Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18


marriage; in the day when she wept over
his grave; 10 the day when she trudged
out into the wilderness of proverty; in
the Gays when she picked up the few
straws of barley dropped by ancient GUS
tom In the way of the poor.
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, nv dear
! friends, 1t is not desert in which we
| are placed; il Is q nest. Sometimes IL ia
a very hard nest, like that of the eagle
| spread on the rock, with ragged moss
and rough sticks, but still Is a nest; and
| although it may be very hard under MS
! over US are the
WINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY.
There sometimes comes period in
one's life when he feels forsaken, You
said, Everything is against me. The
world Is against me. The church is
against me. No sympathy; no hope.
Every DodY that comes near me thrusts at
me. l wonder if there is God. any,
now! Everything seems to be going
shpshod and at haphazard. There does
not seem to be any hand on the helm.
jobs health fails. David's Absalom
gets to be reprobate. Martha IS brother
dies. Abraham g Sarah goes into the
grave OF Machpelah. "Woe worth the
day in which l was born.'' has said
many Christian. David seemed to
scream out in bis sorrow, as he said: els
his mercy clean gone forever? And will
lie DO favorable no more? And hath He
IN anger shut I'D His tender mercies2''
JOB, with his throat swollen and ulcered
until he could not even swollow the
saliva that ran into his mouth, exclaims:
How long before thou wilt depart from
me and leave me alone, that may swal-
low down my spittle?'' Have there
never been times In your life when you
envied those who were buried? When
you longed for the grave-digger TO do
his work for you? Oh, the fafthlessness
OF the human heart! Gods wings are
broad, whether we know it or not.
Sometimes the mother bird goes away |
from the nest, and 1t seems very strange |
that she should leave the callow Young.
she plunges her beak into the bark of |
tree land she drops into the gram field. |
ana into the ohaff at the barn door, and |
into the furrow of the ploughboy. Mean
Whlle' the birds in the nest shiver, and |
complain, and call, and wonder why the
mother-Dlrd does not come back. All,
SHE HAS GONE FOR FOOD.
After while there is u whirr of wings.
and the mother-bird stands on the edge
o the nest. and the little ones omen
their mouths, and the food is dropped in.
and then the old bird spre ads out her
feathers, and all Is peace. So some
times, God leaves us. He goes off to get
food for our soul; and then he comes
back after awhile to the nest. and saws,
open thy month wide, and viii fill
II; and He drops into it the sweet
promises or His grace, and the love Of
God is shed abroad land we are under His
Wlngs-the broad wings of the Almighty.
Yes, they are very broad! There is
room under those wings for the ,6OO,-
UUO ,OOO OF the human race. You say:
DO not get the invitation too large, for
there Is nothing more awkward than to
nave more guests than accommodate
tions.' l know it. The Seamen's friend
society is inviting all the sailors. The
Tract society is inviting all the desti-
tute. The Sabbath-schools are inviting
all the children. The misso ary society
Is inviting NIL the heather. The printing
presses of the Bible societies are going
night and day, doing nothing but print
ng invitations TO this great Gospel BAN
luet. And are you not afraid that there
will be more guests than accommodate
lions? Mol All who have been invited
" II not half fill up the table of Gods
'upply. There are chairs for more
There are cups for more. God could with |
,ne feather OF His wing cover up all those
who have come; and when He spreads
nut both wings they cover all the earth
!nu all the heavens. Ye Israelites who
vent through the Red sea, come underl
I a mnltitudaS yyho hav roma int
or the last 6000 years, come under? Ye
~ 600 and the thousands of thousands,
ONE underl Ye flying cherubim and
rchangel, fold your pinions and come
nderl And vet there is rooml Ay! if
'Od would have all the space under HIS
rings occupied He must make other
1orlds and people them with other myri- {
DIS, and have other
RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT DAYS
or broader than all space, broader than
bought, wide as eternity, from tin to
Ip, are the wings of the Almighty! Oh! r
uder such provision as that can you not G
ejoice? Come under, ye wandering, We :,
'eary, ye troubled, ye SHINING, We diving
0uls! Come under the wings of the
..mighty. Whosoever will come, let f
I'M come. However ragged, however "
'retched, however abandoned, however n
e-DegOne, there Is room enough under | "
ne wings-under the broad wings of the =,
lmightyl Oh, what Gospel so glori- h
us, so magnificent in its provision! 1 n,
we TO preach it. 1t is my life to preach =,
. 1t is my heaven to preach it. f.
l remark further that the wings under ~,
hich Ruth came to trust were strong nI
lngs. The strength of birds wing
Il sea-fowl's wing, for example-you
light guess il from the fact that some
mes for FIVE, six or seven days it seems
fly without resting. There have been
'ndors in the Andes that could over Pl
me an OK or a stag. There have been
giles that have picked up children, and 6,
ung them 10 the top OF the cliffs. The
lp Of an eagle IS wing has death in II to
'erything it strikes. There are birds Sc
hose wings are packed with strength to n
,, TO lift, TO destroy. So the wings of "
ID are strong wings. Mighty TO save. On
lightly TO destroy. l prench him-''the
,rd, strong and mighty-the Lord, al
lghty in battlel' He tapped His 10y
ing, and the antediluvian world Sc
Is gone. He tapped His wing and ST
lbylon persisted. He tapped His wing co
d Herculaneum was buried. He he
DDpd His WING md tho Napolao,;o IN