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It* i iilJ«!iaUl> SI liiiiiiiiiuii IMPORTANCE W CHRISTIANITY MT THE HOME. (Prcacbed at Grimsby, Canada.-} Text: \Ehtreatme not to leave thee, or to return from folio wine after thee; for whither thou goest, Iwill'go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy peoplo shall be my people, i and thy Uodmy God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do w> to me, and more' also, if aught but death part thee and mo.\—Ruth L, 16 and 17. Famine in Judah. Upon fields distin- guished for fortuity the blight came, and at the door of princely abodes want knocked. Turning his back upon his house and his lands, Elimelec-b took his wife, Naomi and his two sons and started for the land of Moab in search of bread. Getting into Moab, his two sons married idolaters—Kuth the name of one, Orpah the name of the other. Great calamities came upon that household. Elimelech died and his two sons, leaving Naomi, the wife, and the two daugh- ters-in-law. Poor Naomi 1 in a strange land and her husband and two sous dead. She must go back to Judah. She cannot stand it in a place where everything reminded lierot her sorrow. Just- as now, sometimes you see persons moving from one house to anoth- er, or from one city to another, and yon cah- oot understand it until you find out that it is because there were associations with a cer- tain place that they could no longer bear. Naomi must start for the land of Judah; but how shall she get there? Between Moab aud the place where she would like to go there are deserts; there are wild beasts ranging the wilderness; there are savages going up and down, and there is the awful Dead Sea, Well* you say, she came over the road once, she can do so again. Ah! when she came over the road before she had the strong arms of her husband- and, her two sons to defend her; now they are all gone. The hour of parting has come, and Naomi must bo sepa- rated from her two daughters-in-law. Ruth and Orpah. They \were tenderly attached, these three mourners. They had bent over the same sick bed; they had nibved.in the game funeral procession; they had wept over the same grave. There the three mourners stand talking. Kaonii thinks of the. time when she left Ju- dah, with a prince for her companion. Then they all think of the marriage festivals when Naomi's two sons were united to these women, who have now exchanged the wreath of the bride for the veil of the mourner. Naomi sfarts for the landof Judah, and Ruth and Orpah resolve to go aUttleway along with her. They have gone but a short dis- tance when Naomi turns around and says to her daughfersrin-law: \Go baefc There nifty be days of brightness yet for you In your native land.- lcanttbearto tato^ydn - away f rom-your hom*:aid»tUebo«ie»otyoufe! kindred. I.iun old and-trouble-! 'Gblo'dtM along with ma. The Lord deal gently with ' you as ye have dealt withithei dead a\nd with me.\ But they persisted in going, and sO'tho three traveled oh until afffer awhile Naomi turns aroundaga in audbegs them togo^aeki Orpah takes the suggestion, and after a. sad parting gees away; but Knth, grand and § lbrlous Ruth, turns her back upon her home. Ihe says: \ I can't bear to let that old mother go alone. It is my duty to go with her.\ And throwing her arms around weeping-Na- omi, she pours out her soul in the tenderness and pathos and Christian eloquence of my text: \JEntreatme not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for nhither thou goest, I will go; and whither thou lodg- est, 1 will lodge; thy people shall be my peo- ple, and thy God'my God; where thou diest twill die,and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and mo.\ Five choices made Ruth in that text, and five choices must we all make, if we ever want to get to heaven. I. In the first place, if we want'to become Christians, we must, like Ruth in the text, choosethe Christian's God. Beautiful Ruth looked up into the wrinkled face of Naomi andsaid: \Thy God shall be my God.'' You see it was a change of gods. Naomi's God was Jehovah; Ruth's God was-Chemosb, the divinitv of the Moabite3,whom she had wor- shiped'under the symbol of a black star. Now she comes out from- that black-starred divinity, and takes the Lord in whom there is no darkness at all; the silver.