Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18
Subject Of Rev. DR.. Talmage's
Discourse Yesterday in
Brooklyn.
An Eloquent and Beautiful Sermon
from the Book OF Ruth-An
Oriental Harvest Field.
Full Reward be Given Thee Of the Lord
God of Israel, Under Whose Wings
Thou Art Come TO Trust.

the discourse by DR.. Talmage to-day
was "WinEs of Love-" the famous
preacher taking for his text the words:
1.-The Lord God of Isrdel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust. Ruth
H., u.
Scene: An oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Gram in swaths
Grain in sheaves.
At the side of the field, white tent in
which 10 take the incoming, jars of vine
gar or of sour wine to quench the thirst
Of the hot working people. Swarthy
men striking their sickles INTO the rust
ing barley. Others twisting the bands
for the sheavesr putting one end Of the
band under the arm, and with the free
arm and foot collecting the sheaf.
Sunburned women picking up the stray
straws and bringing them to the binders.
BoaZ, a fine looking Oriental, gray
bearded and fright faced, the owner of
the field, looking on, ana estimating the
value of the grain and calculating so
many ephahs to the acre; and, with his
large, sympathetic heart, plying the
Overtasked wOrkmen and the women,
with white faces enough TO faint, in the
woman who especially attracts the man =
attention. She is soon to be with him
the joint owner of the field. She has
come from a distant land for the sole
purpose of being kind TO an aged woman.
] know not what her features were, but
when the Lord God sets behind Il woman's
face the lamp of courage, and faith, and
self-sacriiice, there comes out glory
INDEPENDENT OF FEATURES.
She Is TO be the ancestrrss of Jesus
Christ. Boaz, the owner of the field as
soon as he understands that it is Ruth,
HccOsts her with a blessing: ga full re-
waId be gwen thee of the Lord God of
Israel, under whose wings thou art come
TO trust. " Christ compares himself to a
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings. In Deuteronomy, God ia repre-
scented as an eagle stirring up her nest.
In a great many places III the Psalms,
David makes pathological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings of
God, under which poor, weary soul had
come TO trust.
1 ask your attention, therefore, while
taking the suggestion of my text, speak
TO YOU in all simplicity aud love of the
wings of the Almighty.
First: I remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There is nothing III all the handi-
work of God more curious than q Bird
wing. You have been surprised, some
times, TO see how far it could fly with one
stroke of the wing; and, when ii has
food In prospect, or when it is afTrighted,
the pulsatious of the bird s wing are uu-
imaginable for velocity. The English
lords used TO pride themselves on the
nf fu1 f-H
when tanned. had in them the dart of
lightning. How swift were the carrier
pigeons in the time of Anthony and at the
siege of Jerusaleml Wonderful speed!
a carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen
and came down at Ghent-uinety miles /
off-in one hour. The carrier pigeons /!
were the telegraphs of the olden time. |
Swallows have been shot in our latitude |
having the undigested rice of Georgia |
swamps in their crops, showing that they /
had come 400 miles In six hours. 1t has
been estimated that, IN ten years of
swallow s life, II flies far enough TO have
GONE AROUND THE WORLD
eighty nine times, so great is its We
Ocity. And so the wings of the
Almighty, spoken of in the text, nre
swift wings. They are swift when they /
Iron upon q foe, and swift when they
ZONE TO help Gods friends. If father
and his son be walking by the way and
me child goes too near preoIpice, how
Ong does il take for the father to deliver
he child from danger? Longer than it
axes God 10 swoop for the rescue of his
The fact is that you cannot
get away from the care of God. If you
axe the steamship, or the swift rail
rain, He is all the time along with you.
Whittier shall l go from Thy spirit,
md whittier shall l flee from Thy pres
nceR II / ascend up into heaven Thou
.rt there. II l make my bed in hell.
'eholdl Thou art there. If take the
wings of the morning and dwell IN the
lttermost parts OF the sea, even there !
ny hand shall hold me-
The Arabian gazslle is swift as the
gInd. If il gets but one glimpse of the :
lunter, 1t puts many craEs between.
four or Eve times, compares
'hrist TO an Arabian gazelle (oalling it ,
y another uame) when he says: "My
eloved is like Il roe. - The difference {
), that the roe speeds the other way; {
esus speeds this. Who but Christ could {
ave been quick enough TO help the 6
luke of Argyle when, in his dying mo- t
leut, he cried: 'Good cheer! / could G
lie like a Roman, but mean TO die like Y
Christian. Come away, gentlemen, I
lie who goes first, goes cleanest2'' |
ad a friend who stood by the rail-track
I Carlisle, Penn, when the amuuni-
on had given out at Antietam; aud he 4
lw the train from Harrisburg. treighted v
18th shot and shell, us 1t went thunder Y
lg uown toward the battle field. He 1
lid that ii stopped not for any crossing. o
hey put down the brakes for no grade. Il
hey held up for no peril. q
THE WHEELS WERE on FIRE &
it'll the speed as they dashed past. If i:
lie train did not come up in time with "
lie ammunition, It might as well not il
,me at all. So, my friends, there are q
mes In our lives when we must have
Zip immediately or perish. The grace il
lnt comes too late is no grace at all. d
hat you and l want is a God-now. \
hl is it not blessed TO think that God Is Il
ways in such quick pursuit of his dear o.
lildren? When q sinner seeks pardon, n
baflled soul needs help, swifter than | b
rush 3 wing, swifter than ptarmigau's q
ing, swifter than fsmingo's wing. d
Fifter than eagles wings are the wings fl
the Almighty. L
/ remark further, carrying out the te
ca OF my text, that the wings under W