Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-15

TO have more gnests than accommodations"
know it. The Seamen's Friend Society is in
viting all the sailors. The Tract Society is in-
viting all the destitute. The Sabbath schools
are inviting all the children. The Missionary
Society is inviting all the heather. The print
ing presses of the Bible societies going
night and day. doing nothing but printing in vi
tations to this great Gospel banquet. And are
you not afraid that there will be more guests
than accommodations? No! All who have been
invited will not half hll up the table of Gods
supply. There are chairs for more. There are
cups for more God could with one feather of
his wing cover mp all those who have come: and
when He spreads out both wings, they cover all
the earth and all the heavens.
Ye Israelites who went through the Red Sea.
| come uuderi Ye multitudes who have gone
| into glory for the last six thousand years, come
underi Ye hundred and forty-four thousand.
/ and the thousands of thousands come UNDER!
! Ye fying cherubim and archangel, fold your
| pinions, and come unde-i And yet there Is
room! Ay! If God would have all the space
under His wings occupied, He must make other
worlds. and people them with other myriads
and have other resurrection and Judgment
days; for broader than all space. broader than
thought wide as eternity, from tin 10 tip, are
the wings of the Almighty! Oh! under such
provision as that can you not rejoice? Come
under, We wandering. We weary, We troubled. ye
slnning, We dying soulsi Come under the wings
| of the Almighty. Whosoever will come, let
him come. However ragged. however wretched.
however abandoned, however woe-begone
there is room enough under the wings-under
the broad wings of the Almighty Oh what
gospel! SO glorious, SO magnificent in its pro-
vision! love to preach it. 1t is my lie TO
preach II. 1t is my heaven to preach 1t.
TIRELEss WINGS.
1 remark. further that the wings under
which Ruth came to trust were strong wings
The strength of a birds wing-of a seafowTs
irr1,% FRO
the fact that sometimes for five. six or seven
days it seems to fy without resting. There
have been condors in the Andes that could
overcome an a stag. There have been
eagles that have picked up children, and swung
them to the tor of the cliffs. The flap of an
eagles wing has death in it to everything it
strikes. There are birds whose wings are
packed with strength to fv. to hit. to destroy
So the wings of God are strong wings Mighty
to save Mighty TO destroy. l preach Him
'the Lord, strong and mighty-the Lord. mighty
in battle!'' He tapped. His wing. and the ante
diluvian world was gone. He tapped His wing
and Babylon perished. He fapped His wing
and Herculaneum was buried He tapped His
wing and the Napoleonic dynasty ceased.
Before the stroke of that pinion fleet is
nothing. An army is nothing. An empire is
nothing. King - Eternal Omnipotent - He
asks no counsel from the thrones of heaven.
He takes not the archangel into His cabinet.
He wants none to draw His chariots. for they
are the winds. None TO load His batteries, for
they are the lghtnings. None to tie the san
dals of bis feet for they are the clouds.
our sorrows violent. Our SINS may be great.
But quicker than an eagle ever hurled from the
crags hawk or raven, will the Lord strike
back our sins and our temptations, If they as
sault us when we are once seated on the eter-
nal rock of His salvation. What blessed
thing it is to be defended by the strong wing of
the Almighty! Stronger than the Pelican's
wing, stronger than the albatross wing,
stronger than the condor's wing, are the wings
of the Almighty.
GODS GENTLENESS.
have only one more thought to present.
The wings under which Ruth had come to
trust were gentle wings. There is nothing
softer than a feather You have noticed when
a bird returns from flight, how gently 1t stoops
over the nest. The young birds are not afraid
of having their lives trampled nut by the
mother bird: the old whppoorwill drops into its
nest of leaves the urIole into its casket of bark
the humming-bird into its hammock or moss
gentle as the light And so, says the Psalmist.
He shall cover thee with His wing Oh, the
gentleness of Godi But even that figure does
not fully set it forth: for 1 have sometimes
looked into the birds nest and seen dead
bird-itS life having been trampled out by the
mother bird. But no one that ever came under
the feathers of the Almighty was trodden on.
Blessed nest! warm nesti Why will men stay
out in the cold to be shot of temptation and to
be chilled by the blast, when there is divine
shelterf More beautiful than any flower l ever
saw are the hues of birds plumage Did you
ever examine it; the blackbird floating like
fake of darkness through the sunlight: the
meadow lark, with head of fawn and throat of
velvet and breast of gold, the red famingo
flying over the southern swamps like sparks
from the forge of the setting sun; the pelican
white and black-morning and night tangled in
its wings-give but a very faint idea of the
beauty that comes down over the soul when on
it drop the feathers of the Almighty. Here
fold your weary wings. This IS the only safe
nest. Every other nest will be destroyed
The prophet says so: Though thou exalt
myself like the eagle. and set thy nest
among the stars, yet will bring thee down,
saith the Lord of Hosts" Under the swift
tgings, under the broad wings. under the strong
Eings, under the gentle wings of the Almighty,
find shelter until these calamities be overpast.
Then when you want to change nests it will
dhly be from the valley of earth to the heights
Of heaven; and instead of the wings of dove"
for which David longed, not knowing that in
the first mile of their fiighr they would give
out, you will be conducted upward bv the Lord
God of Israel under whose wings Ruth, the
beautiful Moabitess, came to trust.
God forbid that this matter of eternal
veal or woe we should be more stupid than the
fowls of heaven: "for the stork knoweth her
appointe time; and the turtle, and the crane.
and the swallow, observe the time Of their
going; but my people know not the judgment
of the Lord"