The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-26
TALMAGES SERMON.
Tho Wings or Love" Furnish the
Theme of Discourse.
The Wings of the Almighty. which Arc
the Typical Wings of Love, Are
Broad Enough to Shelter All
Who Seek Them.


The Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come to trust.-Ruth, H., IL
Scene: An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Grain in swaths.
Grain in sheaves At the side of the
field, white tent in which to 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 for the sheaves,
putting one end of the band under the
arm, and with the free arm and foot
collecting the sheaf. Sunburned wom-
en- picking up the stray straws
and bringing them to the bind
ers Boaz, fine-looking ORR
entail, gray-bearded and bright
faced, the owner of the field, looking
on, and estimating the value of the
grain and calculating so many ephahs
TO the acre; and, with his large, sympa-
thetic heart plying the overtasked
workmen and the women, with white
faces enough to faint, in the hot noon
day sun. But there is one woman who
especially attracks the mans attention.
She is soon to be with him the joint
owner of the field. she has come from
distant land for. the sole pur-
pose of being kind to- an aged
woman. / know not what her features
were; but when the Lord God sets be-
hind a woman's face the lamp of cour-
age, and faith, and self-sacrifice, there
comes out glory independent of feat
ures. She is to be the ancestress of
Jesus Christ. Boaz, the owner of the
field, as soon as he understands that it
is Ruth, accOsts, her with blessing:
"a full reward be given thee of the
Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come to trust" Christ COM
pares Himself to hen gathering the
chickens under her wings. In Deuter-
Onomy God is represented as an eagle
stirring up her nest In a great many
places in the psalms David makes orni-
biological illusions while my text men
tions the wings of God, under which q
poor, weary soul had come to trust
i ask your atten ton, therefore, while,
taking tho suggestion of my text
speak to you in all simplicity and love
of the Almighty.
First / remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
handiwork of God more curious than a
birds wing. You have been surprised,
sometimes, to see how far it could fly:
with one stroke of the wing; and, when
| it has food in prospect or when it is
Rffrighted, the pulsations of the birds
wing are unimaginable for velocity.
The English lords used to pride them
selves on the speed of their
falcons. These birds, when tanned,
| had in them the dart of light
ming. How swift were the carrier pig
cons in the time of Anthony and at the
siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speedI
| A carrier pigeon was thrown up at
| Rouen and came down at Client
| ninety miles off-in one hour. The
/ carrier pigeons were the telegraphs
! of the olden time. Swallows have been
| shot in our latitude having the undi-
gested rice of Georgia swamps in their
| crops showing that they had come four
hundred miles in six hours. 1t has
| been estimated that in the ten years of
a swallows life it flies far enough to
have gone around the world eighty
nine times, SO great is its We
| locity. And so the winds Of the AL
mighty, spoken of in the text, are
swift wings. They are swift when they
| drop upon a foe, and swift when they
come to help Gods friends. If 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 de-
liver the child from danger? Longer
than it takes God to swoop for the rescue
Of His children The fact is that you
| can not get away from the care of God.
| If YOU take the steamship, or the swift
rail train, He is all the time along with
you. whittier shall 1 go from Thy
| spirit and whittier shall 1 fee from
Thy presence. If 1 ascend up into
/ Heaven Thou art there. If make my
bed in hell, behold Thou art there. #
take the wings of morning and dwell
in the uppermost parts of the sea, even
there, Thy hand shall hold me-"
| The Arabian gazelle is swift as the
wind. If it 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 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-pave-
ment brokeP Who but Christ could
have been quick enough to help the
DIXIE of Argyle, when, in his dy-
| ing moment he cried: Good
cheerl / could die like q Roman,
but mean to die like Christian.
Como away gentlemen. He who goes
first, goes cleanest?" 1 had friend
who stood by the rail track at Carlisle,
Pa, when the ammunition had given
out at Antietam; and he saw the train
| from Harrisburg, freighted with shot
and she'll as it went laundering down
toward the battlefield. He said that it
| stopped not for any crossing. They
| put down the brakes for no
| grade. They held up for no
1 peril Tho wheels were on fire
with the speed as they dashed past.
| II the train did not come up in time
! with the ammunition, it might as we'll
not come at all. So, my friends, there
are times in our lives when we must
have help Immediately or perish. The
| grace that comes too late is no grace at
| all What you and want is a God
now. Oh! is it not blessed to think
] that God Is always in such quick pur-
suit of His dear children? When a
sinner seeks pardon, or a baffled soul
needs help, swifter than thrushes' wing,
swifter than ptarmigan's wing, swifter
than flamingo's wing, swifter than
eagles wing, are the wings of the AL