The Brooklyn invines Sunday Sermon. Sahject : «Gleaners in Life's Field (Preached at Glenwood, Col) TEXT: * and came and ! in the fie the reapers’ and part of the field who was of the kin. uth ii, 8, Within a few weeks | have been Carolina, Virginia, York, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Indiana Tllinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and they are one great harvest flald, and no season can be more enchanting in any country than the season of harvest The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the old custom when a sheaf fell from a load in the harvest field for the reapers to refuse to gather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might happen to come 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, ut, you say, “What is the use of all these harvest flelds to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; and can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister ber hands in the harvest fleld? Boaz owns a large farm, and be goes out sen the reaps ther in the grain. Com- ind the swarthy, sun- 1 nl wo it to bend to than to stoop Ah, that was an event- ind she ent 2 ’ f ined ther hap was lo! i ¢ Jing it on a wn 3 Oo dred of Elimelech.” in North Pennsyivania, Now i more i & throne Boaz forms Eioaners an an IAA national a that ag after th mocked and jeered shall be omnipotent wrath wa, and who, by : red right arm, will it is individually, roh, and in ho darkness and storm > Des, nd g listress a, SO high a "RL the 458 sxt the beauty of un- I Opposes thore wore shia was acquaint. trudge had One 8 Sammi while a her Zz to when she 1 sly on yushand was liv. {! mm . and all A greal many altar her hus it an 1 » » was not troubled vary i the bar 1% that sang e wun shone have gone as fallen wy { of beartiessness and ng it ix to Bnlss nd as faithful in davs of adversity as in of prosperity! David had such a in Hushai, the Jews had such a in Mordeca), who pever forgot their Pauli bad such a friend in Onrsiph- rus, who visited him in jefl: Christ had suck in the Maryse, who adbered to Him on the crows; Naomi had such a one in Rath, who eried out, “"Entreat the not to leave thes, or to return from following after thee: w the night Nor; criay, how thril a fr Gave ried r 3 Li thou kodgest I will lodge; thy peopia shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou esi will 1 die, and there will 1 be buried: the Lord do so to me and more also, if sught but death part thee and me ™ pen in hardship end darkness often eome out in places of jov, When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go along with her mother-in-law, I suppose the people said: “Oh, what a foolish creaturs to go away from her father's hots, 3 20 off with a noor old woman toward the land of Judea' They won't live to get across the dessrt. They will be drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the 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 fi-ld of Boaz, to be a wd to one of the lords of the land, and bacome one lordof glory. And so it often is that a wih which starts very darkly ends very brightly. ft was very hard for Noah to endure the seoffing of the ple in his day, while he was trying to build the ark, sad was every morning Jiizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use. But when the deluge cama, and the tops of the mountains disappeared like the Sod of sea monsters, and the elements, lashed up in fury, clappad their hands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoice! in his own safety and in the safety of his family, and looked out on the wreck of a ruined aartn., Christ, hounde How, worse xl of persecutors, denied a nil maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human hate smacking its lips in satisfaction after it bad | been draining His last drop of blood, the | sheeted dead bursting from the se yalohers {| at His crucifixion. Tell me, O Gethsemans and Golgotha! were there ever darker times than those! Like the booming of the mid- night sea against the rook, the surges of | Christ's anguish beat against the gates of | eternity, to be echoed back by all the thrones | of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But the day of reward comes from Christ; | all the pomp and dominion of this world are {| to be bung on His throne, ancrowned heads | are to bow before Him on whose head there | are many crowns, and all the celestial wor- | ship Is to come up at His feet like the hum- ming of the forest, like the rushing of the waters, like the thundering of the seas thrones, beat time with their scepters: “Hallelujah, for the Lord God omuipotent reigneth ™ Again, [ learn from my subject that events | which seem to be most insignificant may be | momentous. Can you imagme anything { more unimportant than the coming of a poor | woman from Moab to Jondea? Can yon | imagine anything more trivial than the | fact that this Huth just happened to ailght -- as they say -— just happenad {| to alight on that fisld of Boas? Yet i all