Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
THF WINGS OF LOVE.
-,oesNAcLE SERMON ON THE Ex-
PERlENCE OF RUTH.

Voluntary Exile for Love, and Her Re-
.ard Was Great
RRooKLYN. Sept, IA. The subject of
Aha discourse by DR. Talmage today
~os wings of Love-" the famous
..oacher taking for his text the words,
.rbe Lord God of Israel, under whose
--nos thou art come to trust" Ruth
d, L.
scene-An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing Grain in swaths.
Grain in sheaves.
Al the side of the field a white tent in
vhich to take the incoming. jars of vim
AGAR or of sour wine to quench the
thirst of the hot working people.
swarthy men striking their sickles into
the rlstling barley. Others twisting the
hands for the sheaves, putting one end
If the band under the arm, and with
the free arm and foot collecting the
sbeaf. Sunburned women picking up
be stray straws and bringing them to
tbe 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
nitying 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
seId. 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 a
v0nan's face the lamp of courage and
hth and self sacrifice there comes out
a glory independent of features. She
il 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 wing thou art come to
trust" Christ compares himself to a
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings. In Deuteronomy God is repre-
sented as an eagle stirring up her nest.
In a great many places in the Psalms
David makes pathological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings OF
God, under which a 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
trus There is nothing in all the
handwork of God more curious than a
birds wing You have been surprised
sometimes to see how far it could tiy
with one stroke of the wing; and when
it has food in prospect, or when it is
afrighted, the pulsations of the birds
wing are unnnaginable for velocity.
The English lords used to pride them
elves 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-in
one hour. The carrier pigeons were
the telegraphs of the olden time.
Swallows have been shot in our lati.
tude having the undigested rice of
georgia swamps in their crops, showing
that they had come four hundred miles
SIX hours. 1t has been estimated
that in the ten years of a swallows
LIE 1t 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.
ihey are swift when they drop upon a
oe ana swift when they come to help
uoos friends If a father and his son
De walking by the way. and the child
goes TOO near precipice, how long does
take for the father to deliver the
uild from danger2 Longer than it
axes God to swoop for the rescue of
Ills children. The fact is that you can
uo' get away from the care of God. If
you take the steamship or the swift
'ai Train he is all the time along with
YOU WHITTIER shall | go from thy
'prt and whittier shall flee from thy
p'eSencef If | ascend up into heaven
'nou art there. If make my bed in
uel behold! thou art there If take
.le wings of the morning and dwell in
le uttermoSt parts of the sea, even
sUere thy hand shall hold me-"
THR CAR FOR ANTIETAM.
Inc Arabian gazelle is swift as the
Sld If 1t gets but one glimpse of the
GU sumter It puts many crags between.
ooiolhon four or five times compares
IurSt to an Arabian gazelle calling it
another name) when he says, My
OeoVed is like "A roe" The difference
'ua' the roe speeds the other way
s speeds this Who but Christ
SOu'o have been quick enough to have
1eiped Peter when the water pavement
S'OAef Who but Christ could have
- zen quick enough to help the Duke
argyle when, in his dying moment.
of'ed Good cheerl could die like a
.'Oilan, but mean to die like a Chris
~ Come away, gentlemen He who