The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-24
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
AN INTERESTING SERMON FROM THE
EMINENT BROOKLYN DIVINE.

velous Power and Speed of Winged
Chinss-The Broad Wings of Universal
Love.
BROOKLYN, Sept. l4.--Dr. Talmage's
text to-day was the words: ''The Lord
God of Israel, under whose wings thou
art come to trust" ."-Rutn ,. Xii: The
following is his serman:
Scene: An oriental haTest-held.
Grain standing. Grain IN swaths. Grain
in sheaves. At the side of the field,
white tent in which 20 take the incoming,
Jars of vinegar or Of sour wine to Quench
the thirst of the hot working-people.
Swarthy men striking their sickles into
the rustling barley. Others twisting the
bands tor the shcaves, putting one end
Of the band under the arm, and with the
free arm and foot collecting the sheat.
Sunburned women picking up the stray
straws and bringing them to the binders.
Boaz, a fne-looking Oriental, gray
bearded and Eright-faced: the owner OF
the field, looking on, and estimating the
value of the grair. and calculating so
many ephahs to the acre: and. with his
large sympathetic heart, pltylng the over
tasked workmen and the women, with
white faces enough to faint, IN the hot
MONDAY sun. Bus there is one woman
who especially attracts the mans atten-
ton. She is soon to be with him the
ioint owner Of the field. She has come
from a distant land for the sole purpose
of being kind to an aged woman. l
know not what her features were; but
when the Lord God sets behind wo-
mans face the lamp of courage, and
faith, and self-sacrshce, there comes q
glory independent cf features. She IS 10
be the ancestress Of Jesus Christ. Boaz,
the owner Of the field, as soon as he
understands that it is Ruth, accosts her
with q blessing: "a full reward be
given thee Of the Lord God OF Israel.
under whose wings thou art come to
trust.'' Christ compares himself to
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings. In Deuteronomy, God is repre-
sented as an eagle stirring up her nest.
In a great many places in the Psalms,
David makes ornithologlcal illusions;
while my text mentions the wings OF
God, under which poor, weary soul had
come to trust.
ask your attention, therefore. while,
taking the suggestion ofmy text, speak
to you in all simplicity and love OF the
wings of the Almighty.
First: I remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There Is nothing in all the handl-
work Of God more curious than BIRDS
wing. You have been surprised some
times, to see how far it could tiy with
one stroke of the wing; and, when ithas
food in prospect, or when It'll afrighted,
the pulsations of the birds wing are un-
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 liehtn-
ing. How swift were the carrier pigeons
in the time of Anthony and at the siege
of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed! A
carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen
and came down at Ghent-ninety miles
of-in one hour. The carrier pigeons
were the telegraphs Of the olden time.
Swallows nave been shot in our latitude
having the undigested rice of Georgia
swsmps in their crops, showing that they
had come four hundred miles in six hours.
It has been estimated that, in the ten
wears ofa swallows life, it flies far enough
to have gone around the world eighty
nine times, so great is its velocity. AND
so the wings of the Almighty: spoken Of
in the text, are swift wings. They are
swift when they drop upon foe, and
swift when they come to help Coos
friends. Ifa father and his son be walking
BY the way and the child goes too near
precipice, how long does it take for the
father to deliver the child from danger?
Longer than it takes God to 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 railtrain, He is all the time
along with you. whether shall I go
from Thy spirit and whittier shall flee
from Thy presence? fl ascend up into
heaven Thou art there. If make my
bed in hell, behold! Thou art there. If
I take the wings Of the morning and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there Thy hands shall hold me"
The Arabian gazelle is swift as the
wind. fit gets but one glimpse Of the
hunter, it puts many crags between.
Solomon, four or five times, compares
S Christ to an Arabian gazelle (calling it
by another name) when he says: 'sMy
beloved is like roe." The difference is,
that the roe speeds the other way; Jesus
speeds this. Who but Christ could have
been quick enough to have helped Peter,
when the water-payement broke? Who
but Christ could have been quick enough
to help the Duke of Argyle, when, IN his
dying moment, he cried: GOOD cheer
could die like Roman, but mean to
die like Christian. Come away gentle
men. he who goes first, goes cleanest?"
had a friend who stood by the rail-
track at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when
the ammunition had given out at Ante
tam; and he saw the train from Harris
burg, freighted with shot and shell, as it
went laundering down toward the battle
field. He said that it 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 the train did not
come up in time with the ammunition, it
might as well not come at all. So, my
friends, there are times in our lives when
We musthave help Immediately or perish.
The grace that comes too late is no grace
Of all, What youandI want is Cod
now. Oh! is it not blessed to think that
Sod is always in such quick pursuit OF
his dear childrens When sinner seeks
pardon, or a bafled soul needs help,
svifter than thrush's wing. swifter than