Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-18

the days when she picked up the few
strSvs Of barley dropped by ancient Gus
tom in 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 sufferings. He puts
one wing over our cradle, and He puts
the other over our grave. Yes, my dear
friends, 1t Is not a desert in which we
are placed, 1t is nest. Sometimes 1t is
very hard nest, like that OF the eagle,
spread on the rock, with. ragged moss
and rough sticks, but still is nest; and
although it may be very hard under us,
over Jus 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 God, anyhow
Everything seems to be going slipshod
and at haphazard. There does not seem
to be any hand on the helm. Jobs
health fails. David's Absalom gets to
be reprobate. Martha's brother dies.
Abrahsm's Sarah goes into the grave Of
which 1 was bornv' has said many a
Christian. David seemed to scream ont
in his sorrow, as he said: SIS His mercy
clean gone forever? And will He be
favorable no more? And hath He in
anger shut up His tender mercies?" job,
with his throat swollen and ulcered until
he could not even swallow, exclaims:
'How long before thou wilt depart from
me and leave me alone, that may swal-
low down my spittle?" Have there never
been times in your life when you envied
those who were buried? When you
longed for the gravedigger to do his work
for you? Oh, the faithlessness of the
human heart! Gods wings are broad,
whether we know it or not.
Sometimes the mother bird goes away
from the nest, and it seems very strange
that she should leave the callOw young.
She plunges her beak into the bark of
the tree, and she drops into the grain
field and into the chaff at the barn door,
and into the furrow of the plough boy.
Meanwhile, the birds in the nest shiver
and complain and call and wonder why
the mother bird does not come back. All,
she has gone for food. After while
there is a whirr of wings, and the mother
bird stands on the edge of the nest, and
the little ones open their mouths, and the
food is dropped in; and then the old bird
spreads out her feathers and all is peace.
So, sometimes, God leaves us. He goes
off to get food for our soul, and then He
comes back after a while to the nest and
says, "Open thy mouth wide and I will
fill it," and He drops into it the sweet
promises of His grace, and the love OF
God is shed abroad and we are under
His wings-the broad wings of the
Almighty.
Yes, they are very broad! There is
room under those wings for the sixteen
hundred millions of the race. You say:
"Do not get the invitation too large, for
there is nothing more awkward than to
have more guests than accommoda-
tions." know it. The Seaman's Friend
Society is inviting all the sailors. The
Tract Society is inviting all the destitute.
The Sabbath Schools are inviting all the
children. The Missionary Society is in
viting all the heather. The printing
presses of the Bible societies are going
night and day, doing nothing but print
ing invitations to this great gospel ban
quet. And are you not afraid that there
will be more guests than accommoda-
tions? No! All who have been invited
will not half fill up the table of Gods
supply. There are chairs for more.
There are cups for more. God could
with one feather of his wing cover no all
those who have come, and when He
spreads out both wings they cover all
the earth and all the heavens.
Ye Israelites, who went through the
Red Sea, come under! Ye multitudes
who have gone into glory for. the last
six thousand years, come under! Ye
hundred and forty-four thousand, and
the thousands of thousands, come I'M
der! Ye flying cherubim and archangel,
fold your pinions, and come under! And
yet there is room! Ay! if God would
have all the space under His wings occu-
pied He must make other worlds, and
people them with other myriads, and
have other resurrection and judgment
days, for broader than all space, broader
than thought, wide as eternity. from tiI
to tip, are the wings of the Almighty
Oh! under such provision as that car
you not rejoice? Come under, ye wan
dering, ye weary, ye troubled, ye sin
ming, We dying souls! Come under the
wings of the Almighty. Whosoever will
come let him come. However ragged
however wretched, however abandoned
however woe begone, there is room
enough under the wings-under thu
broad wings of the Almighty! Oh, wha
gospel! so glorious, so magnificent il
| its provision! love to preach it. 1t il
my life to preach it. 1t is my heaven tt
| preach it.
/ remark, further, that the wings un
der which Ruth came to trust wer'
strong wings. The strength of bird
wing-of sea fowls wing for example
you might guess it from the fact tha
sometimes for five, six, or seven days i
seems to fly witout resting. There hav
been condors in the Andes that coul'
overcome an OK or a stag. There hav
been eagles that have picked up children
and swung them to the top of the cliffs
The flap of an eagles wing has death il
it to everything it strikes. There ar
birds whose wings are packed witt
strength to fly, to lift, to destroy. S
the wings of God are strong wings
Mighty to save. Mighty to destroy.
preach Him-''the Lord, strong an
mighty: the Lord, mighty in BATTLE!
He tapped His wing, and the antedi
luvian world was gone. He tapped Hi
wing, and Babylon perished. He fiappe'
His wing, and Hcrculaneum was buried
He tapped His wing, and the Napoleoni
| dynasty ceased.
] Before the stroke of that pinion flee
is nothing. An army is nothing. A
empire is nothing. A world is nothing