Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

tom in tbo - niuppeu by ancient GUS
't mh ~ lile way of the poor.
wines sea ~, me wings of God are broad
onr sn,,o ahey cover up all our wants. all
one s M.;n'o all our sufferings. He puts
tho o mins over our cradle, and He puts
fr;ond 5s,ei !. over our grave. Yes, nv dear
arc n,aaa ~ IS ). not desert in which we
i vo p,aeed' lt is a nest. Sometimes II is
sn roas nara nest, like that of the eagle.
ana p,Ia no On the rock, with ragged moss
altha" Uus. l! sucks. but still is nest: and
onares IL may be very hard under MS.
Thass us are the wings of the Almighty,
life III sohietlmes comes a period in ones
. .io Mllen ne feels forsakcn. You said.
is n 1871, .nang is against me. The world
10, 20 sainst me. The church is against
me- me NO sympathy, no hope. Eycry-
Jous ,hat comes near me thrusts at me.
Tollaef IL there is a God, anyhow!'
everything seems to be going slipshod
anu at haphazard. There does not seem
w oe any hand on the helm. Jobs
health fails. David's Absalom gets to
oe reprobate. Martha's brother dies.
Aoraham's Sarah goes into the grave of
Macnpelah. 'Woe worth the day in
Mhlch L was born!' has said MANY a.
chrlstlan. David seemed to scream ont
IN ms sorrow, as he said: SIS His mercy
CLEAN gone forever? And will He he
favorable no more? And hath He in
anger shut up His tender mercics?" job.
With his throat swollen aud ulcercd until
ne could not even swallow, nxclaims:
no" long before thou wilt depart from
me and leave me alone, that NAV swat
low down my spittle?n Have there never
| heen times in your life when Won enyied
those who We're buried? When Won
longed for the gravediggcr to do his work
| iof you? oh, the faithlessness of the
human heart! Gods wings are broad.
whether we know it OF not.
| sometimes the mother bird goes away
IRON the nest, and it 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
ncld and into the chaf at the barn door.
ana into the furrow of the plough bow.
Meanwhile, the birds in the nest SILVER
and complain and call and wonder why
the mother bird does not come back. Ali,
she has gone for food. After a while
there IS Whlrr OF wings, and the mother
Dlrd stands on the edge of the nest, 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.
SO, sometimes, God leaves us. He goes
OIL to get food for our soul, and then He
comes back after while to the nest and
says, 'Open thy mouth wide and I will
fill it, and He drops into it the sweet
promises of His grace, and the love of
God is shed abroad and we are under
His wings-the broad wings of the
Almighty.
Yes, they are very broad! There is
room under those wings for the sixteen
hundred millions of the race. You say:
EDO not get the invitation too large, for
there is nothing more awkward than to
have more guests than accommoda-
tions." know it. 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 in
viting all the heather. The printing
presses Of the Bible societies are going
night and day, doing nothing but print
ing invitations to this great gospel BAN
quot. And are you not afraid that there
will be more guests than accommoda-
tions? No! All who have been invited
will not half fill up the table of Gods
supply. There are chairs for more.
There are cups for more. God could
with one feather of his wing cover no all
those who have come, and when He
spreads out both wings they cover all
the earth and all the heavens.
We Israelites, who went through the
Red Sea, come under! Ye multitudes
who have gone into glory for the last
six thousand years, come under! Ie
hundred and forty-four thousand, and
the thousands of thousands, come I'M
der! Ye flying cherubim and archangel,
fold your pinions, and come under! And
yet there is room! Ay! if God would
have all the space under His wings occu-
pied He must make other worlds, and
people them with other myriads, and
have other resurrection and judgment
days, for broader than all space, broader
than thought, wide as eternity. from tip
to tip, are the wings of the Almighty!
Oh. under such provision as that can
YOU not rejoice? Come under, ye wan-
dcring, We weary, ye troubled, We sin
ming, We dying souls! Come under the
wings of the Almighty Whosoever will
come let him come. However ragged,
however wretched, however abandoned,
however woe begone. there is room
enough UlucI Uuc oAic
broad wings of the Almighty! Oh, what
a gospel! so glorious, so magnificent IN
its provision! love to preach it. 1t is
nv life to preach it. 1t is my heaven to
preach it.
+ | remark. further, that the wings UNI
der which Ruth came to trust were
strong wings. The strength OF birds
wing-of sea fowls wing for example
YOU might guessit from the fact that
sometimes for five, six, or seven days it
seems to fly witout resting. There have
been condors in the Andes that could
overcome an OK or a stag. There have
been eagles that have picked up children
and swung them to the top OF the cliffs.
The flap of an eagles wing has death In
it to everything it strikes. There are
birds whose wings are packed with
strength to fly, to lift, to destroy. SO
the wings of God are strong wings:
Mighty to save. Mighty to destroy. l
preach Hm-':the Lord. strong ana
mighty: the Lord, mighty in battle:
He tlappcd His wing, and the antedl-
luvian world was gone. He Tapped Els
wing, and Babylon persisted. He Tapped
His wing. and Hcrculancum was buried.
He aappcd His wing, and the Napoleonlc
dynasty ceased aoo+
BEFORE the stroke of that pinion fleet
is nothing. An army is nothing. AN