-starred divin- , ity to whom the meteor pointed down in Bethlehem, the sunshiny God, of whom the psalmist wrote: \The Lord God is'a sun;'' And so, my friends, if we want, to become Christians, we must cbnng6 gods. This world is the Chemosh to most people. It isra black-stan-fed god; • It can heal no wounds. It can wipe away no Borrows. It can pay no debts, 'It can save no undying soul. Tt is a great, cheat, so many thousand miles in diameter and so many thousand miles in circumference. If I should put this audience, miller oath, ono- halt of .them would sjyear that this world is a liar, itis a bank wBicE mofes large adver- tisement of what it has in the vaults and, of the dividends that it declares, aud tells us that if we want happiness* all we have got to do is to come to that bank and aprily tor it. In the hour of need, we go to that bank the tears and blood of his own oy« and heart, and offering to be our everlasting rest, .coihfbrt, and ec- stasy. A loving God. A sympathetic Goi A great-hearted God, - An all-enconi- passing God; A God who flings himself oil thiswbrlt in a very abandonment of ever- Jasting affection. The clouds, the veil of his face. The sea,the aquarium of bis palace. The stars, the dew-drops oh his lawn. The God of Hannah's prayer-and EsBierXconso- iA« hrnl oration* and Mary's broken heart, and Ruth's loving and bereft spirit. Oh, choose ye be-! tween Chemosh and Jehovah I The one ser- vice ispninand disappointment; theother ser- vice is brightness and life. I have trjedhqth. I chose the service of Gcd because I was ashamed to do otherwise. I felt it would be imbecile for me to choose Chemosh above Jehovah, r \Ob happy day that fixed my choice Oh Thee, my Saviour, and my Godt Well may this'glowing heart rejoice, And tell its rapture a]l abroad. \Oh happy bond that seals my vows To Him who merits all my love! Let cheerful anthems fill His bouse, While to His sacred throne I move. \High heaven, that heard the solemn vow, That vow renewed shall daily hear; TillinUfe'sldteSthourlbow, \ .\) Aod blessin death a bond so diar.\ • n.. Again, if we want to be Christians !ifee:?.uth in the test, we jniist take the Cijrist'aa's path. \Where thou goest I will go,\ cried out the beautiful lloabitess to Naomi, the mother-in-law; Dangerous prom- ise, that There weredeserts to '-'ige crossed; There were jackals that came down through the wilderness. There were bandits. There was the Dead sea. Naomi says: '-Ruth, you must go back. You aro too delicate to take thi3 journey. \Son will give but in.tha first five miles. You cannot go. Yon have not the physical stamina or the moral courage to go with mo.\ Ruth responds: \Mother I am going anyhow. If I stay in this land I will be overborne of the idolaters; if I go along with you, I shall serve God. Give me that bundle.' Let me carry it I am going with you, mother, anyhow.\ as IwiU„. orhorseback. Ifthere be rivers 1*> ford, we must ford them. If there be mountains to scale, we must scale them. If there be ene mies to.flehtjwemustrfight them. It requires grit and pluck to get frdm Moab to Judah. Ob, how many Christian there are who can be diverted from the path by a quiver of the lip. indicative of scorn. They dp not surrender to temptation, but they bend to it.. And it in a company there ;be ihose who itell unpleah -'-—- •\•*—\ willgosofar as.tb tell some? to get happiness, and we find that the vaults are empty, and all- reliabilities have ab- sconded and we are swindled out of every- thing. O thou black-starred Chemosh, how many are burning incense at thy shrine I Now, Ruth turned away from this end Chemosh, ah&she tookNabmi'sGod, who was that? The God that made the world and put you in it. The God that fashioned the heaven and filled it with blissful inhabitants. The God whose lifetime study it has been to make you and all his creatures happy. The God who watched iis in-childhood, and led us through the\ gauntlet of infantile distresses, feeding us when we were hungry, pillowing faswhen we were somnolent, and sending his only Son to wash away bur pollution with stones, they thing on the margin between the puro and the impure. And! it tberS be those wjidj swear in the room and use the rough word' ^dainn,\ they, will go so far as the word \darn/'and lookover the fence wishing the j .*ro^>»jjU«w»r,;.ib5^, wgp.