Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-15
Special Ts.sgsn 10 ne Register.


plying the oycrtaSked wOrkmen and
the women. with white faces enough to
faint, in the hot MONDAY sun. But
there is one woman who especially at
tracts the mans attention. She is soon
t0 Doe with him the joint owner of the
field. She has come from distant land
for the sole purpose of being kind to an
aged woman. | know not what her
features may Doe: but when the
Lord God sets behind woman's face
the lamp of courage. and Self-Sacriiice,
there comes ont a glory independent OF
features. She is 90 bc the auccStrcSS Of
Jesus Christ. Boaz. the owner of the
field. as soon as he understands that it
is Ruth. accOst> her with q blessing: ~
full reward bc given thee of the Lord
God Of ISreal under whose wings thou
art come 10 trust Christ compares
himself 20 a hen gathering the chickens
under his wings. Deuteronomy God is
represented as an eagle stirring up her
nest. I'm great many places in the
Psalms, David makes the 0ruitholOgical
illusions: while my text mentions the
wings of God, under which a poor
WEARY SOUL HAD COME To TRUST.
Task your attention. therefore, while
taking the suggestion of my text l
speak 10 you in all simplicity and love
of the wings Of the Almighty.
First: remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come 10
trust There is nothing in all the
haudiw0rk of God more curious than a
birds wing. You have an been sur
priscd. sometimes 10 see how far il
could Hy with one stroke of the wing;
and. when it has food In prospect, or
when 10 is aiIrghtcd. the pulSatiOnS of
the birds wing are unimaginable 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-pigeons i'm the time of Anthony
and 40 the siege of Jerusalem. Wonder
fu. speed A carricr-pigeOn was thrown
up no R0uen and came down at Ghent-
ninety miles oG-iu one hour. The
We're the telegraphS OF
the oldcn time. Swallows have been
shot iu our latitude having the undigeu-
ous seed rice of Georgia SwampS iu their
crops. showing that they had come
four hundred miles in six hours. 1t
has been estimated that. in the ten
years of swallows life, it AieS far
enough to have gone around the
world cighty-nine times, so great
is It's velocity. And SO the
wings of the Almighty, spoken of
iu the text, are swift wings. They
are swift when they drop upon a foe,
and swift when they come 20 help God :
friends. II a father and his son be walk
ing by the way and the child goes
too near prccipicc. how long does it
take for the father TO deliver the child
from danger? Longer than it takes
God to swo0p for the rescue of his chill
drcu The fact is that YOU cannot get
away from the care of God. II YOU
take the steamship. or the swift rail-
train. lie is AN tine time along with You.
-Whither shall / 90 from Thy spirit.
and whittier shall Zee from Thy pres
encc? If / ascend up into heaven Thou
art there. If make my bed I'm hell,
behold Thou art there If take the
wings of the morning and dwell
I'm the uttcrmost parts of the sea,
oven there Thy hand shall hold me-
BROAD WINGS OF LOVE.
remark further, carrying ont the
idea of my text, that the wings under
which Ruth had come 10 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 ON
the crag, the wings are spread over all
the eagletS I'm the eyrie. and when the
eagle starts from the rock, the shadow
is like the spreading of storm cloud.
SO the wings of God are broad wings.
Ruth had been under those wings I'm her
infautilo days: in the days OF her happy
girlhood I'm Moab; I'm the day when she
gave her hand % Mahlon, i'm her first
marriage: iu the day when She wcpt
over his grave; I'm the day when she
trudgcd ont into the wilderness of
poverty: iu the days when she picked
up the few strawS of barley dropped by
ancient custom I'm 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 SuiTeringS. He
puts one wing over our cradle, and He
puts the other over our grave. Yes,
my dear friends. 10 is not desert in
which we are placed; il is nest. Some
times 70 is very hard nest, like that of
the eagle. spread on the rock, with rag
gcd moss and rough sticks, but still Is a
nest: and. although IL may be very hard
under MS are the wings OF the Almighty.
There sometimes comes period in ones
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
body that comes near me thruStS at me.
/ wonder If there is a God, anyhow ~
Everything seems 90 be- going SlipShod
aud at haphazard. There does not
seem 20 be
ANY HAND ON TIE HELM.
Iob's health fails. David'S AbSolom
eets TO be a rcprobate Martha'S broth
er dies. Abraham'S Sarah goes into the
grave of Macpelah. "WOe worth the
dav i'm which l was born" has said
many Christian. David seemed 10
scream out i'm his sorrow. rs he said;
lis His mercy clean gone forever? And
will he be favorable no more? And
hath lie i'm 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
month. eNclaimS How long before
thou wilt depart from me, and leave me
alone. that ] may swallow down my
sDittle9" Have there never been times
In your life when YOU enyied those who
we're buried9 When you longed for the
70 do his work for you? ON,
the unfaithfulness of the human heart.
Gods wings are broad. whether you