prosecutors, denied a
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on
either side OF the cross, human hate smack.
ing its lips In satisfaction after IL hal been
draining its last drop OF blood, the sheeted
dead bursting from the sepulchers Mt His
crucinxion! Tell me, o Gethsemane and
Golgothn, were there ever darker times thnn
those? Like the booming OF the midnight
sea against the rock, the surges OF Christ's
anguish beat against the gates OF eternity, to
DO echoed back by all the thrones OF heaven
and all the dungeons OF hell. But tho day
of reward comes for Christ. All the pomp
AMI dominion OF this world are to bo hung
on His throne, crowned heads are to bow be-
fore Him on whose head are many crowns.
aud all the celestial worship Is to come ID at
His feet, like the humminQ OF the forest, like
the rushing OF the waters, like the thunder
ing OF the seas, while all heaven, rising on
their thrones, beat time with their scepiers,
"HalleIutnh, for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth
That song OF love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star TO star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden spirei Apocalypse.
Again, | learn from my subject tint events
which seem to be most insignificant may be
momentous. Car you imagine anything
more unimportunt than the coming OF a poor
woman from Moab TO Judah? Can you
imagine anything more trivial han the fact
that this Ruth Just happened to alight-as
they say-iust happened to alight on that
field Of Boaz2 Yet all ages, all generations,
have an interest In the fact that she was 10
become on ancestress OF the Lord Jesus
Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must
look ut that one little incident with a thrill
of u~Dspeakable and eternal satisfaction. So
1t 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 meet
ing-you did not think of 1t again for a long
while. but how it changed all the phases OF
your life.
1t seemed to be OF NO importance that
Jubal invented rude Instruments of music,
calling them harp and organs, but they were
the introduction Of all the worlds minstrelsy,
and as you hear the vibration OF a stringed
instrument, even after the fingers have been
taken away from 1t, so all music now Of lutte
and drum and cornet is only the long con-
tinued strains of Jubals harp n Jubars
| organ. 1t seemed to be a matter of very hit
tie importance that Tubal Cain learned the
uses OF copper and iron, but that rude loun-
dry of ancient days has its echo In the rattle
OF Birmingham machinery and the roar and
bang OF factories on the Merrimac.
II seemed to be n matter OF no Importance
that Luther found a Bib'e 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
4 AhA "a thA'st +" NOhAtbAA tNAAtoN AAttAAAS AAAe9
teen forgotten dropped q tract in the way OF
a very bad man Of the name OF Richard Bax-
ter. Ho picked up the tract and read II, and
1t was the means OF his salvation. In after
days that man wrote n book called 1.-THE
Cslltothe Unconverted, " that was the means
OF bringing a multitude to God, among
others Phillip Doddridge. Philip Doddri,ige
wrote a book called "rhe Rise and Pro-
gress OF Religion" which has brought
thousands and tens of thousands
into the kingdom o. God and among others
the great Wilberforce. Wilberforce wrote a
book called "a Practical View OF Christian
ity," which was the means OF bringing q
great multitude to Christ, among others
leigh Richmond. Leigh Richmond wrote a
tract called "The Dairyman's Daughter"
| which has been the means OF the salvation of
unconverted multitudes. And that tide OF
influence Started from the fact that one
Christina woman dropped a Christian tract
In the way OF Richard Baxter, the tide OF in
fuencA rolling oil through Richard Baxter.
through the great Wilberiorce, through
LegN Richmond. on, on, on, forever, Tor
ever. So the insignificant events OF this
world, seem, after all, to be the most mo-
mentous.
Again, I see in my subject an Illustration
OF The beauty of female industry.
Rebold Ruth toiling in the harvest field
under the hot sun or at noon taxing plain
bread with the reapers or eating the parchei
corn which Boaz handed to her. The Gus
toms 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 siekly sentlmentality on
this subject. In some families there are
| persons Of no practical serviee to The house,
bold or community, and, though there are so
many woes all around about them In tho
4 world they spend their time lauguishing over
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night over the story OF some lover who shot
himself. They would not deign to look at
Ruth carrying back the barley on her way
home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. AN
this fastidiousness may seem to do very well
while they nre under the shelter OF their
fathers house, but when the sharp winter OF
misfortune comes, what of these butterniesf
Persons under indulgent %parentage may get
upon themselves habits of Incidence, but
when they come out into practical life their
soul will reeoil with disgust n chaertn.
They Will feel in their hearts what the poet
SO severely satirized when he sail:
Folks are so awkward, things so impolite,
They're elegantly panied from morning until
might.
Mme. de Stael did a world OF work In her
time. and one day, while she was ssated
had mastered, and amid manuscript books
which sne had written, some one said to- her,
SHOW do you mud time to attend to all these
things?" "Oh," she replied. these are not
the things I am proud Of My CHIEF boast IS
In the fact that l have seventeen trades, by
any one OF which, could make a livelihood II
necessary" And, II in secular spheres there
Is so much to be done, in spiritual work now
vast the field! How many dying all around
about US without one word OF comfort We
want more Abigails, more Hannahs. more
| Rebeccasamore Marys, more Deborahs, con-
secrated. body, mind, soul, to the Lord who
bought them
valne OF cleaning.
Ruth going into that harvest field might
have said There is u straw, and there IS 9
straw. but what is a straw l cant get any
barley for myself or my motherin-iaw out
Of these separate straws. Not 50 SAID
beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws,
and she nut them together, aud more straws,
until she got enough to make a sheaf. Put
| ting that down, she went and gathered more
siraws. until che had another shea, and
another. and another, and another, and Then
she brought them together, and she threshed