«OTget»rmin«. tliatisright^tbeyhavanotthegrfcotodoit. anidy have sot fit all their S>dy as roiicb courage as Kuth had in hex little finger. Oh, any friends, let us start for iiesv&n and- go doar through! &.tfce;riy6srtkatruns by' the gate of the city we shall wash off all our bruises. When Dr. Chalmers printed kis: astronomical discburses, they were read ih; the haylofts, ih the fields, in the garretsj and in the palaces, because they advocated the idea that the stars were inhabited. Oh, hearer! does hot your soul thrill with the: thought that there is another world beauti- fully inhabited? Nay.more, thatypuby the grace of God may become one of its glorious citizens} IH; AgSia I refiaarkj if we want toibecome Christians, like Ruth in the text, we must choose the Christian habitation. \Where .thou lodgest, will I lodge,\ cried Ruth to Naomi, fcihe knew that wherever Naomi stooped, whether it were hovel or mansion, there would be a Christian home, and she wanted to be in it What do I mean by a Christian home? I mean a home in which th,. Bible is the chief book; a home in which the family kueel in prayer; a homo ih which father and mother are practical Christians; a home in which on Sabbath,.from sunr.se to sunset, there is profitable converse and cheer- ful song and suggestions of a better world. Whether the wall be.f rescbed Or notj or only a ceiling of unpinned ratters; whether mar- ble lions are couchant at the front entrance, or a plain latch is lifted,by a tow-string, that home is the ante-chamber of heaven. A man never gets over having lived in such a home. It holds you in an eternal grip. Though your parents may have been gone forty years, the tears of penitence and gladness that wars v.'spt.at-ths family altar still glit- ter in your memory. _ Nay, doyou not nbw feel hot and warm on your hands, the tears which that, mother shed thirty years ago, when, one cold winter night, she came and wrapped you up. in the bed and prayed for your welfare hsreand for your everlasting welfare before the throne ? 0 ye who are to set up your own home, see that it bo a Christian home 1 Let Jesus make the wine at that wedding. A home without God is ah awful place, there are so many perils to threaten it, and God himself is so bitterlyagainst it; but \the Lord encampeth around about the inhabitation of the just.\ What a grand thing it in to have God stand guard at that door, and the Lord Jesus the family physician; and the wings of angels the canopy over the pillbw.aud.the Lord bfGlory a perpetual guest. Yousayitisimportautthat the wife aha mother be a Christian. Isay to not a Christian, and if hecau risk the future, I canrisk the|uture.\ O father and husbandl Join yonr wifsonthorosd to heaven, and efc nightgatheryoni'familyatthealtar. Doyou say: -\1 can't pray. Iamaman of fewwords and I don't think I could put half a doien sentences together in such a prayer.\ You cah ; pray;,you can. If your cuild were down with scarlet fever, and tho next hour were to decide it! recovery or its death, you. would pray in sobs and groans aud paroxysms of earnestness; Yes, you can prny^ When the eternal life of your household may depend upon your supplication, let your knees limber and go down, but, if you still iusist'thafybu. eannotjwmpose a prayer, then buy or bor- row a prayer book of tho'Episcopalchurch, and gather your family, and putyburprayer book on a chair and kneel down before it, and in the solemn, and hu'hed presence of God gather up all ybur sorrows and tempta- tions and sins, and cry out: \Good Lord, de- liver iis.\ IV.. Again I remark: It we want to be- come Christians, like Ruth ih the test, we must choose GhristiBn- associations. \Thy people shall be my people,\ cried out Ruth to Naomi. \The. folks you .associate with I want to associate with. They will come, and sea mo, and I will go and see them. I want to move in the highest of all circles, the circle of, God's elect; and therefore, mother, I am going back with yon to the land of Judah.\ Do you who nre seeking after God—and I suppose there are many such in this pres- ence—do you who are seeking after God prefe? Christian, society to worldly society? \No you say, \I prefer the world's mirth, and the world's laughter, and the world's innuendo, and the world's paraphernalia.\' Well, this is a free country, and you shall bravo the! right of choice; outlet mo-tell you that the purest mirth, and the most untrammeled glee,and the greatest resilience of soul areih- side ChristianScbmpahionship, and not out- side of it. Ihavotriod both styles of com- pahionship-^tlje companionship of ths.world and the companionship of Christ, and I know by expefiehce. 