E'S SERMON, A Case of Love at First Sight “An ! she went and eame and gloanoed in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz who was of the kindred of Elimelech.—Ruth i 3. Tue time that Ruth and Naomi ar- vive at Bethlehem 1s harvest-time, It was the custom when a sheaf fell from a load in the harvest-field for the reap- ers to refuse to gather It up; that was to be le(t for the poor who might hap- pen to come along that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, 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 glean it and get their bread, But, you say: “What is the use of all these fhiarvest-fields to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; and can you expec! that Ruth, the young and the beauti- ful. should tan her cheeks and blister Ler hands in the harvest-tield?”? Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in the grain. Coming there, right behind the sun- browned reapers, he beholds A BEAUTIFUL GLEANER a woman more fit to bend to a harp, or sit upon a one, than to among the sheaves, Ah, that was an eventful day! It was love at flrst sight. Boaz forms an attachment full of undy- inv interest to the Church of God in all while Ruth, with an ephah, or a bushel of barley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the successes and ad- ventures of the day. That Ruth, who teft her native land of Moab in dark- ness, and travelled through an undying affection for her in the harvest-field of Boaz, is affianced to one of the best families in Judah, and be- comes in after-time THE ANCESTRESS OF JESUS Out of dawn $1 .4 thir 8100] SCs, near:y ‘Christ, the Lord of glory. 80 dark a night did there ever bright a morning? I learn im the first place from thi subiect how trouble dope log 8s character. It was bereavement. poverty and exile tirat developed, illustrated an- nounced to all ages the sublimity of Ruth's character. That is a fortunate man who has no trouble. was sorrow that made John the beter dreamer, better poet, and O'Connell the orat and Bishop Hall th preacher, and Hawvelock t dier, aud Kitto the better encyclopedist and Huth the better ddughter-in-law, I once asked an aged man to his pastor, who was a very man: “Why is it that your | very brilliant, seems to have heart aud tenderness in his sermous ““Well," he replied, pastor has never had an misfort wil SQ 1 an + Ha ¥ : » is 1 i I HH 3 v33iie ’ briiiant pasion mn y 3H Ir, 80 i igel 80 little 3 91 i seg) 1 TeasOll 13 ( trouble, Wh him, his sty.e . : l ¥ e comes upon upon » Aller of th fail different. awh Lord took a child out at house: and though the preacher was just as brilliant as he was before, ol the warmth, tenderness of | The fact is that. A GREAT EDU sometimes musician the Courses, TROUBLE 18 i see down to an instriygnen tion is cold and formal The reason is that all been prospered. Dut le bereavement come tot sits down at an insirg discover the pathos int of the keys, great educators. A young doctor comes into a sick-room where there child. Perhaps he is very roug prescription, and very rough ATOR. o t, and h and uo + hig life A233 LAN nen he irst sweep is a in his pulse, and rough in his answer to the mother’s anxious question; bul years "ne ny the sick-room, and with tearful eyes he looks at the dying child, and he says: ‘42h, how this reminds me Chaclie!” Trouble, the great educator. Sorrow, | see its touch in the giand- est painting; I hear its tremor in tbe Grecian mytho- of Hip- mightiest argument, logy said that the fountain the winged horse Pegasus. 1 have of- g ® and most beautiful fountains of Cliris- tian comfort and spiritual life have been struck oul by THE IRON-SHOD HOOF of disaster and calamity, 1 see Dan- iel's courage best by the flash of Ne- buchadnezzar’s furnace, I see Paul's prowess best when I find lim on the light ng in the breakers of Melita, Gad erowns his children amid the howl- ing of wild beasts and the chopping of blood-splashed guillotine and the crack- ling fires of martyrdom. It took the pessecutions of Marcus Aurelius to de. velop Polycarp and Justin Martyr, It took the world’s anathema to develop * Martin Luther, It took all the hLostili- ties against the Scotch Covenanters and the fury of Lord Claverlouse to de- velop James Renwick, and Andrew Meiville, and Hugh McKall, the glori. ous martyrs of Scotch history, It took the stormy sea, and the December blast, and the desolate New England coast, aud the war-woop of savages, to show forth the prowess of the Pilgrim Fathers “When amid the storms they sang, And the stars beard, and the sea ; A nd the sounding aisles of the dim wood Hang to the anthems of the free.” It took all our past national distres. ses to litt up our nation on that high carcer