Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-15


saken. You said Everything is
against me. The world is against me.
The church is against me. No sym
pathy, no hope Everybody that comes
near me thrusts at me. wonder if
there is a God, anyhow
Everything seems to be going slip
shod and at haphazard. There does
not seem to be any hand on the helm.
Jobs health fails David's Absalom
gets to be a reprobate. Martha's broth
er dies Abraham's Sarah goes into
the grave of Machpelah. Woe worth
the day in which | was born!" has said
many a Christian. David seemed to
scream out in his sorrow, as he said
Us his mercy clean gone forever? And
will he be favorable no mOre2 And
hath he in anger shut up his tender
merciesg' Job, with his throat swollen
and ulcered until he could not even
swallow the saliva that ran into his
mouth, exclaims: ''How long before
thou wilt depart from me and leave
ne alone, that | may swallow down
my spittle?" Have there never been
times in your life when you envied
those who were buried? When you
longed for the gravedigger to do his
work for you? Oh, the faithlessness of
the human heart Gods wings are
broad. whether we know it or not
Sometimes the mother bird goes
away from the nest, and it seems very
strange that she should leave the callow
young. She plunges her beak into the
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grain field and into the chaff at the
barn door. and into the furrow of the
plough boy Meanwhile, the birds in
the nest shiver and complain and call
and wonder why the mother bird does
not come back. All, she has gone for
food After a while there is a whirr OF
wings, and the mother bird stands on
the edge of the nest, and the little ones
open their mouths, and the food is
dropped in; and then the old bird
spreads out her feathers and all is
| peace. So, sometimes, God leaves us.
| He goes off to get food for our soul,
and then he comes back after a while
to the nest and says, open thy mouth
wide and | will fill it," and he drops
into it the sweet promises of his grace,
and the love of God is shed abroad
and we are under his wings-the broad
wings of the Almighty.
THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL.
Yes they are very broad There is
room under those wings for the sixteen
hundred millions of the race. You say:
do not get the invitation too large, for
there is nothing more awkward than to
have more guests than accOmmOda-
tons | know it. The seamen's friend
society is inviting all the sailors. The
tract society is inviting all the desti-
tute. The sabbath schools are inviting
all the children The missionary soci-
ETY. is inviting all the heather. The
printing presses of the Bible societies
are going night and day, doing nothing
but printing invitations to this great
gospel banquet And are you not
afraid that there will be more guests
than accommodations? Mol All who
have been invited will not half fill up
the table of Gods supply. There are
chairs for more. There are cups fol
more. God could with one feather OF
his wing cover up all those who have
come, and when he spreads out both
wings they cover all the earth and al
the heavens
Ye Israelites, who went through the
Red sea, come under! Ye multitudes
who have gone into glory for the last
six thousand years, come under! Ye
hundred and forty-four thousand, anC
The thousands of thousands, come
under Ye flying cherubim and arch
angel, fold your pinions, and come
under And yet there is room! Ayl
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 resur-
rection and judgment days, for broader
than all space, broader than thought,
wide as eternity, from tip to tip, are
the wings of the Almighty Oh! under
such provision as that can you not re-
ioice? Come under, ye wandering, We
weary, ye troubled, ~ye SHINING, ye dy-
ing souls! Come under the wings OF
the Almighty Whosoever will come
let him come However ragged, how
ever wretched, however abandoned,
however, WOC OOSO1C1 bAAOAN IL AOOAA
enough under the wings-under the
broad wings of the Almighty Oh,
what a gospel so glorious, SO magnifi
cent in its provision! love to preach
it. 1t is my life to preach it. 1t is my
heaven to preach it.
THE STRENGTH OF HIS LOVE.
remark, further, that the wings
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strong wings. The strength of a bird
2 wing-of a sea fowls wing for exam
2 ple-you might guess it from the fac
that sometimes for five, six or sever
s days it seems to fly without resting
{ There have been condors in the Ande
that could overcome an OK or a stag
g There have been eagles that have pick
+; ed up children and swung them to thu
t top of the cliffs. The flap of an eagle
e wing has death in it to everything
t strikes. There are birds whose wing
e are packed with strength to fly, to lift
e to destroy So the wings of God ar
> strong wings Mighty to save. Might.
a to destroy. I preach him-''the Lord
5 strong and mighty; the Lord, might
0 in battle!" He tapped his wing, ant
d the antediluvian world was gone. III
), tapped his wing, and Babylon persisted
n He tapped his wing, and Herculanem
n was buried. He tapped his wing, an
II the Napoleonic dynasty ceased.
Before the stroke of that pinion
t fleet is nothing An army is nothing
An empire is nothing. A world is notf
: ing. The universe is nothing. King
s eternal, omnipotent-he asks no cour
sci from the thrones of heaven. I'll
2 takes not the archangel into his cabinet
t He wants none to draw his chariots
for they are the winds. None to loa
4 his batteries, for they are the ight
: nings None to tie the sandals of Ii
t feet, for they are the clouds. Might
t to save. Our enemies may be strons
= our sorrows violent, our sins may b
S great. But quicker than an eagle eve
S hurled from the crags a hawk or rave
s will the Lord strike back our sins an
}, our temptations if they assault us whe
n we are once seated on the eternal roc