ages, all generations, have an interest in { the fact that she was to become an ancestross | of the Lord J s Christ, and all nations an | kingdoms must look at that one little inci. { dent with a f unspeakable and etar-al | satisfact iu vour history and in ue, events thought of no impor. of very great mo- versal did not but how it thrill « No it that wn is "a Laan think changed y t of all the world's min. And as you hear the vibration of | instrument, sven alter the fingers I BWRY 50 all music and and corpet is ontioned strains of bal's organ, It seemed ry Utle importance that the uses of copper and fou of ancient days 16 rattle of Birmingham ma- the roar and bang of factories ac, in my mbjeot an illustration of female Industry. Babold barvest fleld under the g plain bread wit $oe parched T i on i rom it, drum ¥ A He or im i rim Hin wa takin Tr eating j 1 be customs « . and with which \ beautif i Flogsd straws and she put then and m straws ough to make a » Pu and gathered more Not so sal § sd two g sre on went she had another sheaf, and her and another, and then them altogether and she threshed thems and she had an ephah of barley, nigh a bushel ! she straws anaiher and ot she i. Oh that we all might be gleaner a Burritt learned many things while | toiling in a biacksmith's shop, Abercrombie, the world renowned philosopher, was a phy- sician in Seotiand, an he got his phsosophy, or the chief part of if, while as a phywicia he was walling for the door of wi m to open Yeot how many this day who say they are so busy have time for mental or spiritual im provement; the great daties of the Held like strong reapers and carry off ail the hours, and there is bere and there a fragment left that worth gleaning, Ah, wy Riends, you oon go into the busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportunities which gathered might at last make a whole onal for the Lord's garner. [t is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which taken up and bound together snd beaten out at last fll you with mach joy here are a few moments left worth & glemning. Now, Ruth, to fiald each one have a measure full and running over! Oh, vou gleansrs tothe field! A nd f there be in your housshold an aged ora k relative that is not stromg enough § forth and toil in ths fleid tt en let Hu take feebis Naomi this gleaning “He that gooth forth and woepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt loss come agzaln with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” May the Ltuth and Naomi be our portion foreves ———— tha rox there are they no life erom ny i= not § wu a ® he he 4 i tk 53 Come home to Looks Like Cleveland. Col. Wm. Fuller of Perryvopolis, Pa., sucha striking resem- that In Fuller is said to bear Cleveland for blance to ex-President he is often mistaken him. }altimore three vears ago Col was serenaded by a brass band which played ‘Hail to the Chief” while the Pennsylvanian lay in his bed at mid- At another time a play was stopped in a Washington theatre to | give the audience a chance to appland Cleveland's double as he walked mod- estly to a seat in the orchestra. { The Chinese think that la grippe is i caused by evil spirits: Therefore, when one of their number is stricken with it, they come around with their droms and in a velghborly sort of a way make him | feel glad to die. | Charles Warner, of Lebanon, Conn, | now in hls seventy-fi'th year, has re i cently experienced much pain In his tjaw. He consulted a dentist and found that a new set of teeth were culting. | This will make his third set, i |! THE TALLEYRAND MEMOIRS, Probably no book has ever been more widely heralded, or anticipated for so long a time, as the Memorns or Prive peTanneyraxn, Like the sword of Damocles have these memoirs hung for fifty years an menace to the reputations of the celebrated men and women of the author's time, At last the sword has fallen, and the first feeling of all to whom, for any reason, those reputa- tions are still dear, must have been one of relief. The long impending sword seemed to have fallen so lightly! But, like the wound from a poisoned arrow, the slightest scrateh from this sword is deadly, and antidotes cannot be too quickly applied. Prince Talleyrand himself says that “the private lives of celebrated men are the true sources of history.” Bo they are, if we can get at the truth of those lives, which if all Auto-biograph- ers were like himself in their powers of mystification, could never be done. it is probable that the saying so long attributed to Talleyrand that ‘‘the true use of language is to disguise | thought,” is really much older than he, { but it 18 so conmstent with his use of | words that it is no wonder he has been credited with it. Iake the man in the old fairy tale who conld always get himself out of any disagreeable situa- tion by putting something in his mouth | which eanscd a thick mist to envelope all around him, in the midst of which he silently disappeared, Talleyrand around rds, 1 throug F ehiarcters appear distorted ! invisible, WwW vi the Appear ther evidence of this littleness Falleyrand appears never to has or forgiven, eith thie having elf: althong made him + tun forgotten, 1 sin 'h with successful in ali ed or affronted hime the adroitness which the orid of diplom he rarely allows his motives to aj upon the surface. While profe the greatest compassion for the fats unhappy Marie Antoinette, he | opportunity to speak of her “frivoli “partialities,” *‘petty revenges,’ sorejudio 8." “weaknesses. eto. her good qualities are hardly ment Mav we not find the reason this in the faet that for a long time the | the profligate church- man—Talleyrand was then in “holy | orders” —eaused him to be in disfavor with the Court, and formed the true ground for the fact (which he says that the Queen | from receiving the from Pope Pins VI, when the latter was about to bestow it on him at the request of Gustavus 1, of Sweden? The reasons for le for | 00 | prevented him Cardinal's hat his slanderous in Mme. de Genlis are Perhaps she had re. fused the too pressing advances of the | handsome young Abbe, who deemed ! But it Is evident | reward, for is it possible totake a more contemptible revenge than Talleyrand does when speaking of Madame de Flahant? Alter five years of what he chooses to represent as an honorable exile, though it is quite possible to re. gard it rather in the light of a coward- ly flight from the troubles of his dis tracted country, Talleyrand wished to return. “Before re-entering France,’ he says: “I was anxious to know what was going on there. Mme. de Flahant, who was then at Hamburg, seemed | hardly disposed to furnish me with the desired information, for, when 1 was still coming up the Elbe, she sent me word by M. de Rocce, who was simple enough to deliver the message, not to lind but to go back to Amorion. Her reason for so doing, she told M. de Recoe, was that it being romored that she had been on rather intimate terms with me, she feared lest my presence should be an obstacle to her marriage with M. de Souza, the Portugnese Minister, However I took no no- tice of the extraordinary message, and spent a month in Hamburg... with. Sonza." this reminiscence, not in itsel! o slightest interest to the world, needs to have read the Dairy of Gouvd erneur Morris, published two or threo Years ago, where the name the t« tender Madame de Flahant oce rs per petually in connection with that of the Ol her position and influence enabled her to promote, and to whom he was also greatly indebted for money to pay the debts his extravagance ineurrcd., To make more glaring the meanness of the insinuations of the oregoing quotation, wé have but to remember that when Talleyrand fled from France, under the shallow pretext of a special em- bassy to England, he had abandoned, to what then seemed the certain fate of | all aristocrats in France, this poor | Mme. de Flahant, a beautiful, tal- ented, and agreeable widow, whose | sole fanlt appears to have been that of | loving him too well; and that she had | died, the aged widow of M. de Souza, | but a few months before the insulting | paragraph was written. Forty years had not sufficed to heal the sensitive vanity which hal been wonnded by the fact that a woman whom he had aban doned when she was no longer of se hould have wished to co dd bonorable | ro vice to him sole berself by accepting an Ove, out interfering with the marriage of ft} I'ae Ms wused with a sus HATZOR ( " minst Talleyrand bat feeble, and fire His pres $ save CANnos in oduetion te the first volume of nost readable and oirs, Mr. While. ip the evidence for and statesman of his time bat he leaves and if i take ling MN the books he ! of the thre e i volumes which are to folk snd a vast | deal of research it the archives and | yemories of those eventful days, to ensble any one to form a correct judg- ment upon a character so complex and hidden as that of Prince Talley rand If with the only the first two volumes in hand it is sale to venture so much. we predict that the general verdict of posterity will be that Lalieyrand would have stood better in the final estimation not written these which are not so much rem iniscences as they are special plead ings. The pleadings of the most astute mind, the most skiifal manipulator of language, the most adroit politician of i his time His arguments—as he says! of those of theology-—are ‘‘elastio | enough to suit any purpose,” and the | vari-colored lights which his art en. | ables him to throw upon facts which are too well known to be over thrown, | the blistering power of his delicately worded sarcasms, and his skill in intel: lectnal fencing, are most admirable and effective; but in himsel! this prince of pleaders finds a client with a bad case. All the mud he throws upon others, all the mist of happily chosen words which he raises about himself, cannot hide the fact that his cause is indefensible and that he knows it, Yet this long and eloquent plea—{for such it 1s more than a contribution to history-is a work which ro student of history, or of human nature, can afford to neglect, and the possession of which as a mark of reference (or inference) is indispensable to every public or private library. O11 fuel is used on ake steamers. arkab im the ablest 3 a masterly manner, de hd | ia to not nist nn One the rea le will Ton ana wo 1 x A aiken, it more carefal re Are 43 us Vw memoirs, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, AUGUST 1s The Five Thousand Fed. ohné 1.14 LESSON PLAN, Toric or THE t/u Son of God. LR J QUARTER! Text RE are wrille n, that Je tH of God; and that Jia ve life through 20 : 31, GoLpes 7 Jue lieve FOR THE QUARTER that ye might be the Christ, the Son believing ye might his name.