where it will march along after the foreign aristocracies that have mocked, and the tyrannies that have jeeted, shall be swept down under the Jomnipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism, and who, by the strength of ¥iis own right arm, will make all men free. And so it 1s individually, ond in the family, and in the Church, and in . the world, that through darkness and storm and troubles men, women, churches, nations, are developed, IT. Again, I see in my text the beauty of UNFALTERING FRIENDSHIP, I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity; But of all her aoauaintan es, how many rm SC —_ TS were willing to trudge off with her to- ward Judea, when she had to make hat lonely journey? One—the heroine f my text. One—absolutely one, 1 suppose when Nuomi's husband was living, and they had plenty of motey, wd all things went well, they had a «reat many callers; but I suppose that after her husband died, and her prop- erty went, and she 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. Oh, these beautiful sun-flowers that spread out their colors in the morning hour! but are always asleep when the sun is going down! Job had plenty of friends when he was the richest man in Uz; but when his property went and the trials came, then there were none s0 much that pestered us Ellphaz the temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamahite, Life often seems to be a 1nere game, where the successful player pulls down all the other men into Lis own lap. Let suspicions arise about a man's in a panic, and all the rush on him and break down in a day tuut character which in due time would have haa strength to defend itself. half a century in down under some moral exposure, as a vast temple i8 consumed by the touch of a sulphurous match. A hog can up- root a century plant. In this world, so full of heartlessness hypoerisy, how th illing it find some friend FAITHFUL I> and is to N ADVERSMTY David had A Jews had as in days of prosperity! such a friend in Huasbai; the such a friend in Mordecal, who forgot their cause; Paul had friend in Onesiphorus, who vis in jnil; Christ had such in the Marys, who adhered to Him on the cross; Na- omi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out, “Entreat me not (0 leave to return from following alter for whither thon goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will people shall be my people, . and my God; where thou diest, and tl ill 1 be buried; the never: Mich i“ 3 5 thee, or re Ww EL © WN ord do SU & nore also, death d ’ part the i me, I OF SORROW, III. Again, I learn from this sub- ject that paths which open in and darkness often comes out of joy, When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go al with her mother-in-law, 1 suppose the peopl “Oh, what a foolish f her off withh a poor oll woman towanl the land of Judmal They won't live to get They will the sea or the jackals 1" 1 y 3 L ess will destroy them. ip x hardsh S11 ¢F Rik t W opie ure t real thor! K iin nw lern ff with Naomi; but behold | text in the harvest-field of Doaz, iffianced to one of the lords of the land, antl become of the grandgothers « Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 0 it often is, that hicl very darkly, 3 When you started ot » ends WwW is th 3 1 Ur 10W the sins of ye ind it was All YOu, Aha found out while you went In field o mercy; began to glean in the elds of divine promise, and you had more than you could carry, as the voice of God ad- dressed you, saying, “Blessed is the ou frst 8 After a t {io the 1 fri’ you sheaves and whose sins are 2oversd.'' A very starting in conviction, a very bright ending in the pardon and the bope and the triumph of the gospel. So, very often in our worldly busi- ness, or In our spiritual career, we start off on a very dark path, We must go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is i ' like the humming 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 sceptres : “Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Ialle'ujah, the kingdoms of this world have be- come the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus | Christ! “That song of 1 ove, now low and far, Ero long saall swell from star to star That Hght, tho breaking day which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse.” IV. Again: jeet that events most, INSIGNIFICANT MAY Can you imagine anything more unim- portant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judah? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the fact that this Ruth just happened to alight—as they say—just happened to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all ages, nll generations, have an in- terest in the fact that she was to become an ancestor of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one little incident with a I learn from my sub- | which seem to BE MOMENTUOUS, faction. So itis in vour history and in imporiance at all have been of very great moment. That casual conversa- | accidental meeting—you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the phase of 10 importance that | r Ii o of It seemed to be vented ¢ Of in ott cl Brrr rent) ill rua usirumens inction of all were e world's minstrels th Lil you hear 8 taken | of lute only the long- EO all cornet away from it, and drum and ntinued STRAINS O} io bens} importance that of It little il Cain learned the uses See ine 1 i saying: “You must go; own right arm. We have to ford the ed be God, the day of rest and REWARD WILL COME, ments we will shout the victory; if not How do 1 I know it because God says so: “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shail the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of carry, no battle to fight. all tears from their eyes.’’ the scoffing of the people in his day, while he was trying to build the ark, and was every morning guizz.d aby his old Boat that would never be of any practienl use; but when the deluge came, and the tops of the mountains disappgared like the backs of sea-mous- ters, and the elements, lashed up in fury, clapped thelr hands over 8 drown. al word, then Noah in the ark rejoie- ed in Lis own safety and in the safety of his family, and lobked out on the wreck of a riined earth, CHRIST ROUNDED OF PERSECUTORS dented a pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human hate smacking its Tips in satis. faction after it had been draining Ilis inst drop of Dood, the sheeted dead bursting from ‘the sepulchres at His ccnoifixion. “Tell me, O Gethiémane and Golgotha! were there ever darker times. than those? Like the booming of the midnight the serges of against the gates of eternity, to bg echo el back by all the thrones of heaven andiall the dungeons of But the hell, day of xo mes shirist; ali the dp aot Beno of thi wotld are to be bung on his th unérownad heals are th boW before Tint on whose head are many crowns, atid all the cel. estinl worship is to come up at His feet, ‘ in uu machinery and bang of Merrimac, It seemed of no importance that lL.u Dut as i y 18 eCiu Wi pili ancient days has wt Bible, and the brass-bound lids fell k they jarred everything, Vatican to the faithest « . and the rustling leaves was angel mvent in of the 1 of the Reform Germany Wr 1 t hun WOTrthea Lie of ths Le ino impor. has $4 foro wry Ti Lil 3 er * name of way of a very ard Da Lint tive P81] Ait onverted ning a multitude t Philip Doddridge, ; » wrote a book and Progress of Heligi ! rhit thous ds i Al Wilberforee od: kingdom of Crond, great i Vid w of .Christia iv, ‘whi the means of bringing a great mul- among others Legh i at to Christ, the tide of In- | gh Richard Dod ili ge, wo, through Legh Richmor forever, | forever. So the insignificant events of this world seem, after all, tO be most momentous, The faet that you came up that street or this street seemed to be of no importance to you, and the fact that you went inside of some church may seem to be a matter of very great insignificance to you, but you will find it the turming-point in your history. VY. Again: illustration of rfiE BEAUTY OF FEMALE IXDUSTRY. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest. field under the hot sun, or at noon tak- I see in my subject an | handed to her. The customs of society, of course, have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to which uth was subjected, every intelligent woman will find something to do. 1 know there is a sickly sentimentality | on this subject, In some families there are persons of no practical service to household or community; and there are s0 many woes all around about them In the world, they | spend their time languishing over a new | pattern, or bursting into teats ot mid- night over the story of seme lover who shot himself! They would not deign to | i i on her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi, All this fasti-liousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father’s house: tut when the sharp winter of misfortune comes, what of these butter flies? Persons under indulgent paren- tage may get upon themselves habits of indolence: but when they come out into practical life their soul will xecoil with disgust and chagrin. They will feel in their hearts what the poet so severely satirized when he said: “Folks are so awkw things 30 impo They're elegantly - on po antil night" Through that gate of indolence how many men and women have marched, useless on earth, to adestroyed etarnity ! Spinola said to ir