The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-15
GODS WINGS OF LOVE.
TALMAGE PRRAoHBs ON A TEXT
FROM RUTH.

Swifsness OF the Heavenly Pinions-
Their Breadth Sufficient TO Cover All
the World-Their Strength Sufficient
to Bear All Our Burdens-A Heaven
for ALI.
BROOKLYN, Sept 14.-The subject of the
discourse by DIR. Talmage to-day Is wings
Of Love-" the famous preacher taking fo=-
his bext the words: "The Lord God of
Israel, under whose wings thou art come to
trust. Ruth H.. IL
Scene: An oriental harvest field Grain
standing. Grain In swaths Grain in
sheaves. At the side of the field, a white
tent in which to take the noouing, jars of
vinegar or OF sour wine 10 Quench the
thirst of the hot working people. Swarthy
men striking their siokles into the rustling
barley. Others twisting the banis for the
sheaves, putting one end Of the band under
the arm, and with the free arm and foot coll 7
lecting the sheaf. Suuourned women pick
ing up the stray straws and bringing them
TO the binders. Boaz, a fne-looking ORR
entail, gray-bearded and bright-faced, the
owner Of the field, looking on. and esti<
mating the value OF the grain and calculat-
his large, sympathetic heart, pitying the
overtasked workmen and the women, with
white faces enough to faint, in the hot
MONDAY sun. But there is one woman who
especially attracts the mans attention. She
is soon to be with him the joint owner of
the field. She has come from distant Land
for the sole purpose of beng kind to an
aged woman. know not what her feat-i
ures were; but when the Lord God sets be-
hind womans face the lamp of courage,
aud faith, and self-sacrifice, there comea
out glory independent OF features
She Is to be the ancestress Of Jesus Christ.
Boaz, the owner of the field, as soon as he
understands that it Is Ruth. accosts her with
"A blessing: "a full reward be given thee Of
the Lord God Of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come TO trust" Christ compares
himself 10 a hen gathering the chickens un-
der her wings. In Deuteronomy God is
represented as an eagle stirring up
her nest. In great many places in the
Psalms David makes archaeological allu-
sions; while my text mentions the wings OF
God, under which poor, weary soul had
come TO trust
ask your attention, therefore, while.
taking the suggestion Of my text, speak to-
you in all 81 simplicity and 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 in all the handiwork of
God more curious than birds wing. You
have been surprised, sometimes. to see how
far 1t could fly with one stroke of the wing:
and, when it has food IN prospect, or when
1T is atfrighted, the pulsatiOns of the birds
wing are unimaginable 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 light
ming. How swift were the carrier pigeons
In ftyna nf ANTI af
siege of Jerusalem Wonderful speedt
A carrier pigeon was thrown up
at Rouen and came down an
Ghent-ninety 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 the ton years
OF a swallows life II flies far enough TO have
gone around the world eighty-nine times,
so great is its velocity. And so the wings
of the Almighty, spoken of in the text,
are swift wings. They are swift
when they drop upon foe. and swifs
when they come to help Gods friends IL q
father and his son be walking by the way
and the child goes too near precipice,
how long does it take for the father to de-
liver the child from dangerl Longer than
it takes God to swoop for the rescue Of his
children. The fact Is that you cannot get
away from the care Of God IL you take
the steamship, or the swift rail-train, be is
all the time along with you. "Whither
shall l 90 from thy spirit. and whittier
shall flee from thy presencea Ii ascend
up into heaven thou art there. If / mage
my bed In hell, behold Thou art there. If
take the wings of the morning and dwell
In the uttermost parts Of the sea, even there
thy hand shall hold me-"
The Arabian gazelle b swift as the wind.
III 1t gets but one glimpse of the hunter, il
puts many crags between. Solomon, fouH
or five times, compares Christ to an Ara
bian gazelle calling IL by another namst
when he says: my beloved is like roe"
The difference is, that the roe speeds the
other way; Jesus speeds this. Who bus
Christ could have been quick enough TO have
helped Peter, when the water-pavemenf
broke2 Who but Christ could have been
quick enough to help the Duke Of
Argyle, when. in his dying moment.
he cried: "Good cheerl 1 could
die like Roman, bat / mean ia
die like a christian. Come away, gentle.
men, He who goes first, goes ciesnesr =
/ had friend who stood by the raii-traox
at Carlisle, Pa, when the ammunition had
given out at Antietam; and he saw the train
from Harrisburg, freighted with shot and
shell, as IL went laundering down toward
the battlefield. He said that it stopped NOT
for any crossing. They put down the
brakes for no grade. They held up for no
peril. The wheels were on fire with ths
speed as they dashed past. If the train did
not come up In time with the ammu.
milton, it might as well not come at all So,
my friends, there are times in our hvea
when we must have help, or perish. The
grace that comes too late is no grace at all.
What you and want is q God-now. Obi
IL it not blessed 10 think that God is always
in such quick pursuit of his dear children.
When a sinner seeks pardon, or a baffied
soul needs help, swifter than thrush's wing,
swifter than ptarmigan's wing, swifter
than fiamingo's wing, swifter than eagles
wing, are the wings Of the Almighty.
remark, further, carrying out the ides
of my text, that the wings under which
Ruth had come TO trust were very broad
wings. There have been eagles shot on
the Rocky mountains with wings that were
seven feet from tip to tip. When the king
of the air sits on the crag, the wings are
spread over all the eaglets in the eyrie, and
when the eagles starts from the rock, the
shadow is like the spreading of storm
cloud so the wings of God are broad
wings. Ruth had been under those wings
in her infantile days; in the days OF her
happy girlhood in Moab; in the days when
she gave her hand TO Mahlon, in her first
marriage; in the day when she wept over
his grave In the day when she trudged out
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