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HK NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY DIS
COURSE.
Subject. .* “Boaz and Ruth.”
Text; “And she went and came and
gleaned In tho field after the reapers, nud
her hap was to light on a part of the field
belonging unto Boaz. who was of the kin¬
dred of Ellmolech. Ruth II., 3.
The time that Ruth and Naomi arrivo at
Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the cus¬
tom when a sheaf fell from a load in the
harvest field for tho reapers to refuse to
gather it up. That was to be left for the
poor who might happen to come along that
way. If there were handfuls of grain scat¬
tered across tho field after the main harvest
had been reaped, instead of raking it, as
farmers do now, it was, by the custom of
Ihe land, left in its place so that the poor,
coming that wav, might glo-in it and get
their bread. But you say, “What is the
use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and
Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go
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 field?”
Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out
to seethe reapers gather In the grain. Com¬
ing there, right behind the swarthy, sun-
browned reapers, he beholds a beautiful
womaij gleaning—a woman more fit to bend
to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop
among the sheaves. Ah, that was an event¬
ful day!
It was love at first sight, Boaz forms au
attachment for the womanly gleaner—an
attachment full of undying intorest to tho
church of God in all ages, while Ruth, with
an ephah. or nearly a bushel of barley, goes
home to Naomi to toll her the successes and
adventures of tho day. That Ruth, who left
her native land of Moab in darkness, nud
traveled through an undying affection for
her mother-in-law, is in the harvest field of
Boaz, is affianced to one of the best families
in Judah, and becomes in after time the an¬
cestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Out of so dprk a night did there ever dawn
so bright a morning?
I learn in tho first place from this subject
how trouble develops character. It was be¬
reavement,poverty and exile that developed,
illustrated and announced to all ages the
sublimity of Ruth’s character. That is a very
unfortunate man who ha3 no trouble. It was
sorrow that made John Bunyan the bettor
dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and
O'Connell the better and orator, Havelock and Bishop Hall
the better preacher, the better
soldier, and Kitto the Better encyclopaedist,
and Ruth the better daughter-in-law.
I once asked an aged man in regard to his
pastor, who was a very brilliant man, “Why
is it that your pastor, so very brilliant,
to have so little heart aDd tenderness in his
sermons?” “Well,” ho replied, “the reason
is our pastor has never had any trouble.
When misfortune comes upon him, his
will bs different.” After awhile the
took a child out of that pastor’s house, nnd
though the preacher was just as brilliant
he was before, oh, the warmth, the tender¬
ness of his discourses! The fact ■ is that
trouble is a great educator. You see some¬
times a musician sit down at an instrument
nnd his execution is cold aud formal ana un¬
feeling. The reason is that all his life he
has been prospered. But let misfortune
bereavement come to that man. and he sits
down at the instrument, and you discover
the pathos iu the first sweep of the keys.
Misfortune and trials are great educators.
A young doctor comes into a sickroom where
there is a dying child. Perhaps he is very
rough in his prescription and very rough in
his manner and rough in the feeling of the
pulse and rough in his answer to the mother’s
anxious question. But years roll on, and
there has been one dead in his own house,
and now he comes into the sickroom, and
with tearful eyes he looks at the dying child,
and he says. “Oh, how this reminds me of
my Charlie!” Trouble, the great educator.
Sorrow—I see Its touch in the grandest
painting, I hear its tremor in the sweetest
song, I feel its power in the mightiest argu¬
ment.
Grecian mythology said that the fountain
of Hippoerene was struck out by the fooc of
the winged horse Pegasus. I have often
noticed in life that the brightest and most
beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and
spiritual life have been struck out by the iron
shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see
Daniel’s courage best by the flash of Nebu¬
chadnezzar’s furnace. I see Paul’s prowess
best when I find him on the foundering ship
under the glare of the lightning iu the
breakers of Molita. God crowns his chil¬
dren amid the howling of wild beasts and
the chopping of blood splashed guillotine
and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It
took the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius to
develop Polycarp and Justin Martyr, It
took all the hostilities against the Scotch
Covenanters and the fury of Lord Claver-
house to develop James Iienwick and An¬
drew Melville aud Hugh history. McKail, It tho glori¬
ous martyrs of Scotoh took the
stormy sea and the December blast and the
desolate New England coast and the war
wnoop of savages to show lorth the prowess
of the pilgrim lathers.
When amid the storms they sang.
And the stars heard, and the sea,
And the sounding aisles of the dim wood
I Rang to the anthems of the free.
I It took all our past national distresses, and
it takes all our present national sorrows to
lift up our nation on that high career where
it will march long after tho foreign aristoc¬
racies have mocked and tyrannies that have
jeered, shall be swept down under the om¬
nipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism
and who, by the strength of his own red
right arm, will make all men free. And so
it is individually, and in the family, and in
the church and iu tho world, that through
darkness aud storm and trouble men,
women, churches, nations, are developed.
