Connecticut western news., 1890-09-17


 swifter than thrush's wing, swifter than ptarmigan's wing, swifter than fla-
 mingo's wing, swifter than eagles wing are the wings of the Almighty.
 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 oh 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 happy girlhood in Moab; in the day when she gave her hand to Mahlon, in her first marriage; in the day when she wept over his grave; in the day when she trhdged out into the wilderness of poverty; in the days when she picked up the few straws of barley dropped by ancient custom in the way of the poor.
 ASSURANCE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
 Oh! yes, the wings of God are broad wings. They cover up all our wants, all our sorrows, all our sufferings He puts one wing over our cradle, and He puts the other over our grave. Yes, my dear friends, it is not a desert in which we are placed, it is nest. Some times it is very hard nest, like that of the eagle, spread on the rock, with ragged moss and rough sticks, but still is nest; and although it may be very hard under us, over us are the wings of the Almighty. There sometimes comes period in ones life when he feels for saken. You said, "Everything is against me. The world is against me. The church is against me. No sym- pathy, no hope. Everybody that comes near me thrusts at me. I wonder if there is a God, anyhowl"
 Everything seems to be going slip shod and at haphazard. There does not seem to be any hand on the helm. Jobs health fails. David's Absalom gets to be a reprobate. Martha's broth CT dies. Abraham's Sarah goes into the grave of Machpelah. 'Woe worth the day in which was born!' has said many Christian. David seemed to scream out in his sorrow, as he said: Els his mercy clean gone forever9 And will he be favorable no more? And hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?" Job, with his throat swollen and ulcered until he could not even swallow the saliva that ran into his mouth, exclaims: ''How long before thou wilt depart from me and leave me alone, that I may swallow down my spittle2" Have there never been times in your life when you envied those who were buried? When you longed for the gravedigger to do his work for you2 Oh, the faithlessness of the human heart! Gods wings are broad, whether we know 1t 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 field and into the chaff at the barn door, and into the furrow of the plough boy. Meanwhile, the birds in the nest shiver and complain and call and wonder why the mother bird does not come back. An, she has gone for food. After while there is whirr 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 then the old bird spreads out her feathers and all is peece. So, sometimes, God leaves us. He goes off to get food for our soul, and then he comes back after while to the esst and says, "Open thy mouth wide and will fill it," and he drops nto 1t the sweet promises of his grace; 1 and the love of God is shed abroad md we are under his wings-the broad wings of the Almighty.
 THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL
 Yes, they are very broad! There is 'oom under those wings for the sixteen hundred millions of the race. You say: Do not get the invitation too large, for here is nothing more awkward than to lave more guests than accommoda- ions" I know it. The seamen's friend ociety Is inviting all the sailors. The ract society is inviting all the desti- ute The sabbath schools ares stnyiting Ill the children. The missionaf eci- 'ty is inviting all the heathen be printing presses of the Bible sociefS1 Ire going night and day, doing nothing sSs 'ut printing invitations to this great 'ospel banquet. And are you not 1fraid that there will be more guests han accommodations2 Nol All who ave been invited will not half fill up he table of Gods supply. There are hairs for more. There are cups for aore. God could with one feather of is wing cover up all those who have ome, and when he spreads out both 7ings they cover all the earth and all he heavens.
 Ye Israeites, who went through the led sea, come under! Ye multitudes Tho have gone into glory for the last k thousand years, come underl Ye undred.and forty-four thousand, and he thousands of thousands come nderl Ye flying cherubim and arch ngel, fold your pinions, and come nderl And yet there is rooml Ayl God would have all the space under is wings occupied he must make ther worlds, and people them with ther myriads, and have other resur- sction and judgment days, for broader nan all space, broader than thought, 'ide as eternity, from tip to tip, are le wings of the Almighty! Ohl under l. :.