The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Tho Wings Of Love" Furnish the
Theme of Discourse.
The wings OF the Almighty. which Are
the Typical Wings of Love, Are
Broad Enough to shelter An
Who Seek Them

The Lord God Of Israel. under whose wings
thou art come to trust.-Ruth. g., II
Scene: An Oriental harvest Geld
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 vinegar or Of sour wine
70 quench the thirst Of tho hot working
people. Swarthy men striking their
sickles into tho rustling barley. Others
twisting the bands for the sheayes,
putting ono end OF the band under the
arm, and with the free arm and foot
collecting the sheat Sunburned wom-
en- picking up the stray straws
and bringing them to the bind
ers Boaz, a flne-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, sympa-
thetic heart plying the overtasked
workmen and the women, with white
faces enough to faint in the hot noon
day sun. But there is one woman who
especially attracks the mans attention.
She is soon to be with him the joint
owner of the field. she has come from
distant land for tho sole pur-
pose OF being kind to an aged
woman. ! know not what her features
were; but when the Lord God sets be-
hind woman's face the lamp OF cour-
age, and faith, and self-sacrifce. there
comes out glory Independent Of feat
ures. She is to be the ancestress of
Jesus Christ Boaz, the owner of the
field, as soon as he understands that 1t
is Ruth, accosts her with a blessing
"a full reward DO given thee Of the
Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come to trust" Christ COM
pares Himself to a hen gathering the
chickens under her wings In Deuter-
onomy God is represented as an eagle
stirring up her nest In a great many
places in the psalms David makes orni-
biological illusions while my text men
tions the wings of God, under which q
poor, weary soul had come to trust
ask your atten ton, therefore, while,
taking the suggestion OF my text,
speak to you in all simplicity and love
OF the Almighty.
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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
ii 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 the dart OF light
ming How swift were tho carrier pig
cons in the time of Anthony and at the
siege of sJerusalem! Wonderful speed!
A carrier pigeon was thrown up at
Rouen and came down at Client
ninety miles off-in one hour. The
carrier pigeons were the telegraphs
of tho olden time. Swallows have been
shot in our latitude having the undi-
gested rice Of Georgia swamps 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 swallows life it flies far enough to
have gone around the world eighty
nine times, SO great is its We
locity. And so the winds OF the Al
mighty, spoken OF in the text are
swift wings. They are swift when they
drop upon foe, and swift when they
come 10 help Gods friends. II a father
and his son be walking by the way, and
the child goes too near precipice, how
- 10 10 90 do
liver the child from danger? Longer
than it takes God to swoop for the rescue
of His children. The fact is that you
can not get away from the care Of God.
If you take the steamship, or the swift
rail train, He is all the time along with
you "Whither shall l go from Thy
spirit, and whittier shall / fee from
I Thy presence. II l ascend up into
Heaven Thou art there. If make my
bed in hell, behold Thou art there. If
take the wings of morning and dwell
in the uppermost parts Of the sea, even
there, Thy hand shall hold me-"
The Arabian gaelic is swift as the
wind. II it gets but one glimpse of the
hunter it puts many crags between.
Solomon, four or five times, compares
Christ to an Arabian gazelle, calling il
by another name, when he says: MY
Beloved is like a roe" 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 broke? Who but Christ could
have been quick enough to help the
Duke OF Argyle, when, in his dy-
ing moment, he cried: Good
cheer! / could die like a Roman,
but ! mean to die like a Christian.
Come away gentlemen. He who goes
first, goes cleanest?" l 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 crossing. They
put down the brakes for nc
grade. They held up for nc
peril. The wheels were on fire
with the speed as they dashed past.
II the train did not como up in time
with the ammunition, it might as we'll
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 a God
now. Oil is it not blessed to think
that God is always in such quick pur-