The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-09-19
THE WINGS OF LOVE
TABERNACLE SERMON ON THE EX-
PERiENCE OF RUTH.


Voluntary Exile for Love. and Her Re-
ward Was Great.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 14.-The subject OF
the discourse by DIR. Talmage today
was "Wings of Love-" the famous
preacher taking for his text the words,
1.-THE Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust"-Ruth
Ii, IL.
Seene-An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Grain in swaths.
Grain in sheaves.
At the side of the field a white tenth
which to take the incoming, jars of win
eear 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 women picking up
the stray straws and bringing them to
the binders. Boaz, a 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, sympathetic heart
plying the overtasked workmen and
the 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 o
to be with him the joint owner of the
field. She has come from a 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 a
woman's face the lamp of courage and
faith and self sacrifice there ome out
a glory independent of features. She
Is to be the ancestress Of Jesus Christ.
Boaz, the owner of the field, as soon as
he understands hat it is Ruth, accosts
her with a blessing: "a full reward be
given thee of the Lord God of Israel,
under whose wing 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 eagle stirring up her nest.
In a great many places In the Psalms
David makes ornithological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings of
God, under which a poor, weary soul
had come to trust.
HER PROTECTION WAS SURE.
l ask your attention, therefore,
while, taking the suggestion of my
text, I 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
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
1t has food In prospect, or when it is
affnghted, 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
tie dart of lightning. How swift We're
the carrier pigeons in the time of An
thony and at the siege of Jerusaleml
Wonderful speedl A carrier pigeon
was thrown up at Rouen and came
down at Ghent-ninety miles off-in
one hour. The carrier pigeons were
the telegraphs of the olden time.
Swallows have been shot in our lati-
tude having the ~undigested rice of
Georgia swamps in their crops, showing
hat 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 velocity.
And 80 the wings of the Almighty
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 a father and his son
be walking by the way, and the child
goes too near a precipice, how long does
it take for the father to deliver the
child from danger2 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. "Whither shall l 90 from thy
spirit, and whittier shall 1 flee from thy
presencei II l ascend up into heaven
thou art there. If / make my bed in
he'll, behold thou art there. If | take
the wings of the morning and dwell in
the uttermost parts Of the sea, even
there thy hand shall hold me-"
THR CAR FOR ANTIETAM.
The Arabian gazelle Is swift as the
wind. II 1t 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 naIne) when he says, "My
beloved Is like a roe" The difference
Ia 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 pavement
broke2 Who but Christ could have
been quick enough to help the Duke
of Argyle when, In his dying moment,
he cried 'Good cheerl Icould die like a
Roman. but / mean to die like q Chris