The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-10-24
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
TABERNACLE SERMON ON THE Ex-
# FERENCE OF RUTH.

Inc Orientai scene anu the Lheoui"sA"s
salutation of Boax-Ruth Had Becomea
voluntary Exile for Love. and Her Re-
ward Was Great.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 14.-The subject Of
the discourse by DIR. TalInage today
was Wings of Love-" the famous
preacher taking for his text the words,
1.-THE Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust Ruth
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Scene-An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Grain in swaths.
Grain in sheaves
At the side of the field white tent in
Inch to take the incoming, jars of vim
egar or of sour wine to quench the
thirst of the hot working people.
Swarthy men striking their sickles into
! the rustling barley. Others twisting the
bands for the sheaves, putting one end
of the band under the arm, and with
the free arm and foot collecting the
sheaf. Sunburned women picking up
the stray straws and bringing them to
| the binders. Boaz, a fine looking ORR
entail, gray bearded and bright faced,
the owner of the field, looking on, and
estimating the value of the grain and
calculating SO many ephahs to the acre,
and with his large, sympathetic heart
pitying the overtasked workmen and
| the women, with white faces enough
to faint. in the hot MONDAY sun. But
there is one woman who especially at
tracts 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 a
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 understands that it is Ruth, accosts
her with a blessing: "A full reward be
given thee of the Lord God of Israel,
under whose wing thou art come to
trust" Christ compares himself to
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings In Deuteronomy God is repre-
sented as an eagle stirring up her nest.
In great many places in the Psalms
David makes ornithological illusions
while my text mentions the wings Of
God, under which poor, weary sou
had come to trust.
HER PROTECTION WAS SURE.
l ask your attention, therefore
while, taking the suggestion of m.
text, speak to you in all simplicit.
and love of the wings Of the Almighty
First, remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come t.
trust. There is nothing in all TIN
handiwork of God more curious than ;
birds wing. You have been surprised
sometimes to see how far it could fl,
with one stroke of the wing; and whel
it has food in prospect, or when it
affrighted, the pulsations of the bird
wing are unimaginable for velocity
|
, selves on the speed of their falcons
These birds, when tanned, had in theI
tie dart of lightning. How swift wer
the carrier pigeons in the time of Ar
thony and at the siege of Jerusalem
Wonderful speed A carrier pigeo
was thrown up at Rouen and cam
down at Ghent-ninety miles off
one hour. The carrier pigeons wei
, the telegraphs of the plden time
Swallows have been shot in our lat
: tude having the undigested rice {
Georgia swamps in their crops, shown
that they had come four hundred mill
in six hours 1t has been estimate
that in the ten years of swallow
. life it flies far enough to have gor
around the world eighty-nine times,
great is its velocity.
And so the wings of the A,night
spoken of in the text are swift wing
They are swift when they drop upon
foe, and swift when they come to he
Gods friends. If father and his sc
; be walking by the way, and the chi
goes UOO Iiett piCOiE'iSC, nv" 'O'N Wv
it take for the father to deliver Il
child from dangerl Longer than
. takes God to swoop for the rescue
= his children. The fact is that you ca
not get away from the care of God.
ing you take the steamship or the sw
.n IN rail train he is all the time along wi
,ic you. whittier shall l go from G
ned ed spirit. and whittier shall l flee from c
presence2 If Iascend up into heav
i thou art there. If l make my bed
hell, behold thou art there. If ia
the wings of the morning and dwell
I the utternost parts of the sea. ev
there thy hand shall hold me-.
THE CAR FOR ANTIETAM.
Tie Arabian gazelle is swift as
wind. If it gets bnt one glimpse OF
hunter it puts many crags betwa'
Solomon four or five times compa
Christ TO an Arabian gazelle (callir1
.D,s by another name) when he says, -
beloved Is like n roe" The differcr