Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DIR. TALMACE DRAWS A LESSON FROM
THE EXPERIENCE OF RUTH.

dor Used ns Smiles for the Wings OF
Divine tove.
BRooELYN, Sept. 4,--The subject of the
discourse by DR., Talmage today was
Wings OF Love" the famous preacher
taking for his text the words 1.-THE Lord
God Of Israel under whose wings thou art
come to trust. - Ruth ii, I2.
Scene-An Oriental harvest field Grain
Standing Grain in swaths. Grain in
sheaves
Al the side Of the field white tent in
which To take the incoming, jars of vinegar
or OF sour wine to quench tire thirst Of the
hot working people Swarthy men strik
my their sicSles into the rustling barley
| Others twisting the bands for the sheavcs,
| putting one end Of the band under the arm
and with the free arm and foot collecting
the sheat Sunburned women picking up
the stray straws and bringing them to the
binders Boa2, a fine looking Oriental,
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 plying 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
he with him the joint owner of the field.
She mas come from 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 woman's
face the lamp of courage, and faith, and
sell sacrifice there comes out II glory indie
pendent of features, She is to be the an
cestress Of Jesus Christ. Boaz, the owner
Of the field, as soon us he understands that
It in Ruth, accosts her with blessing, "A
full reward be given thee of the Lord God
of Israel under whose wings thou art
come to trust" Christ compares himself
to n hen gathering the checkers under her
wings In Deuteronomy God is represent
ed III IN eagle stirring up her nest In a
great many places in the psalms David
makes archaeological illusions, while my
text mentions the wings of God, under
which II poor weary soul had come to
trust.
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
THE SWIFT WINGS
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 birds wing. You
nave been surprised sometimes to see how
far it could fly with nestroEe Of the wing,
and when it has food in prospect or when
IT is nlfrighted the pulsatons of the birds
wing are unnagnable for velocity. The
l..
the speed os their falcons These birds,
when tanned, had in them the dart Of light
ming How swift were the carrier pigeons
III the time of Anthony and at the siege of
.Jerusalem Wonderful speed A carrier
pigeon was thrown up at Rouen and came
down ut Ghent-ninety miles oif-in one
hour. The carrier pigeons were the tele
graphs of the olden time Swallows have
been shot in our latitude having the undi
gcsted rice of Georgia swalnps in their
crops, showing that they had come 400
miles in six hours 1t has been estimated
that, in the ten years of Il swallows life,
it 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 swift when they come to help Gods
friends. If II father and his son he walk
ing by the way, and his child goes too near
a prccipice how long does it take for the
father to deliver the child from danger?
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
If you take the steamship or the swift rail
train he is ell the time along with you.
WHITTIER shall go from thy spirit, and
whittier shall flee from thy presenceY If
| ascend up into heaven thou art there If
| make 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 isswift as the wind.
If it gets but one glimpse of the hunter it
puts many crags between. Solomon four
or five times compares Christ to an Ara.
ban gazelie calling it by another name)
when he says, My beloved is like y roc -
The difference is that the roe speeds the
other way, Jesus speeds this. Who but
Christ could have been quick enough
to have helped Peter when the water pave
ment broker Who but Christ could have
been quick enough to help the Duke of
Argyle when, in his dying moment, he
cried; Good cheerl | could die like 4
Roman, but mean to die like IA Christian
Come away, gentlemen. He whogoe first
goes clcancst." | had friend who stood
by the rail track at Carlisle, Pa, when the
ammunition had given out at Antietam
and he saw the train from Harrisburg
freighted with shot and SHE'LL as it went
laundering down toward the battlefield
He said that it stopped not for any cross
ing They put down the brakes for no
grade. They held up for no peril The
wheels were on fire with the speed as they
dashed past. If the train did not come up
in time with the ammunition it might Us
well not come at all.
So, my friends, there are times in our
lives when we must have help Immediately
or perish The grace that comes too late
is no grace at all. What you and | want
is God-now. Obi is it not blessed to
think that God is always in such quick
pursuit of his dear children When sin
ncr seeks pardon. or baffled soul needs
help, swifter than thrhshs wing, swifter
than ptarmigans wing swifter than ia.
mingo's wing, swifter than eagles wing
arc the wings Of the Almighty.
THE sHELTERING WINGS.
| 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 "A 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