Connecticut western news., 1890-09-17
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
TABERNACLE SERMON ON THE Ex-
 FERENCE OF RUTH.

| l FERENCE OF RUTH.
 The Oriental Scene and the Encouraging l Salutation of Boaz-Ruth Had Become a Voluntary Exile for Love, and Her Re-
 ward Was Great.
 BROOKLYN, Sept. 14.-The subject of
 the discourse by Dr. Tallnage today
 was Wings of Love,'' the famous
 preacher taking for his text the words,
 ''The Lord God of Israel, under whose
 wings thou art come to trust"-Ruth
 ii, 12
 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 win agar 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 Ori-
 ental, 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
 pitying the overtasked 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
 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
 woman's face the lamp of courage and
 faith and self sacrifice there comes out glory independent of features. 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 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 hen gathering the chickens under her wings. In Deuteronomy God is repre- sented as an eagle stirring up her nest. In great many places in the Psalms David makes ornithological allusions; while my text mentions the wings of God, under which poor, weary soul had come to trust.
 HER PROTECTION WAS SURE.
 1 ask your attention, therefore, while, taking the suggestion of my text, speak to you in all simplicity and love of the wings of the Almighty.
 First, l remark that they were swift wings under which Ruth had come to trusr 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 it has food in prospect, or when it is affnghted, the pulsations of the birds wing are unimaginablA> for velocity. The English lords used tA-- pride them selves on the speed of their falcons. These birds, when tanned, had in them tie dart of lightning. How swift were the carrier pigeons in 4he time of An thony and at the siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed! A carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen andscame down at Ghent-ninety miles off 2afh 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 that they had come four hundred miles 1 in six hours. It has been estimated 1 that in the ten years of swallows | life it flies far enough to have gone l around the world eighty nine times, so | great is it's velocity.
 And so the wings of the Almighty l spoken of in the tea are swift wings. | They are swift when they drop upon 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 1t 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 go. from thy spirit, and whither shall flee from thy presence9 If 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, eve1 5here thy hand shall hold me-"
 THE CAR FOR ANTIETAM.
 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 oy another uame) when he says, My beloved is like roe." The difference that thero speeds the other way; Jesus speeds this Who but Christ 'ould have been quick enough to have lelped Peter when the water pavement 'rokea Who but Christ could have 'een quick enough to help the Duke 'f Argyle when, in his dying moment, le cried: "Good cheer! could die like a Roman, but I mean to die like Chris { ian. Come away, gentlemen. He who ,oes first goes cleanest!' had friend vho stood by the rail track at Carlisle, oa., when the ammunition had given