Again, I see in my text the beauty of uu-
faltering friendship. I suppose while there were
plenty of friends for Naomi she was in
prosperity, but willing of all her trudge acquaintances off witli her how
’many were to to¬
ward Judah, when she had to make that
lonely journey? One—the heroine I of mv
text. One—absolutely one. suppose when
Naomi’s husband was living, and they lmd
plenty of money, and all things wont well,
they had a great many callers, but I suppose
that after her husband (lied, and her prop¬
erty went, aud site got old and poor, she was
not troubled very much with callers. All the
birds that sung in the bower while the sun
shone have gone to their nests now the night
has fallen.
Ob, these beauiilul sunflowers that spread
out their color in the morning hour! But
they are always asleep when the sun is
going down. Job had plenty of friends
when ho was tho richest man iu Uz, but
when his properly went nnd the trials came
then 1 hern were none so much that pestered
as 'Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad tho
Shuhite, and Zopharthe Nanmathite.
Life often seems to be a mere game,
where the successful player pulls down all
the other men into his own iap. Let sus¬
picions arise about a man’s character, und
he becomes like a bank in a panic, and all
tho imputations rush on him and break
in a day thut character which in due time
would have had strength to defend itself.
There are reputations that have been half a
century in building which go down under
one push, as a vast temple is consumed by
the touch of a sulphurous match. A hog
can uproot a century plant. of heartlessness and
In this world, so full it is
hypocrisy, how thrilling to find some
friend as faithful in days of adversity as iu
days of prosperity? David had such a friend
in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in
Mordeeai, who never forgot their cause;
Paul had such a friend in Ouesiphorus, who
visited him in jail; Christ had such in tho
Marys, who adhered to Him on the cross;
j j Naomi out: “Entreat had such a n4t one to in leave Ruth, thee, who or to cried
me re¬
turn from following after thee, for whither
thou goust I will go, and whither thou
i lodgest I will lodge. Tby people shall be
jny people, and thy God my God. Where
| thou dtnst will I (Ur. and thfira will I be
burled. Tb» Lord do so to me, nnd more
j also. If aught but doath part you and me."
Again. I learn from Ibis subject that paths
which open 1n hardship and darkness often
come out in places ot joy. When Ruth started
from Monb toward Jerusalem to go along
with her mother-in-law, I suppose the peo¬
ple said: “Oh, what a foolish creature to
go nWuy from tier father’s house; to go olt
with a poor old woman toward the land of
Judah! Thtiy won't live to get across the
desert. They will be drowned in the sea, or
tho jackals of tho wilderness will destroy
them." It was a very dark morning when
Ruth started off with Naomi. But behold her
in my text in the harvest Held of Boaz, to bo
affianced to one of the lords of the land and
become ope of the grandmothers of Jems
Christ, the Lord of glory. And so it oflen
is that a path which often starts very darkly
ends very br ghtly.
When you started out for heaven, oh, how-
dark was the hour of conviction; how Sinai
thundered and tho devils tormented and tho
darkness thickened! All the sins of your life
pounced upon you and it was tho darkest
hour you ever saw when you first found out
your sins. After awhile you went Into the
harvest field of God’s mercy. You began to
glean in tho fields of divine promiso and you
had more sheaves than you could carry ns
the voice of God addressed you saying.
“Blessed is the man whose transgressions are
forgiven and whose sins are covered.” A
very dark starting in conviction, a very
bright ending in the pardon and the hope
and the triumph of the gospel!
So, very spiritual otien in our worldly husiness or
in our career we start off on a very
dark path. We must go. The flesh may
shrink back, hut there is a voice within, or a,
voioa from above, saying, “You must go.”
And we have to drink the gall, and we have
to carry tho cross, and we have to traverse
the desert, and we are pounded and flailed
of misrepresentation and abuse, and we have
to urge our way through 10,000 obstacles
that have been slain by our own right arm.
We have to ford tho 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 tip top of tho cap¬
tured battlements we will shout the victory;
if not in this world, then in that world where
there is no gall to drink, no burdens to carry,
no battles to light. How do I know it? Know
it! I know it because God says so; “They
shall hunger no more, neither thir3t any
more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them to living
fountains of water, and God shall wipe all
tenra from their eyes ”
It was very hard for Noah to endure the
scoffing of the people in his day, while he
was tryiug to build tho ark aud was everv
morning quizzed about his old boat that
would never he of any practical use; of but the
when the deluge came and the tops
mountains disappeared like the backs of sea-
monsters, and the elements, lashed up in
fury, clapped their hands over a drowned
world then Noah in tho ark rejoiced in his
own safety and in the safety of his family
and looked out on the wreck of a ruined
earth.
