Sharp County record., 1890-10-02

| remark, further, carrying out the
idea 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 eagle starts from the rock the
shadow is like the spreading of storm
cloud. So the wings of God are broad
wings. Ruth had been inder those
wings in her infantile days, in the days
of her happy girlhood in Moab; in the
day 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 into the wilder
ness of poverty; in the day when she
picked up the few straws of barley
dropped by ancient custom in the way
of the poor.
Oh! 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 aud He puts
the other wing over our grave. Yes,
my dear friends, IL is not desert In
which we are placed it is a nest.
Sometimes it is very hard nest like
that of the eagle, spread on the rock,
with ragged moss and rough sticks, but
still is nest; and, although it may be
very hard upon us, over us are the
wings of the Almighty. There some
times comes 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 if there is God, anyhow!"
Every thing seems 10 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 tho dav in
which was born?" has said many a
Christian. David seemed to scream
out in his sorrow, as he said:
"ls His mercy clean gone forever? And
will He be favorable no more? And hath
lie in anger shutup His tender mercies?"
Job, with his throat swollen and ul-
cered until he could not even swallow
the saliva that run into his mouth, Ok
claims: "How long before Thou wilt de-
part from me- and leave me alone that
l 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
gravo-digger to do his work for you?
Oh, tho faithlessness OF the human
heart! Gods wings are broad, whether
we know it or not
Some times the mother bird goes away
from the nest, and it seems very
strange that she should leave the cal
low young. She plunges her 5eak 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
tho plowboy, Meanwhile the birds in
the nest shiver, and complain and call,
and wonder why the mother bird docs
not come back. All, she has gone for
food. After awhile there is q
whirr of wings, and the mother
bird stands on the edge Of tho
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 | will fill
it," and He drops into it the sweet prom
ises 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." know 1t. The Seaman's
Friend Society is inviting all the
sailors. The Tract Society is inviting
all the destitute. The Sabbath-schools
are inviting all the children, The
Missionary Society . is inviting all
the beathens The printing presses
81 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 moro guests than accommodation
No! All who have been invited will
not half fill up the table Of Gods sup
ply. There are chairs formoro There
are cups for more. God could with one
feather Of His wing cover up all those
who have come; and when lie spreads out
both wings, they cover all tho earth and
all tho heavens, Ye Israclites, who
went through the Red Sea, come undorl
Ye multitudes who have gone into
glory for the last six thousand years,
come under! Yo hundred and forty and
four thousand, and the thousands OF
thousands, come under! Yo flying
cherubim and archangol, fold your
pinions, and como under And yot
thore Is room! Ay! II God would hayo