Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-09-26

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 the grain field and into the
chaff at the barn door, and into the furrow
of tho plow boy. Meanwhile, tho birds in
the nest shiver and complain and call and
wonder why the mother does not come pacr.
Alb, sho has gone for food. After a while
there Is a whirr Of wings and the mother bird
stands on the edge Of the most 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. 30, sometimes,
God leaves US he goes Oh to get bread Tor
our soul, ana tnen ne comes pacK arusr q
while to the nest and says 'Open thy mouth
wide and will fill IT. v and He drops into II
the sweet promise Of His grace, and the love
Of God is shed abroad and we are under His
vings-the broad wings Of the Almighty.
Yes they are very broadi There Is room
under those wings for tho sixteen hundred
millions Of the race. You sayi "Do not get
the invitation too large, for there Is nothing
more awkward than 70 bave more quests
than accommodation" I know IL. The
seamens 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 tho heather. The printing
presses OF the Bible societies are going night
and day, doing nothing but printing invita-
tons 10 this great gospel banquet. And are
you not afraid that there will be more guests
tnan accommodations MOI All who have
been invited will not half fill up the table OF
Gods supply. There nre chairs for more.
There are cups for more. God could with
one feather Of His wing cover up all those
who have come, and when He spreads out
both wings they cover all the earth and all
the heavens
Ye Inaslites who went through the Red
5ea come under Ye multitudes who havo
gone into glory for the last SIX thousand
years come under Ye hundred and forty.
four thousand, and the thousands Of thou.
sands, como under Ye flying cherubim
and archangel, fold your pinions, and come
underl And yet there is roomi Ayl IL God
would have all the space under the wings
occupied he must make other worlds, and
people them with other myriads, and have
other resurrection and Judgment days for
broader than all spaca broader than thoueht-
wrue a. eternIry, from cp 20 Tip. are the
wings Of the Almighty OH under such
provisions as that can you not rejoice. Come
under, ye wandering. ye weary, ye troubled,
ye SHINING, ye dying soulsl Como under the
wings OF the Almighty. Whosoever will
come let him come However ragged, how
ever wretched however abandoned, how.
ever woe begone, there Ia room enough under
the wings-under the broad wings Of the
Almighty Oh. what q gospel! 30 glorious
so magnificent In Its provision! j love to
preach it. 1t Is my life TO preach it. 1t Is
my heaven TO preach IL.
remark, further, that the wings under
which Ruth came to trust were strong wings
The strength Of birds wing-of a sea fowls
wing for example-you might guess it from
the fact that sometimes for Ave SIX or seven
days 1t seems to fly without resting There
have been condors In the Andes that could
overcome an OK or a stag There have beon
Eagles that have picked up children and
rwung Jnem 20 tne Top OF tne Guns. ine
Dap OF an eagles wing has death in 1t to
everything It strikes. There are birds whose
TO destroy SO the wings OF God nre strong
wings. Mighty to save Mighty to destroy.
preach Him-''the Lord, strong and mighty;
the Lord, mighty in battlep He tapped
| His wing, and the antediluvian world was
gone He tapped His wing, and Babylon
| perished. He tapped His wing, and Hercu.
taneum was buried. He tapped His wing.
and the Napolonic dynasty ceased.
Before the stroke Of that pinion a feet Is
nothing. An army is nothing. An empire
| Is nothing. A world Is nothing. The uni
verse il nothing. King-eternal, omnipo-
tent--He asks no counsel from the thrones
Of heaven. He takes not tho archangel into
| His cabinet He wants none to draw His
ebariots, for they are the winds. None to
load His batteries, for they are the lightnings
None TO tie the sandals OF His feet for they
are the clouds Mighty to save. Our enemies
may be strong, our sorrows violent our SINS
nay be great But quicker than an eagle
sver hurled from the crags hawk or raven
will the Lord strike back our sins and our
temptations IL they assault as when We are
once seated on the eternal rock Of His saliva
don. What hlesaed thing 1t Ia To bs do.
pnucu py Ine strong wing OF tue Aimigntyl
Stronger than the pelican's wing, stronger
than the albatross' wing, stronger than tbs
pondor's wing are the wings OF the Almighty.
Ihave only one moro thought to present.
The wings under which Ruth had como ID
trust were gentle wings. There Is nothing
softer. than feather. You have noticed
when bird returns from flight how gently
II stoops over the nest. The young birds are
not afraid Of having their lives trampled out
by the mother bird; the old whippoor-wil
drops into its nest OF leaves, the oriole int
Its cssket of bark, the humming bird into 1t,
hammock Of moss-gentle as the light. Ant
90, says the psalmist, He shall cover thet
with His wing. Oh, the gentleness Of God
But even that figure does not fully set forth
for have sometimes looked into the bird
nest and seen a dead bird-its life having
been trampled out by the mother bird. But
no one that ever came under the feathers o
the Almighty was trodden on.
Blessed nesti warm nestl Why will mer
stay out In the cold to be shot Of temptation
and to be chilled by the blast where there i
divine sheiterf More beautiful than AM
flower l ever saw are the hues Of q bird'
plumage. Did you ever examine itf Tn
blackbird, floating like a fake of darkness
through the sunlight; the meadow lark, will
head of fawn and throat OF velvet ant
breast Of gold; the red famingo, flying ovel
tho southern swamps like sparks from th'
forge Of the setting sun; the pelican, whit
and biack--morning and night tangled In ii
wings-give but faint idea OF the beauty
that comes down over the soul when on 4
drop the feathers of tho Almighty.
Here fold your weary wings. This Is tn,
only safe nest. Every other nest will be de
stroyed. The prophet says SO: 'vThougl
thou exalt thyself like the eagle, and set thy
nest among the stars yet will l bring the
down. saith the Lord OF Hosts.n Under th,
swift wings, under the broad wings, unde
the strong wings under the gentle wings o
the Almighty find shelter until these calam
tiles are overpast. Then when you want b
shange nests Il will only be from the VALLEY
OF earrn TO tne neignJs or heaven; and insteat
OF "the wings of q dove" for which Davit
longed, not knowing thnt In the first mile o
their flight they would give out, you win b
conducted upward by the Lord God Of Israel
under whose wings Ruth, the beautiful
Aoabitess came to trust.
God forbid that In this matter OF eterna
veal or woe we should DO more stupid thai
che fowls OF heaven; "for the stark knowetl
her appointed time and the turtle, and tn
crane, and the swallow observe the time 0
their going; but my people know not th
judgments Of the Lord"