Horace Vere; “Of what did your brother die?” “Of hav. ing to do,”" was the answer. “Ah,” said Spinols, “that's tw kill any general of us,’ Ohlcan. it be possible in this world, where there is 80 much suffering to be alleviated, so much darkness to be enlightened, aud so many burdens to be carried, that there is an person who cannot find anything to do MADAME DE STARL did a world of work in Lier time; and one tay, while she was seated amid instro- ments of musie, all of which he bad masterad, and amid manuscript books to her: “How do you find time to attend to all these things?” **Oh,” she replied, ‘these are not the things 1 am proud of, My chief boast is in the fact that 1 have seventeen trades, by any one of which I could make a live- lihood if necessary.” And if in secular spheres there is so much to be done, in spiritunl work how vast the field! We wilnt more Abigzails, more Hannahs, moe Rebeceas, more Marys, more Deborahs consecrated body, mind, soul to the Lord who bought them, VI. Once more: I learn from my sub- ject THE VALUE Ol Ruth going Into that harvest-fleld | have said: “There isa straw, and there is a straw, but what 18 a straw? I can’t get any barley for my- self or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws,” Not so said beauti- ful Huth, Bhe gathered two straws, GLEANING, straws, until she got enough to make a | sheaf, Putting that down, went | and gathered more Blraws, she | and | then she | and she | Hig i “a she until another, another, and all together, of barley, and an bushel. Elihu ephah things | shop. the world-renowned was a philosopher in Scot. i il iy, Or ii Burnt learned many Abercrombie, philosoph got his philoso} { , while, as wi wailing for the door of the sick. | pen, Yet | many th 8 bay wWiio S80 Ls) ave | it a phy he wi oom to HOW nil 'Y Al for menial th 0 Lime improvement; 6 rent Ty off all 3 Ofily Liere that and th golden . might i he Lord’s garner, STRAY OPPORTUNITIES and the stray up and bound toge Privileges wii «ft het I at least fil] moments yw, Ruth, "t # Heasire 1, you gileaners 111 yout —-—— - Tondon Hall Saturday. I was a year day, t led to the got at all recon 3 1300} f Luci. the could not count o1 I was continually going afternoon to the printing « ing everybody g the four bank holidays frozen terror to the American. A paper has to be got out about a week ahead in order to tide over that terrible Mon- | day, for any employer will tell you that | it generally takes most of the weeks to get things going smoothly again, I pity the man who bas to go anywhere on a bank holiday, Traffic seems to be knocked milly, You can buy a third class ticket and go into a first class car- riage-——and then stand up. Saturday | down in Mn seeT find PLT ARIMA Al. gone, are a Bist Pia They Were Out of Fggs. ————— Ee — A Newfoundland dog named Don bad been sent for eggs. As he was re- turning home, carring his basket with a proud, dignified air, he 4 dog bad an old met fully on the walk; then, giving a bark | adead run, A friend of his mistress, who witnessed this peoceeding, picked up the basket and carried it Lo its prop- | er destination. Meanwhile, Don, hays ing vanquished his fod returned to the spot Wiiere die had left hideggs. On he ran aroun frantically, trying to find | they. Finudifig Wid effort “vain, he sat dowa. and lifted wp Ris voice in a howl | of anguish, a8 visions or Nis niislress’ whip, or atleast the loss of his dinner, | filled. 1058 Wind,” Suddenly "Be Siarted | for home Bt a brigk trot. Sowaking out into the back yard hie picked up @n old | posited It. 4b the, feet of his mistress, | He hash been taught, when +he goes to the grocery for auy article. théy do not happen 10, have, to return and give a proceeded to do, as if to say, were oll 'of eggs to«day. . *They Earthquakes Versus Nerves, Many persons who experienced the earthquake in the Riviera have since suffered serio from nervous shook, although they not at the time ap- ar te be groaly distarbed, 'T'his in- jcates that more injury may be done to the nerves by an nndue excitement than ived at the time. POLICEMAN ~~ Come along, now, quietly, or it will be the worse for you. O'Tool -Oi'll not. The magistrate ER rp, to: waich she hal written, som: one saad {12 to obey Lis fustouc i sms SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buxpay, Jusg 10, 1588, Jesus Risen. LESSON TEXT. Matt. 28: 1.15. Memory verses, be. ‘LESSON PLAN. Taric oF THE QUARTER ; King tn Zion, Jesus the Corpex TeXT vor THEQUARTER! Dut we behwold him who hath been made a Little lower than the angels, cven Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, —Heb, 2 : 9. Lesson Toric: Over | Death, | Ty tumphinyg f L Lesson 2. Outing The Mesris of Trinmph ve 1-4 8 The Discreditiog of Triumph, va GoLpEN TEXT: visen from tu dead , Ind now 48 Chri ana become the fir Danny HoMme READINGS: M.