Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15

'ii''ii THRUSH wing, swlfter than
pUarmgan' wing, swifter than fla.
mlngo's wing, swifter than eagles wing
are the wings of the Almighty.
remark further, CARRYING ont the
Idea OF my text, that the wings under
which Ruth had come to trust were
very broad wings. There have been
eagles shot on the Rocky mountains
with wings that were seven feet from
up to tip. When the king Of the air sits
on the crag the wings are spread over
all the eagletS III the o.rrie, and when the
eagle starts from the rock the shadow
is like the spreading of a storm cloud
80 the wings of God are broad wino-s
Ruth had been under those wings in
her lntantlle days; in the DAYS of her
happy girlhood in Moab; in the dav
when she gave her hand to Mablon in
her first marriage; in the dav when she
wept over his grave; in the day when
she trudged out into the wilderness of
poverty; in the days when she nirked
up the few straws of barley dropped by
ancient custom in the way of the moor
ASSURANCE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
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, it is not a desert in
which we are placed, it is a nest Some.
times it 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 us are the wings of
the Almighty. There sometimes comes
a period in ones life when he feels for
saken. You said, Everything is
against me. The world is against me.
The church is against me- No SYM
pathy, no hope. Every that comes
near me thrusts at me- | wonder if
there is God, anyhow
Everything seems TO be going sin.
shod 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 broth
er dies. Abraham's Sarah goes into
the grave of Machpelah. Woe worth
the day in which | was born!" has said
many Christian. David seemed TO
scream out III his sorrow, as he said
us 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 the saliva that ran into his
mouth, exclaims; How long before
thou wilt depart from me and leave
me alone, that | may swallow down
my spittleF Have there never been
times in your life when you envfed
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 a while there is a whirr of
wings, and the mother bird stands Oh
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 while
to the nest and says, open thy mouth
wide and 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.
THERE Is ROOM FOR ALL.
/ 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 accomlnOda-
/ tions." | know it. The seamen's friend
society is inviting all the sailors The
/ tract society is inviting all the desti
tute. The sabbath schools are inviting
all the children. The missionary soci
ETY. is inviting all the heather. The
printing presses of the Bible societies
are going night and day, doing nothing
but printing invitations to this great
gospel banquet And are you not
afraid that there will be more guests
than accommodations? MOI 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 up 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
He'd 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
underl Ye dying cherubim, and arch
angel, fold your pinions, and come
underl And yet there is room! Ayl
if God would have all the space under