The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
WINGS OF LOVE.
Dr.. Talmage on the Goodness of
the Almighty.
The Lords Readiness to Aid Those In Need
Ever Present in Times of Elmer
gency-His Power to Save
The Final Refuge.

The sub ect of a late discourse a
Brooklyn by Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmag
was Swings of Love-" the preacher tax
ing for his text: ''The Lord God of Is
rael, under whose wings thou art com,
to trust. Ruth IL IL.
Scene:a An Oriental harvest fold
Grain standing Grain in swaths. Grair
in sheaves. At the side of the field :
white tent in which to take the nooning
jars of vinegar or of sour wine to quenct
thesth irst of the hot working people
Swafthy men striking their siekles intC
the rustling barley. Others twisting
he bands for the sheaves. putting one
end of the band under the arm and with
the free arm and foot collecting the
sheaE SHnburnt women picking up the
stray straYs and bringing them to the
binders Boaz, a fine looking Oriental
gray Bearded and bright faced, the own
er Of the field, locking on and estimat-
ing the value of the grain and calculat-
ing so many epahs to the acre; and,
with his large, sympathetic heart
plying the overtasked workmen
and the women, with white
faces enough to faint in the hot noon
day sun. But there is one woman who
especially attracts the mans attention.
She is soon to be with him the joint
owner of the field. She has come from
a distant land for the sole purpose OF
being kind to an aged woman. know
not what her features were, but when
the Lord God sets behind woman's
face the lamp of courage, and faith, and
self sacrifice there comes out a glory
independent of features She is to be
the ancestress of Jesus Christ Boaz
the owner of the field, as soon as he un-
derstands that it is Ruth, accosts her
with blessing: "a full reward be given
thee of the Lord God of Irael, under
whose wings thou art come to trust. !"
Christ compares himself to hen gath
ering the chickens under her wings. In
Deuteronomy, God is represented as an
eagle stirring up her nest In great
many places in the Psalms, David
makes pathological illusions; while
my text mentions the wings of God, IN
der which a poor, weary soul had come
to trust eS
ask your attention, therefore, while.
taking the suggestion of my text /
speak to You in all simplicity and love
Of the wings of the Almighty.
First remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust There is nothing in all the
handiwork of God more curious than
birds wing. You have been surprised,
sometimes to see how far it could fly
with one stroke of the wing; and, when
it has food in prospect, or when it is af-
frighted, the pulsations of the bird, s
wing are unimaginable for velocity.
The English Lords used to pride them
selves on the speed of their falcons.
These birds when tanned had in them
the dart of lightning. How swift were
the carrier pigeons in the time of An
thony and at the siege of Jerusalemi
Wonderful speed A carrier pigeon was
thrown up at Rouen and came down at
Ghent-ninety miles off-in one hour.
The carrier pigeons were the tele-
graphs Of the olden time. Swal-
lows have been shot in our latitude hav-
ing the undigested rice of Georgia
s~ampsi in their crops, showing that they
had come 400 miles in six hours. 1t has
been estimated that in the ten years of
q swallows life it flies far enough to
have gone around the world eighty-nine
times, so great is its velocity. And so
the wings of the Almighty, spoken of
in the text, are swift wings. They are
swift when they drop upon foe, and
swift when they come to help Gods
friends If a father and his son be
walking. by the way and the child goes
too near precipice, how long does it
take for the father to deliver the child
from danger? Longer than it takes
God to, swoop for the rescue of his
children. The fact is that you can not
got away from the care of God. If you
take the steamship or the swift rail
train Heis all the time along with you
whittier shall go from Thy spirit
and whittier shall fee from Thy pres
ence?, If 1 ascend up into Heaven,
Thou art there. If make my bed in
hell, behold thou art there If take
the wings Of the morning and dwell in
the ,uttermost parts of the sea, even
there Thy hand shall hold me-"
The Arabian gazelle is swift as the
wind. If it gets but one glimpse of the
hunter it puts many crags between.
Solomon four or five times compares
Christ to an Arabian gazelle ealing it
by another name), when he says: "My
Beloved is like roe" The difference
is that the roe speeds the other way;
Jesus speeds this Who but Christ
could have been quick enough to have
helped Peter when the water pavement
broke2 Who but Christ could have
been quick enough to have helped the
Duke of, Argyle when, in his dying mo-
ment, he cried: 'Good cheerI / could
die like Roman. but l mean to die
like q Chr stan. Come away gentle
men. He who goes first goes cleanestl"
had a friend who stood by the rail
track at Carlisle, Pa, when the ammu-
milton had given out at Antietsm, and
he saw the train from Harrisburg,
went laundering down toward the
battle field. He said that it stopped
not for any crossing. They put down
the brakes for no grade. They
held up for no peril The wheels were
on fire with the speed as they dashed
past If the train did not come up in
time with the ammunition it might as
wen not come at all So. my friends,
there are times in our lives when we
must have help Immediately or perish
The grace that comes too late is no
grace at all What you and want is
God-now. O. is it not blessed to think
that God is always in such quick pursuit
OF his dear children? When sinner
seeks pardon, or bafied soul needs
help, sswifter than thrush's wing, swift
or than ntarmiran,s wing suifter than