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KEY. DU. TALMA UK. 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. t LIKE A BIRD. A SEW FLYING MACHINK IN¬ VENTED 13Y A GERMAN. The Inventor Thinks He Has Solved The Problem of Aerial Naviga¬ tion—Huge Wings Driven By Carbonated Gas. BERLIN correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says: Herr Arthur Stentzel, of Al- tona, believes he has solved t he problem of aerial navigation. It has long been the aim of tho flying ma¬ chine enthusiast to construct some¬ thing that would practically be the prototype of a bird. It is on this prin¬ ciple that he has constructed his ma¬ chine. Its two great sections resem¬ ble the wings of a gigantic bird more than all else. With them the inventor claims that he can move through the ii I \ i bmpmie ! j il I i™ m j- in* i mu mil $ V I /■} m. ■■ m f as /A m W w , r mm ■V- THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIFICIAL WINGS OF A GERMAN INVENTOR. air for four or five minutes and alight without injury. ducted Experiments that hare been con¬ with this newest of flying ma¬ chines have been undertaken very privately. Experts say that the Al- tcna iAventor has shot far nearer the mark i.»u his effort to counterfeit the bjiid tpe study than of any aerial of his problems. predecessors in I The wings of the Stentzel machine pave a spread of about seven yards, land their surface is eight and two- ,fifths yards all told. They move through an angle of seventy de- grees and are curved according to a parabola in a proportion of one to twelve. Compressed carbonic acid gas is employed as a motive agent, and the machine is driven by an engine also of Herr Stentzel’s invention. It is stated that the speed of the engine can be reacii fMMitrolled iln%i so that the machine can arying velocities. The inventor belierc >8 that within a year, if be can raise the necessary capi¬ tal to build a machine on a large enough scale, he will be able to fly above the Kaiser's palace in Berlin. A UNIQUE BANNER. An American Flag Blade Entirely of Butterflies. Patriotic Americans have depicted the National flag in all manner of ways H 1 A * Hi \DHTML. OF Ft.AG % m M jgfifi * •-■I iMM M 33 ♦ % 3- fOfC AMERICAN FLAG MADE OF BUTTERFLIES. with all manner of substances, but, says the New York World, it remained' for an Englishman. John Hampson, cf Newark, N. J., to make the Stars an’d Stripes For in butterflies. four years Mr. Hampson has labored with the delicate little beau¬ ties in making his flag, which is about 20x24 inches. The butterflies and beetles are so ar¬ ranged as to give the flag the appear¬ ance of waving against a background of delicate pink wings. Mr. Hampson has many eases filled with collections of gaudy colored in¬ sects from almost every known land. He has been collecting thirty years. The biggest fieh story of the season comes from North Carolina. Captain Tarkenton recently caught in Pamlico Eiver a sturgeon that measured nine and a half feet in length and weighed about three hundred poundA QUEEKEST 0E BIRDS. An Ungainly Apteryx crom New Zealand and Its Curious Habits. The Zoological Society of Regent’s Park, London, has recently secured a fine specimen of the queer bird known as the kiwi or apteryx. This bird, which is a native of New Zealand, has been interesting to scien¬ tists ever since the first specimen was captured, nearly one hundred years ago. The use of the long, snipB-like beak was a puzzle for naturalists until Sir W. J. Buller made a study of a kiwi he captured nud kept captive while in New Zealand. Ho took one of the large glow-worms found in New Zealand and threw it to the captive kiwi. By tho light of its own lamp 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. 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