Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-15
WINGS OF LOVE.
Subject OF o. Dr.. Talmage's
Discourse Yesterday in
Brooklyn.
An Eloquent and Beautiful Sermon
from the Book of Ruth-An
Oriental Harvest Field.
AFun Reward be Given Thee of the Lord
God Of Israel, Under Whose Wings
Thou Art Come to Trust


1.-THE Lord God of Isrdel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust. Ruth
H,l2.
Scene: An oriental harvest field.
Grain standing Gram In swaths.
Grain in sheaves,
At the side of the field, white tent in
which to take the incoming, jars of vine-
gar or Of sour wine to quench the thirst
of the hot working people. Swarthy
men striking their sickles into the rust
iuy barley. Others twisting the bands
for the sheaves, putting one end of the
hand under the arm, and with the free
arm and foot collecting the sheaf.
sunhurued women picking up the stray
straws and bringing them to the binders.
BoaI, n fine looking Oriental, gray
bearded AMI bright faced, the owner of
the field, looking on, ana estimating the
value of the grain anu calculating so
many ephahs to the acre; and. with his
lurge, sympathetic heart, plying the
orertasked wOrkmen and the women,
with white faces enough to faint, in the
hot MONDAY sun. But there is one
woman who especially attracts the man 5
attention. she is soon to be with him
the Joint owner of the field. She has
come from u distant land for the sole
purpose of being kind TO an aged woman.
/ know not what her features were. but
when the Lord God sets behind woman 8
face the lamp of courage, and faith, and
gelf-saCrilce, there comes out a glory
INDEPENDENT OF FEATURES.
She is to be the aucestress of Jesus
Christ. Boaz, the owner of the field, as
soon as he understands that it is Ruth,
accosts her With a blessing: ga full re-
waId be gwen thee of the Lord God of
Israel, under whose wings thou art come
TO trust - Christ compares himself to a
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings In Deuteronomy, God is repre-
sented as an eagls- stirring up her nest.
In q great many places IN the Psalms,
David makes pathological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings of
God under which poor, weary soul had
come TO trust.
/ ask your attention, therefore, while
liking the suggestion of my text, 1 speak
TO you in all simplicity and love of the
wings of the Almighty.
First: | remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There is nothing IN all the handi-
work of God more curious than bird s
wing. You have been surprised, some
times, to see how far it could fly with one
stroke of the wing; and, when it has
food in prospect, or when it is affrighted,
the pulsations of the bird IS wing are I'M
Imaginable for velocity. The English
lords used TO pride themselves on the
speed OF their falcons. These birds,
when tanned. had in them the dart of
lightning. How swift were the carrier
i,,f ha Of n nd of lna
siege of JerusalemI Wonderful speed
A carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen
and came down at Ghent-ninety miles
ofr-in one hour. The carrier-pigeons
we're the telegraphs of the olden time.
Swallows have been shot in our latitude
having the undigested rice of Georgia
Swamps in their crops, showing that they
had come 400 miles in six hours. 1t has
been estimated that, IN ten years of
swallow g life, 1t flies far enough to have
GONE AROUND THE WORLD
eghty-niue times, so great is its We
locity. And so the wings of the
Almighty, spoken of in the text, are
swift wings. They are swift when they
drop upon n foe, aud swift when they
come to help Gods friends. If g father
and his son be walking by the way and
the child goes too near preclpice, how
long does il take for the father to deliver
the child from dangeri Longer than it
takes God 10 swoop for the rescue of his
children. The fact is that you cannot
get away from the care of God. If you
take the steamship, or the swift rall
train, II ia all the time along with you.
- Whittier shall / go from Thy spirit,
and whittier shall l flee from Thy pres |
encPi If l ascend up into heaven Thou |
art there. If l make my bed in hell, |
behold! Thou art there. If take the |
wings of the morning and dwell IN the |
parts of the sea, even there |
Thy hand shall hold me.
The Arabian gazslle is swift as the |
wind. If II gets but one glimpse of the |
hunter, it puts many crags between.
solomon, four or five times, compares
Christ TO an Arabian gazelle calling it
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 help the
Duke of Argyle when, in his dying mo-
meut, he cried: "Good cheer, l could
die like Roman, but mean to die like
a Christian. Come away, gentlemen,
He who goes first, goes cleanest?' l
Nhu u lIleuu WHO stOOu ny Tue TS!i track /
ut Carlisle, Penn, when the ammuni-
ton had given out at Antietam; and he
saw the train from Harrisburg, freighted
with shot and shell, as 1t went thunder
ing down toward the battle field. He
said that 1t stopped not for any crossing.
They put down the brakes for no grade.
They held up for no peril.
THE WHEELS WERE ON FIRE
with the speed as they dashed past. If
he train did not come up in time with
he ammunition, it might as well not
'Ome at all. So, my friends, there are
lines in our lives when we must have
lelp, INN edately or perish. The grace
hat comes too late is no grace at all.
What you and 1 want is a God-now.
Oh! is il not blessed TO think that God is
always in such quick pursuit of his dear
,hildren? When a sinner seeks pardon,
" baffied soul needs help, swifter than
hrush IS wing, swifter than ptsrmigan'
wing, swifter than flsmingo's wing,
wifter than eagles wings are the wings
II the Almighty.
l remark further, carrying out the
dea of my text, that the wings under
which Ruth had come to trust were very
road wings. There have been eagles
hot on the Rocky mountains with wings
hat were seven feet from tip to tip.
When the king OF the air sits on the |
raig, the wings are spread over all the
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