Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-15
BUUN "T"

fantile days; in the days of her happy
girlhood n Moab; in the day when she
| gave her hand to Mablon, in her first
marriage; in the day when she wept over
his grave; in the day when she trudged
out into the wilderness of proverty; in
the days when she picked up the few
straws of barley dropped by ancient Gus
tom in the way of the poor
Oil yes, the wings of God are broad
wings. They cover up all our wants, all
our sorrows, ali our sufferines He puts
| one wing over our cradle, and He puts
the other over our grave. Yes, nv dear
| friends, it is not a desert in which we
| are placed; il is a nest. Sometimes il is
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 1t may be very hard under US
| over us are the
WINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY.
There sometimes comes period in
one g life when he feels forsakep. You
said, Everything is against me. The
world Is against me. The church ia
against me. No sympathy; no hope.
Everybody that comes near me tbrusts at
me. l wonder if there is q God any,
hoW!' Everything seems to be going
slIpshod 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's brother
dies. Abraham 3 Sarah goes into the
grave of Machpelah. "woe worth the
day in which 1 was born.'' has said
many Christian. David seemed to
scream out In his sorrow, as he said: "Is
His mercy clean gone forever? 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 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 faithlessness
of the human heartI Gods wings are
broad, whether we know it or not.
Sometimes the mother bird goes ewev
from the nest, and 1t seems very strange
that she should leave the callow Young.
She plunges her beak into the bark of
tree, and she drops into the gram field,
ana INTO the chaf at the barn-door, and
INTO the furrow of the ploughboy. Mean
Whle, the birds in the nest SILVER. and
complain, and call, and wonder why the
mother-bird does not come back. All,
SHE HAS GONE FOR FOOD.
After while there is whirr of wings.
and the mother-bird stands on the edge
the nest, and the little ones open
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 mouth wide, and will fill
it;' and He drops into it the sweet
promises of His grace, and the love o (
God is shed abroad and we are under His
wlngs-the broad wings of the Almighty.
Yes, they are very broadl There is
room under those wings for the $780,
900, 900 of the human race. You say:
do not get the invitation too large, for |
there is nothing more awkward than to |
have more guests than accommoda- |
tons. - L know it. The Seamen IS friend |
society is inviting all the sailors. The |
Tract society is inviting all the dssti- |
tute. The Sabbath-schools are inviting |
all the children. The missio~ airy society |
is inviting all the heather. The printing |
presses of the Bible societies are going |
anu stdl uDlHlUg Out
ing invitations to this great Gospel BAN
quet. And are you not afraid that there
will be more guests than accommodate
tions? MOI 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 those
who have come; and when He spreads
out both wings they cover all the earth
ana all the heavens. Ye Israelites who
went through the Red sea, come underi
Ye multitudes who have gone into glory |
for the last 5000 years, come under2 Ye
IA, 900 and the thousands of thousands,
come underi Ye flying cherubim and
archangel, fold your pinions and come
lnderl And vet there is rooml Ayi if
God would have all the space under His
wings occupied He must make other
worlds and people them with ether myri-
ads, and have other
RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT DAYS
for broader than all space, broader than
thought, wide as eternity, from tip to
lip, are the wings of the Almighty, Oh!
lnder such provision as that can YOU not
rejoice? Come under, We wandering, We
weary, ye troubled, ye SHINING, We dying
'oulsl Come under the wings of the
a smlgnty. WhosOever Will come, let |
lim come. However ragged, however
however abandoned, however
there is room enough under
he wings-uuder the broad wings of the
Almighty Oh, what Gospel so glori-
'us, so magnificent in its provisioni 1
owe to preach it. 1t is my life to preach
t. 1t is my heaven to preach it.
l remark further that the wings under
which Ruth came to trust were strong
wings. The strength of birds wing
# sea- fowl's wing, for example-you
night guess it from the fact that some
lines for five, six or seven days it seems
o fly without resting. There have been
ondors in the Andes that could over
ome an OK or a stag. There have been
agles that have picked up children, and
Wung them to the top of the cliffs. The
lap of an eagle IS wing has death in 1t to
it strikes. There are birds
Ehose wings are packed with strength to
y, TO lift, to destroy. So the wings of
iod are strong wings. = Mighty to save.
Eighty to destroy. 1 preach him-"the
ord, strong and mighty-the Lord,
Mighty in battle!' He tapped His
Fing, and the antediluyiau world
Tes gone. He tapped His wing and
'abylon persisted. He tapped His wing
nd Herculaneum was buried. He
appel His wing and the Napoleonic