The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-26

Oil yes, the wings of God are broad
wings. They cover all our wants, all
our SORROWS, all our sufferings. He puts
one wing over our cradle and He puts
the other wing over our grave. Yes,
my dear friends, it is not q desert in
which we are placed; it is a nest.
Some times it is a very hard nest like
that of tho eagle, spread ON the rock,
with ragged moss and rough sticks, but
still is a nest; and, although it may be
very hard upon us, over us are the
wings of the Almighty. There some
times comes a period in ones life when
he feels overtaken. You said: Every
thing is against me. The world is
against me. The church is against
me. No sympathy; no hope. Every
body that comes near me thrusts at me.
/ wonder il there is a God, anyhow"
Every thing seems TO be going slipshod
and at haphazard. There does not seem
to be any hand on the helm. Jobs
health fails, David's Absalom gets to
be reprobate. Martins brother dies.
Abraham's Sarah goes to the grave of
Machpelah. ''Woe worth the daV in
which ! was born?" has said many a
Christian. David seemed to scream
out in his sorrow, as he said:
lis His mercy clean gone forever? And
will He be favorable no more? And hath
He in anger shut up His tender mercies?"
Job, with his throat swollen and ul
cered until he could not even swallow
the saliva that run into his mouth, ex
claims: "How long before Thou wilt de-
part from me, and leave mo alone that
l may swallow down my splitter" Have
there never been times in your life
when you envied those who were
buried? When you longed for the
grave-digger 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 cal
low young. She plunges her beak into
the bark of the tree, and she drops into
the grain field, and into the chaff at
the barn door, and into the furrow of
the plowboy. Meanwhile the birds in
the nest SILVER. and complain and call,
and wonder why the mother bird docs
not come back. All, she has gone for
1
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 feath-
ers and all is peace. So, sometimes
| God leaves us. He goes off to get food
for our soul; and then He comes back
after awhile to the nest and says:
"Open thy mouth wide and l will fill
it," and He drops into it the sweet prom
Uses of His grace, and the love of God
Is shed abroad, and we are under His
wings-the broad wings of the Al
mighty.
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-
| tions." l know it The Seaman's
Friend Society is inviting Ill the
sailors. The Tract Society is - ;iting
all the destitute. The Sabbath-schools
are inviting all the children. The
Missionary Society Is inviting all
the heathens. The printing presses
of the Bible Societies are going night
and day, doing nothing but printing in
vitations 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 fill up the table of Gods sup
ply. There are chairs for more. There
are cups for 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
all 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 and
four thousand, and the thousands of
thousands, come under! Ye flying
cherubim and archangel, fold your
piniOns, and come under. 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 tn ought, wide as eternity from
tip To tip are the wings of
the Almighty! Oh! under such pro-
vision as that can you not re-
joice? Come under, ye wandering, ye
weary, ye troubled, We SHINING ye dying
souls! Come under the wings of the Al
mighty. Whosoever will come. How
ever rugged, however wretched, how
ever abandoned, however woe-begone,
there is room enough under the wings
under the broad wings of the Almighty!
All! what a Gospel! so glorious, so
magnificent in its provisions! l love to
preach it. 1t is my heaven to preach it.
remark, further, that the wings un-
der which Ruth came to trust were
strong wings. The strength of a birds
wing-of sea fowls wing for example
you might guess it from the fact that
some times for five, six or seven days it
seems to fly without resting. There
have been -condofs in the Andes that
could overcome an OK or stag. There
have been eagles that have picked up
children, and swung them to the top of
the cliffs The Zap Of an eagles wing
has death in it to every thing
it strikes. There are birds whose
wings are packed with strength
to fly, to. lift, 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
Mapped His wings, and the santediluyi-
an world was gone He Mapped His
wings and Babylon persisted. He
tapped Ais wings and Herculaneu N
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