Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-15

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der If there is God anyhoww
Everything seems to be going slipshod
and AT haphazard. There does not seem to
Ne any hand on the helm. Jobs health
fails David's Absalom gets to be repro
bate Martha's brother dies Abrahamis
Sarah goes into the grave of Machpelah.
"Woe worth the day in which | was bornr'
has said many a Christian. David seemed
to scream out in his sorrow as he said: SIS
his mercy clean gone forever2 And will
he be favorable no more? And hath he in
anger shut up his tender merciesg" job,
with his throat swollen and ulcered until
he could not even swallow the saliva that
ran into his month, exclaims, "How long
before thou wilt depart from me and leave
me alone, that ! may swallow down my
6pittlc?" Have there never been times in
your life when you envied those who were
buricds When you longed for the grave
digger to do his work for you? Oh, the
faithlessness OF the human heartl Gods
wings are broad. whether we know it or
not,
THE MoTIEGLY WINGS.
Sometimes the mother bird goes away
from the nest, and it seems very strange
that she SHOULD leave the callow young.
She plungcS her bcal; into the bark of the
tree, and she drops into the grain field, and
into the chaG ut the barn door, and into
the furrow of the plowboy. Meanwhile
the birds in the nest SILVER and complain
and call and wonder why the mother bird
does not come back All, she has gone for
food After awhile there Is 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 feath-
ers, and all is peace. So, sometimes, God
leaves us. He goes OF to get food for our
souls, and then he comes back after awhile
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
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 accommodations. know it,
The seamen's friend society is inviting all
the sailors The tract society is inviting
inviting all the children. The missionary
society is inviting all the heathen 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 he more guests than accommo
dationsY No! All who have been invited
will not half fill up the table of Gods sup
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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 covcrall the earth and all the heavens
We lsraelites who went through the Red
sea, come underl Ye multitudes who have
gone into glory for the last six thousand
years. come underl Ye hundred and forty
four thousand and the thousands of thou
sands, come underl Ye flying cherubm
and archangel, fold your pinions and come
underl And yet there is rooml Ay, if
God would have all the space under his
wings occupied he must make other
worlds and people them with other my,
RAIDS and have other resurrection and
judgment days; for broader than all space,
broader than thought, wide as eternity
from tip to tip are the wings of the Al.
mighty Obi under such provision us that
can you not rejoice? Come under, We
We weary, We troubled ye sin.
ming, ye dying soulsl Come under the
wings of the Almighty. whatsoever will
come let him come. However ragged how
ever wretched, however abandoned, how
ever woe begone, there is room enough un-
der the wings under the broad wings o:
the Almighty Oh, what gospel So
glorious, so magnificent in its provison
love to preach it. 1t is my life to preach
it 1t is my heaven to preach it.
THE ALMIGHTY WINGS.
remark, further, that the wings under
which Ruth came to trust were strong
wings. The strength of II birds wing-of
a sea fowls wing, for cxample-you might
guess it from the fact that sometimes for
five, six or seven days it seems to fly with
out resting. There have been condors in
the Andes that could overcome an OK or u
stag There have been eagles that have
picked up children and swung them to the |
top Of the cliffs. The flap of an eagles |
wing has death in it to everything it
strikes. There are birds whose wings are
packed with strength to fly, to lift, to de
stroy So the wings of God are strong
wings. Mighty to save. Mighty to de
etroy. | preach hm-"the Lord, strong
and mighty; the Lord, mighty in battle"
He tapped his wing, and the antediluvian
world was gone He tapped his wing, and
Babylon persisted He Tapped his wing,
and Herculaneum was buried. He Tapped
his wing, and the Napoleonic dynasty
ceased
Before the stroke OF that pinion feet
An l., An
pire is nothing. A world is nothing. The
is nothing. King-ctcrnal, ON
asks no counsel from the
thrones of heaven. He taxes not the arch
angel into his cabinet. He wants none to
draw his charots. for they are the winds.
None to lOad his batteries, for they are the !
lightnings None to tic the sandals of his !
feet, for they are the clouds Mighty to
save. Our enemies may be strong, our
sorrows violent. Our sins may he great. |
But quicker than an eagle ever hurled |
from the craas IA hawk or raven will the
Lord strike back our sins and our tempta-
tions if they assault us when we are
once seated on the eternal rock of his sal
vation What blessed thing it is to be
by the strong wing of the Al !
mighty Stronger than the pelican's wing, |
than the albatross' wing, stronger
than the condors wing are the wings of
the Almighty.
have only one more thought to present. |
The wings under which Ruth had come to
trust were gentle wings. There is nothing |
softer than feather. You have noticed |
when bird returns from fight how gently |
it stoops over the nest. The young birds are !
not afraid of having their lives trampled out |
by the mother bird The old whip-poor-will |
drops into its nest of leaves, the oriole into |
its casket of bark the humming bird into |
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