Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-15
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
TABERNACLE SERMON ON THE Elk
PERlENCE OF RUTH.

The Oriental Scene and the Encouraging
saIutation of Boaz-Ruth Had Becomes
Voluntary Exile for Love. ard Ger Re-
ward Was Great.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 1.-THE subject OF
the discourse by DR. Talmage today
was Wings of Love-" the famous
preacher taking for his text the words,
The Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust"-Ruth
ii. 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 incoming, jars of vim
! egar or of sour wine to quench the
thirst of the hot working people
Swarthy men striking their sic1les into
the rustling barley. Others twisting the
bands for the sheaves, 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 Orr
entail. gray bearded and bright faced,
the owner of the field, looking on, and
estimating the value of the grain and
calculating so many ephahs to the acre,
and with 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 at
tracts the mans 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
w0man's face the lamp of courage and
| faith and self sacrifice there comes out
IA glory Independent of features. She
is 20 be the ancestress of Jesus Christ
Boaz. the owner of the field, as soon as
he understands that it is Ruth, accosts
her with blessing: "A full reward be
given thee of the Lord God of Israel
under whose wing thou art come to
trust. Christ compares himself to a
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings. In Deuteronomy God is repre-
scented as an eagle stirring up her nest.
In a great many places in the Psalms
David makes ornithological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings of
God, under which il poor, weary soul
had come to trust
HER PROTECTION WAS SURE.
ask YOUR attention, therefore,
while, taking the suggestion of my
text. | speak to you in all simplicity
and love of the wings of the Almighty.
First, | 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 a
birds wing You have been surprised
sometimes to see how far it could fly
with one stroke of the wing; and when
it has food in prospect, or when it is
affrighted, the pulsatiOns of the birds
wing are unimaginable for velocity.
The English lords used to pride them
selves on the speed of their falcons.
These birds, when tanned, had in them
tie dart of lightning. How swift were
the carrier pigeons in the time of An
thony and at the siege of Jerusalem
Wonderful speed a carrier pigeon
was thrown up at Rouen and came
down at Ghent-ninety miles Off
one hour The carrier pigeons were
the telegraphs of the olden time
Swallows have been shot in our lati
tude having the undigested rice O
Georgia swaInps in their crops, showing
that they had come four hundred miles
in six hours. 1t has been estimated
that in the ten years of a swallow:
life it flies far enough to have gone
around the world eighty-nine. times, 81
great is its velocity.
And so the wings of the Almight!
spoken of in the text are swift wings
They are swift when they drop upon ;
foe, and swift when they come to hell
Gods friends If a father and his sol
be walking by the way, and the chilC
goes too near precipice, how long doe
it take for the father to deliver tn
child from danger? Longer than
takes God to swoop for the rescue o
| his children The fact is that you can
not get away from the care of God |
YOU take the steamship or the swift
rail train he is all the time along wit
YOU Whittier shall | go from th
spirit. and whittier shall flee from th
presence? If ascend up into heave
thou art there If | make my bed i
hell. behold thou art there. If l tax
the wings of the morning and dwell i
the uttermost parts of the sea, eve
there thy hand shall hold me-"
THE CAR FOR ANTIETAM.
The Arabian gazelle is swift as til
wind If it gets but one glimpse of til
hunter it puts many crags between
Solomon four or five times compare
Christ to an Arabian gazelle calling
bv another name) when he says. IN
beloved is like a roe" The differenC
is that the roe speeds the other way
Jesus speeds this. Who but Chri
could have been quick enough to hay
helped Peter when the water paveme1
broke? Who but Christ could ha,
been quick enough to help the Dull
of Argyle when, in his dying momen
he cried: Good cheerl l could die like
Roman, but mean to die like Chri
tan. Come away. gentlemen. He WI
goes fIrSC goes Cl0alSSU! IldO II IT1SI
who stood by the rail track at Carlisl
Pa. when the ammunition had give
out at Antietam. and he saw the ira
from Harrisburg. freighted with sh
and she'll as it went laundering dow
toward the hattie field He said tia
it stopped not tor any crossing. The
put down the brakes for no grade
They held up for no peril. The whee
were on fire with the speed as the
dashed past If the train did not CON
up in time with the ammunition
might as well not come at all.
So, my friends, there are times
our lives when we must have help in
mediately or perish. The grace tn;
comes too late is no grace at all. VIII;
you and ! want is a God-now. Oh
is it not blessed to think that God
+. always in such quick pursuit OF
4 dear children? When a sinner seel
u pardon, or baffled soul needs bel
fH Swiftar Than fbr1Ch'S WING SWlfter tnS