Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
TjIE WINGS OF LOVE.
grgNAcLE SERMON ON TIE
EXPERIENCE OF RUTH.

81. oriental Scene and the Encouraging
.,t,tion OF Bcaz-Ruth Had Become
Voluntary Exile for Love, and He,
reward Was Great.
The subject of a recent discourse by
Mr. Talmagc was ''Wings of Love-" the
~, preacher taking for his text the
N" nd. Tho Lord God of Israel, under
,S,sc wings thou art come to trust
As s.leno-An Oriental harvest field,
croin standing. Grain in swaths. Grain
Il" N the side of the field white tent in
which TO take the incoming, jars of vim
or,r OF of sour wine to quench the thirst
# the hot working people. Swarthy
man striking their sickles into the rus
Zinc. Zinc barley. Others twisting the bands
;nr he shcavcs, putting one end of the
l iDl under the arm, and with the free
avn and foot collecting the sheaf. Sun
burned women picking up the stray
.traws and bringing them to the binders,
raaz. a fine looking Oriental, gray
hsa,ded and bright-faced, the owner of
The field looking on, and estimating the
yoIue of the grain and calculating so
MANY cphahs to the acre, and with his
i,rse. sympathetic heart plying the
oyertasked workmen and the women.
with white faces enough to faint. i'm the
noou,!ay sun. But there is one woman
who especially attracts the mans atten-
tim. She is soon to be with him the
oiut owner of the field. She has come
rom a distant land for the sole purpose
Of being kind to an aged woman.
know not what her features were:
hut when the Lord God sets behind a wo-
mans face the lamp of courage and faith
and self sacrifice there comes out glory
independent of features. She is to be
the ancestrcss of Jesus Christ. Boaz,
the owner of the field, as soon as he I'M
darStands that it is Ruth, accosts her
with blessing: ga full reward be given
thce of the Lord God of Israel, under
whose wing thou art come to trust"
Christ compares himself to hen gather
ing 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
archaeological illusions; while my text
mentions the wings of God, under which
| the poor, weary soul had come to trust.
Task your attention, therefore. while
taking the suggestion of my text,
speak to you in all simplicity and love of
ip wings of the Almighty.
First. | remark that they were swift
| wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There is nothing in all the handi-
work of God more curious than a birds
| wing. You have been surprised some
ttmes'to see how far it could fly with
one stroke of the wing; and when it has
food in prospect, or when it is atfrightcd,
|tbe pulsations of the birds wings are
|unimaginable for velocity. The English
lords used to pride themselves 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 Anthony and the
sicge of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed!
4 carrier pigeon was thrown up at
|ioucn and came down at Ghent-nincty
pigeons were the telegraphs of the olden
time Swallows have been shot in our
alhudes having the undigested rice of
Georgia swamps in Their crops, showing
that they had come 400 miles in six
hours. 1t has been estimated that in
tAeten years of a swallows life it flies
fM enough to have gone around the
World eighty-nine times, SO great is it's
fplocity.
And so the wings of the Almighty
Spoken of in the text are swift wings.
They are swift when they drop upon a
Oe, and swift when they come to help
Gods friends. If father and his son
e walking by the way, and the child
goes too near IL preclpice, how long does
take for the father to deliver the child
rom danger? Longer than it takes God
% Swoop for the rescue of His children.
The fact is that you cannot get away
from the care of God. If you take the
Steamship or the swift rail traia he is all
he time along with you. s'Whither
Fhall go from thy spirit, and whittier
Fhall flee from thy presence? If | as
Eend up into Heaven thou art there. If
make my bed in hell. behold! thou arc
here. Ii | take the wings of the morn
hg and dwell in the uttermost parts OF
he Sea. even there thy hand shall hold
The Arabian gazelle is. swift as the
EMd If it gets but one glimpse of the
inter it puts many crags between.
Eo'omon four OF five times compares
Arist to an Arabian gaZelle Calling it
another name) when he says, MY
tloved is like roe' The difference is
nat the roe speeds the other way: Jesus
peeds this. Who but Christ could have
psen quick enough to have helped Peter
men the water pavement broke? Who
al Christ could have been quick enough
help the Duke Of Argyle when. in his
Elng moment, he cried: ''Good cheer! ]
Eoald die like a Roman. but l mean to
Ne Ike Christian. Come away, gem
NMen. He who goes first goes clean
~; had a friend who stood by the
oil track at Carlisle, Pa, when the am
uuAltlon had given out at Antictam. and
saw the train from Harrisburg,
sighted with shot and shell, as it went
aahdering down to the battlefield. He
fla that it stopped not for any crossing.
fieE put down the brakes for no Grade.
aeS held up for no peril. the wheels
R sl, on fire with the speed as they
taSAed past. If the train did not come
= III Tune with the ammunition it might
wen not come at ALL
90 my friends, there are times in our
W., ,Is when we must have help immedl-
WY or perish. The grace that comes
~, 'ate sno grace 1T all. What you
Iu want is God-now. Oh, is it not
HSSeQ tn fhinly that God ic ol,p.yS i'm