Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-09-27
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
SERMON ON THE
EXPERIENCE OF RUTH.

nh. Oriental Scene and the Encouraging
sa1utation of Boaz-Ruth Had Become
a Voluntary Exile for Love, and Her
Reward Was Great
Isl The subject Of recent discourse by
mr. Talmage was ''Wings of Love-" the
Famous preacher taking for his text the
words. E'The Lord God of Israel, under
whose wings thou art come to trust
Ruth ii, 12
Scene-An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Grain in swaths. Grain
Ia sheaVeS.
"a At the side of the field a white tent in
which to take the incoming, jars of vim
BOAR or of sour wine to quench the thirst
Of the hot working people. Swarthy
men striking their sickles into the rus
Hing barley. Others twisting the bands
For the sheaves, putting one end of the
hand under the arm, and with the free
arm and foot collecting the sheaf. Sun
burned women picking up the stray
traws and bringing them to the binders.
Roaz, q fine looking Oriental, 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
arge. sympathetic heart plying the
bvrrtasked WOrkmen and the women,
with white faces enough to faint, in the
boonday sun. But there is one woman
who especially attracts the mans atten.
S4ion. She is soon to be with him the
Joint owner of the field. She has come
from distant land for the sole purpose
u Mi being kind to an aged woman.
8 | know not what her features were:
but when the Lord God sets behind wo-
mans face the lamp of courage and faith
hnd self sacrifice there comes out glory
independent of features. She is to be
Inc ancestress of Jesus Christ. Boaz,
The owner of the field, as soon as he un-
Rherstands that it is Ruth, accosts her
with a blessing: ga full reward be given
fhee of the Lord God of Israel, under
whose wing thou art come to trust y
#rhrist compares himself to hen gather
ng the chickens under her wings. In
deuteronomy God is represented as an
faglC 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
baking the suggestion of my text,
speak to you in all simplicity and love OF
the wings of the Almighty.
First, I remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
Erust There is nothing in all the handi-
work of God more curious than birds
wing. You have been surprised some
times to see how far it could fly with
bne stroke of the wing; and whenit has
food in prospect, or when it is affrighted,
The pulsations of the birds wings are
lnimaginable 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
Siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed
carrier pigeon was thrown up at
ROuen and came down at Ghent-ninety
miles off-in one hour. The carrier
pigeons were the telegraphs of the olden
lime. Swallows have been shot in our
attitudes having the undigested rice OF
Georgia swamps in Their crops, showing
hat they had come 400 miles in six
8 hours. 1t has been estimated that in
he ten years of a swallows life it flies
Jar enough to have gone around the
world eighty-nine times, so great is its
Dkeocity.
And so the wings of the Almighty
spoken of in the text are swift wings.
;3Ihey are swift when they drop upon a
foe, and swift when they come to help
Gods friends. If father and his son
Pc walking by the way, and the child
goes too near preclpice, how long does
It take for the father to deliver the child
from danger? Longer than it takes GOD
10 swoop for the rescue of His children.
#The tact is that you cannot. get away
from the care of God. If you take the
Steamship or the swift rail train he is all
the time along with you. whittier
Shall go from thy spirit, and whittier
Shall l fee from thy presence? If l as
seend up into Heaven thou art there. II
make my bed in hell. behold! thou are
fhere. If take the wings of the morn
ng and dwell in the uttermost parts OF
khe sea, even there thy hand shall hold
he"
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 Calling II
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 broke? VINO
put Christ could have been quick enough
TO help the Duke of Argyle when, IN ms
dying moment, he cried: "Good cheer F!
R6uld die like Roman, but l mean 10
Pie like Christian. Come away, gen
flemen. He who goes first goes clean
eSt!" l had friend who stood by tne
Gail track at Carlisle Pa when the am