The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-15

against me- The world
against me. The church is against me. NJ
sympathy; no hope. Everybody that come
near me thrusts at me. / wonder if there
is God, anyhow Everything seems Z
be going slipshod and at haphszsrd There
does not seem to be any hand on the helm
Jobs health fails. DavidAs Absalom gets x
be a reprobate. Msrtha's brother dies
Abraham's Sarah goes into the grave oil
Machpelah. "Woe worth the day in which
1 was born" has said many a christian.
David seemed TO scream out in his sorrow,
as he said: ''Is his mercy clean gone for
ever? Aud will he be favorable no more
And hath he in anger shut up bis tender
mercies p Job, with his throat swoller
aud ulcered until he could not even swal
low the saliva that ran into his mouth, ex
claims: How long before thou wilt depart
from me, and leave me alone, that may
swallow my spittle" Have there never
been times in your life when you en- We'd
those who we're buriedl When SOU lOnged
for the grave-digger to do his work for you
Oh, the faithlessness of the human heart
Gods wings are broad. " neither we know it
or not.
Sometimes the mother-bird goes away
from 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-feld, and into
the chaff at the barn-door and into the fur
row of the ploughboy. Meanwhile. the birds
in the nest shiver and complain, and call.
and wonder why the motherhood does not
come back An, she has gone for food:
After a while there is whlrr OF
wings, and the mother-bird stands on
the edge of the nest, and the little ones open
their mouths and the food IS dropped IN;
and than the old bird spreads out her feath-
ers, and all is peace. 50, sometimes, tod
leaves US. He goes of to get food for our
A.. -. hnn Of "a wi
TO the nest, and says, open thy mouth
wide and 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 IN
der his wings-the broad wings of the al
mighty.
Yes: they are very broad There is room
under those wings for the sixteen hundred
millions of the race. You say: do not get
the invitation too large, for there is nothing
more awkward than to have more guests
than accommodations" | know 1t. The
Eeamen's Friend Society is inviting all the
sailors. The Tract Society is inviting all
the destitute. The Sabbath schools are in
viting all the children. The Missionary So
ciety isInviting all the heather. The print
ing presses of the Bible societies are going
night and day, doing nothing but printing
Invitations to this great gospel banquet
And are you not afraid that there will be
more guests than accommodations Mo-
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 up all these who have come; and
when he spreads out both wings, they cover
ell the earth and all the heavens. We Israel
ties, who went through the Red Sea, come
under Ye multitudes who have gone into
glory for the last 5000 years, come under
Ye hundred and forty-four thousand, and
the thousands of thousands, come under
We flying cherubim and archangel, fold
your pinions, and come under And yet
there is roomi Ayl if God would
have all the space under his wings
occupied, 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 Zip to
tip, are the wings of the Almighty o!
under such provision as that can you not
rejoices Come under, ye wandering, ye
weary, ye troubled, We SHINING, -ye dying
souls Come under the wings of the AL
mighty. Whosoever will come, let him
come. However ragged, however wretched,
hewever abandoned, however woe-begone,
there is room enough under the wings
under the broad wings of the Almighty o,
what gospel so glorious, so magnificent
iu Its provisionl love to preach it. 1t Is
my life to preach it. 1t is my heaven to
preach it.
remark, further, that the wings under
which Ruth came to trust were strong
wings. The strength of birds wing-of a
sea-fowrs wing. for example-you might
guess it from the fact that sometimes for
five, six OF seven days it seems to fly with
cut resting. There have been condors in
the Andes that could overcome an OK or q
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. / preach
hiDa-"the Lord. strong and mighty-the
Lord, mighty in battiep He tapped
his wing, and the antedeluvian world
was gone. He tapped his wing and Baby
Ion persisted. He tapped his wing and
wing and the Napoleonic 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 is nothing. King-eternal omnipo
tent-he asks no counsel from the thrones oi
heaven. He takes not the archangel int
his cabinet He wants none to draw hi
chariots. for they are the winds None te
load his batteries, for they are the light
nings. None to tie the sandals of his feet
for they are the clouds. Mighty q
save. Our enemies may be strong
our sorrows violent. Our sins may b.
great But quicker than an eagle eve
hurled from the crags hawk o.
raven, will u the Lord strike back our sin
and our temptations, if they assault us
when we are once seated on the eternal rocl
OF his salvation. What a blessed thing it il
to be defended by the strong wing of tn
Almighty! Stronger than the pelican
wing, stronger than the albatross' wing
stronger than the condor's wing, are th,
wings of the Almighty. have only on,
more thought to present. The wings under
which Ruth had come to trust were gentle
wings. There is nothing softer than
feather. You have noticed when bird re
turns from flight how gently it stoops ovel
the nest. The young birds are not afraid oi
having their lives trampled out by the
mother-b bird; the old whippoorwill drops int
ats nest or leaves, the oriole into its casket d
bark, the humming- bird into its ham
mock of moss-gentle as the light And so
says the psalmist, he shall cover thee will
his wing. o, the gentleness of God Blu
even that figure does not fully set it forth
for | have sometimes looked into the birds
nest and seen dead bird-lts life having
been trampled out by the mother-bird. Bn
no one that ever came under the features Of
tine Almighty was trodden upon.