Sharp County record., 1890-10-02
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
| Interesting Discourse by ReV
It, Dewitt Talmage.
a. sheIterlng Power OF Gods Love-
Typified by the Wide-spreadlng
Wings, Ample to Enfold All
Who Would Come to Him.


rooklyn Academy of Music, the text
1eing;
Pic Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
LOU art come to trust.-Ruth, H., L.
Scene: An Oriental harvest held.
Grain standing. Grain in swaths'
6rain in sheaves. At the side OF the
6eld, a white tent in which to take the
nooning, jars of vinegar or OF sour wine
70 ouench 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 1oot
collecting the sheaf Sunburned wom-
en- picking up the stray straws
and bringing them to the bind
ers, Boaz, fne-looking Orl-
suattall, era gray yy-be q I'd cd 49, and - hrlghf'
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, pitying the oVertaskea
workmen and the women, with whlte
faces enough to faint in the hot noon
day sun. But there is one woman VINO
especially attracks the mans attention
She is soon to be with him the joint
owner of the field. Sne has come from
distant land for the sole pur-
pose of being kind to an aged
Woman | know not what her features
:. we're; but when the Lord God sets be-
( hind woman's face the lamp OF cour-
1ge, and faith, and self-sacrificc, there
ZONES out glory independent of feat
ures. She is to be the ancestresS of
Jesus Christ Boaz, the owner of the
d8ld, as soon as he understands that 1T
Ii 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 great many
h places in the psalms David makes orni-
thological illusions while my text mem
tons the wings of God, under which a
poor weary soul had come to trust.
Icsk your attention, therefore, while,
takiag the suggestion of my text, l
speak to you in all simplicity and love
OF the Almighty.
First, remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There is nothing in all the
Z bendiwork Of God more curious than a
bLrd's wing. You have been surprised,
1ometimes, to sec how far it could fly
With one stroke of the wing; and, when
1thas food in prospect or when it is
(. 2frighted, the pulsations of the birds
wing are unimaginable for velocity.
Tho English lords used to pride thcm-
selves on the speed of their
1aicons These birds, when tanned,
hed in them the dart of light
ming. How swift were the carrier pig
eons in the time of Anthony and at the
alege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed
carrier pigeon was thrown up at
( kouen and came down at Ghent
ainety miles oif-in one hour. The
cerrier pigeons were the telegraphs
oE Che olden time. Swallows have been
mot III our latitude having the undi-
rested rice Of Georgia swamps in their
crops, showing that they had come four
hundred miles in six hours. 1t has
poen estimated that in the ten years Of
k1wallow's life it flies far enough to
have gone around tho world eighty
rsae times, SO great Is its ye-
iooity. And so the winds of the AL
Mighty spoken of in the text are
swift wings. They are swift when they
drop upon foe, and swift when they
come to help Gods friends, If father
ana his son be walking by the way, and
we Child goes too near u precipice, how
1ong does it take for tho father to de-
llyer the child from danger? Longer
man it takes God to swoop for the rescue
q His children, The fact is that you
oan not get away from the care Of God.
aIyou take tho steamship, or the swift
TAIL train, lie is all the time along with
you whittier shall / 60 from Thy
eplrit, and whittier shall ] fee from
Iny presence If ascend up into
Hesven Thou art there, II mako my
poQ IN hell, behold! Thou art there. II
Mke tho wings Of morning and dwell
"a tbo uppermost parts Of the sea, even
tnorc, Thy hand shall hold me-"
Inc Arabian gazelle is swift as the
vind' If 1t gets but one glimpse Of the
nunter 1T puts many crags between.
coiomon, four or five times, compares
\ vpsist to an Arabian gazello, calling it
" anothor name, when he says; "My
neloved is like roe." Tho difference
that the roc speeds the other way;
sesus speeds this. Who but Christ
eohd have been quick enough to have
neiped Peter when tho water-paye-
mqnt broke? Who but Christ could
nae been quick enough to help tho
e OF Argyle, when, in his dy.
moment he cried; Good
enserl could die like q Roman,
put mean to die like q Christian.
como away gentlemen, He who goes
nsF goes cleanest?' | had q friend
wno stood by the rail tract, at Carlisle,
& when the ammunition had given
2WRt Anhotam; and he saw tho train