1 have been how so long in the sunshiny experience and society of Christian people, that when I am compelled to go for a little while amid intense worldly society I feeldepressed. It is like going out of a June garden into an icehouse. Men never know tully how to laugh until they become Christians. . The world'* laughter has a jerk of dissatisfaction at the end; but 1 when a man i3 consecrated to God, and he is allrightfor the, world to c*>me,,thenwhea he laughs, body, mind and soul crackle. Let n group of ministers, of the go^iel„gatKered; from all denominations of Christians be to- gether in a dining ball, or in a, social circle. , and you know they are\ proverbially jocnud, O.ye uncohvertott.peoplel I know not how ybii canstahd it down in thati moping, bil- lous, satuniine, worldly association. Jtjbhie' up \into the; sunlight- of Ghristaansosiets^-r those people for whom all things ai^ working rightnbF,ahdvidlls^orkrightforever. Itefl you that the sweetest japomcas grow in the Lord's gavden; that the largest grapes are from the vinoyard* of Canaan; that the moat apiTklmgBo^bre^^ortti^^ the Rook '©y- uexfe, i?OT.:;^>feaffi^fdjlJe,jBai^.^oinii. ^er:6t,tneigrea$ T Sirl|itifiel«*fpeaS.-?>*^ v\. Once more j, Jtf. wecj-j^tttto become. Christians, wo mast, liifi Riitli is the t&sts. choose the Christian's death andbnrial. Shu exclaimed: \Where thou diest will I'die, and • there wiil.I be buried.'' I think we tXU. when; leaving this 1 .wbrld,*wbuld like to be^ snrr rounded byTGhristian irifluenee3. You would-: not liketb have your dyingpillow surrounded by caxicatiiriste and punsters and wine bibbers. How would - you. -like to have John Leech come with, hifr London pic- torials and Christopher North with his: loose fun, and Tom Hoed with his rhyming jokes, whSB'jbh are dying? Npl No! Sol: Let me have a Christian aurse in my last sickness., Let me have a ehristian physician to administer the medicine. Let it be a Christian wife, or parent, or child, that watches the going out ot the tides of my mortal existence. Let Christian men come into the room and read of the illuminated valley and the extinguishment of grief, and drown the hoarse blasts of death with the straihSibt \Mt. Fisgah\and \St Mai#n.\ In our last momentwe will all bo children. Said Dr. Guthrie, the famous Scotchclergy- ihan, when dying: '\Stagmeabatatehymn;\ Yes, we will all be children then. Ihtbat Hour the world will «tand'confounded around us. .Our friendsiihay„cfy over us;, tears wul hot help iis. They inay look sad; what we want is radiation in the last moment-? thinking it will help them die. In our last moment we want that bread 1 which came \down from .Heaven* Who. will- give it to us? Oh, we want Chris- tian people in the ropm, so that if ourbope bsginsto stsuggle'they may say: \Courage hrotherl all is well! Couragel\ In that expiring moment I want to hear the old songs wo used to sing in church and prayer meetings. In thatlast momentI^wmt to hear the voice of some Christian xxwhd pleading that tho sins and shortcomings of my life may be .forgiven, aridtie doors of heaven may be opened before my ohtranctd spirit. \Come sing to meof heaven, Whenfm about to die: Sing songs of holy fecstasy, To waft my soul oh high.\ me the man was a member of .Congress, or a bdhk Presidont, or some prominent citizen, bttt ssfd' nothing ©boitt his flohri. de»> t'ny. Tho body is abtMnz. The gotfll The foul! And. here by this inscriptfoa I seothut this roan Mas uornijj 1800 and died ih 1875. Sevcnty-ftife years on. earth, and no Christian Bopej Oh, if in all tho cemeteriet of your city the graves of those who b*v» gone \out pf this world unprepared should sigh oh the wind, who 1 ^otilit'have'tBeuer^(l to drive through such a pla?e? If all thbs« who have gone out of this world unprepared could come back to-day and float through the air.talling the story of their discomQture, . . this audience woul* fall flat oh ife face, ask- I ing.to bo rescued from the avalanche of hor- ror. My hearers, do you wonderthat this Ruth of my text made the Crirtstiava Choice and Closed it with the ancient form of imprecatibn Upon herown soul, it sheeverforsook Naomi: \The Lord' do so to mo, and ihora also, if Augat but death part thee and me.