—Matt, 28 : 1-15. over death, Mark 16 : 1-13 lel narrative, W.—Luke 24 : 1-35. lel narrative, T. Marks NALYSIS, 1. THE MEANS O Pil I. The Great Earthquake i Titi 4 ie Wil A STeis The reid rans earth Mat There followed thu lev 5). IL. The Ministering Angel : An angel of the LL on earthiuaks : i Terrified Guard ¢ : Ihe Its Sonroe: T! view) ae angel ’ A IAN, . « « 81 16 : Sl. od young robe (Mark Two men stood Ly parel (Luke 24 : 4). Two angels in white Jesus saith unto her, 163. Its Purport: He is not here; for he 6 John 20 : 1: Mary Jol i. he I8 risen, even | i SA i 3 i v, and tell 1 risen (Matt, 28 : 7). He {8 nsen; he 61. He unto you iis disciples, He is | is not here {Mark 16 : is risen: remember how he (Luke 24 : 6 feet, 3). spake { that itis] | myself (Luke 24 : 1 IL. Ys Parpose: Fear not ve... . Fear not; brethren (5, 10). Because 1 live, ye 14: 19). Now hath Christ been mised from the dead, the first fruits (1 Cor, 15 : 20). If .... Jesus ....ro8e again, even 801 them also will God bring {1 Thess, 4: 14). unto a Hving hope by the res- urrection of Jesus {1 Pet. 1 : 3): or go tell my shall live also (John 1. “Fear not ye; for I know that ye | seek Jesus,’ (1) The seeking dis ciples: (2) The risen Lord; (3) The | comforting angel. 2 “He is nsen, even as he said.” {1) Christ's resurrection in prophecy, 2) Christ's restirrection in accom: plishiment, 3. “Behaid, Jesus met them.” (1)! An anxious company: (2) A glad surprise; (3) A positive demonstra- tion, THE DISCREDITING OF TRIUMPIL, | An Unwelcome Story: The guard came... and the chief priests all (11). The Pharisees heapd the multitude.... concerning him {John 7 : 32). The officers answWeped, Never man spake {John 7 : 46).™ Io the world is gone after him (John 12 : 19). We cannot deny it {Acts 4: 186). 11. A Transparent Fraud: Say ve, His disciples came by night, and stole him away (18). I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf (Exod. 32 : 34), Tossed. . ..by the sleight of men, in eraftiness (Eph. 4: 14), Desig and being deceived (2 Tim, We aid not follow cunningly devised fables (2 Pet. 1 : 16). 111, A Mercenary Inducement: They took the money, and did as they were tanght (15). His sous. ©. took bribes, and perverted ii, L told unto Their right hand is full of bribes (Psa. 26 : 10). The proud have forged a lie against me (Psa. 119 : 69). The love of money is a root of all kine of evil {1 Tim. 6: 10), 1. “The gnard came into the city ; told,” (1) Who they Whence they came: (3) they went; (4) What they Who they told. HS ye’! (1) kh ¥ were Whit 3 Ba W! pupils; " ‘ hemes, . They as accepted Look they were Lies propagated IBLF THE Kis ne (Mark 16 : LESSON B AVPEAR ZO} 24: 1 ( Atke 24 ; 3 1 Mi: 12 les { Mark Ti of the Gis he various account The place was near Goigotha, then in the eity (vs. 11-15). The lim was Sanday, the first Lord's Day, nteenth of Nisan, April 9, confus 1 8 VE Mark 16 20 : 1-18, much more Parallel passages: Luke 24 : 1-12 ; John the two latter tell of oA torious redemption, } tt ———— Patience. Patience is generally regarded as pre- eminently the teacher's virtue—as first essential of the teacher's equi ment, And yet there is, perhaps, no virtue for which the teacher has, ideal- ly, less meed; for the moment a teacher becomes eonscious of the necessity of moment perceived the insufficiency of his efforts toaccom- True, it scholars ut it ought not to be forgotien that there $0 far as a teacher fails to d scern that way will be probably need to exercise his patience, But he must remember that ke calis this virtue into play only the function of teacher. The measure of the teacher's necessity for patience, his lack of teaching proficiency. The teacher who desires to do his best work will not regard his scholars as the ob- jects of his patience—though they may himself, at the very time that he isa m— The Pope's Triple Orown, The popes did not always wear the three crown tiara, At rst they wore an ordinary miter with one crown around it, then a second was added to it, and then a tard, when it took the name of Seiregno {three kingdoms). This explains why sometimes the sim- ple miter is used and sometimes called the triregno. Mus, FLurrenny—What has be come of Jot old cook? Mrs, Swallowiale—She's gone to a better place, Mrs. F, —Had a fortune left her, eh? Well, it's wonderful how those low manage to strike oil. Mrs. 8, (sadly) Yes, she struck it with a matoh, An joe-cold cloth laid at the back of the neck is oftentimes a relief for judgement (1 Sam, 8: 3h ravere pain in the top of the bead,
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