The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-09-17

prpN4 VINCE Ihofo hAvo Deeu eaHlos
nhot on the Rock y Mountains with wings
that were seven feet from. tip TO tip.
When the king OF the air aita on the
craos tho wings are spread qydr III the
eaaiet6 In the eyria, and when the eagle
STARTS from the rock, the shadow Is Ike
the spreading Of q storm cloud. So the
wings OF God are broad wings Ruth
had been under those wings in her I'M
fantile days; in the days OF her happy
girlhood in Moab; in the day when she
gave her hand to Mahlon, in her frst
marriage; in the day when she wept
over his grave; In the day when she
trudged out into the wilderness Of pov.
erty; In the days when she picked up
the few straws Of barley dropped by an.
cient custom In the way Of the poor.
o, yes, the wings Of God are broad
wings. They cover up all our wants, oil
our sorrows, all our sufferings He puts
one wing over our cradle, and He puts
the other over our grave. Yes, my dear
friends, 1t is not q desert In which we
are placed; 1t is a nest Sometimes tits
hard nest, like that Of the eagle,
spread ON the rock, with ragged moss
and rough sticks, but still is nest; and,
although 1t may be very hard under US,
over US are the wings OF the Almighty.
There sometimes comes aperiod in ones
life when he feels forsaken. You said;
sEyery thing is against me. The world
III against me. The church is against
lme, No sympathy; no hope. Every
Body that comes near me thrusts at me.
| lwonder II there Is God, anyhow.
| Every thing seems to be going slipshod
and at haphazard. There does not tseem
70 BE- any hand on the helm. Jobs
health fhilsL David's Absalom gets to
Be . reprobste. Martha's brother dies.
Ahrahaln's s Sarah goes into the grave OF
Machpelah. "Woe worth the day in
which was born" has said many 8
Christian. David seemed to scream out
IN his sorrow as he said: "Is His mercy
clean gone forever? And will He be IA
vorable NO more? And hath He in an
ger shut up His tender meroies?" Job,
with his throat swollen and liberated
until he could not even swallow the sa-
Iva that ran into his umouth, exclaims:
slow long before Thou wilt depart
from me. and leave me alone, that 1
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 Rravodigger to
do his ork for you? o, the faithless-
ness Of the human heartl Gods wings
are broad, whether We know 1t or not
sometimes the mother-bird goes away
from the nest and II seems very strange
that she should leave the callow young.
She plunges her beak into the bark Of
the tree, and she drops into grain-feld,
and into the chaff at the barn-door and
into the furrow OF the plowboy. Mean
while, 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 while
there is whirr Of wings, and the moth
er-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 leayesuA
He goes OF TO get food for our soul;
and then He comes back after while 10
the nest, and says, ''0pen thy mouth
wide, and I will All IT." and He drops
into It the sw eet promises Of His grace>
and the love Of God Is she'd abroad, and
We are under His wing-tho broad wing
of the Almighty. .rtF e t
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-
tionsp know It. The Seamen's
Friend Society is inviting all the sail
ore. The Tract Society Is inviting an
the destitute. The Sabbath schools are
inviting all the children. The Mis-
sionary Society is inviting all the
heather. The printing presses Of the
Bible societies are going night and day,
doing nothing but printing inyitations
TO this great gospel banquet And are
you not afraid that there will be more
guests than accommodationsf Mol All
who have been invited will not half fill
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 up all those who have
come; and whom He spreads both wings,
they cover all the earth and all the
heavena Ye Israelites, who went
through tho Red Sea, come underi He
multitudes wfe have gone into glory
for the last SIX thousand years, come
underi Ye hundred and forty-four thou
sand, and the thousands Of thousands
come underi Ye flying ,eherubim and
sfchsngel foA ysar pinions and come
undsri And ret thefs ID roomi Ay1
II God would have sil the space
under his wings occupied he must
mako other worlds and people them
with other myriads and have other
Resurrection and Judgmsnt days; for
broader than all thought wide % eter-
nifty from tip 10 tip are tho wings Of the
Almighty o, under such provisions %
that csnlJpu rot fejoioen Como under,
70 wandering, ysWesry, 70 troubled, 70
sf'a sss ~isss J, rs ai%isss ;sa ss's.
will come, Lot, him come However,
ragged, however wfetched, however
abandoned, however, woe-begone, there
Is room enough under the winGs-undef
the broad wings Of the Almighty o,
what . Gospeliyso glorious, so magniA-
cent in It's provisionl love TO preach
H. Ills my life 70 preach Il II ID my