- RUA Lesson Helper, Toric: The Som Man's r 1. Great Neoessity, vs. LESSON OurLing:d 2 Beant Bupply. vs, 7-10, | 8. Divine Bufficieney, i 6, 11-14. I am that Ya, CoLpes life, TexT: John 6 : 48. Datty Home ReAapinGs: The Son man's I. Mucn Needed undred penn affHeient Lord sh d heaven migus Kings 7 - Five tl children Two bh 1a If the make wind this thing ousand men, besides women and Matt, 14 ey continue nothing to eat If I send the u away {Mark 8 : 3). : Little Possessed: : 31). three days and have Matt, 15 : 32 they will faint 1} But what are these among so many’ {3 Who hath despised the day of small things? (Zech. 4 : 10 We have here bat five loaves, fishes (Matt. 14 F Whence shall one be able to £ill men with bread? (Mark 8 : 4 Silver and gold have I none (Aet3 IL. Encouraged: and tw id these Hi. Expectation 10.) : wide, and | will fill it So the men sat down Open th ymouth Pea. 81 : 1 How much more shall your Father Matt. 7: 11). {3 give them to eat (Matt. 14 : 16. And he gave hood them, expecting (Acts 3 : 4 5). 1. “Iwo bundred pennyworth not suflicient .that every on: may take a little.” (1) Large pro- vision; (2) Seant allowance; 3) Evident insufficiency, . “What are these among so many?” 1) The boy's treasure; (2) The apostie’s discovery; (3) The painful doabt ““Jusus said, Make the people sit down.” (1) The needy people; (2) The sympathetic helper; (3) The | encouraging command; (4) The! final feast. ni unio 8 DIVINE SUFFICIENCY, 1. Consciously Possessad: He himsel! knew what he wonid do God said unto Moses, 1 AM THAT (Exod. 8 : 14). 1 will work, and who shail let it? (len 43: 13). All aathority has been given unto me (Matt, 28 : 18), My power is made perfeol in weikness @Cor. 12.9) I AM I. Abundantly Exercised: 3 | He distributed to them. ...ss much a8 they wonid go The Lord is my she pher i: I shall not yb it, and were filled (Matt i p of the broken pieces, twelve baskets fall (Matt, 14 : 205. Who giveth us richly all things to en- | JOY 1 Tim £ 17 {11} onvinced: { Thiris of a truth the prophet that | cometh (14) | { God will raise up unto thee a like unto me « Dent. 18 : Matt 11 : Clearly « prophet 17 {| Art thou he that cometh? 3). Bir, I perceive that thou art a prophet {John 4 : 19), This is of a truth the prophet (John 7 : 40), 1. “He himself knew what he would do.” (1) Men doubtful; (2) Jesus confident. —(1) Human extremity; (1) Divine opportunity. ‘‘As much as they would.” (1) The great company; (2) The small supply; (3) The divine minister, 4) The ample sufficiency. ‘Cather up the bro i that nothing be lost, 1 en DICCen, (rathex all (9 i fii “ Ww | wa te wastefulnens in parue IAT, & men, lad shes a and two § fhe departure ide of the ki; the great Mark tell ples crossed by titude went by f the rid ¥ ounia fio ihe OWE fa boat, jand, lake). ro with hus a0. Lar can provide the ques- how great would the lad visions, but 80 the Ove i: KR ut for the size of wentioned, poss i i the « w hey r asks hil bem, proving Lim Philip indicates Andre his small store o “What are Jesus bid : *9n ranks, ip how § with iis © T among Arrange cording the green grass, an incidental Lhe loaves pention is made though this is fo lowe, Aft r the Cipies are iden pieces, i with what sign Is 10 what the her up the broken pat baskets are fille ive ‘The effect of the ne a El tie bat A narrated by all four evan Matthew 14 : 13-21 ; Mark 10-17 11 ana re. then h ® » " IT ITARRAGES, i 1% mira ©€ ] uked oo — Intelligence of Fowl, One of the most interesting stadi fowl sh ling themselves by prominent land. An shooting in Labrador of the habits of migratory rare intelligence which they Win gui marks Englishman who waa SONIC VOears sinoe recently stated that while in camp at . . the base of a range of hills he was in- terested in observing the precision with which flocks of their course when directly wild changed of {Wo prominences, conspicuous objects Rees abreast in the landscapn At that point swerved from west to south old voung birds, were greatly they At times flocks of troubled in enforcing their orders for a shift of route, the ganders, leading ————“— i ISS If we reckon the population of the globe at 400 0 0,000 of human beings, there would be room for them all on the froven surface of Lake Constance, Switzerland.
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