Again, I see in my subject an illustration
of ihe beauty of female industry.
Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field
under the hot sun or at noon taking plain
bread with the reapers or eating the parched
corn which Boaz handed to h'-r. The cus¬
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.
I know there is a sickly sentimentality on
this subject. In some families there are
persons of no practical service to the house¬
hold or community, and, though there are so
many woes all around about them in tho
world.they spend their time languishing oyer
a new pattern or bursting into tears at mid¬
night over the story of some lover who shot
himself. They would not deign to look at
Ruth carrying back tho barley on her way
home to her mother-in-law. Naomi. AU
this fastidiousness may seem to do very well
while they are under the shelter of their
father’s bouse, but when the sharp winter of
misfortune oomes, what ot these butterflies?
Persons themselves under indulgent habits parentage of indolence, may but geft
upon they out into practical life their
when come and chagrin.
soul will recoil with disgust
They will feel in their hearts what the poet
so severely satirized when he said:
Folks are so awkward, things so impolite, until ;
They’re elegantly pained from morning
nisht. —^
Through that gate of indolence how ItWy
men find women have marched, useless (rn
earth, to a destroyed eternity! Spinola said
to Sir Horace Vere, “Of what did your
brother die?” “Of having nothing to “that’s do,”
was the answer. “Ah,” said Spinola,
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 bo enlightened and so many bur¬
dens to be carried, that there is any person
who cannot find anything to do?
Mme. de Stael did a world of work in her
time, and ono 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,
“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 is
in the fact that 1 have seventeen 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 spiritual work how
vast the field! How many dying all around
about us without ono word of comfort! We
want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more
Rebeccas, more Marys, more Deborahs, Lord con¬
secrated, body, mind, soul, to the who
bought thorn.
Once more I learn from my subject the
value of gleaning. harvest field might
Ruth going into that
have said : “There is a straw, and there is n
straw, but what is a straw? I can't get any
barley for myself or my mother-in-law out
of these separate straws.” Not so said
beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws,
nnd she put them together, and more straws,
until she got enough to make a sheaf. Put¬
ting that down, she went and gathered more
straws, until she had another sheaf, and
another, and another, and another, and then
she brought them together, and she threshed
them out, and she had an epbah of barley,
nigh a bushel. Oh, that wo might all be
gleaners! Ellhu Burrltt learned things while
many Abercrombie,
toiling in a blacksmith shop.
the world renowned philosopher, aud he his was phil¬ a
philosopher in Scotland, of it, got while
osophy, or the chief part as a
physician ho was waiting for the door of the
sickroom to open. Yet how many there are
in this day who say they are so busy they
have no time for mental or spiritual life im¬
provement. The great duties of 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 gleaning.
Ah, my friends, you could go into the busiest
day aud busiest week of your life and find
golden opportunities, which, gathered,
might at Inst make a whole sheaf for the
Lord’s garner. It is the stray opportunities aud
and the stray privileges which, taken up
bound together and beaten out, will at last
fill you with much joy. left worth the
There are a lew moments
gleaning. Now, Ruth, to tho field! May each
one have a measure lull and running over!
Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And If there
be in your household un aged one or a sick
relative that is not strong enough Ruth to coma
forth and toil in this field, then let take
home to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning.
“He that goeth forth and weopeth, 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!
Russell Freer, a three-year-old boy of Chi¬
cago, burned out the eyes of his infant
brother and then laughed over it, The chil¬
dren were left alone in the kitchen and Rus¬
sell, taking a stove poker, healed it and then
poked it into tho eyes of the baby. The lat
ler screamed with pain and his mother came
into the room to find Russell standing over
him, with the poker still ill his hand, iaugh-
ibg at his awftsl work.
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The Inventor Thinks He Has Solved
The Problem of Aerial Naviga¬
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BERLIN correspondent of the
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Herr Arthur Stentzel, of Al-
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An American Flag Blade Entirely of
Butterflies.
Patriotic Americans have depicted
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Stripes For in butterflies.
four years Mr. Hampson has
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The butterflies and beetles are so ar¬
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Mr. Hampson has many eases filled
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He has been collecting thirty years.
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QUEEKEST 0E BIRDS.
An Ungainly Apteryx crom New
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The Zoological Society of Regent’s
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as the kiwi or apteryx.
This bird, which is a native of New
Zealand, has been interesting to scien¬
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captured, nearly one hundred years
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beak was a puzzle for naturalists until
Sir W. J. Buller made a study of a
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while in New Zealand. Ho took one
of the large glow-worms found in New
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the glow-worm was seen to quickly
pass trom bead to tail inside the portals
of the kiwi’s beak, and leave behind it
enough of its slime to set off the bird’s
beak in a phosphorescent glow so that
the head of the bird was visible in the
darkness. The kiwi was torpid and
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