\ They were to live together; Coma *ha. jackal*, come the bandits, roll oh Deed Beal'. My bearers, would you not like to .beirftKiybjir Christian friends forever? Have there, no* gone out persons from your household whom you would like to spend eternity with? They were mild, and lojing, and gentle, and beau* tif u], while here; You have no idea that the joys of heaven have made them iran*, Chosse their Christ, and you may have their heaven. They went in washed through the blood of the Lamb, and you must baya tbb same glorious ablution. i?itu-.-Ssw. violence I put my hands on you to-day, to push you on toward the immediate choice of this only Saviour. Have hiin you must, or perish world without end; Eaeia this moment as the'one of contrition anfi transport. Oh, give bneihtensi,.earn«sti*lj* lieving, loving gaze into tho wohhds openM for your eternal salvation! '.' Some of yon I confront for the first and the last time until the judgment, and then we shall meet Wi^.you-b*ready} _ :-' TEE officers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, elected in .3,883, tppk office with the knowledge that'- a new law o t the State provided -that iuxed . salaries should be paid them, and, that: all fees should be turned oy&cbo the county. They complied •qrith' the law until i t was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Gourt,„and : then sued for the money they wotild haveree'eived in> excess of their salaries had the; re- tained the feea. It has jusjt, been de^- : cided'that they are entitled to, tiies« !CHE;fiBh story has* got in#; *h? »% veitising colttaittsT Ar |je#*o* paper five anas quarter ^M^M, ^.<^ 1a g hfe iis ^bneaftetooon^y^gneSt atlhehp^L THE MAEKK'I'S. 34 @ 88 58 58 4X 85 90 TO 7 60 Beef cattle, good to prime I ! w 7 <8 »M Calves, com'n to prima veals 6 ® 7M Sheep...........i.v.i.....,.- 4 ®'<; =*» Lamb3.i< ......i.^-; 4&® JBX Hogs—?Live....i............ 5 @ 6}j Dressed, cify. 8 @ 7 Flour-^Ex. St, goodto fancy S 20; @ S 70 West, good to choice 8 90 @ 4 70 Wheat—No. 2, Red 91\ ~ \\ Rye-rState 87 Barley—Fbur-:rowed,State... Gbrn^-TTngrad. Mixed...... 60 Oats-^-Whlte State.: 40 'Mixed Western. ....... S3 Hay—Med. tb.or. Timothy.. 85 Straw-rr'No..l i Bye........... 60 Lard—City Steam >.... 7 30 Butter—State Creamery.... Dairy'...; -West. Im. Creamery Factory Cneese-^State Factory. i.... iSkiins..............^. Wesferh. Eggs—State and Penh;.....,. BUFFALO. Sheep-rGood to Choice;,.. Lambs-T-Wesfern; Steers—Western. „ Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 95 @ 5 00 FlbuT-rC'y ground h.jiroces3 5-25 @ 6 25 Wheat-^Ko. L Harcl Duluth. 87 ~ Corn—No. 2, Mixed New— Oats-rrNo. 2, Mixed Western |. Barley—Twoiiowed State... — mi — BOSTOtT. Beef—Et plate and family.10 50_ @11 00 18 11 16 ~J® 21 15 if, 7 8 8 25 5 50 460' SO 88 @ 400 @ 5 80 @ 5 15 @ ® 8f« 88« Hogs—Live 5^@ Nbrthern.Dressed.... 6.\' Fork-OEx. Prime, per bbl. ..11 50 6« @12 50 ioTOitww'^6\-: |lour-^ihterWh^t\p^t'\sr4 50 ® 4 65 Christian people on either side of tte coni^High Mixed. 56 ^@ 67 you it is just as important that the hus- band and father be a Christian. Yet how many clever men there are who say: \My wife does all the religion of my house. I am a worldly man; but 1 have confidence ih her, and I think she jvill'brihg the whole fam? ily up all right.\ It will hotdo, my brother. TUB fact that you are riot a Christian has more inQuence on yotti- fathily than the fact- that your wife is a Christian. Your children -will say: \F&ther's a veiy good man; he is \ihb inscription told Rye-State.....:..,....;..;. 72\@ 74 WATESTOWN (HASS,) OAETLB MARKET. Beef—Extra qualilg' 5 25 @ 5 50 Bh^ep—ISvo. weight;...,...; $£<3 Yes. Christian people on euner sine oiuwi i ^T— w... ^,, - bed, ondtheehristaahpeopleatthefbotofthe g°^~Si? *ii^2- bed,.ahd Christen people to close my eyep, Oate-Bxtra White.. aud Christian people to carry me out, and Gitristian people t> look after those, whom I leave beamd, and Christian people to re- member me a little while after lam gone. \Where thou diost; will I die, and there' wiB I bo buried.\ Sometimes ah epitaph, covers upi more than it expresses. Walking through Greenwood Cemetery I have, sometimes seen an ihscrip^ tion which impressed me bow hail the sculptor arid friends were trying to make but a good story in stone. I saw from the in- scription that the man or woman buried thero hai-died, without hope.- Tiio mq^fintiontbld Lambs'.... .\. 6' ® Hogs-r-NbrthBrn, d. w....... : PHirknELPHiA; Flour--Pehn. exfamily, good 8 75 Wheat-^Nb.2,Ked,...;..... '•- is Rye—State.................. ® Corn—StateYellbw......... .. a OatsMixed...... ....; 87 @ Butter—Creamery Extra Pa 2d :@ Cheese—N. Y. Full Cream.. 6J£a J* @409 @ 88« ® 80 I 55K _ 89 21 9
